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Good point southern. Personally, I'd be happy to work at Lehigh, everything you said is absolutely correct. The other hugely monopolizing organization is just that...toxic. I've not met many people that are particularly happy there as most would be...

it sounds more like a legal/confidentiality issue. if your a student precepting, and not already hired preception, theres huge issue with you tip toeing around in the charts. likely your not covered to have access to those things.

Go for the job you want. If you don't get it this time you'll try again later. Let them know good employees are hard to keep.

Isn't that the truth. If you can't leave yet, you have to make up some canned responses that put you in a positive light. Consider it a challenge and practice for your acting career. Always maintain a professional demeanor and don't let it under yo...

wow, it seems like its the same all over. what i dont get is why neither side is held accountable for their jobs. Management knows from all the complaints who is lazy, ie never gets the vitals recorded, rooms stocked , disapears,etc, who hogs the t...

Seriously your enthusiasm is leaping off the page. As already stated..do an excellent job during your rotation...when nurses start telling you to fill out an application you will know your right for it. Also ask if they can be e reference for you......

That was something I thought as well..please order the dose as what is supplied in the ampule so I don't have to waste it...time consuming. Also, please add a frequency....and a cap...you just can't give narcs ad lib and ad infinitum in the er, not ...

If you can at least get a line in the AC, you shouldn't worry about that. However, to brush up on your skills now, watch and learn. If you miss it and some on better, hang around and see what they do, and why you missed? 2 out three ain't bad, but ...

My first impression is that they are trying to get you out of the nest and flying on your own. It is very difficult thing to be a new grad - do you have any experience in health care hands on? You should be, at the end of orientation, handling your ...

Well, if a pt is that booze soaked it needs an admission, sorry but etoh does kill. There are many out of the way places in the hospital at night, not just the waiting room...although its not my responsibility to find it...nor to pass judgement on a ...

Still, whatever it was, it would have been common courtesy to know. I sure wouldn't want to work for someone who used such a vague and pretty phoney catchphrase...there is a manager who truly doesn't care about you, your life and how that offhand re...

An excellent course, it can be applied to any area and it will improve your critical thinking as well as help organise your assessments in ways you never imagined. As a suggestion, get the book now and prepare...you will get more out of it that way....

In my perfect world, the admitting doctor chooses the appropriate floor for admission, and the nurse does not get blamed when they say...we don't take heparin drips on this floor....adding another two hours to the patients stay in the er. In my perf...

If you see someone who looks ill and/or in distress, don't you owe it to the human race to ask them if they are OK? Need of assistance, whether or not you are a nurse? However, once you whip out the stethescope you have entered a binding contract as...

So give them a blanket and let them sleep inside...better than getting them back via ems for hypothermia. Have some compassion, geez, these people have many problems.

Sounds like something someone made up. Ask your supervisor what it is and what your duties are to be....they will let you know, maybe even give you a written format of what's expected.

IMO the call you back thing happens so much as to be considered taking advantage of. When the Med surg charge nurse takes the report immediately it goes smoothly, then you can continue your sterile procedure or v/s uninterupted and the er can offloa...

I've used littman mostly, if the tubing cracks you can send it back and they'll replace it and the earpieces and recondition it for free, hint, don't wear it around your neck and it won't crack, or use a cover you can wash, also..whatever you get, ha...

Yeah, that is a big pet peeve...treating the patients perspective...now how am I supposed to do that....especially if that perspective is sort of irrational. Sometimes I would love admin to try it themselves. I can't be whatever you want me to be......

Sounds like you are defending yourself. But nurses recognize all those catch phrases, the more they change, the more they stay they same....such as, in these economic times. Hospitals are still a business. Attitudes get in the way. There's always an...

Seriously, there are more than one way to draw cultures, variables being whether you are using a syringe, butterfly, what other labs need drawn and tubed first or second. The blood culture doesn't matter where in the order of the draw...only if usin...

Sometimes those stupid moments can turn into a story where, usually in report you all can laugh until you cry, you could incorporate the head blowing off part too..lol. you did the right thing, obviously the Dr had issues....he has a few minutes to w...

Those that do should have a really good internship program

You need some experience before working in an er. It is not good for anyone, especially the patient, to have a new grad thrown into an emergent situation, and it will be very unpleasant for you. You need t have the basic patient care skills down pat ...

Please also keep in mind, how you respond to a patient with any complaint. Whatever the level, or reason they are there, they don't need to be talked down to, if you've ever had some one speak to you in that dismissive way you'll know how obnoxious i...