Nursing_Mamacita

Oh shucks. It may have something to do with the high volume of sentara employees going through sentara for their BSN, since sentara does the BSN contract. I am currently working on mine through WGU. Check it out! So cheap and has a lot of benefits.

It is definitely possible to work and go to school full time. I worked as a home health CNA and at a subway during school. Both full time (but not at the same time). Its not that bad. Time is what you make it. Witht he whole licensure as a CNA with n...

This is about to be long... So let me start with a disclaimer. I, of course, do not consider myself lazy nor do I feel like anyone should absolutely bend over backwards to make my job easy. I accept my responsibilities and I can say I work my arse ...

No there isn't. And I agree. We are in critical staffing maybe 3 days out of the week every week. We are about to be in an even worse spot as 5 RNs are leaving by the end of this month. We're trying to hire people but eh...hasn't worked out well befo...

Come be my charge nurse!! LOL

Oh man! I'll have to let you know for sure but I'm pretty sure all of our monitoring systems are phillips! I will definitely get back with you to confirm that!

I agree with the other responder to this post. She probably wasn't a nurse. Probably a CNA or another nursing student. Most nurses I know dont just blurt out their profession. Then we get those calls at midnight with the caller describing this weird ...

Depending on the drip, we typically don't titrate. It's just that, well our IMC is like purgatory. Our patient care supervisors who assign beds don't do a very good job sometimes, so we get the patients who are super simple and need to be downgraded,...

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Just be careful what you post. My hospital has a whole freaking team that does nothing but search the internet for tags acknowledging the hospital. Recently a group of girls got written up for posting selfies from work (mind you, NO pt information co...

They take assignments when absolutely necessary. Ideal ratio for the side I work the most on is 4:1, but at times we are 5:1. Some team leaders push us to that ratio so that they only have 2 patients. Sometimes that is okay, but if I have a lot of hi...

You're absolutely right. I've gone to management twice, but to be honest I haven't really seen much improvement. I guess I will just have to keep it up until something is done.

I would have to see the dress. Shoes sound great. I am terribly huge fan of a SHARP pressed crisp blazer though. Ahh. The smell of success

Dil-lidi-zem/Diltiazem ? I cant help but giggle.

Ive been working as an RN for a year now. You have opened my eyes! Lol. The more you know!

Well this is vague lol. So i'll leave a tip. "If that K+ won't go up, check that Mg level real closeup"

If you are truly comfortable with foley insertion, this shouldn't be an issue. I like to wind the cath up a bit in my hand and sit the box with the collection bag in it as close to the insertion site as possible to minimize contamination risk. With p...

So it's around that time of year and our secret santa event will be on the 5th. I decided to participate, reluctantly, and drew my freaking boss . Mind you, I am new to the unit. Picking something for her will be easy since she is rather girly, like...

I wish I could take students! I would LOVE that, but unfortunately, I only function properly as a night shift nurse. I'm planning on bridging to masters in august 2014 so I can teach at a local school (:

I really hate when people suggest that. It doesn't make sense. If you can buy the better quality now, it would just save you the headache of going through school thinking everyones heart tones are muffled and lungs are diminished

I wear Danskos. I was SO opposed to them at first. It only took me about 3 days to really break them in. Now, I cannot wear anything else to work. They align my body the way it should be and down allow me to stand on the sides of my feet, which is a ...

I scored between 55-60% on all my kaplan tests from home. The ones I was forced to take in school, I was scoring between 68-90%. I passed my NCLEX-RN with 75 questions.

I'm sure. And they were definitely talking about how some people get 200.00 gift cards

So thanks to training, I had to spend 2 days in my hospitals Cath Lab. I had previously noticed that the ED and ICUs were their own "little town", as we call it, but I hadn't imagined that Cath Lab would be the same. Don't get me wrong, they didn't t...

Just make it easy. Build pharmacies buffet style.