HumerusNurse

Some people are just despicable.

I am unfortunately a smoker who is currently researching effective ways of quitting (there have been many failed attempts!). Our hospital does not test for nicotine but we are a smoke-free campus (if patients are caught sneaking out to smoke then they will promptly be brought back by security in their golf carts) and it clearly states in our employee handbook that if an employee smells like cigarette smoke then trouble will be brewing. I do not take smoke breaks at work. I barely have time to pee! How in the world am I going to find time in my day to walk all the way across a our huge campus, have a smoke, and then walk all the way back? Ain't nobody got time for that!

It's ok but they serve the same thing every day! And it's pretty over-priced. I've started brown bagging it lately and have saved myself so much money!

Hello all! I am going to be precepting my first senior nursing student for the next couple of months. I have been a nurse for 3 years and work on a busy medical-surgical floor in a hospital in a major city. Yesterday was our first today together and it was slightly chaotic. I didn't really know what to do with the poor girl and I was bombarded with doctors writing a slew of new orders for all of my patients, dressing changes, PRN medications, giving blood, etc. I am hoping that the next time that she is with me things will be a little bit calmer but I still don't know what exactly to do! Do I just give her one or two patients and let those be her patients and just supervise what she does? Advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

These are great! Wish that I had thought of these while in nursing school!

"No, I can not give your friend any medication for heartburn. No, I can not give her your prescribed PRN Mylanta. There is a CVS right down the street with all sorts of antacids waiting for her!"

Lol love it!