Sadala ADN, RN

I am about to start traveling. Just signed my first contract. I honestly don't think you'd have any problems at all finding travel work - particularly with your breadth of experience. ICU and ER experience is desired for travel. I've seen people ...

Well at our hospital, they won't test nurses (even with high levels of exposure - like their spouse being ill with confirmed covid) unless they are symptomatic. I'm very uncomfortable with this.

You're not admitting them? Where are they going. How are you even able...

Truly, our preparedness for this has been the worst roll out since Windows 95.

I'm guessing they've approved that grudgingly since we're short on N95s. Not really on what we SHOULD be wearing to protect ourselves, our patients, and our families. I base this on the fact that we were first told that N95s were essential. But he...

Contrary to a lot of other responders (meh, my computer underlines the word responders and I don't know why. It's bugging my OCD), I actually don't think its the worst plan in the world. IF you do a fantastic job in any capacity and are willing to ...

I don't really get this. Keep in mind I'm med surg and not recovery, but... I was thinking that family members aren't allowed back during that portion of pt recovery because 1) pts might be unstable and they need close supervision with no distractio...

Not sure all of the vendors from the Eisenhower administration are still in business...

If it's a med and the pt consistently is insistent upon having it at a different time then I see about moving the time on the MAR (if it's ok with the provider, etc)

Oh, rrrrrrrrrrright. I just looked at the header and noticed which section I'm in. (being lost is typical)

Ha! I don't do that. But when I read your post it reminded me... I was a clerk for a time and when I counted change I would count by five's. It was just easier to group the change by five's in my mind and get an accurate count. I find I do the sam...

I was reading OP's post and thinking, "Wow. That's cumbersome..." Then I realized that really, I guess we do the same thing with a pyxis. You know, put an accurate count in, then scan the medication, have any waste witnessed by another nurse, and ...

I haven't read the whole string, so there may be updates I haven't seen before giving my response. That said, based on OP's original post my advice is to tell the school the truth when this hits the fan. I might even go to them in advance and expla...

We typically don't don't call on the overnight for a systolic under 180. Let me rephrase... I won't call for a systolic under 180. That said, the parameters are typically systolic 170 / diastolic 100 for hydralazine and labetalol prn's.

call it under child abuse because you don't know if he has access to other children. You are a mandated reporter.

Aww, Well, Haven't we all! {{hugs}}

I'm afraid I have to disagree that you must go into a whole deal about who told Nelly what or who Nelly thinks told her what. Essentially the genuine patient care issue here is that Nelly is confused about how much morphine she's supposed to take reg...

No no no no no! This can just lead to badness. You don't want badness, do you?

Nope. I hear ya. I also work at night and I tend to think that staff are WAY too loud.

Meh. Methinks that statement is the last refuge of a bunch of B and C nursing educators. Just sayin'

Your husband is trying to look out for you. There are many things that I wish that I could post and ask for assistance with and I just can't because I feel they would tend to identify me if anyone from my organization was reading.

This is also not my first career. Thing is, I think you get a lot out of that first year in med surg, whether you're 25, 45 or 55. So I would probably choose that one.

I'm a little over a year in, routinely have six patients, and still have serious problems with time management and organization in terms of getting everything done. On the other hand, I have no (mmm-k, very little) shame. I will ask other nurses qu...

No need to name your institution, but I'm curious about the retention/attrition rates at other schools. My program has an extremely high NCLEX pass rate. However, the number of students who start every semester who are allowed to remain to the end ...

None of our area's med surg units have limitations on visiting hours. Most family members tend to visit during the daytime or evening. But sometimes spouses or children of patients stay all night. And that's not something that is discouraged at al...