AllieSparksRN

Most of us, most of the time, love being nurses. Secretly...if money wasn't really an issue...and you did need to work somewhere doing something...what "do you want to be when you grow up?" If money was no object, I'd actually want to be an administ...

Love, love, love NOC shift. End of story.

Yep yep yep. I love the night shift!

Nice read. Thanks for sharing :) .

I'd like to start a helpful thread. We throw around abbreviations left and right and while some of them seem incredibly obvious, not everyone knows what they mean, plus we have new people joining all the time. Let's make the new people feel welcome a...

Thanks to all who have contributed so far. Keep 'em coming!

I remember feeling shocked, stunned, and helpless when I was lived through and experienced 9/11/2001. I heard the news about the murder/suicide (that's what was reported in the news story) on the 10:00 news earlier in the week when it happened. I the...

Yes. None of us have the right words to say but know we're all thinking of you. Allie

a lot / alot their / there you're / your (which always makes me think of FRIENDS & Ross/Rachel...) lose / loose it's / its ................................................

I've learned/realized that I took WAY too many credits this summer and will NOT be doing that this fall. This means less financial aid for fall classes but more time doing things I enjoy so it will be worth it...or so everyone keeps telling me :) . I...

The med/surg unit I work on, which receives a majority of neuro and ortho post-ops, recently transitioned into using [continuous] end-tidal CO2 monitoring & [continuous] pulse ox monitoring on patients who have a PCA (patient controlled analgesia...

I still love birthday cake. Happy Birthday to me (yesterday) :) .

I've learned/realized that I prefer and feel like I'm a better nurse when I'm caring for patients I don't know. If I'm assigned a friend's friend or a family member of a staff member or something like that...I struggle. I prefer not knowing who you ...

I agree with you on the ambulatory being not as worried about status. Yep, you can set limits/parameters. They are only effective to a point - a mouth breather will constantly alarm because the monitor doesn't think he/she is breathing but they are. ...

A few times a year I work in the simulation lab as a patient voice at the nursing college. When the student nurses ask me about my IS, I tell them it's my hat rack :) .

A few weeks ago I had a joint replacement who couldn't get his IS "to work." I asked him to show me what was wrong. He was holding it upside down. Not sure how the stars aligned but he and I both had a good belly laugh over that one. There was someth...

BTW Goal_NP - great poll/post! :)

This DRIVES. ME. CRAZY! (people who are late.) Get to work on time. I did. And now, I want to go home. P.S. Be ready to take report at the start of your shift...just being in the building but chit-chatting in the breakroom doesn't count as "being o...

Sometimes a-fib "just happens." And it can still be scary as hell.

I don't know...which is why I asked...just to see what others do. (Obviously, in some circumstances, you of course would, but I just wondered in general.)

If & when you write a book about your nursing life - please include that story :) .

For those nurses who do give patients backrubs: do you wear gloves or don't you? I'm curious... My facility has a lotion we use too - that helps.

Textbooks are expensive. Yep. One of the downsides to nursing programs. I do wish those costs were stressed more to people prior to beginning programs - especially since many, if not most, college students don't have $800++++ to shell out for textboo...

The results of this should be interesting! While I love my co-workers, there are a few who I struggle with. There are nurses who will copy my charting and document it as their own. I've brought this to my manager's attention and nothing is done. This...

I paid off my ADN completely then enrolled in my BSN-C program...loan amount totals for that TBD. My "deal" with myself was that once I paid off the first degree, I'd go back to finish the BSN. I've completed one year once August hits...