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  1. NO LUNCH? NO BREAKS? Is that common in nursing?

    guest64485 replied to CleveRN2008's topic in General Nursing

    As the person above mentioned, management purposely understaffs to save money. One piece of evidence is that many floors that are worked to the bone without breaks have no advertised job openings on...

  2. New Grad Scared Witless of high pt load

    guest64485 replied to TheEmmyRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    There are a lot of things that factor into how bad a ratio is. Does this place have dedicated nurses to do the admissions/discharges? What is the tech : patient ratio like? Is there an IV team?...

  3. If you speak your mind will you get a bad assignment? Come on..come clean!

    guest64485 replied to Airbrushguy's topic in General Nursing

    It is still valuable to have posts from those outside of nursing, to both help clarify what we do to them, and for fresh ideas. As WeeBabyRN said in an earlier post, while the OP's method is a little...

  4. Another not coping thread....

    guest64485 replied to Michelle123's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've been in your position before, wondering how other nurses made it look so easy... until I got to know them better and found out they were feeling the exact same way I was! Its a tough job, cut...

  5. Bedside shift reporting, Do your facilities do it?

    guest64485 replied to mappers's topic in General Nursing

    Especially for sensitive information, it seems to work fine to give report sitting down at the desk, and then walk and introduce the oncoming nurse, and anything out of the ordinary. When I worked...

  6. So frustrated and depressed

    guest64485 replied to deftonez188's topic in General Nursing

    Someone posted here a week ago or so that their results were on hold because they finished in a very short amount of time, but things turned out fine in the end. Try to keep yourself occupied so the...

  7. New grad- Is working at a Dr.'s office a good way to start?

    guest64485 replied to bbie17's topic in General Nursing

    Having been both a patient and worked as a nurse in an allergy clinic I can tell you, that if it is an aggressive allergy program(run by an allergist; ENT usually run entirely different programs), you...

  8. New grad- Is working at a Dr.'s office a good way to start?

    guest64485 replied to bbie17's topic in General Nursing

    Is the doc's office part of a multispecialty clinic, where there are other people/departments around, or is it a freestanding clinic? The day that you will be by yourself, is there a covering doctor...

  9. How to keep growing and improving?

    guest64485 replied to BonnieSc's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Have you gotten your ACLS done? That's a great way to improve

  10. New grad- Is working at a Dr.'s office a good way to start?

    guest64485 replied to bbie17's topic in General Nursing

    So it will be just you and the doc there? Or will you have an MA there too? If it is just you two, who will be monitoring the allergy injection patients while you room patients who are seeing the...

  11. Things I have learned in Nursing

    guest64485 replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    You can put a tourniquet (or rubber bands) around a container you can't seem to twist open. Works like a

  12. Plane Tree Model

    guest64485 replied to onetiredmomma's topic in General Nursing

    The discouragement doesn't come from being pleasant to our patients, it comes from management giving a higher priority to customer service pleasantries over the basics, such as staffing and...

  13. I need 50 ways to get out of my med surg job.

    guest64485 replied to Born2BWild's topic in General Nursing

    What I've learned about 'boring' jobs is that they are only boring if I let them be. There's always something you can be doing to help out another staff member, or check on another patient, or...

  14. How do you deal with a crying child?

    guest64485 replied to bambam1288's topic in General Nursing

    J9G2008 and Perpetual, if your thoughts are that children will mistrust anyone who enables them hurt by holding/positioning them, are/would you therefore discouraging parents of patients from helping...

  15. How do you deal with a crying child?

    guest64485 replied to bambam1288's topic in General Nursing

    This makes it sound like the people who are holding the child are not on the child's side... If you say a mom is considered 'bad' for holding down the child, wouldn't a parent who didn't help hold...

  16. Stupid things said by your non-nurse significant other

    guest64485 replied to Moogie's topic in Nursing Humor

    I've been asked if hypothyroidism is contagious. Many years ago one of my former jobs involved making IDs. One person I made an ID for asked me to put "nurses assistant" on it instead of "nurse's...

  17. 700 pages of reading, per week, for one class

    guest64485 replied to caffeineRx's topic in General Students

    I agree with this, it still doesn't make sense, even after I read the OP's posted response to this. How much per week is considered mandatory reading, and how much is "additional reading if the...

  18. How many of you are the only income for your household ?

    guest64485 replied to sasha2lady's topic in General Nursing

    While I am not the sole provider, I know many nurses and aids who

  19. The little things that an aide does that make a difference...

    guest64485 replied to SmartMorgan's topic in General Nursing

    Informing the nurse about abnormal vital signs or changes to the patient's condition, or new skin tears makes a very big

  20. Giving Digoxin with an Amiodarone drip and HR of 48

    guest64485 replied to Ceteris Paribus's topic in General Nursing

    One thing that may help in the future, is that when you are on the phone with the doc, before hanging up, ask him what parameters it would be ok to give vs if you should hold or call him. That way he...

  21. Have you ever...

    guest64485 replied to JazzyRN's topic in General Nursing

    yes, he was a middle aged man, so full of life. He was funny, very outgoing, energetic and very very positive. I came back 3 days later and he was vomiting, confused, fighting, and kept taking off...

  22. Why is nursing such a horrible job?

    guest64485 replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Hospital nursing in its purest form is great, but the working conditions are what make it a horrible job. Not enough staff, strong pressure to work without compensation (through lunch or clock out...

  23. preceptor's question(s)

    guest64485 replied to Indy's topic in First Year After Licensure

    How many patients is a full load considered? How much longer does she have left of

  24. Nurses/patient care/cell phones

    guest64485 replied to snuggles49's topic in General Nursing

    I just wanted to highlight what Virgo said since its pretty obvious snuggles is management and by her response to Virgo, I don't know if she fully appreciates the matter at hand regarding the point...

  25. Am I incompetent or is it a staffing vs. pt acuity issue?

    guest64485 replied to earned RN 2008's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In my few years as a med-surg nurse I've been surprised that when I really sit and talk with other nurses that seem to float through their shifts with ease (outward appearance) I find out they share...