ColoradoRocky

When I graduated, and went through the internship program at my hospital, I knew I was going to the cardiac stepdown (caths, post CABG, NSTEMI medical, etc), because I was already a tech there and that's who hired me. But I did get to shadow a shift...

I was in the OR 2 days - first for cardiac (CABG with 4 jumps), and second day was ortho (Hip replacement, then reset and did a knee). Both times I stuck with the circulating RN, because that's what we were told to do as part of the internship OR ro...

Background: my 40 bed stepdown is no picnic because we are understaffed chronically, and now that we are a regional center, we get all kinds and seldom have open beds. Ratio is supposed to be 4, and 3 if critical drips are going (insulin, certain pre...

Its that way at your hospital perhaps, but I have seen a incomplete data with ED patients that come up (high acuity) rather than go thru the admitting unit then up - because in a very busy ED, that's the most likely place for data to get "dropped" et...

This is exactly how we do it too (plus best practice screens for EtOH etc). I do wonder that the ED nurse isnt required to give report. That seems legally shaky - and questionable from a nursing practice point of view; I should be getting demographi...

Evidnece based: Gun ownership increased 93% in the past couple of decades, murders from guns have decline about 50% (deaths per 100k) in that same timeframe. The mass casualty incidents have increased - but nearly exclusively in "gun free zones". ...

Yeah right. $8000 watch. For duty as an RN. Tell us, what color is the sky in your world?

Timexwater resistant, pushbutton blue glow dial, with date, sweep second hand, and 24 hour numbers on the dial. stretchy metal band so I can mash it up my arm out of the way or take it off in a hurry. $12 from walmart. Not upset at all if i lose it....

Hi Prez! (Andy C).

Go talk to HR about you application for their tuition reimbursement. Mention its for RN school. They should be able to handle thing from there. Also you need to move to a different unit if your manager is being as unreasonable as you make it out to b...

Hey, you're not alone. I'm starting the clinicals 2 years of the ADN-RN-BSN programhere in Texas., 53 years old, Army veteran, engineering manager, etc. I am actually REstarting this fall. I basically had to drop late in spring term due to the death ...

Former 19D, Cavalry Scout. FYI plain old "veteran" is the term ("former" is redundant). Just be aware that you will probably end up doing a ton of stuff other than your MOS if you go Army. Not saying bad not saying good, that's just how it is. I went...

As a matter of fact, I do: English, German, Arabic (Iraqi dialect) some Spanish (Im mainly teaching myself Spanish for medical reasons), and enough Pashtun to politely greet and eat. I've forgotten almost all of my Russian so I don't count that anym...

Jenni811, you seem smart, driven and raring to take up the challenge of being the best nurse in the facility. But don't let your ego and IQ fool you into thinking that you know so much -- experience has a way of catching up to you and informing you ...

Or you can go with a good combat boot, if you don't care about fitting in. ;-)

You have no idea how happy that makes me! I am coming over from software engineering - and at 40 you are pretty much done, nobody will hire, and you're competing with $70/day outsourcing people in 3rd world countries (who program like crap, but the ...

wcollier1 at cougarmail - you know the rest - dot collin dot edu my student account at Collin. I have access to it on my phone, so I will get your email even if I am out and about, as I plan to be for the next couple of days.

Send me an email, big changes in initial assignments. I can post the docs to our closed Facebook Group. Main thing you missed was the pee-in-a-cup drug screen, the handbook, and the assignments for clinicals. Big Change is added stuff from the pharma...

These messages are enough to scare a person away! I start next week.

Anyway - thanks for the advice and insights here. I get the feeling that if I want to be a good nurse, I will always remain a student in some ways. I will go with what my mom says she learned in decades of nursing: My patients will teach me more ab...

I definitely ain't pretty to anyone except my mom and at times, my incredibly patient wife. :) And I do not understand that attitude either: show up late, refuse to learn, gripe when you get called on (instead of learning), and don't help the team. ...

Actually, amongst some of my orthodox Jewish friends, they tend to use it that way so as to not invoke the name of the deity where it may be defaced. Here is a good explanation (google for judaism101 for the source of the info below - since links ar...