78BugRN

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1. What do patients say that irks you?

   78BugRN replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I was working as an ER tech one night, sitting at the triage desk and answered the phone. It's a man on the other end with a question... "My wife is about 5 months pregnant and she's having some abdominal pain. Not down low where the baby is but kind...

2. Is working night shift expected of new grads?

   78BugRN replied to ABQLNDRN's topic in General Nursing

   I wanted night shift when I graduated. I've been happier as a night owl since I first got the opportunity to work the shift in nursing school. My first two sections of orientation were on days. Very rough on me but, survived. My third section of orie...

3. What shifts do you work? Do you like it?

   78BugRN replied to TRINI_RN's topic in General Nursing

   I prefer 3 12s and prefer nights even more. It always feels like I've got more time to myself. The trick for me is to have the scheduling manager put my shifts together so I'm not switching sleep schedules every day.

4. No Overtime Pay after Forty Hours

   78BugRN replied to Town & Country's topic in General Nursing

   I know that at my facility I'm not permitted to work overtime while I'm in my internship but, that my internship ends before my probationary period does. I can work overtime after my internship is up.

5. My Shadow is MISSING!

   78BugRN replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

   I just spent a day last week shadowing a nurse on the floor I'll be starting on soon. Most of the day is just watching the routine of a new place (meds, pyxis, doc's, charting, breaks, staff interaction.) Ask lots of questions about procedure, routin...

6. Starting school...need to vent

   78BugRN replied to Amberlynn1181's topic in CRNA

   I worked my local for a year and a half during nursing school. Even floating the hospital for a few weeks after graduation is enough to reinforce the fact that I am glad for a change of pace. Do not feel bad for wanting to move forward in your life. ...

7. In Trouble With The Bon!!! Please Advise Me...

   78BugRN replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

   I'm hoping for you that they handle this internally. If they reassign you and send you to some classes, it will also remove you from the other problems in this unit (the competitiveness, overwhelming situation, finicky MD's, etc). I'm surprised that ...

8. I passed!!!

   78BugRN replied to jaimealmostRN's topic in NCLEX

   YAY!!! Way to go!! Can't wait until I can post the same. All the best to you in your career.

9. Regarding life outside nursing school

   78BugRN replied to Aneroo's topic in General Students

   I have to laugh a little about this... I'm 26, single, with no kids, no house payment, etc. And I take a significant amount of crap because I don't drink. But, like others, I agree that this should only be brought to the instructors if it is affectin...

10. Stress at school

    78BugRN replied to onmywaytolpn's topic in General Students

    I think that the days in which I have truly laughed are the best days of my life. I'm set to graduate in June (PLEASE God!!) and I crack jokes and laugh all the time. While watching an epilepsy video I remember quipping "Hey, I saw a guy doing that ...

11. Medication Aides

    78BugRN replied to M&MRN2005's topic in North Carolina

    WOW... that's more than a bit scary. As nursing students, we have pharmacology training and prepare for each clinical day by looking up ALL medications and knowing their effects, side effects, and interactions. And our instructors STILL look over ev...

12. How many of you had a different career/education before becoming an RN?

    78BugRN replied to cancergirl's topic in General Nursing

    I've put in 3 years in secretarial/office jobs, 6 years as an Aircraft Electrical and Environmental Systems specialist with the Air Force and wound up in nursing school as a way to be able to teach Wilderness First Responder courses. I think you'll f...

13. pregnant? not preg? help!

    78BugRN replied to cna2005rkfd's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The norm is a couple days after the first missed menstrual period.

14. A message to new grads: NEVER....

    78BugRN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    By the same token... Don't EVER tell a patient "I've never done this before so you're gonna have to bear with me." It took us the entire day to calm down a patient during clinicals and he never did stop screaming "Keep her away from me!!" when that ...

15. Substandard Healthcare d/t high Patient to nurse ratios

    78BugRN replied to shandy84's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a fairly small ER and even we have some REALLY bad nights. Two nurses short and the techs have only worked for three months... 6 ambulances show up in ten minutes with - 1 respiratory distress, 1 v-tach, 2 traumas, a pedi code, and an assau...