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  1. one side love problem between student nurse and doctor

    blackvans1234 replied to chinglee's topic in General Students

    TLDR past the first 3 posts. but anyways,

  2. What is the most complex clinical procedure you had to do in your career?

    blackvans1234 replied to Guest878640's topic in General Nursing

    Waiting for the PICC Line nurses to chime

  3. New RN hired for Cardiac Stepdown

    blackvans1234 replied to nursejessica2013's topic in Cardiac

    I started on Cardiac stepdown in November as a new grad. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Know who your resources are. Make sure you read up on the common diseases you'll be seeing -CHF, MI, PE,...

  4. Wait staff and flight attendant c/o customers

    blackvans1234 replied to dudette10's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It doesn't cease to amaze me how many people want a bloody "window seat" in the hospital. Its like we're an

  5. Students who fight back at instructor feedback

    blackvans1234 replied to SHGR's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I had an instructor tell me I was too friendly with my patient after she overheard me asking where my patient was from and telling them where I was from. I said okay and kept my mouth shut even though...

  6. How does cardiac tele compare with med-surg?

    blackvans1234 replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Cardiac

    Cardiac Telemetry (also called stepdown where I work) is a ''higher acuity'' unit. However it is less acute than Critical Care. If you want to work in critical care someday, stepdown is a step in the...

  7. Changes in language

    blackvans1234 replied to kidzcare's topic in General Nursing

    YOLO The idea has been there (presumably) but the terminology is

  8. How long until youre not a ''new grad''

    blackvans1234 posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Hey all, just wondering how long you must work until you're no longer considered a ''new grad'' More specifically, Im looking to find out how long (on average) you need to work at your first job until...

  9. Gender discrimination

    blackvans1234 replied to TXcatcher's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    May have done better

  10. How long until youre not a ''new grad''

    blackvans1234 replied to blackvans1234's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Yes, new grad

  11. How long until youre not a ''new grad''

    blackvans1234 replied to blackvans1234's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Do you think that after working one year at my current position that it will be easier (relative to the new grad job search) to get a new

  12. EKG class?

    blackvans1234 replied to HisKids37's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital offers them to employees only. For those who work on tele

  13. Highest/Lowest K+ you've ever seen

    blackvans1234 replied to guest769224's topic in General Nursing

    7.8 upon presentation to the ED, 6.7 prior shift and 6.2 on mine. :-O Never got a chance to see the peaked T

  14. Cyclic vomiters (drive me up the wall)

    blackvans1234 replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    Cannaboid hyperemesis syndrome. Something like that. They also report taking steaming hot showers to help the

  15. My bedside quirks...wakey wakey

    blackvans1234 posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    I was working last week, and for once my group was relatively easy. A nurse who was floated to our unit was having a rough day. She was behind on medications, had a patient needing stat medications,...

  16. New Nurse Proverbs.

    blackvans1234 replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    Who looks "dumber", he who asks and gets it right? Or he who doesn't and gets it

  17. My bedside quirks...wakey wakey

    blackvans1234 replied to blackvans1234's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh man we have so many dramatic patients that are not even sick (when compared to the others on the unit) I wish we gave out more

  18. Med error during a code

    blackvans1234 replied to LoveMyBugs's topic in General Nursing

    This might be a silly question but how can you pull out the wrong med from the pyxis? is it from ''override meds'' where you type in the name of the med? For example - typed in "Ar" for arixtra but...

  19. Jehovah's Witness nurses in the critical care unit?

    blackvans1234 replied to asdf88's topic in Critical Care

    We had a JW patient who's hemoglobin was like 5.6. He was also the whitest black guy Ive ever

  20. Jehovah's Witness nurses in the critical care unit?

    blackvans1234 replied to asdf88's topic in Critical Care

    I went to school with two JW's and they were saying that they can give blood. As long as they're not receiving the transfusion. I always thought that was weird (God says I cant receive blood but I can...

  21. Pausing IV, clotting?

    blackvans1234 replied to SilleLu's topic in Patient Medications

    Heplocks don't have constant fluids running through them...wonder what your instructor thinks of those clotting

  22. Recent grad advice for future students

    blackvans1234 replied to ToughRNMudder326's topic in General Students

    Im another advocate for working as a nursing assistant in a hospital during / before school. It gives you exposure to the acute care environment, it allows you to learn things they can't teach in...

  23. Can I pass PCCN with one year experience?

    blackvans1234 replied to Curious1alwys's topic in Cardiac

    Hey all, I have a question regarding initial certification for a new graduate. The wording: Option 1: Practice as an RN or APRN for 1,750 hours in direct bedside care of acutely ill adult patients...

  24. Pet peeve, bad practice, or overly critical?

    blackvans1234 replied to NewICU's topic in Critical Care

    Im a new grad on a Cardiac Stepdown Unit. My preceptor has told me- the two most important things when you get an admission (in no particular order) 1) Get their vitals 2) Get them on

  25. So disappointed in hospital RNs and MDs

    blackvans1234 replied to carachel2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I wonder if there's a difference in the incidence of these things in magnet hospitals vs non-magnet hospitals. Food for