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grinnurse RN

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  1. Not giving up

    grinnurse replied to grentea's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Glad you didn't give up!! The patients are sometimes the only thing that keeps me going on some of those rough days on the floor. I really love it when they come back once out of the hospital to see...

  2. Leaving the floor after 9 months

    grinnurse replied to tmarie75's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Congratulations on being able to do what you truly wanted to do in nursing. I think I would maybe go PRN at your floor job after you have seen how tough it is going to be at your new place of...

  3. Finding yourself as a nurse

    grinnurse replied to ladydame's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am now working on Med/Surge floor which I NEVER thought I would actually enjoy b/c I hated it in clinicals. When I did my preceptorship at the end of school last year I did it in ER and actually...

  4. Had 6 pts & was going nutty last night!!!!!

    grinnurse replied to christvs's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hey Christy- Sounds like you did an excellent job under tough circumstances!! I hate it when my days are like that but that happens and as long as it doesn't happen everyday we will all be ok

  5. Lap tops and Phones..This is too much

    grinnurse replied to onconurseRT's topic in General Nursing

    There is no way that I would want a phone on me for everyone to have the number to call at will!!!! The overhead "room" paging is enough to make me want to "slit my wrists" on most days!!! I usually...

  6. Should I have said something? Sorry kind of long!!

    grinnurse replied to RN-oneday's topic in General Nursing

    IMO, it doesn't matter what position you work in, you too are responsible for the patients, in this case not only the Mom but the baby as well. If this conversation put questions in your head about...

  7. Free supplies for doctors

    grinnurse replied to sharann's topic in General Nursing

    We have one OB/GYN that does this all the time with the suture removal kits. Ours are charge items so we remove the sticker before we send it home with the

  8. DNR - What would you do?

    grinnurse replied to jesshopper12's topic in General Nursing

    Gone through this several times. The doctor that we have the most problems with thinks that he can "save" anyone!! You have been given some good advice from the other posters. All I can add is also...

  9. Anyone else working w/o needed supplies? short staffing? lack of support?

    grinnurse replied to FrustratedLPN's topic in General Nursing

    OMG-this is not only happening at LTCs it happens on the hospital level as well. This past Wed. I had 2 TC pts that were both MRSA positive-one of sputum and one of wound with no PAPER TOWELS,...

  10. Short-staffed Nursing

    grinnurse replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    We are always working short staffed and it shows in so many ways and what's worse is the patients commenting about that fact. Late meds, linen changes only when soiled, may or may not be able to give...

  11. Lasting Effects of using Marijuana+Formaldahyde

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanks so much for clearing up some of the information. I thought they were actually using formaldehyde but I can better search for more information. I was wondering why I kept seeing PCP come up in...

  12. Lasting Effects of using Marijuana+Formaldahyde

    grinnurse posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Just found out my neice is now smoking something called "wet" and was wondering if any one could help me learn more about it. She is now sitting in jail and I am going to visit her this afternoon if...

  13. Ever caught a visitor playing with an IV pump??

    grinnurse replied to TweetiePieRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto- Have had to do this numerous

  14. Aggressive or Assertive.........help please

    grinnurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Earlier on a shift this week I had a pt that was in for possible GI bleed. Consult with surgeon took place and decided to do colonoscopy the following morning. Got the MD orders and started bowel...

  15. Aggressive or Assertive.........help please

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Nice to hear from you. Where you been? Job going ok? Good idea. I live in the same small town that the son lives in so I am afraid of running into him in the grocery store and him confronting me...

  16. To study group of not to study group...

    grinnurse replied to Student_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    CHILDISH!! Be honest with her and if she doesn't want to be friends any longer then so be it..........You really have to worry about you!! so glad to be done with NS drama!! Good

  17. To study group of not to study group...

    grinnurse replied to Student_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Go with what has worked for you in the past. Your the only person who knows how you study best. I worked better with a small group but the majority of my studying I did on my own, group was for...

  18. How common is this?

    grinnurse replied to CountryGirl1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    what size hospital do you work in? or the location? is it rural? i work in a small rural hospital and experience this all the time with no ward clerk, no cna, although we don't always have to enter...

  19. When do you start feeling like a RN

    grinnurse replied to HyperRNRachel's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've been a nurse for almost 9 months now and there are times when I still feel like a student and still ask tons of questions, but there are times where I am making all the decisions with out having...

  20. Doctors comments about not trusting his Nurses

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to all who have responded. I will leave the feelings out and go with the facts only in this incident. As far as I know, this Doc has never had a problem in the past with my assessments. I...

  21. Doctors comments about not trusting his Nurses

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in General Nursing

    You are right on the money..............it is from Sponge Bob cartoon

  22. Doctors comments about not trusting his Nurses

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in General Nursing

    LOL.................no it is the name of one of the characters on the Sponge Bob cartoon series that is green with one eye, an antenna, and has exreme "short man syndrome". I really should call him...

  23. I cried for the first time while on my shift today.

    grinnurse replied to sxyrn2b08's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sounds like you are doing all the right things. Some days your the statue and some days your the pigeons. That was a statue day sounds like. I am in now for 8 months and there are still days when I...

  24. Please help! Need tips for student nursing preceptorship

    grinnurse replied to blaaveispiken's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Are you looking for information as to what the person should get out of the experience or what? Are you looking for specific areas of where to try to get where you want to be. I don't quite...

  25. how do you decide?

    grinnurse replied to lyallch's topic in First Year After Licensure

    This is how we decide too if the pt's diet will be advanced. Especially if they are passing flatus and have bsx4. All of our hys pts must have a bm b/f being