jessnurse05

I have been working on two different cases for just under a year. The thing that drives me crazy is that both families take supplies! We only get so much per month so when it's gone, it's gone. One family takes gloves, luckily my agency reimburses...

Hi, I'm a nurse in maternity services. I go to homes of pregnant women and new mom's and I teach them about their pregnancy, what to expect during L&D, and newborn care. I've been seeing more teens in the last few weeks (my youngest pt is 12) ...

Thanks for some great resources and some good insight. I totally agree that in a lot of cases my teen moms take better care of themselves than our older moms. Like one teen who bought herself prenatal vitamins before she even had a doctor's appointm...

Three 15 minute breaks and 30 minutes for lunch????? Where do you work? We get two 10 minute breaks and 30 minute lunch in 12 hours. Not that I even get that sometimes. Lunch break cut short and no 10 minute breaks so I can get everything done and...

I was reading the thread about not giving meds that you didn't draw up and it reminded me of an issue that I've been having lately on my unit. I'm still fairly new so I probably have RN-itis and I also am still filled with some of the nursing school ...

Thanks for the input. When I've been sure that I was having problems at work and brought it to my manager she told me I was being "too hard on myself" so I hope that is still true when it comes to evaluation time. I don't know if I will get any fee...

Hi, I've been working at a facility since September and we're coming up on our yearly evaluations next month. This is my first "grown up" job and I don't really know what to expect. I'm scared that it will be me sitting with the managers and being ...

Hi, I'm a single mom and I've been working in a hospital on night shift for almost a year now. I love the unit I work on and the people I work with (most of the time), but the 12 hour shifts are killing me. There aren't any day shift positions avai...

I'm not trying to generalize about nurses, just about the nurses in my facility on my shift. I had a great night last night, by 0100 I was completely caught up and had done my chart checks and all of my charting on my pts (it doesn't happen often, b...

There was a lady in nursing school with me who threw up and peed her pants at the same time when helping to wipe a pt. This was all with the nursing instructor in the room! We had such a laugh about that at one of our celebration dinner after our f...

I don't think my hospital has any special lifts for obese pts. It upset me when everyone was telling the 400 lb pt we had to just have a bm in the bed and we'd clean her up. How humiliating is that? She was certainly continent of stool. I don't...

We had a 400+ lb lady recently (she might still be there). She was very difficult because she wanted to get out of bed but she was unable to walk and it took 6 of us to turn her. She had to be restrained for a while but was out of them last time I ...

Hi, I was hired at my current facility through a telephone interview. One question I would get was give an example of a time when I went above and beyond to help a pt. You could think of a couple examples and write them down. llg gave such good ad...

Hi, I feel your pain. I'm new and I have exactly the same experiences as you do. Usually it's something that came up right at the end of my shift that I couldn't have planned for earlier in the night. We start giving report at 0645 so if an IV goe...

What happens to a nurse when he/she gets written up? I'm a new nurse and I was working last night. I got report from the day nurse who isn't brand new, but I can tell that she hasn't been working for too long. She told me that I had an admit who h...

Now that you mention it, this was the same nurse who, a half hour before, didn't have time to come up and start an IV that I couldn't get. The day nurse also had stayed and started blood for me since she felt bad for leaving the admit. Jessica

Wow, I wonder if that nurse has already had some writeups then because she was so worried about getting written up. I thought the charge was really jumping the gun for trying to write her up, though, becuase they had so many admits and discharges th...

Hi, My facility has the computer carts, but most nurses leave them at the nurses station, or park them in the hall near their pt rooms. I've only seen one nurse who pushes the whole cart into each pt's room. We have pagers instead of phones. I'm o...

1)In your opinion, what are some advanatages of computerized documentation? I agree with other posters that legibility is a big plus to computer charting. I also like that it prompts for things (I often forget to ask the pt about last bm, but the co...

Hi, I am not an L&D nurse, so I can't give you any info there. But I am a new grad and I had a similar experience with orientation. I oriented in Peds for 3 months with the same preceptor, but it took until the 5th week when we had a meeting wi...

Ugggg, this kind of thing bugs me so much. I am a new nurse and, yes, sometimes I miss things. I work as hard as I can and do everything that I know of that's expected of me. I hate giving report to a certain nurse because she ALWAYS can find one ...

Hi, This doesn't really relate to nursing, other than I'm a nurse, but I wanted your guys' advice. I moved down here to So Cal from WA because I got a good job offer and my dad and stepmom were down here. They told me all about how they were going t...

Thank you again for all of the kind responses. By the way, the baby in the picture is my dd. Jessica

Thanks for the encouragement. My stepmom "wears the pants in the house" and my dad will go along with whatever she says. I have lost any respect from them because of times when I was in tears at their house when I coudn't control dd. So they now ...

Hi, The KCL sound dangerous if the caps were the same, our KCL bags come premixed so I don't have to deal with that. My biggest fear is of pts falling and getting hurt. I've been unlucky enough to have two fall and I feel just awful, like I am the ...