angelladyclaire

angelladyclaire

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  1. To be an RN or RT..Help!

    angelladyclaire replied to deebee12's topic in General Nursing

    After seeing what the RT's at my hospital do, I often wish I had gone that route. Just be sure you can handle sputum before you make the plunge... the starting pay around here is about the same and...

  2. Bling on the job?

    angelladyclaire replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    If your hospital's policy allows rings, I say go for it if it works for you. Some may be uncomfortable wearing their own jewelry, and that's fine for them. I don't think a ring is any more of an...

  3. Do all of your vented pt's get restrained?

    angelladyclaire replied to JHUBRAIN's topic in MICU, SICU

    Wow. I work in the SICU/trauma overflow of a level 1 trauma center. We have the luxury of having someone in house at all times to do intubations. We never restrain our vent patients unless they...

  4. Jehovah Witness RNs

    angelladyclaire replied to aimeeinorbit's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work with a nurse who is a Jehovah's Witness and she would not personally hang the blood, but she would have another nurse do it and then she would maintain the transfusion. And as to the...

  5. why the cliques in nursing ?

    angelladyclaire replied to iLovemyJackRT's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow, I feel really blessed to work with so many good people. I just joined my SICU in January and with the exception of a few sour nurses everyone has been super nice and helpful. Course, I work...

  6. Visiting Hours

    angelladyclaire replied to redwolf's topic in MICU, SICU

    Our SICU/Trauma overflow is a locked unit with 4 visiting times daily, 30 minutes each with one hour long visit in the evening. However, it is up to the nurse outside those times whether to allow...

  7. What is the order of the nursing career ladder?

    angelladyclaire replied to miachris2's topic in General Nursing

    Medical

  8. How are you judgemental?

    angelladyclaire replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I think drug seeking behavior is the thing I am quickest to judge on. I'm not judgmental directly to the patient, mind you, but I have a running commentary in my mind that is probably not very...

  9. Cadaver lab

    angelladyclaire replied to nursetim's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I graduated from a 4 year generic BSN program and our anatomy was a 4 cr. hr. course with cadaver lab. It was the coolest class I have ever taken. Getting to be hands on was so beneficial. Our...

  10. SICU interview: questions for the manager?

    angelladyclaire posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    Hi all. I am interviewing for a position in the SICU and I was wondering if you guys have any suggestions for questions I should ask the manager... I always go blank in interviews and would like to...

  11. "YOU'RE my Nurse?!?!?"

    angelladyclaire replied to KayceeLeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am 24 and I get comments all the time about how young I look. (It doesn't help that I'm covered in freckles :). But I find that once I've gotten past my initial interaction with the patient they...

  12. Bashful Nurses?

    angelladyclaire replied to moosie's topic in General Nursing

    I have always been a very reserved person. I'm clumsy, and I embarass easily. I had the same worries when I started my clinical rotations as a nursing student. For me it just took time. My shyness...

  13. Question????

    angelladyclaire replied to brown eyed girl's topic in General Nursing

    While it's true that you would gain experience working in a corrections facility, I think abandoning a job so soon after starting it will look bad on your employment record. It could affect your...

  14. DNR situation

    angelladyclaire replied to hbncns35's topic in General Nursing

    The patient in question was choking. The question of resuscitation does not enter into the situation. To let them choke would be negligent. You would not be resuscitating when doing the Heimlich....

  15. What do you always try to put on an IV pump?

    angelladyclaire replied to Aneroo's topic in General Nursing

    I work med-surg and we put absolutely everything on a plum pump including NS. I think it's more a convenience measure than

  16. wearing perfume to work

    angelladyclaire replied to acaringnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure what our official policy is, I just know that nursing administration encourages us not to wear strong scents. There is a running joke on my floor though about the a.m. pharmacy guy who...

  17. Is This True? (extra coccyx bone, tail?)

    angelladyclaire replied to Meerkat's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have a friend who had to have some extra tailbone removed at age 5... not sure if she had extra joints or if it was just too big or

  18. Role of Nurse During Circumcision

    angelladyclaire replied to dac71's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I do not work in newborn nursery, but I did watch a couple of circumcisions in my OB clinicals. At my hospital they had a nurse assistant help the doc with the circumcision. She strapped the babe to...

  19. Why are so many of us over weight?

    angelladyclaire replied to sarahhoughton's topic in General Nursing

    They say there are no silly questions and I try to be supportive of all who post their wonderings here, but come on! Umm... why does my dentist have terrible halitosis? (he does have beautiful...

  20. Can u be a good nurse if you've never worked as a CNA?

    angelladyclaire replied to retour_divin's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated nursing school in May. I did not work as a CNA prior to nursing school but there have been numerous times I wish I had because I'm still kind of clumsy at turning patients, etc. However,...

  21. Frustrated New Nurse

    angelladyclaire replied to KTYRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I think that your supervisor should have used some words of support, but more than likely she was trying to be realistic rather than mean. It sounds like your staffing last night sucked, but you have...

  22. Jay Leno slams nurses!

    angelladyclaire replied to grace90's topic in General Nursing

    The reason I do it this way is that my scope of practice does not include diagnosing my patients. This is why I am a nurse and not a doctor. Your job as a nurse is to assess that mrs. smith's sats...

  23. I shaved off a patient's mustache. Was I wrong?

    angelladyclaire replied to NebbyLPN's topic in General Nursing

    When my dad was in the ICU his last time before he died, they had to shave the sides of his beard off in order to keep his NG and trach tubing secured properly. While we didn't get mad that they did...

  24. Do I need to do LPN first

    angelladyclaire replied to 2bnurseguy_2005's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    If it takes 3 semesters to do LPN and one year to go from LPN to RN, won't that take at least 2.5 years? Most places you can get an RN in 2

  25. pregnant/ tb skin test??

    angelladyclaire replied to LincErin's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The same thing happened to me upon being hired for my first job. I had just found out I was pregnant. The employee wellness people would not give me the skin test without a release from my OB, so...