Geslina BSN, RN

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   Hating Nursing Currently

   Geslina replied to vanaly's topic in General Nursing

   I feel your pain. I've been a nurse for 5 years, and I still have nights where I lock myself in the bathroom and cry. I have never been good under stress, and I find nursing to be the most stressful...
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   Verbal orders for narcotics

   Geslina posted a topic in General Nursing

   The day shift nurse, who had left for the day, called the patient's MD from home and got verbal orders for PRN narcotics for a patient on a sub acute floor. I'm supposing she didn't have time to do...
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   How do you feel about having other nurses as patients?

   Geslina replied to purplegal's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I work with the elderly, and currently have 3 former nurses in my care, and there have been several in the past. I find that it can go either way, but mostly they are nice...and very understanding of...
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   New nurse. What do I need?

   Geslina replied to ChiMan360's topic in General Nursing

   Sharpies. Highlighters. Hand cream. A little notepad. A good quality tote bag or backpack. Lots and lots and LOTS of pens. You wil find that you spend a lot of time looking for lost pens. I...
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   has anyone failed nurisng 3 from bucks county community college!

   Geslina replied to SEJUP23's topic in General Students

   I failed the last semester in my program...and I wasn't alone. We started out with almost 200 in our class and just under 60 made it to the end. I was devastated to fail, being so close to the end....
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   Nurse Sues for Lunch Breaks

   Geslina replied to Mamanurse90's topic in Nursing News

   Wow. I haven't taken a lunch break in 3 years. I barely take my 15's either, because I like to get out of there at the end of my shift. i tried to get paid for them in the beginning, and was just...
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   The Opioid Crisis hits LTC

   Geslina replied to Not_A_Hat_Person's topic in Nursing News

   Sounds like where I work, we will take ANYONE. Even rapists and murderers. No one cares, as long as the beds are full. I've seen patients whose medical hx clearly states problems with addiction,...
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   Surplus of Nurses - should I think twice?

   Geslina replied to Maple2016's topic in Nursing News

   Haha, have to say I agree. Given a second chance, I'd have chosen another career. It's not that being a nurse is so bad, it's the daily staffing shortages, the constantly growing state documentation...
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   Bullied for reporting a med error by another nurse

   Geslina replied to StaffNurseMcS's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Ha! Our current manager always wants to be the good guy. Someone was just fired, and the next day the nurse called me and told me that management told her she was out of there because I had reported...
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    Bullied for reporting a med error by another nurse

    Geslina replied to StaffNurseMcS's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I hate finding med errors, because we are legally obligated to report them. I've had to report a few, and I've made a few myself. If it's something I can fix without reporting it, I try to....but if...
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    Ugghhh, another new nurse...

    Geslina replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    My supervisor was doing an evaluation on a new nurse, ands the new nurse told her that she looked up to me and hoped to be the kind of nurse I was someday. And beleive me, I'm hardly Super Nurse. I...
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    A Rough Nursing Shift...

    Geslina replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Ahhh, that's me every single night. Sad that almost every problem that makes nursing overwhelming could be solved with just a little extra
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    Good grief...I came up Positive

    Geslina replied to SororAKS's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Wait...I'm confused...why with 16 years of sobriety are u even IN a monitoring
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    Kicked off unit when Joint Commission arrives

    Geslina replied to Skittles767's topic in General Students

    The joint commission coming is serious stuff. Everyone is under enormous pressure, including CNAs. There will be enough to worry about for the facility without having "beginners" around. It's hard...
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    First week- will I die of boredom?

    Geslina replied to gypsierose's topic in General Students

    Haha. Honey, you will be soon be so far up the creek in mind numbing unbelievably overwhelming amounts of information to memorize that you will look longingly back on your days of boredom and nursing...