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purple_rose_3

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  1. Pay rates

    I'm going to guess California, but if you're talking about pay and cost of living combined. Well, I know someone can refer you to a website that is posted here off and on that shows that. I can't...
  2. It's 4am, do you know where your patient is?

    These are really funny! I just had a patient two days ago go outside and when she came back said she was looking at the flowers! Um....ma'am, what flowers? It's January and we have snow on the...
  3. Diabulimia

    What is
  4. Put On Call yesterday then found out.....

    On a positive note, at least you had the opportunity to lend emotional support to your daughter as she got her blood drawn. I'm sure she loved having Mommy there instead of someone
  5. have you given supppository to stoma?

    Never, but that doesn't say much because we barely ever get this type of patient. Why do you
  6. !Please help this school nurse!

    Any updates on this situation yet?! I'm kind've curious how it all turned
  7. Chest Pain

    I will typically give Morphine and call the doctor if that isn't
  8. Moving to Iowa

    I live in Iowa City, but I just wanted to say welcome to
  9. I was a ______ prior to being a nurse/student nurse

    I used to work with a former police officer from Kansas City that looked like Mr. Clean!! I was a cashier at a grocery store for 1 year when I was 16 CNA for a nursing home from 17 - 20 years old LPN...
  10. Best gifts have been a bag with hospital logo on it that is for a laptop (I don't have a laptop though!) and a $20 gift card to HyVee that was put on our paychecks to be
  11. In reality, what is the average starting pay?

    I would contact your local hospital and see if they offer such a thing. I don't know what path you're going down, but I did an ICU internship the summer between my LPN and RN years of
  12. In reality, what is the average starting pay?

    It would really help to have an internship of some kind in an ICU or some critical care position. Even if you don't want to work an ICU type job, they really like to see this to help you "get...
  13. Graveyard Shift

    Whenever I get to tired I will run a few stairs!
  14. DNR bracelet with DNR written on it. HIPAA???

    We don't have any sheets of that nature hanging in our rooms for people to
  15. Color Coded Braclets

    How could you forget about the allergy band?! Haha, you know everyone has one of those as
  16. Lets brag about our hospitals where we work!!

    My hospital has the greatest group of Physicians that actually talk to you like your equal and are actually interested in our personal lives. They are so nice and fun to work
  17. What patient population do you enjoy working with the most?

    I love working with Cardiac patients, age perferably older than
  18. christmas PJ's

    Maybe you can just find a place that will embroider some regular pajamas for you. Just a thought, because I know it might be hard to find what you are looking
  19. Ms. Jekyll or Ms. Hyde, what will it be this time?

    I love it when a 90 something patient asks me about their mom or dad. No way I'm going to break the news to them, that on most cases no, they aren't coming in to see you! Makes me chuckle though,...
  20. Nurse

    Sometimes you can check the progress notes. I know it's not an official order, but you might see it there as
  21. Low Census!!!!!!!!!!!

    Nice to see your enjoyed your day off. I know you can find a lot of threads where people are complaining about low census! Glad you were able to make the most of
  22. Nurse

    Ours are placed under the tab called Advanced Directives. If the patient doesn't have any AD's on the chart the next thing I do is look on the admission orders and see if the Doctor addressed it...
  23. 12hr shifts- what's your start and end time?

    My experience: Texas 1845 - 0715 Iowa 1900 -
  24. Help please: Need to interview a Nurse!

    Post the questions and then they can decide if they want to answer in the public. Students ask questions a lot and most people answer them on
  25. Differences between tele and stepdown

    My tele unit pulls the lines after heart caths. Our main patient population is Pre/post heart caths and stents, pre/post CABG's, pacemaker insertions, and thoracotomies. Obviously all of the cardiac...