PCnurse88

PCnurse88

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  1. students charting Assessments

    PCnurse88 replied to BSNbeauty's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    As someone whose clinicals in school NEVER included charting on patients in any sort of EMR, I feel confident when I say that it is hurting students not to do so. As a nursing student I had no access...

  2. Malpractice Insurance

    PCnurse88 posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    One of my fellow colleagues who also is new to the hospital struck up a conversation about malpractice insurance. She explained that she had hers through NSO, but that she only got it once she started...

  3. New Grad RN... is this patient load safe?

    PCnurse88 replied to new.grad.rn's topic in Medical-Surgical

    It's not so much that the patients are all going to sleep (although, I've worked probably 40 overnight shifts in my 2 years and I've never had every single patient on my assignment be awake all at...

  4. New Grad RN... is this patient load safe?

    PCnurse88 replied to new.grad.rn's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Are you unionized? If so, what are your union agreements? Is there a legal safe staffing ratio in your home state? Six patients was a common occurrence at my first job as a new grad on day shift. On...

  5. New graduate looking for employment

    PCnurse88 replied to yoganurse22's topic in Connecticut Nursing

    Danbury Hospital also hires new grads (not sure where you're located in the state) and as someone who started there as a new grad, it was a great program. I learned a lot and was treated exceptionally...

  6. ETOH withdrawal, CIWA, and transfer to the ICU.

    PCnurse88 replied to HeadingWest's topic in Medical-Surgical

    CIWA scores are so unpredictabe because they are extremely subjective. Just yesterday I received report that a patient was off the walls and scoring a 15... I scored the patient a 3 all day, didn't...

  7. Best way to learn IV skills?

    PCnurse88 replied to Sara-Allison's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Some places will let you spend a day where all you'll do is start IVs: ED, pre-op, outpatient

  8. How do you get a job at the hospital with only a cpr cert?

    PCnurse88 replied to Godizmydad21's topic in Connecticut Nursing

    With JUST a CPR cert and no prior experience? Slim to no chance of getting any sort of hospital job that would help in nursing school. If you can manage it, I'd say take a CNA course and try to work...

  9. How is everyone gettig their text books

    PCnurse88 replied to Godizmydad21's topic in Connecticut Nursing

    Depends on what classes you're taking but I would rent as many as possible, especially for any non-nursing classes (is Bridgeport a 4-year nursing program, or do you have to do pre-reqs first and then...

  10. New Graduate Job Search

    PCnurse88 replied to yoganurse22's topic in Connecticut Nursing

    St. Francis, Hartford Hospital, and Stamford Hospital all do a new grad residency type of program. I know all 3 post the residency in March, not sure if they do it several times a year (some do, some...

  11. Clinicals / High School Jobs

    PCnurse88 posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Updating my resume because I start my new job in a couple days! Two quick questions: 1) Is it time to take clinicals off my resume? I kept them on because my first manager as a new grad had worked at...

  12. New Med-Surg RN

    PCnurse88 replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Medical-Surgical

    My unit sounds similar to yours - everyone had their own personalities but, collectively, they dealt with new grads REALLY well (and still do). During the last few weeks my preceptor would also take...

  13. Moving to Days annnnnnd I'm Terrified

    PCnurse88 posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    After a little over a year on evenings (3-11) I am making the transition to days (7-3). And I'm super nervous! I've worked the odd day shift here and there for extra, but now I'll be doing it 4 days a...

  14. I.V.Albumin 25%

    PCnurse88 replied to NGYSUN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I work on a medical floor and we run it on a pump over the course of an hour (100ml/hr and it comes in 100ml bottles). It has to be run through vented tubing, but we give albumin and IGG often enough...

  15. Extra Shifts.. are they worth it?

    PCnurse88 replied to NGYSUN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Ouch it's just bad all over. And I don't want to sound whiny, and I know better, but some days I really do worry about ny license. I get a better workout sprinting for bed alarms than I did as a...

  16. Extra Shifts.. are they worth it?

    PCnurse88 replied to NGYSUN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Our night shift ratio is higher (you work nights, right? or am I mistaking you for someone else?), their norm is also 6 or 7. Having a 1:6, 1:7, or 1:8 ratio on days/eves usually means our night...

  17. Extra Shifts.. are they worth it?

    PCnurse88 replied to NGYSUN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I wanted to come back and comment on this again, after icumaggieRN's post. Several months ago we entered a "staffing crisis" and never really came out of it. Our contract states that, on my med/surg...

  18. Extra Shifts.. are they worth it?

    PCnurse88 replied to NGYSUN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I feel like I could have written this post myself! We consider ourselves to be in a staffing crisis, and they call me nearly every single day to either pick up an extra shift or come in a few hours...

  19. MSCU Interview Questions?

    PCnurse88 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    So I have an interview in a couple weeks for a job in a Maternal Special Care Unit with cross-training to Labor and Delivery... the perfect job for me. I'm just under a year at my first RN job on a...

  20. I didn't seroconvert with the Hep B Vaccine

    PCnurse88 replied to Pebanj's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I wouldn't, and didn't. I didn't develop immunity to hep B, varicella, or measles after several rounds of vaccinations / boosters, as well as having the actual chicken pox a couple times. I sometimes...

  21. Just curious...

    PCnurse88 posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    For those of you who did your one year of med/surg before moving on, how long did it take you to find your next job? There are a few things I dislike about my hospital and are making me want to jump...

  22. First job: substitute school nurse!

    PCnurse88 posted a topic in School

    After a long summer of NCLEX practice tests, finally taking the NCLEX, and applying for dozens upon dozens of jobs I FINALLY got a call back and was given the substitute school nurse position for a...

  23. Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    PCnurse88 replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am going to guess by your comment that you personally have never experienced a "non-response" to a vaccine, as my doctor likes to call it. Let me tell you a little story. Before I got my first RN...

  24. 265 questions

    PCnurse88 replied to hopefulxx's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Got 265 questions on my first attempt and passed. Amount of questions means nothing. Best of

  25. Updated info re: new grads in CT?

    PCnurse88 replied to MissM.RN's topic in Connecticut Nursing

    There are also new grad programs at all of the YNHH sites, New Britain/Bradley, Middlesex, Lawrence and Memorial, John Dempsey/UConn, Backus, St. Vincent's, and I think ECHN has