AuntieRN

AuntieRN

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  1. What do you want to tell Nursing Students?

    AuntieRN replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    Please please please dont tell the nurse "Oh I have already done that once, I dont need to do it again" when they ask you if you want to do something. Doing it once does not make you proficient. This...

  2. Raises??

    AuntieRN replied to Otessa's topic in General Nursing

    We get yearly raises in October depending on your evaluation. The every few years we get a cost of living raise about 60

  3. I just wanna be a DNR

    AuntieRN replied to NurseCherlove's topic in General Nursing

    Loved it. Thanks for

  4. So how many pts do you have?????

    AuntieRN replied to SandraCVRN's topic in General Nursing

    I work med/surg: we are a very busy 28 bed unit we get postops like: ortho and any other postop imaginable (except gyn we dont usually get them), we have tele, and then your medical pts along with the...

  5. Mediport

    AuntieRN replied to apalmerRN2be's topic in General Nursing

    Jessie thats what I recall too. And thats what I always teach new nurses when they ask me why. So either we are both wrong or

  6. Rapid Response Teams

    AuntieRN replied to DLM RN's topic in Post Graduate Students

    OMG I love having a rapid response team. The responses do depend on which staff is covering the team on any given day. Some staff are awesome and others treat you like you are stupid and wasting their...

  7. How many of you worked during school?

    AuntieRN replied to ChrisAHF's topic in General Nursing

    I worked full time nights the first 3 semesters delivering pizzas, the fourth semester i worked 12 hour night shifts every Fri and Sat nights as a tech at the hospital, my final semester was in the...

  8. perscription pads

    AuntieRN replied to hunter-belle's topic in General Nursing

    Ours are locked up in the pyxis and we make sure there is always at least one available on the floor. Its kept in the drawer between the charge nurse and unit secretary. Most of our docs carry their...

  9. Pay difference between.....

    AuntieRN replied to CareBayer's topic in General Nursing

    I do bedside nursing at the community hospital here at the beach. I also just interviewed for a position with Hospice...Hospice pays almost 3 dollars an hour more....guess it depends on where you

  10. Easter is not a holiday?????

    AuntieRN replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    We get paid time and half for Easter but not Memorial Day, go

  11. Emotions at work

    AuntieRN replied to onlyngrace's topic in General Nursing

    I finished it. It was a little confusing but I got through

  12. Employee Privacy?

    AuntieRN replied to strider1500's topic in General Nursing

    But you better hope and pray your new insurance doesnt have a preexisting clause because if it does, that will now be considered a preexisting condition and may not be covered for a year. I was...

  13. Small town hospital

    AuntieRN replied to All_Smiles_RN's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital is the same way. Then the supervisor calls all the floors to see if they need that doc then allows you to call him if she feels its neccesary. I dont recall ever hearing her say no

  14. Computer charting...love it or hate it?

    AuntieRN replied to CareBayer's topic in General Nursing

    We use Meditech too...youre right it stinks...our ER doesnt use it for anything really either so we have to go and put everything in it. It takes forever to enter orders and check them...takes forever...

  15. for you beachie types

    AuntieRN replied to yuppiemichael's topic in General Nursing

    I live in Myrtle Beach, SC. There is also Waccamaw Community Hospital, the beach is about 3 miles away if that. Conway Hospital is about 15 minutes from the beach and then there is Grand Strand in...

  16. Med Admin using Bar Code Scanning

    AuntieRN replied to DayOhioRn's topic in General Nursing

    We use a system just like this. You have to scan the barcode on the pts id band then scan each med. I actually like it. It has prevented me from making a few med errors and it seems to save time...

  17. Moral Distress

    AuntieRN replied to LadyJRN1's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if this can be considered moral distress or not...but I had this gentleman who was dying of what started as lung cancer and had metastisized to his brain bones etc. The man was in so much...

  18. Lab and diagnostic test results?

    AuntieRN replied to ichbinmich7's topic in General Nursing

    This confuses me too. We were taught in school not to give this information but refer them to their physician but then some nurses tell me we can we just cant tell them what they mean. I hope someone...

  19. Interview paper for class

    AuntieRN replied to meme75's topic in General Nursing

    dlogan I sent you my email address in your pm. I would love to help you

  20. So I made it through my first week of Nursing School!!

    AuntieRN replied to Kimmi73's topic in General Nursing

    congrats!!! good luck with the rest of

  21. Help!

    AuntieRN replied to jbjorn2b's topic in General Nursing

    I graduted nursing school at the lovely age of 41. I too had to work fulltime during school so i started parttime it took me almost 7 years to finish but I finished and it was well worth it. Good luck...

  22. I made a med error today

    AuntieRN posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am a new grad...graduated in August. I am in my fourth week of orientation. I made a med error today. The order was for 0.5mg and I gave 1mg...somehow I missed that I had to break the tablet in...

  23. Does anyone else feel this way...? Help!

    AuntieRN replied to Imuneek2's topic in General Nursing

    Ive been working as an RN for 15 months now and hardly a day worked goes by that I dont wonder and fear the same things. I have had many nights that I couldnt sleep because I was afraid I missed...

  24. Officially completed my 1st year as a Nurse TODAY!!! (m)

    AuntieRN replied to pink2blue1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    :balloons::smilerote: CONGRATS!!!!! Feels wonderful doesn't it to have survived your first

  25. more than nursing professionals wearing scrubs

    AuntieRN replied to wearingmanyhats's topic in General Nursing

    We wear color coded scrubs at work. The nurses wear a combo of white and port wine (we are the only ones who can wear all white) the techs/cnas wear carribean blue and white, the lab wheres the darker...