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  1. need advice moving on from PCU tele

    tuxedopenguino replied to tuxedopenguino's topic in Nursing Career

    I'm revisting this topic..as it is now several months later and I am still on same PCU-tele floor, unsure of what to do... I recently got an interview for a CCU day shift position, and I am very...

  2. need advice moving on from PCU tele

    tuxedopenguino posted a topic in Nursing Career

    Hello all, I've been working on a PCU-tele floor for the past 8-9 months and it has been a very challenging and rewarding experience. I'm an impatient woman, so I can't help but look ahead at what I...

  3. Difficulty of NP education

    tuxedopenguino replied to studentFNP16's topic in Advanced Practice

    @sauce, NP-good points, lmao at your

  4. Noncompliant diabetic patients

    tuxedopenguino replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    @llg- What else can you do as a floor nurse besides education? You have a valid point. I've found many times the pt knows more than I do regarding how to control their blood sugars. So to lecture them...

  5. losing to nursing

    tuxedopenguino posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm still a pretty new nurse, in that I started my first hospital job a few months ago after working in a nursing home for about a year. I'm proud that I was able to get off orientation on a busy tele...

  6. losing to nursing

    tuxedopenguino replied to tuxedopenguino's topic in First Year After Licensure

    thanks for your responses...it's been such a mixed bag so far. Nights that really stress me out and i feel like crying, but then I learn something new and it gets better even if just a little bit. I...

  7. cell phones at work

    tuxedopenguino posted a topic in General Nursing

    How common is it for cell phones to be assigned to nurses in other hospitals? They drive me crazy! Throughout the shift is filled with constant interruptions. I understand how useful they are with...

  8. I'm a nurse and I don't like people.

    tuxedopenguino replied to addylpn's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    The title sounds like something I would write! How comforting to know nursing is full of introverts. It often doesn't feel that way at work. I always feel like the oddball. I'm an introvert and it's...

  9. cell phones at work

    tuxedopenguino replied to tuxedopenguino's topic in General Nursing

    different sounds for certain types of calls is an interesting idea. I'd like to have it just vibrate if its a call light, and have a certain tone for a critical lab, and maybe a tone and text message...

  10. cell phones at work

    tuxedopenguino replied to tuxedopenguino's topic in General Nursing

    so it is fairly common huh...I wonder what nursing was like before all this. It's just one more aspect that really leaves me drained a the end of day. I'm new too so it adds to my panicked feeling...

  11. Length of Nursing Shifts

    tuxedopenguino replied to KeitanTaylor's topic in General Students

    was not a fan of 8 hour nights FT...12 hour shifts are exhausting and the whole day is commute, work, eat, sleep...but I'm loving all the days off in

  12. Why are culturally stereotypical behaviors so tolerated?

    tuxedopenguino replied to mclennan's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This is a really touchy subject. As someone who is partially of that background, I can see where you're coming from having experienced it not just in the work place but just in general...I've learned...

  13. VENT!!

    tuxedopenguino posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm 10 months into my first nursing job (subacute rehab in a nursing home) and am nearing my limit of patience!! I've been aggressively applying starting at 6 months, but with no luck so far other...

  14. VENT!!

    tuxedopenguino replied to tuxedopenguino's topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone recommend taking ACLS in the meantime? I've been going back and forth trying to decide if it's worth it to spend the money on and sacrifice my sleep for. I would like to learn it...

  15. VENT!!

    tuxedopenguino replied to tuxedopenguino's topic in General Nursing

    if they could hire medication aids to hand out the pills, then that would help a lot. They would still need a nurse on shift to be able to recognize when someone needs to get sent out and take care of...

  16. VENT!!

    tuxedopenguino replied to tuxedopenguino's topic in General Nursing

    sorry for the misunderstanding. I mainly work the subacute rehab floor (17 patients) but bc there isn't enough permanent people for the ltc floor, we've been forced to rotate floating there (50+)....

  17. VENT!!

    tuxedopenguino replied to tuxedopenguino's topic in General Nursing

    thanks for the suggestion.I'm going to try to do that. Our scheduling coordinator is infamous not approving time off requests which contributes to the call outs, but it's worth a

  18. VENT!!

    tuxedopenguino replied to tuxedopenguino's topic in General Nursing

    wow, thanks for your input! I wasn't quite sure how to market myself and the examples you gave are really helpful. I didn't think that employers would perceive that I'm a quitter--that's an...

  19. I am a new grad and hired with 2 nursing agencies

    tuxedopenguino replied to elomi18's topic in General Nursing

    this is horrifying that she would follow such advice and got away with

  20. What do you do to stay positive?

    tuxedopenguino posted a topic in Health, Stress Management

    This is something I'm struggling with right now. After listening to patients vent their anger, listening to administrators/supervisor get angry at me for not doing this and that, after listening to...

  21. Any nurses that have worked hospital AND nursing home?

    tuxedopenguino replied to manch's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm also on the boat that doesn't see what there is to like about working in LTC if the standard is high patient-nurse ratios and generally poor working conditions. I recently was scheduled to work...

  22. IV starts in nursing schools

    tuxedopenguino replied to DaynaPierceMorgan's topic in General Nursing

    I really wish we had more IV training in my BSN program in NYC. We learned how to hang IVs and count drip rates, pick the tubing, etc. But we did not learn IV starts or phlebotomy, which would have...

  23. New RN questioning career choice

    tuxedopenguino replied to KansasRN14's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It could be you hate nursing, it could be you hate your specialty. You could stay and switch and see if you like something else. There are a lot of avenues. You could try research nursing? That sounds...

  24. Don't Call Them Nurses!

    tuxedopenguino replied to Lark Pogue's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    A little bit of a tangent, but it must be incredibly confusing to be a patient with no medical background or association with someone from the field. So many titles!! MDs, PAs, NPs, MAs, RNs, LPNs,...

  25. How do you feel about coworkers who refuse to work overtime?

    tuxedopenguino posted a topic in Nursing Career

    I'm curious- how do you feel about coworkers who refuse to work any overtime? I don't like working overtime--at all. I don't mind the holidays, don't mind every other weekend because I know it comes...