MIA-RN1 RN

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1. Sweet Dreams, Baby! Tell us about your strange dreams r/t nursing

   MIA-RN1 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   I have the standard find-outabout-pt-at-end-of-shift dream a lot but recently, I've had a real run of dreams where I have twin boys and one I can care for and one I can't. Mostly the babies are born...

2. Why Do Nurses Allow Understaffing?

   MIA-RN1 replied to RNfaster's topic in General Nursing

   both!

3. Why Do Nurses Allow Understaffing?

   MIA-RN1 replied to RNfaster's topic in General Nursing

   I agree with you but when is management really going to take responsibility? Lets face it, a bad outcome is going to first be attributed to the bedside nurse, even if its a staffing issue. ("The nurse...

4. Why Do Nurses Allow Understaffing?

   MIA-RN1 replied to RNfaster's topic in General Nursing

   Oh yeah I agree and I have made issue of assignments before. Just also felt the powers that be kind of trying to make me feel guilty. Management had decreed that our ratio would be 1:5 couplets. And...

5. Why Do Nurses Allow Understaffing?

   MIA-RN1 replied to RNfaster's topic in General Nursing

   If I refused my assignment because it is too heavy, another nurse would have to absorb them and then it would be worse for her. Plus I would worry about abandonment issues. If management will only...

6. When should I apply for 1st RN job?

   MIA-RN1 replied to beccajo4915's topic in First Year After Licensure

   start looking now, beat the rush to find the hours you want. I had my job lined up in November, didn't graduate til may> I am just about the only person I know of who didn't have to work a job with...

7. how long is a new grad a new grad??

   MIA-RN1 replied to jamonit's topic in First Year After Licensure

   you are only a new grad until someone is hired toyour floor that graduated after you! :) Seriously, if you have recently passed your NCLEX, then you are not a new grad. You are a new nurse. Even after...

8. Go right to the floor or to a specialty?

   MIA-RN1 replied to hbug's topic in General Nursing

   you have to follow your heart; you are working hard to become a nurse and you deserve to do what you want to do. There are no 'shoulds' because there are two sides to everything. I graduated and went...

9. Whites or Colored scrubs?

   MIA-RN1 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   I am soooo in the minority but I like the white scrubs. Perhaps its because I've been forced to wear lavender for the past year, but whites to me are so symbolic of nursing and I feel better in them....

10. looking for some advice

    MIA-RN1 replied to colleennurse's topic in General Nursing

    I am moving out of mother/baby and onto women's surgery which also includes some oncology, hospice and bit of dialysis just for grins and giggles

11. looking for some advice

    MIA-RN1 replied to colleennurse's topic in General Nursing

    coleen, I empathize. I am leaving my first nursing job next month to switch to a different unit all together but within the same hospital. What I did was I waited til the last moment before mentioning...

12. Self Scheduling. Does it exist?

    MIA-RN1 replied to badgernurse's topic in General Nursing

    we have self-scheduling w/ the rules (e/o weekend, e/o holiday) and it works okay but the bottom line is what is good for the unit. The perdiems and the full time and part times all put their requests...

13. Anyone like being a nurse?

    MIA-RN1 replied to misserella8036's topic in General Nursing

    I love being a nurse. Maybe I don't love my work situation right now, but the basic, fundamental fact of becoming a nurse is the best thing I've ever done for

14. How long did it take for you to get your RN?...

    MIA-RN1 replied to Butterfly23's topic in General Nursing

    hmm when i first started in 1989 I went for two years...one year of prereqs and sciences and then another semester of clinical and then half a semester and withdrew for health. Started back in 97 or...

15. Anyone practice Guided Imagery?

    MIA-RN1 replied to icuabbie's topic in Holistic

    I use it when patients are painful or stressed or worried or basically whenever it seems right. I use a really simple one: Feet on floor or if not sitting then feel them rest against the bottom of the...