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  1. Confused Nursing Student

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

    Epona, as Registered nurses we do NOT make medical diagnoses. Technically. You check your patient, you note a fever, productive cough, cruddy lung sounds and you think maybe pneumonia. You call the...

  2. responsibilty

    MIA-RN1 replied to sweetface18's topic in General Nursing

    I was intimidated too, at first. Then I realized that its not so scary as it sounds. I check the meds--right med, right pt, right dose, right route etc etc. I look up every med I am not familiar with...

  3. Mother/Baby nursing?

    MIA-RN1 replied to rnin02's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We do mother/baby nursing: Each nurse is assigned four (sometimes five) mother/baby couplets. Plus often we have gyn patients on overflow on our unit as well as antepartums. They try for only three...

  4. Mother/Baby nursing?

    MIA-RN1 replied to rnin02's topic in Ob/Gyn

    QUOTE: BUT, often if the Labor nurse is tied up, the 'nursery' nurse will do mom assessments/meds/etc in addition to the nursery with the aid or a bored lab tech/RT/x-ray tech to baby sit while she is...

  5. Does Incentive Spirometer decrease a temp?

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

    This is so timely--yesterday I had a pt who's temp was slowly climbing and the doc ordered an incentive spirometer for it. (highest was 38.1 and 38.3 is reportable) Later, I went to check pts temp...

  6. Magnet Status--what's on the hospital's "to do" list in order to meet the criteria?

    MIA-RN1 replied to nurse4me8897's topic in General Nursing

    I started working at about the same time my hospital started their journey. I haven't got much before/after to compare to, but what I've seen is that we got fed alot in the beginning, got Tshirts...

  7. New OB Nurses, Grads and Students, Please Feel Free to post your questions here:

    MIA-RN1 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am relatively new myself (graduated in May) and got my postpartum job right out of school. This is how I approached it---apply for every job that looks interesting. Experience required or not, if...

  8. My perspective...

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

    I hope I don't sound harsh but CNA means 'nurse assistant'. Our aides, techs, etc carry intrinsically in their job description the responsibility to help us. Yes we can do what we can to help make...

  9. My perspective...

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

    I think that what you describe is everywhere to different degrees. Human nature tends to view the grass as greener on the other side of the fence.I work with some incredibly awesome techs and others...

  10. Me again...question about hours...

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

    I work 40 hours a week-- 3 12-h shifts and one 4-h. I love it. I was doing 5-8h shifts and it was awful, never got two days in a row off..just awful. Now I work one or two 12's, then have a couple...

  11. What did u buy your first year of nursing?

    MIA-RN1 replied to rn2bn07's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I bought myself a new car--needed it anyway since our son needed one and we all traded around and I got the new one! :) Paid off some bills, accrued some more...the usual

  12. Things a new L/D and PP nurse should know

    MIA-RN1 replied to SchizoDsy's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Figure out the whole jaundice/coombs stuff before you have to explain it to a patient. Remember that your patients in post partum are, for the most part, not sick. Follow the lactation consultant for...

  13. Anti-depressants and nursing school

    MIA-RN1 replied to SoulShine75's topic in General Students

    I think at least half my class was on zoloft by the time final semester came! Talk to your doctor. Anxiety is only good if it works for you; if you are paralyzed or otherwise incapacitated with it,...

  14. Mom/Baby Nurses

    MIA-RN1 replied to JustAboutRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have been a mother baby nurse since I graduated with my RN in May 2006. I love it. I got into it because I love teaching and love people. Also because I don't love the critical care environment...

  15. Leaving written report at shift change?

    MIA-RN1 replied to uptoRNin04's topic in General Nursing

    ugh I HATE written reports! We usually do them face to face but the other day I came in to have two patients assigned to me that were cared for by a nurse who left two hours earlier! The 'written...

  16. Adn Curriculum- No Chemistry?

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

    ADN here--all we needed was high-school level chemistry. Also had to take anatomy, physiology, and microbiology. Our program is a very good one. We had 97-98% pass rate on the NCLEX from my graduating...

  17. Fake Nails on Nurses, Yay or Nay?

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

    Not allowed at all where I work. Too much risk and I remember reading reports of babies dying at other hospitals from the germs under nurse's nails. Even when new moms have the nails, I ask them if...

  18. Question, med admin times?

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

    I would check the pt, and if okay give the med, note on the MAR the actual time given, and then write a note in the chart explaining that med was late , pt stable etc and med given at such and such...

  19. Nurses With Hypothyroidism

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

    I've been Hashi's hypo for almost 13 years. I take the pill first thing every morning--well, most mornings lol. Sometimes its afternoon when I remember but generally in the morning. I got really...

  20. limit to number of csections?

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thanks to all for the input. It sounded weird that he limited her but perhaps there is something anatomical, or perhaps some medical condition I am unaware of, that made the doc decide to limit. I...

  21. limit to number of csections?

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I totally agree. I wouldn't have put up with it

  22. Bed Baths, I dread giving them.

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

    I haven't done one since school but I always made sure to wash one body part at a time, dry it, and cover it. Keep the pt covered except for what I was washing. And I always asked if the pt preferred...

  23. Do you ever wish people didn't know you were a nurse?

    MIA-RN1 replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Just tonight my best friend told me that her newborn niece was found to have an irregular heartbeat on her one-month checkup. I said "Wow." And she said "So....what is causing it?" Darned if I know....

  24. Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

    MIA-RN1 replied to VickyRN's topic in Holistic

    I tried to use that a few times....almost got away with it. Had a pt w/ psycho-social issues relating to her hospitalization, loss of a loved one, faced the possibility of long-term chronic...

  25. Starting First Job..a few Qs?

    MIA-RN1 replied to stuRN6's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think it depends on your orientation. My first day was a group of about 50 people, all new hires to the hospital but not all nurses. It coveredt hings like code of conduct, dress code etc. So if...