nurseby07

nurseby07

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  1. Nightmare Families and Hospital protocols

    nurseby07 replied to annmariern's topic in General Nursing

    UUGGHHH! I just had that family on my unit last night! I go in for an assessment and brother says "Don't wake her, I just tucked her in, she's fine" and then after I did wake her he asks "Will you...

  2. Change of Shift?

    nurseby07 replied to RNBelle's topic in General Nursing

    No, that doesn't happen on my unit. Usually they get in at 710, change, get breakfast burritoes and have to catch up with each other's night. It is truly frustrating. Now I just find them and give...

  3. How do I manage difficult CNAs?

    nurseby07 replied to MegRyanGirl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Leave! Quickly! Go! No one who "loves" you will support this behavior! Good luck and please keep us

  4. Is this all there is?

    nurseby07 replied to nurseby07's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks everyone for the replies. Everyone said that this was a hard unit, but that as a nurse you would learn so much from it, but it has a high turn-over rate. I only have 4 months left and will then...

  5. Sample routine of typical day for new nurse

    nurseby07 replied to cherokeesummer's topic in First Year After Licensure

    That was a great piece to obviously take what you can from. Here is what I do, night shift-8 months in to this profession! 1845 Arrive to work 1915: Assignments are out. Grab report sheets and find...

  6. Can I put my hands in your hair?

    nurseby07 replied to catlynLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I've had someone at work actually come up while I was charting and take my hair out of the elastic and start messing with it. What I really hate is when (and it seems to be the male-nurses who do...

  7. Preceptor Issues-Long!

    nurseby07 replied to New ICU Nurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    UUUGGGHHHH! As a new nurse, I can tell you that regardless of how crappy your preceptor is you are learning! Yes, that abx is now in the cupboard, drawer, or basin above the pixus forever in your...

  8. You don't LOOK like a nurse

    nurseby07 replied to NHCNurse's topic in General Nursing

    She's just jealous and bunko is her only outlet from Grey's anatomy and the fact that she still can't get into a program! Some of the nurses I work with look very young-but when it comes down to it we...

  9. The Nurses Belive that I'm here to Help

    nurseby07 replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Sue Always loved your posts. Will you come work with me on my unit?? We need you!! Good job!!!!You go

  10. PTSD- Am I alone??

    nurseby07 replied to strugglingnurse's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Hey! No, you are not alone...I don't have ptsd from child abuse but from spousal abuse. It is a weird thing to have. One day everything can be fine and the next, stressors from life can feel so...

  11. Top Five Tips for Night Shift? For a new nurse?

    nurseby07 replied to TuckerBug's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If you are like me, you may be stressing a bit about it. I usually don't nap before my first shift on, and the night is fine. I am a big fan of caffeine! I usually have a granola bar at midnight and...

  12. Cool Podcast

    nurseby07 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I got my first ipod yesterday and found that all of the podcasts are free..So I searched nursing and found a very cool weekly nursing info 30 minute broadcast. It was kind of cool..thought I'd

  13. Cool Podcast

    nurseby07 replied to nurseby07's topic in General Nursing

    Nope- Under Podcasts search "Nursing" It's Jamie

  14. Family members that work your nerves!!!

    nurseby07 replied to BluntForceTrauma's topic in General Nursing

    ja! dat heb ik gedaan! liefs,

  15. Family members that work your nerves!!!

    nurseby07 replied to BluntForceTrauma's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with most of the posts above mine. It does however, get very difficult when a patient's rights are being violated. If it were the spouse, mother/father or only person in the room then I am all...

  16. I can't pass these tests. What to do?

    nurseby07 replied to worrywart's topic in General Nursing

    I had the same problem...sign up for Kaplan! Do it now! It will help you sooooo much! Good

  17. Hipaa & things they didn't teach me in school

    nurseby07 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi everyone. Does anyone else have these types of situations happen? I had a pt who had just been raped. She was followed onto our unit with her good friend (another woman) During report from the ER I...

  18. Hipaa & things they didn't teach me in school

    nurseby07 replied to nurseby07's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks for your reply! The police were called in the ER but she refused to say who it was. Even though they were called I still couldn't tell her friend why she was there...We did end up calling them...

  19. My sister is on life support

    nurseby07 replied to realnursealso/LPN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh sweetie, Just reading your post I can feel that old ball of grief that never leaves me, it settles in my gut and on my shoulders. I am so very sorry for your pain, your sorrow, your loss and your...

  20. THE WORST Experience/night of my life!

    nurseby07 replied to emmie08's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Oh man! That sounds like a horrible unit. I know which nurses I can ask "dumb" questions and which ones will stare at me blankly and say "Is there a question here?" Usually the more difficult nurses...

  21. Cell Phone Photos

    nurseby07 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I work with a nurse who takes pictures of our comatose patient's wounds, she takes pictures of the photos in pt's charts and saves them in her cell phone! I heard another nurse say to her, "I'm afraid...

  22. Riddle me this

    nurseby07 replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    I just spit red wine all over the computer! "Team powerpoint

  23. Riddle me this

    nurseby07 replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    1900-report 1915-labs 1930-check pt#1, bp 210/105, ventriculosotomy not draining, call md, no parameters in chart for when to call, get chewed out. Oh yeah pt restrained, biting at you, at same time...

  24. Cell Phone Photos

    nurseby07 replied to nurseby07's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ah yes!! That article, I forgot! I would say something but she is also our charge nurse who has been there forever, and I am a

  25. help..

    nurseby07 replied to charli's topic in General Nursing

    This reminds me of what is going on in my husband's workplace. An MA is in his first year of nursing school and has take home tests. For the last two finals the charge nurse sat at her desk openly...