NuGuyNurse2b replied to Scrubba Dub's topic in Nursing
I hated that question during my orientation, during my requesting help from other people when I was off orientation, and anytime I would ask someone else a question on something I've never done. We all have different backgrounds. New grads are comi...
NuGuyNurse2b replied to lclapps's topic in Nursing
This is what you say in interviews, you tell the interviewer that one of your strengths is being honest with yourself. Your patients' lives mattered more than your pride, you realized you were in a higher acuity situation than your new grad status s...
NuGuyNurse2b replied to medteleER's topic in Nursing
I wouldn't have given both doses. We just had this exact situation with morphine for a pt. One of the other nurses asked me to cover her pt, there's an order for Morphine 2mg stat, and then for morphine 2mg Q4hrs (standing, not prn). Well the bri...
it depends on how saturated your area is. When I was applying to nursing programs (both ADN and BSN) my area was flooded with applicants. I didn't get into most programs and the one ADN program I did get into had 90 spots for 1000+ applicants throu...
NuGuyNurse2b replied to SoontobeNewGrad2019's topic in Nursing
go with your first choice! As a new grad I wanted to work ER, couldn't get in anywhere, settled for med surg and I hated it. The floor I worked on had a high turnover, majority of the other new grad nurses leaving after 1 year. I became a statistic...
NuGuyNurse2b replied to PhyllisMSN's topic in Nursing
It's a broken system. While some of the fault falls on the nurses, I know people who work in LTC and at nursing facilities who say admin at those places are content with allowing a nurse to oversee as much as 20 patients (!). There is simply no way...
NuGuyNurse2b replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nursing
I doubt she'll actually end up in prison. She will lose her license, though. And to the person who thinks pharmacy has anything to do with this....*rolling my eyes*
NuGuyNurse2b replied to Emergent's topic in Nursing
Maybe he didn't understand why the ER doc is heading to a floor code blue so it might've confused him in that moment? At both hospitals I work at, the ER MD's do not respond to floor codes. There's a whole nother team that does that. So if it was ...
