NuGuyNurse2b

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  1. Quit PCT Job Hurt future RN Job Prospects?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to OliverElio87's topic in General Students

    Check your hospital policy. Most places won't allow a PCT turned RN to continue to work as a PCT. So there's your reason right

  2. Sabotage? Failed by 0.1%

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to gpnbe1a6's topic in General Students

    One of my buddies in nursing school missed the cutoff by .2 and they didn't round up for him, either. It sucks but most places will allow you to repeat the semester and learn from your mistakes. At...

  3. How to get an ED job after school?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Schneid1's topic in General Students

    Some places hire new grads, others require them to be experienced either on a MedSurg floor or telemetry floor. If that's where you want to be, try to find out which places hire new grads, and keep...

  4. First code

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to MrsJt's topic in General Nursing

    Well comorbidities do not equate to an automatic DNR. We have patients who should be DNR and they sometimes aren't - there are other factors influencing that decision that may reside outside of the...

  5. Scary Nurses

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to NurseEmmy's topic in General Nursing

    No, I'm aware of those activities at work. People leave for cigarette breaks, use the phone for personal business, etc. But sleeping for hours...I find that hard to accomplish. Maybe it's just my...

  6. Bummer, didn't get into new grad nurse residency

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to StocktonNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I would take the hire paying opportunity, considering everything else being equal between the two

  7. Scary Nurses

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to NurseEmmy's topic in General Nursing

    So...where do you work that a nurse can even entertain the idea of sleeping for hours on the job? I'd like an application. Cause I can't apparently take even 15 minutes to eat my lunch. This just...

  8. A Sign From God?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to NurseMT_'s topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Most of our class made a pile of books right outside the school's nursing dept hallway immediately after the final exam of the last semester. I held on to mine in the event that I needed to look over...

  9. A Sign From God?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to NurseMT_'s topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Well I'm laughing at the whole spirituality thing. but a pile of books laying around may indeed be looking for a new home. You guys didnt donate your nursing textbooks back to your school when you...

  10. Working while attending Nursing school

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Mfrancis02's topic in General Students

    I've done it, it's not easy, but it's doable. You'll make sacrifices, but people who want the best for you will

  11. Scheduling harassment

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to NurseDisneyPrincess's topic in General Nursing

    ^ uh different story altogether. OP was hired with the understanding she was not to work weekends. She negotiated, her employer approved it. You scenarios are completely

  12. Had a 1.2 GPA now I'm in the RN Program

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to WestKyKing's topic in General Students

    Similar story with me, and I gave the same advice to others in the same boat in prior threads. Gotta get that GPA up, it takes longer to dig yourself out of the hole, but the GPA isn't going to...

  13. Help - what is the easiest floor to work

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to gears83's topic in Male Nursing Students

    But in this case, it's not. I mean he was really laying it on thick and people still didn't get

  14. Bummer, didn't get into new grad nurse residency

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to StocktonNurse's topic in General Nursing

    There will be other opportunities. I know you're itching to start now, but depending on your market, you're going to find a lot of these residency programs begin again every few months. Although I...

  15. Got a nurse aide fired... did I do the right thing?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Live.Love.Nurse.♡'s topic in General Nursing

    It's solid proof, there's nothing unprofessional about it. If there were cameras there and they wanted to catch said employee in action, they'd use those footage of the offending action, too. HR...

  16. Got a nurse aide fired... did I do the right thing?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Live.Love.Nurse.♡'s topic in General Nursing

    Why would the OP need to think about the possibility of that CNA's termination? Someone who sleeps on the couch and watches TV on paid time is the person who should be thinking about that...

  17. Difficult Foley insertion

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Deernc's topic in General Nursing

    Aside from that pesky sterility issue, that just sounds downright barbaric. At my facility routine catherization is performed at bedside by the nurses, but If it's a confirmed enlarged prostate in...

  18. Nurse tech working as RN

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to esrun77's topic in General Nursing

    I have never heard of

  19. Manager interrupting

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to lifeisgood516's topic in General Nursing

    Had this happened last week. My pt was being transferred to the unit, I was putting together my paperwork to call the report to the unit. I see a shadow looming over me, it was a manager from...

  20. Help - what is the easiest floor to work

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to gears83's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I'm just floored at how many people did not catch the

  21. Hospice patient is requesting food, but the family denies her

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to RNgemini's topic in General Nursing

    The proverbial "friend" part is to mean that it often accompanies the geriatric population's death; it does not mean that it's a peaceful "friendly"

  22. IV Cert & Withdrawal

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to FocusedLVN2RN's topic in General Nursing

    I paid for my IV cert when trying to get my foot in the door as a new grad. And it looked good on my resume, plus I didn't have to take any IV tests like the other new hires since the place I went to...

  23. What does it mean to have "Lack of Good Moral Character"? when you're license is revoked

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to SentinelTruth's topic in General Nursing

    Adding to everything above, you fail to tell the difference between "your" and

  24. Drawing blood question

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to matt3467's topic in General Nursing

    We had a nurse float to our floor. A pt had a port, and this nurse drew the blood. The Hgb came back frighteningly low. Pt was asymptomatic. I'm getting change of shift report and I'm thinking she...

  25. Did I harm the patient??

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to RN3468's topic in General Nursing

    ^ I have never IO'd anybody either. I honestly wouldn't even know what to do, we weren't taught that in our