S.T.A.C.E.Y

S.T.A.C.E.Y LPN

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  1. Research Papers?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to Hanabna's topic in General Students

    My nursing degree required more papers than any of my friends doing English degrees, science degrees, or liberal arts degrees. It was ridiculous. I had at least one paper a week, sometimes two--not...

  2. which shift do you prefer working as a new RN?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to labrador4122's topic in General Nursing

    My job is both days & nights. I prefer days for having a social life, but nights for the slowed down

  3. How to receive job offer in Ontario?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to greko's topic in International Nursing

    You'll get a job offer from the hospital

  4. ICU before Trauma?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to jewelsg627's topic in Emergency

    Or they are a progressive hospital that feels that would rather educate and train their own new nurses from the ground up, rather than trying to unlearn bad habits learned elsewhere. I've heard both...

  5. Night Shifters....How do you stay rested?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to nurseJ88's topic in First Year After Licensure

    When going into a string of nights, I try to sleep in as long as possible, then stay in bed until I absolutely have to get up. When I come home I go right to bed and sleep until I have to get up and...

  6. Advice needed on disputing a "clinical unsat"

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to tlc2u's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Try going through the usual route, and working your way up before contacting a lawyer. I think that would just make the school put their backs up in defence and blow the whole situation way out of...

  7. Houston ER positions...

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to txstunurse's topic in Texas Nursing

    Start looking for Job Fairs in your area. Go to all of them, and go prepared with resumes and even to interview on the spot. Call all of the hospitals you are interested in and inquire about ER...

  8. Advice needed on disputing a "clinical unsat"

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to tlc2u's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Look at your course outline or program outline. It should say somewhere how to dispute an unsatisfactory mark. Sometimes its through the student union representative, through the program director,...

  9. Trauma Unit

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to CainRN's topic in Emergency

    Our ER float nurses. They usually float around the dpt to help with other people's assignments, and are always ER nurses. We don't take nurses from outside the dpt to help

  10. Help, ER getting swamped.

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to MAISY, RN-ER's topic in Emergency

    Can your triage nurses send patients for X-rays from the waiting room? Labs done in WR? If you are holding onto admitted patients who don't have a bed, and your WR is full of people waiting to come...

  11. Ethical Decisions

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to NC_Gal's topic in General Nursing

    Do Not Resusitate.....alot of people see it as Do Not Treat. Old man with CHF exacerbation....Bipap may help push the fluid out of his lungs, but the doc says no because he is DNR. Intubation,...

  12. Advice to a new nurse wanting to quit...

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to rnang123's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Go looking for psych jobs NOW. Talk to the managers and HR, and see if they even CARE that you have cardiac experience. I would think they have very little to do with one another, and with your...

  13. When to submit my resume

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to WM_84's topic in General Nursing

    I applied at the start of my final semester. Apply now, and keep in touch with HR & the manager of the floor. Good

  14. Help Paper on Today's Nursing Issues

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to keludtke's topic in General Nursing

    Abortion, end-of-life, nursing shortage, are common and personally I think they're overused. Lots more out there. What about new-grads now entering specialties? Nursing shortage now means many...

  15. Am I assessing today's nursing situation accurately?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to marie-francoise's topic in General Nursing

    I totally understand where you are coming from because that was similar to how I felt in nursing school. But, I have to ask, have you only been looking around you, and making broad-based judgements...

  16. What do you learn in Med Surge?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to I want to be a nurse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You learn how to interact with patients. You build your confidence, and learn what questions to ask. You learn about disease processes, and what to look for. You learn about surgical proceedures,...

  17. Nurses taking patient's off backboards without doctor clearnce?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to the big nurse's topic in Emergency

    Well I think thats part of the difference. At my ER people are taken off the backboard very quickly--sometimes at Triage. We then use a slide board to transfer to hospital stretcher, for CT, and...

  18. Trauma Unit

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to CainRN's topic in Emergency

    Ours doesn't always have trauma patients in the ER, so we use float nurses to go into the the trauma room, or pulls someone from their regular assignment while everyone else covers her assignment....

  19. Nurses taking patient's off backboards without doctor clearnce?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to the big nurse's topic in Emergency

    Ok, but my question is..... So if you keep the patient on the spinal board until the doctor assesses, and the patient is found to have a fracture.......they don't go back onto the spinal board do...

  20. Stripping an IV?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y posted a topic in General Nursing

    What does Stripping an IV mean? I just read this in another thread, and have never heard the phrase

  21. Nurses taking patient's off backboards without doctor clearnce?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to the big nurse's topic in Emergency

    ok, so what do you do in your ER when you find out the pt has a fx...say t4 or L1 or whatever.......Do they permanently stay on the board? My understanding has always been that the board was for...

  22. Spinoff : What We Do, What We Used to Do

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to NursingAgainstdaOdds's topic in General Nursing

    I had a distant family member who has been a paramedic for MANY years tell me that he remembers the days before CPR when he was taught to raise the patients hands over their head to help them

  23. Nurses taking patient's off backboards without doctor clearnce?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to the big nurse's topic in Emergency

    Its routinely done at my hospital, unless they are a major trauma patient going direct to our trauma room. As wait-times are often hours and hours (yes, even if from EMS) it is routine that the...

  24. Misled during job interview, realized after being employed for several months

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to jam2007's topic in General Nursing

    Did you not clarify exactly what those vague recruitment phrases actually were going to mean to you as a new grad? "education for nurses and opportunities for professional growth. " I think every...

  25. CRNE Scrapped Short Answer?

    S.T.A.C.E.Y replied to S.T.A.C.E.Y's topic in International Nursing

    None that I know of. I have my copy of the CRNE study guide from the CNA if you're interested in purchasing