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Hello, I'm currently an emergency department nurse.... While I enjoy this very much, every time I interact with a post partum mother who is nursing, I get so happy by being able to offer them support, being their advocate, and by offering my persona...

Hi, so I have a long question about a pt I triaged the other night and was hoping to get some insight from some experienced nurses. On a side note, I've been an ER nurse for almost 2 years, only been doing triage for the past few weeks. I have a doct...

Thanks. I've only been in this er for about 3 months. This particular dr is very much into pointing out EVERYTHING that you did or didn't do.... If you take initiative and do something it's why didn't you wait for orders, if you don't do something it...

Thanks. I've only been in this er for about 3 months. This particular dr is very much into pointing out EVERYTHING that you did or didn't do.... If you take initiative and do something it's why didn't you wait for orders, if you don't do something it...

Great points by everyone!! I think I'm doing ok but there is usually one case where I'm going back and thinking what I should have done differently so I can be better. I wasn't necessarily trying to tailor my triage to a cranky dr, but just trying to...

Wow thanks all for your input!! Like I said I'm new to triage so still unsure. The reason I didn't put "chest pain" is because the day before while working with a full of himself dr, he got annoyed at me for putting chest pain for a pt who was pointi...

Thank you nurses for your feedback!!! Just curious if either of you would have thought twice about the raynauds??

I have been a nurse for 2 years, I have not experienced this "nurses eat their young". If anything, it has been the exact opposite and I have had nothing but people who have been open and receptive to my questions and have offered their guidance. If ...

The great ED nurses that I've worked with have the ability to take care of 10 patients, and somehow treat each one of them like they are their only patient. When you've reached this mastery of multi-tasking, you have made it. I personally have not re...

As shocking as it may seem, waiting 2 hours for an order is not long in my hospital. Once the pt is admitted, I can no longer ask the ED doctor for an order, I need to call the admitting doctor, which may or may not be the hospitalist. If it's the ho...

I agree with the other comments that you shouldn't quit while on orientation. You didn't say how long you've been at the hospital (I didn't see if you did), but everything changes when you're off orientation. While with a preceptor, you are basically...

This is interesting to me. I'm a newish nurse in the ED, and anytime I've placed one it has always been with a seasoned nurse, and we have always used the swallow small sips of water trick. Not a full cup, but just when it hits that area where they f...

Hi, my first job out of school was an outpatient oncology center where I, along with the other nurses were responsible for mixing our own drugs. I actually wrote a similar question on here about the safety aspect and got a lot of good information. Th...

So last night in the ED during a trauma alert with a pt who had gotten punched in the head and was post ictal I was trying to get a BP because the automatic was coming up 198/100.... well, I wasn't able to get it, after trying several times and getti...

Thank you all for responding!!! Just needed some reassurance, that it really is ok! I'm new at this job, and still meeting people, and just really hate to look incompetent.. I really want to be one of those nurses that make it look easy... how do the...

When I worked in oncology I would always ask the pt their preference. Some of them don't want to be stuck in the peripheral, and some have really bad IV access, so why wouldn't you use the port? A port needs to be accessed and flushed every 8 weeks o...

I have been a nurse for a year, I was lucky enough to find a job straight out of school. After 9 months at my mediocre first job, I was lucky enough to land my dream job... overnights in the ED of a very busy level II hospital not too far from my hou...

Thank you for all the advice!! I really do enjoy learning how other mothers have done it, and how even though it's hard (what isn't?), it is doable and will be ok. And sistermoon, congratulations on your little miracle arriving!

And now I'm four months preggo And congratulations to you prnqday!! Motherhood... it's a roller coaster like no other, but you will love the person that you become from it!!

Thank you all for the kind words! What a comfort to hear from other nurses that I have time to prove myself, and that a baby, and maternity leave is not the end of a career. Right now I'm just going to focus on the ED and doing a fantastic job, and j...

I have been a nurse for a year, I was lucky enough to find a job straight out of school. After 9 months at my mediocre first job, I was lucky enough to land my dream job... overnights in the ED of a very busy level II hospital not too far from my hou...

Thank you all for responding. Honestly I've been so overwhelmed, and I teared up when I read all the kind words and telling me that it is doable. I have had such a hard time with the "mothers guilt".. Why is it as women, that everything has to be a c...

The first interview I went on, they actually asked if they could take my picture for this reason exactly (I wound up getting this job)... While I understand why they did it, and I do think it is and was helpful, I don't think you should put a picture...

I would focus on knowing the normal range for a CBC and a CMP, specifically electrolytes.

I've never worked in a nursing home, but that sounds crazy. I would have a hard time working there too. Sounds like it's a disaster waiting to happen.