RedInScrubs ASN, RN

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    color coding staff

    RedInScrubs replied to reecie54's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Good lord, does it REALLY kill to wear something you don't like? What are we, five and protesting being denied glittery cowboy boots versus black ones? They serve the dame
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    color coding staff

    RedInScrubs replied to reecie54's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Unless you float to a different unit every day and work varied shifts. Then people all looking totally different is a royal pain in the
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    color coding staff

    RedInScrubs replied to reecie54's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Being in float pool, I can tell you it's a GODSEND in a code knowing who can do what even when I don't know faces and names. Or if I need to ask a question, have an issue, whatever. Seriously
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    Big sign-on bonus, no incentive...

    RedInScrubs replied to abend's topic in Colorado Nursing

    I've noticed places that have sign-on bonuses tend to not be places to work. If you have to offer a large sum of money to get people to be there, chances are the ones that are already there won't...
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    Nursing with a hearing loss: Yes you can!

    RedInScrubs replied to Donna Maheady's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I have some moderate hearing loss in both my ears from a bad infection as a baby that caused eardrums to burst. I didn't realize that it affected me much until I went into nursing school, because I...
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    Tattoos!

    RedInScrubs replied to mmbucklerky's topic in General Students

    I have two very large forearm tattoos, one is an EKG line with music notes and a treble clef, the other is a quote. My employers haven't cared about them, so I haven't bothered covering them since...
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    Everything is our responsibility. Rant.

    RedInScrubs replied to dudette10's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was sitting next to one of my favorite nurses the other day while she was working through a discharge that had been going since 9am, and needed to get done. One of the docs had transferred a patient...
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    Com'on, you got one...What is your heart wrenching moment?

    RedInScrubs replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient who was a DNR/DNI on the floor. He'd come in because he'd lost his appetite, had been having increasing weakness, and had just been tired for a while. He had heart failure from COPD,...
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    What nursing task do you loathe???

    RedInScrubs replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    Changing central line dressings. Or really, anything that requires sterile technique. I'm really clumsy, I'm not a Type A personality, so the tedious and specific focus that sterile technique requires...
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    Why do nurses delegate with a power trip?

    RedInScrubs replied to CrzyNrsBSN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I, too, started out as an Aide. I worked for two years in a nursing home as a CNA, got my LPN for a year, and have been an RN for two years now. I have noticed a distinct difference, not all the time...
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    Is Nursing My Calling?

    RedInScrubs replied to Ahvegas's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I know for me, nursing was a calling, though it was one that I attempted to ignore for the longest time. When I was about four, my sister slammed her finger in the bathroom door, and severed the tip...
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    New grads in specialties without the basics

    RedInScrubs replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Having worked hard to become a certified Medical Surgical RN, I hate the imposed idea that Med-Surg is somehow a terrible career choice. Med-Surg nurses take more patients than anyone, have more...
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    Medical vs Surgical Nursing

    RedInScrubs replied to misscherie's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I've worked both. I actually started on a general surgical floor, though it took medical patients by nature of the need for overflow. Surgical tends to be divided into a few different specialty...
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    new prn job to go to different med surg units

    RedInScrubs replied to nyc2011's topic in Medical-Surgical

    No, it wasn't overwhelming. It could be if you've never done med-surg before, bur if you've at least had some experience under your belt, it really can help round you out as a nurse. You need to have...
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    New Med-Surg RN

    RedInScrubs replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I took patients the third week of orientation. We had a total of eight weeks, two were just tasking, the last six were with preceptors. I took 1-2 the first week, and by the last I took a full load of...
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    New Med-Surg RN

    RedInScrubs replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I had the same thoughts when I was in school, and accepted a med-surg position a year ago. Wouldn't go back, and I love the work way more than I thought I would. That being said, some of the best...
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    new prn job to go to different med surg units

    RedInScrubs replied to nyc2011's topic in Medical-Surgical

    So a float pool position? I currently work float pool, though I work full-time. Personally I love float pool. Different units, nurses, chances to really polish all your time management skills and...
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    Disappointed in nursing

    RedInScrubs replied to nursingilove's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Change of scenery and being in a supportive environment changes a LOT with job satisfaction. If nurses feel supported where they work, they don't backstab as
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    Would you take a patient's blood sugar without an "order"?

    RedInScrubs replied to Nola009's topic in General Nursing

    I've had patients come to the floor without orders at all but taken their sugar because I needed to know if they were bottomed out and had reasons to suspect they were. I would consider it a nursing...
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    Pt stable with a very low Bp?

    RedInScrubs replied to sugar12's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, patients with BPs that low aren't stable by definition, because clearly they are at risk for poor perfusion and shock, but if they remain AAOx3, their heart rate isn't going tachy, their...
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    Was this such an unreasonable request?

    RedInScrubs replied to verene's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Totally agree. I would not feel comfortable writing a telephone or verbal order unless I was talking directly to the doctor and could verify it with the source. I would never take a verbal from...
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    ASN vs BSN

    RedInScrubs replied to Jks322's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I chose an ADN program because I was a 24 year old single mother who wanted a more nontraditional environment and classmates who shared similar life experiences. I also wanted to get my LPN to make...
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    How MANY shoes do you use for work?

    RedInScrubs replied to NightBloomCereus's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have four pairs that I reserve for work and revolve. A pair of Chucks, one of Danskos, a pair of Mizuno running shoes, and a pair of Vibram FiveFingers. Because not all nights are created equal, and...
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    Never wear black scrubs.

    RedInScrubs replied to Psychosocialist's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Our entire nurse staff at the hospital wears black scrubs, mandated by policy.
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    New nurse

    RedInScrubs replied to Spaniard's topic in Home Health

    I worked as a home health LPN than RN for about a year, then switched to med-surg. I didn't have problems, any more than I think any other nurse would have. Our hospital had a pretty good orientation...