SheriLynnRN

I haven't documented the incidents is witnessed, except for charting the education that I did with the family. I plan to talk to my Nurse Manager today, to see what she suggests. The son and DIL were flying back to their home town today, as I underst...

I was told that she was actually a professor to one of our surgeons when he was in medical school. He spent a while visiting in the room today, so I believe this is true. She also seems to use medical language appropriately has made useful suggestion...

I get frustrated with having to get up from charting repeatedly too, but image how you would feel if someone was that rude to you! In my experience, the people who come to the desk believe that they are being helpful, they think using the call light ...

I work on a surgical unit, at a medium sized community hospital. On an average evening shift 3-11, I have 5 or six pts. Occasionally I will start with only 3 or 4, depending on how far behind the OR schedule got that day. I've had a few days that I h...

While I realize that it doesn't apply to all nurses in all situations, I will stick with simply wearing my hospital badge with my title and introducing myself to every pt by saying "I'm Sheri, and I'll be your nurse until 11 pm." if every one the pt ...

And it's making me nervous. I am a staff RN on a surgical unit. I've been working at this hospital for about two months. We are expecting the surveyors sometime in the first quarter of this year, but the visit will be unannounced. I have confidence i...

I'm sure I can't be the only one who noticed, but the OP said that the CNA did the DISCHARGE TEACHING! No matter how you slice the cake, that is way out of the scope of practice of any UAP. Assessment, pt teaching, care planning; these are profession...

My last name is on my badge. It is state law here, even in mental/behavioral health areas. I think the right solution is to leave that decision to each individual nurse. After all, we are PROFESSIONALS, and being a professional entails having the rig...

I voted "other". I could take care of myself relatively comfortably if it were just me. Together, my husband and I do fine. He is active duty Air Force, so our insurance needs are taken care of at no cost to us, and he receives extra pay that covers ...

I actually got to tell him tonight. We're both excited. He is scheduled to be home on my birthday, just before the due date. I hope it works out that way!

The facility I currently work at is the cleanest hospital I've seen so far. I think that main reason for this is that each unit has a housekeeper that is full time on that unit and is responsible for it 40 hours a week. Floating housekeepers fill in ...

Just found out tonight that I am pregnant. My due date is 11 days after my 23rd birthday. This will be my first child. DH is deployed, and I haven't been able to tell him yet. I hope he can call me tonight!

I have to admit, I do like them a lot better on the peripherals than the PICCs. I've only changed one picc dressing with a stat lock so far, and it went ok, but the tegaderm does seem to stick to the stat lock. i made absolutely sure I didn't pull at...

Ok, you might call them something different. They are these little plastic clamps/holders for IV catheter stabilization, instead of tape. They have adhesive, similar to foam tape, which adheres to the skin below the IV site. There is a plastic clip w...

My books are all packed away, so I can't give you any sources to cite, but I'll tell you what I remember from school. It holds true in the real world. No matter what you delegate, either to a UAP or LPN, you are responsible for it. You must know thei...

In nursing school, one of my classmates had named her girls Vidalia (as in the kind of onion) and Rosemary. There was a boy in my graduating class in high school named Jedi. His last name was Knight. His brothers were Zebulon and Zachariah. They went...

I will be transferring to ICU from general surg next week. When I told one of my co-workers (whom I respect) that I was going to the unit, she said "Just promise me you won't go up there and turn into a B***H." I asked around my unit and got the same...

I was recently hired into a staff RN position on a surgical unit. I will be precepted for 4-5 weeks, depending on what I need. Tomorrow morning, I start my orientation on the unit. I am nervous, the typical new job stuff. This is my first new job as ...

Sooo..The first day went alright. Got there a little later than I wanted. Punched in on time, but my preceptor was already waiting for me in the report room. We had six patients to start, on got discharged and we got a post-op around 1100. One cute l...

I was going to write "bad habits" instead of poor practice in the title line, but I thought better of it. A little backstory. I recently moved from the southeast to the northwest and started a staff RN position on a surgical unit. The hospital that I...

I was "lucky enough" to observe a circ in nursing school, and it just struck me as so unnatural. Reading this thread has only strenghtened me in my conviction not to have my son circumsized. My husband wasn't too happy at first, when I told him how I...

Thanks for all of the encouraging words. It's good to hear from others who have felt this way before. Tomorrow will be my first day actually orienting on the unit. I'm nervous, I will have to start all over, developing a new routine for myself. I'm g...

I am thankful for telephones, so that I can keep in touch with my family back home in Maine, and my husband who is in training in Wisconsin, preparing to deploy to Iraq. I am thankful for the nice weather today, sixty degrees and sunny, so that I can...

This is so true! My husband always has a thousand "logical" suggestions on how I could have made things easier on myself, or how he would have done it. He just doesn't get it. There's a huge difference between caring for surigcal patients and paving ...

I just got hired here in Montana. I have just over a year of experience. My base pay will be $20.48/hr and I will be working full time (80 hrs every two weeks) and accruing paid time off. Evening diff is around $1 and nights is $2 or so. No weekend d...