SheriLynnRN

I only recommend nursing to people I would want to work with, people that I would want taking care of me. That excludes nurses who have nothing good to say about their jobs or their patients. In my experience, it is people like that who make my shift...

I agree with what the above two posters said on the subject, as long as the patient is not going to find out/overhear the jokes, and it doesn't affect the nurses' ability to treat the patient with respect, then it's just stress relief. I don't think ...

Forgive me if it's already been discussed, but there are a lot of pages to this thread. Anyway, the OP said the the patient was one of their GI doc's receptionist's, and was wondering if she should say anything to the doc about the situation, along t...

Ok, I haven't really studied this stuff in a while, and I don't have my textbooks in front of me, but... I would say that fingerstick glucose monitoring is preferable because it is more precise (you can measure more accurately) and also because by th...

Nothing gets to me... if I'm in the presence of it. But I gag like heck when someone describes something gross. I must be an auditory learner.

I am hoping that some of you will have faced the same decision and will be able to give me some advice. I have year of ortho/neuro-med/surg experience and was three weeks into ICU orientation when we found out that my husband got orders to a new base...

Ok, I generally don't respond like this when something I read makes me yell at the computer, but this time I feel like I HAVE to say something. The current literature that I've read, and my facility's policy, clearly state that ventilated pts should ...

I just left my position, due to a military move, on a unit that made assignments in about the same way as you describe. I worked nights, so our ratio was usually 7 or 8 to 1. If four of us had eight and one had seven, the person with seven would get ...

I earned my ADN at a community college in my home state and had no trouble with taking NCLEX and licensing in my current state (not my home state). My ADN program is accredited by the NLN, and I have also heard that my home state BON has some of the ...

My hospital has a career ladder system available. The pay increases aren't much, about 50c per level. IMO there are just too many hoops to jump through, and not enough reward. The only reason I've considered doing it, is that it would look on my resu...

My story isn't as emotionally heart wrenching as some of these others, it's was just gross. I was on my first day of orientation to ICU (I had one year of med/surg). My pt was s/p femoral artery graft surgery on her right side. The right foot was com...

This happens to me almost every time a visit my local Target.

I just finished my third week of orientation in ICU. My preceptor's evaluation notes, which I thankfully got copies of, indicated that I was a "good nurse" and that I obviously knew what I was doing when it came to hands on pt care, but that I needed...

My other friend on the other hand was collecting blood off a piccline using a needle and somehow during the procedure accidently stuck her self. No that was serious since it was direct contact with blood but she was ok too. Our facility has vacuta...

Just wondering how y'all have handled being pregnant and working ie lifting, isolation pts etc. ? Or, what if anything have your co-workers done differently when they were pregnant?

Are y'all talking about a year of PAID leave, or just a year off with a gaurenteed postion when you come back? In the US, if you have worked somewhere at least 12 mos and the company has more than 50 employees you are intitled to 12 wks unpaid, you j...

Our ICU uses something that sounds like the zassi tubes. The tube is long and flexible, like ziploc bag plastic, baout two inches wide. Held in by a doughnut filled with water. They seem to be working really well. Never seem them use actual foleys, e...

I didn't sauder my wedding band to my engagement ring or my anniversary band. The wedding band is very thin and smooth, I never take it off. The diamonds i just leave at home and wear on my off days.

I work ortho, and we use PCA's all the time. The hips and knees have IVFs and abx along with pca morphine. Usually the ivfs do not have dextrose, but sometimes they do. Anyway, we run the fluids continuous with the abx as the secondary on the pump. T...

Here's how it works on my unit (ortho/neuro/med-surg): I work nights 7-7. I have 6-8 pts. At least two aides for 20-25 pts, 3 if we are full which is 40. Aides do vitals, turns, toileting, bathing, water pitchers, hs snacks, empty trash etc. I assess...

I am 22 yo, one year out of nursing school. i don't know what kind of "work ethic" she's talking about, but in my personal experience, it is the younger nurses who don't sit down to chart until we've at least offered everyone a helping hand. On my un...

I hope that I will be know as "the NICE ICU nurse as well." I got a chance to job shadow in the unit for 8 hrs and didn't experience any witchy stuff. They did all say that they think I will love it up there. A lot of you have metioned that unit nurs...

I graduted a year ago, and have spent this past year on a floor that gets ortho/neuro and general surgery as well as overflow medical pts. I am transferring to the ICU next week. Our hospital has only one ICU for all the critical pts, peds are transf...

I think that 12 hour shifts also provide greater continuity of care for pts, when everybody works 12s consistently. My unit has 8s, 12s and even 4 hour shifts to fill in the gaps from 7p-11p. I think that arrangement actually makes things worse. On t...