sarahRN482

Ok, so last night was probably *one* of the worst nights I've ever had working. Not because my patients were totally sick (one fresh post-op thoracotomy w/ R upper lobectomy; 2 fresh from the cath lab, one with a new pacer and one cath; 1 VERY confu...

I agree with the post up there where someone said to get the lippincott book about calculations made easy. It's wonderful! Also....I know when I was in nursing school, we had to pass a drug math test every semester to continue in the nursing program...

When I started working on the stepdown unit I'm at now, we had to take and EKG class during orientation. They were showing us how to set up the monitors in the IMC rooms just for the heck of it, and we volunteered a guy in our group to be hooked up t...

I work on a surgical cardiac step down unit in central IL and we (staff nurses) don't pull out chest tubes or pacing wires. Usually the Doc's nurses pull out the CT's, Doc's pull out the pacing wires (as they should!). As far as JP's, we do those..bu...

I work at Memorial in Springfield and they have all kinds of tuition reimbursement programs for employees and also for those wanting to go to nursing school. Of course you have to commit to work there for a time, so many years for the amount of money...

Well I emailed someone in upper management where I work to find out if the hospital is organizing anything, but nobody knows so far. But she said she was interested in going too. I never in my life thought I could feel so horribly for people that I d...

Any nurses from IL interested in volunteering? Springfield area here, seriously considering going.

Angie, I'm dealing with this situation where I work at as well. I'm fairly new to the hospital and it's much larger than where I worked before. In the new place, the Tech's do the accuchecks and we also have the menu/self ordering system for meals. I...

I work on a surgical cardiac floor at a fairly large hospital, and I just had a topic I wanted to throw out there for any opinions. On our floor (37 bed unit) we have specific people (tele tech's) whose only job is to monitor the patients on the flo...

I took care of a pt earlier in the week, mid 40's male with an extensive crappy history. CHF, CAD, PVD, cardiomyopathy, CVA x2, MI x4, HTN, IDDM, on and on and on. Got this pt at 7am, having BP of 200's/110's, nitro gtt doing nothing. Trop and CPK th...

I work on a tele unit too and we use the pull of strip thingys too. But I have an idea.....I do some scrapbooking in my *spare* time (ha!) and I have a little thing that's double sided tape for that, but it's in a dispenser like white out comes in. T...

The cardiac floor I work has CNA's and Tech's. The CNA's do what they do in most places, assisting with pt care and baths, bed changes, vitals, etc. The tech's have some extra training and are allowed to do things such as take out IV's, take out Fole...

When people cap off the air release valve/tube on an NG tube. That little blue tube sticking off the side is there for a reason!

Brought tears to my eyes......

I worked in a small rural hospital, on a med/surg unit right out of nursing school. I worked nights 7p-7a, which tends to be somewhat of a "creepy" shift anyway because typically, it's dark everywhere in the hospital at night. Our floor had two halls...

I have high arches Kelly and I do fine with the Crocs. The guy at the shoe store said that the material they're made of will mold to your feet (like Birk's) after you wear them for a little while. I had mine broke in the first shift I wore them!

I agree with Jessica..I used to swear by my Nike air walking shoes until I recently bought 2 pairs of Croc's. They were cheap ($29.99) and I figured if they weren't comfortable, I wasn't out too much money. I LOVE THEM! They're super lightweight, but...

Hi Elyse, I think you know me, but anyway. It depends on if you'll have your RN or LPN. There are several LPN's on the cardiac floor I work on that struggle because they had no schooling about cardiac stuff at all. But there's always classes you can ...

Several people I know have gone to this and said it's awesome! We're working on getting a "field trip" approved where I work so a bunch of us can go and check it out. If you go to the actual Body Worlds website, it gives you all the details on how th...

I personally prefer my Littman because it has the nice, soft, cushioned ear pieces. I've tried to use those hard plastic pieces of doo-doo that they send up in our isolation kits and they suck!