RNLisa

RNLisa

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  1. How many jobs?

    RNLisa replied to RNLisa's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am sorry. I was not shouting. I didn't not intend to make it appear I was shouting. I tried to just delete the entire post, but I cannot. It was not an important one anyway. I guess my caps lock...

  2. How many jobs?

    RNLisa replied to RNLisa's topic in First Year After Licensure

  3. How many jobs?

    RNLisa replied to RNLisa's topic in First Year After Licensure

    never

  4. IVs.... When will I be good at this?

    RNLisa replied to TigerGalLE's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I had about 10 sticks in nursing school, got 8 of them on the first try. Since graduating and working as a new grad nurse, I have had only about a handful of attempts, I get blood return, then it...

  5. funny things Phleb's hear when with a p.t

    RNLisa replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Had a pt. with almost the entire body covered in snake and skull tatoos, he was a big, burly guy and he about fainted with his IV start. Asked him how come he can get tatoos then, he said that...

  6. Strained back...

    RNLisa replied to blueiwahine's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I had worked on a sunday, helped that confused patient back to bed, no pain, didn't even know my back was hurt until the next day in the evening. I think that my manager thought I was going to claim...

  7. Strained back...

    RNLisa replied to blueiwahine's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm with ya Sista!! LOL My husband has more than once told me to quit, he says he doesn't like seeing me miserable and unhappy with going to work. I keep thinking that if I quit without anything to...

  8. Strained back...

    RNLisa replied to blueiwahine's topic in First Year After Licensure

    WOW, you sound JUST like me, I too had a strained back within the first 5 months of being at my job as a new grad. I strained it helping a very confused tall man back to bed after he stood at the...

  9. Morphine Sub cut order

    RNLisa replied to AussieKylie's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Where I work, the docs cannot write a range order, for example, they cannot write Percocet 1 - 2 tabs PO q6 hr PRN pain, they have to maybe say, For pain scale 1 - 5, give Percocet 1 tab PO q6 hr PRN...

  10. magnesium

    RNLisa posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi, new nurse here, don't laugh or judge ok?? LOL Question, late in my shift the doc wrote for magnesium IV per protocol bid (I don't remember the dosage), i didn't have time to hang it, and have...

  11. imposter???

    RNLisa posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ok, I am about to make myself pretty vulnerable here by admitting something to you all. Being a new nurse for only 5 months or so, I know I am still "green". I do feel pretty good about alot of my...

  12. imposter???

    RNLisa replied to RNLisa's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Daytonite and nurse drumm, thanks for your posts, they are inspiring and helpful! Everyone else that has posted, thank you as well. I think as I complete my telemetry, pals and acls, I will begin to...

  13. First year (6 months actually) and LOVING IT!!!

    RNLisa replied to Never_too_late's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Congratulations, I am happy to hear positive posts here. We all need some positiveness in our lives! Sounds like your life is right in

  14. most difficult skill

    RNLisa replied to love2shop's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I am not good at starting IV's. When I have a pt. that needs one, I usually try once, if I don't get it, there are always other nurses that are good and willing to do it. I just am not good at it at...

  15. Wrote up for being negative?!?!

    RNLisa posted a topic in General Nursing

    Has anyone here ever heard of people getting wrote up at work for "being negative"? There's a nurse at work that was wrote up for being negative at work. I had never heard of such a thing, thought...

  16. Crybaby nurse a bad nurse?

    RNLisa replied to nforsee's topic in General Students

    Personally, if I was the family member of a dying patient, or the dying patient, I'd want a nurse who was caring and REAL with their emotions. Cry with the family, that isn't a bad thing. It shows...

  17. imposter???

    RNLisa replied to RNLisa's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The biggest thing is, our hospital is small, and there isn't a doctor there all the time, he comes in at different times of the day, he is the hospitalist; at any rate, the other nurses (there are...

  18. I need advice...

    RNLisa replied to firechic's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ditto to the above poster. Also, make sure you overlook us "first year" nurses who have troubles in the beginning. It does get better....it slowly is getting better for me. I still have my "days",...

  19. Charting do's and don'ts

    RNLisa replied to willdgate's topic in First Year After Licensure

    We were always taught to chart what we see, not what we assume. Also, do not chart: Pt. appears.... (fill in the blank). We are not to chart how the patient appears, just chart the facts. Also, we...

  20. My perspective...

    RNLisa posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Background: some of you may remember me from other posts. I am a new nurse, graduated June of 06, am working as a M/S RN. I worked as a nurse aide during nursing school, and know how hard that job...

  21. My perspective...

    RNLisa replied to RNLisa's topic in First Year After Licensure

    When I was first working there, off orientation, I was trying to do it all, sort of. We had low census, so I was getting ice water, emptying urinals, foleys, etc., and I even was cleaning up spills,...

  22. Me again...question about hours...

    RNLisa replied to *Andrea*'s topic in First Year After Licensure

    In our hospital, we are always preached to that we are NOT to work OT unless it was previously approved by our manager. We are to try not to stay over our shift unless approved, etc. I am with...

  23. the bottlenecks of nursing

    RNLisa replied to majestix's topic in First Year After Licensure

    From what I have been told, if you have your license, you legally cannot work as an aide with RN after your name. That is what we were told in

  24. Updates

    RNLisa posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi, as you know, I am off orientation. Been on my own for almost a month now. Things are going "ok", I guess. There are still alot of skills that I haven't gotten yet, and when I do get a new...

  25. Study Groups

    RNLisa replied to bee48's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    If your lectures have Objectives, you can split them up between everyone and they answer them and make copies for everyone in the group. Or you can each have some of them, go around the group and ask...