Exhuasted

Exhuasted specializes in Ortho.

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1. No real time for bedside nursing...I have got to chart!

   Exhuasted replied to Ms.muhammadRN's topic in General Nursing

   I can't believe these people... at my job "oh sorry I didn't have time to chart" doesn't cut it. Charting is a REQUIREMENT and if we don't do it to the letter we get written up and even fired. I'm supposed to leave at 7:15 and I stay until after 8:00...

2. Switching from nights to days

   Exhuasted posted a topic in General Nursing

   I asked to move to day shift and I was moved IMMEDIATELY, no more night shifts ever. I love working nights but I can't handle what it's doing to the rest of my life. So my first day shift is tomorrow. I graduated in May and aside from orientation I'v...

3. I want to be an ER nurse! Maybe...

   Exhuasted posted a topic in Emergency

   I've only been working as a nurse for 5 months at the moment, so any change I might make would be far in the future... but I've been thinking a lot about ER lately. I work on an ortho/trauma floor, and I really love the trauma, but I want to see it w...

4. How full do you fill your lab vials?

   Exhuasted posted a topic in General Nursing

   Just wondering how full lab tubes really need to be. I usually try to get mine about halfway (unless it's a blue top), but the other day I saw a more experienced nurse sending off blood with hardly anything in the tube, and I really was expecting the...

5. First nursing job

   Exhuasted posted a topic in New Nurse

   I finally got my first nursing job! I start July 24th in an ortho/trauma unit at a hospital I am extremely unfamiliar with. I know it's a great hospital, I'm not worried about that, but I had hoped to get my first job at the hospital I did clinicals ...

6. CON withholding proof of graduation!!!!

   Exhuasted replied to KelERnurse's topic in General Students

   My school required an NCLEX prep course BUT we knew about this requirement from day one of semester one, and it was only a 3 day course. And yes we did have to pay for it, $425. I know a lot of other people are saying just do it and get it over with...

7. Code status

   Exhuasted posted a topic in General Students

   Can anyone give me a list of all the types of code status? I get DNR, DNI, comfort measures, full code... But I've recently started seeing things like code A and code B in clinicals, what specifically do those mean?

8. What are my options outside of a hospital setting?

   Exhuasted replied to Exhuasted's topic in General Students

   For some reason I quit getting notifications for this post, I'm sorry. But for those asking about the saline thing, we were in post conference and she had us all in a circle and she was pretending to be a patient sent home with a PICC line and having...

9. Is nursing school really "the hardest thing you've ever done in your life"?

   Exhuasted replied to cn4207's topic in General Students

   It really is everything you hear. BUT if nursing is what you really want to do it WILL be worth it. You just have to keep your focus on that goal.

10. What are my options outside of a hospital setting?

    Exhuasted replied to Exhuasted's topic in General Students

    It's my second time because I failed clinically last semester. Yes, she will fail me if she thinks I'm not competent. She thinks I can't handle a high stress environment. The only negative feedback I've ever gotten in previous semesters was that I ne...

11. What are my options outside of a hospital setting?

    Exhuasted posted a topic in General Students

    So I'm in my last semester of nursing school (for the second time), and apparently my clinical instructor thinks I'm not cut out to work in a hospital, and I'm pretty sure the only way she's going to allow me to pass is if I shift my focus towards ot...

12. I don't feel smart enough for nursing school??

    Exhuasted replied to mzsuccess's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    First of all, as for the cliques, it really sucks but it's very common. You just have to really work to overlook it and be the more mature one. Now on to grades. In my program they say that quizzes should give you some ideas of what you need to focu...

13. A&PII with Micro

    Exhuasted replied to dramix3's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Personally, I wouldn't recommend it. I don't know about your school, but at mine micro is one of the most hated classes by everyone. Most people choose to take it in summer so that they will be able to take it just by itself and focus just on that, b...

14. Failed in clinicals

    Exhuasted posted a topic in General Students

    Okay so I'll try to keep what could be a very long story as concise as possible. I started what should have been my last semester of AD nursing school on August 22nd, but on August 6th my life changed in a big way, and not for the better, and I didn...

15. Do women find male nurses attractive?

    Exhuasted replied to Sykadia's topic in Men

    A man being a nurse is a plus for me. If you're a nurse it automatically means you're smart (even the easiest nursing school in the world still requires serious intelligence!), it means you have determination, it means you're goal oriented, it means ...