sharann BSN, RN

How wonderful! I am sure you told her this and she feels great. It isn't often that a student nurse gets any positive reinforcement. Must have a good teacher?(YOU)

What a great idea! Why didn't I think of that! Dang. I would gladly have paid someone even$100.00 to TAKE my call once in a while. Brilliant nurses.

Find out the delay and then take the test ASAP. If you wait you will have less of a chance of passing. You can use the extra time to study those practice questions. Please. They will hire you as soon as you pass. Why did you go through school to work...

All I can say is "Oh please". So ridiculous. Son't do it, follow the above good advice by all. No class=no pay=No charge/no way!

How about a real drastic measure, like, um, say hiring a 7A-1930 preop holidng nurse? We hold after hours but generally the unit is quiet. I also wont babysit, I page the OR nurse if needed to come check the patient in. If they are unstable they stay...

Thanks Jennifer. People are very simple yet compex at the same time. Also, very sneaky sometimes!!!

:cheers: I am surprised that Superbowl Sunday isn't a national legal holiday in this country so sports obsessed. Now make it a special rate, say double time to fill in for sick calls....they would have no prob.

Our hospital hired a traveller for PACU who had been a nurse for less than a year. The manager said "he/she has ICU experience!". Wow, what 6 months? He/she(not telling), had ZEROP pacu experience and though he was bright and motivated he had no buis...

It can take hours to a day or 2. IT also is extremely(REALLY) painful. As a former lap hyst patient and as a recovery RN I have experienced this from both ends (ha ha ends...). The gas pains can also cause chest pains and shoulder pains(both referred...

I know that caring cannot be taught. "Doing" skills can be taught. The importance of caring about a patient while doing their "care"(aka highly skilled nursing science) is most important to me. Also caring if you do a good job at it. It is also carin...

Heather, I wasn't clear whenwriting about the circ not leaving the room. I made a mistake using the words "never".Of course you have to leave for supplies and equipment. In regards to the Surgeon and others CRNA/MDA doing their jobs, I think in a wa...

Hi, Is there any evidence based practice regarding giving a patient a single use(dedicated to that patient) BP cuff that follows them from pre-op through discharge decreasing infection rates? We currently use the regular BP cuffs on all patients whic...

You are responsible for the room and the CRNA is reponsible for the patients airway and vitals. You being in charge of the room includes making sure the surgeon and CRNA are doing their jobs as well as watching for the sterile field integrity etc.. Y...

Thank you all for the information. I am not the infection control nurse but I do work in an area that gets patients from all over the hospital and some from home to outpatient. It helps to disinfect in our unit I am sure, but when the patient leaves ...

Well, why the heck do the hospital cafs provide such horrible sickening and purely lethal food for patients and staff? Job security? You are not a bad nurse, just a devils advocatel Lets hope that your cath patients arteries were cleared nicely for t...

I guess this is not a common concern so I retract my question and will look elsewhere for some empirical data. It is not an easy topic to find info on, as I did alot of searching prior to coming here to ask you infection specialists. I am frustrated ...

As long as the BON in your state(and hospital policy) is followed and training is provided and validated then no problem. I am speaking from what we do in my facility.I think nurses scopes will be ever increasing over the next few years which is good...

A bolus dose in a nerve is a anesthesia scope responsibility. I would not do it unless i was assisting in the initial insertion at the procedure and was instructed to give it so the doctor could hold the catheter in the correct place. This is the onl...

Generally yes. The more nurses you have in the call pool the less call you have to take. Expect to have weekend call and evening/night call occasionally to often(depends on the situation). It is expected unless you have 24 hour coverage in house at a...

Elections are coming. You know what to do to stop this.

webbiedebbie, I have done that to a patient once but I figured it out in 15 minutes. I kept giving a loading dose and the patient kept having pain. Then I traced the tubing down and lo and behold, it was feeding the floor a nice 15mg of Morphine. So ...

VAC, what bothers you about the ortho re-infusion drains? Can I help? Hang in there, PACU is fun once you get past the hazing rituals ha ha(no really, they do that don't they?) Simba, who is treating you poorly...let me at 'em! Really, is it staff or...

Great tips! I have my CPAN too and am not sorry for one second. We are finally getting recognition for it after many years of Nada. So, really do study and take ppractice tests often. All types work. CCRN test questions often overlap CPAN ones. I als...

Thanks DanceRN. Wow, sounds like an interesting new pain scale there by Dr. McCough. So, he "Verifies" this cough scale. Gee, I should use my "Nurse I'm thisty" scale. Pain is 10/10, no wait, 100/10, and the patient can thrash around, scream prfanit...