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A few of the other guys on our unit do walk up and massage your back not a full massage but a quick shoulder rub and he did the same.

I should add he has also touched my back and given me a massage and I didn't feel at all threatened and they never asked the girls from the shift he actually works on if he made them feel uncomfortable.

A male co worker was suspended possibly fired (we do not have all of the details) over sexual harassment. This was after complaints of many female co workers. Their complaints were he touched their arms or backs (above the waist) or offered massages. I don't think he meant any of this is a sexual nature I think he's just a touchy guy. No one ever said this makes me uncomfortable please stop. Instead they let it go on for months and finally decided to go to the manager. This guy wasn't a good nurse he was a new grad and still learning and making the effort to learn. I think more than anything he was trying to fit in with his female co workers and just didn't understand you can't just be going around giving back massages. We have a zero tolerance policy so we are speculating he has more than likely been fired. If no one told him this makes them uncomfortable and he wasn't making sexual advances along with these and not groping or saying offensive things along with this, is this fair? I just feel terrible for a guy who's career is potentially ruined who I don't think meant anything wrong just has a lack of professional boundaries and saw other people doing it and followed suite. Not that following suite when you are sexually harassing someone makes it ok, but since it wasn't out and out sexual harassment just touching backs and offering massages and not being told to stop and probably being terminated over which I think is just a reason to get rid of him. Thoughts on this? I'm probably not explaining good I've worked all night and am kinda tired and I'm not defending sexual harassment in any form, but I think this was just stupidity or naievity lack of experience in the professional world etc.

Wishing you all the luck in the world!!

Hi! Just wondering if you could share what your interview experience was like. I hope to apply for fall 2019, but with it being such a new program, I am finding no info on their interview process!

I recently transferred from the floor to an ICU. I am by no means a seasoned nurse, but I have some experience and with this particular patient population. I will admit I am struggling with the orientation period. Not that I don't feel like I don't need to learn, but rather the fact of using my time in a way that works for me as opposed to my preceptor. She's very thorough and I do appreciate that especially when looking for the learning experience I am hoping to get out off orientation so I come off of orientation as a competent ICU nurse. While charting (using Epic)I try not to waste time on things such as if charting a respiratory assessment charting WDL and not charting lung sounds are clear under each field. If all lung sounds are coorifice I'll chart ex and the side of the body I listened to and then I'll mark coorifice. When not all fields are coorifice I will chart the ones that were as coorifice and the others as clear or whatever sounds were heard. To my preceptor this is unacceptable. She wants every line in Epic filled out. For example, my patient was sedated, I was unable to assess orientation, I charted it as such and put a comment UTA, pt sedated. While providing a sedation vacation, my patient did not open her eyes, but while providing cares, I did say "you're at the hospital" under reorientation measures I charted reorientation provided. While reviewing my charting she said I needed to chart clock in view, calendar in view,and whatever other options there are. I tried explaining she didn't open her eyes as the reasoning behind me not charting these things, and even if she did, she wouldn't have been able to see the clock. I am willing to comply because I'm not on orientation for forever and I get how in theory this should work. Anywho, in others opinions/experience is the double charting necessary and is it wrong of me not to chart something I did not provide?

The patient had eaten, but not enough to be considered a full meal so per hospital policy the pt was given the coverage dose of regular insulin and not coverage plus base dose. The insulin was given on the shift before us and the pt had the same dose the night before with the exception of the regular insulin which he got 11 units (base plus coverage)

The blood sugars were checked per policy (15 min after each intervention) but each time it had to wait for the dr to call back before another amp could be given.

I am unsure what our policy states as far as going beyond 1 amp. I didn't have time to look and it was not my patient. I have never needed to go beyond 1 amp. What was documented in the MAR was one unit of regular insulin and 12 units of lantus. I told the nurse she needed to ask for fluids to be started her response was the dr was worried about FVE. i said page him and put my name down and I'll talk to him. After that crazy enough she got fluids. This lasted awhile. Apparently it started at shift change with a blood sugar of 69, she gave juice the 15 minute recheck showed it had dropped, she gave an amp, recheck had dropped this lasted from about 2300-0500.

Earlier this week we had a nurse who is new to our unit (not to nursing) give a pt 3 amps of d50. He started out with a blood glucose of 69 she gave the juice, it dropped. By the time the time the third amp was able to be given the pats blood sugar was 38. She never asked for help and when I overheard her talking about it I said whoa I think other interventions need added. The pt had no fluids running he was asymptomatic. In theory everything was fine. Eventually, the pts blood sugar did come back up to the 120s. Question though because no one can seem to answer me.. does your work have a policy on how many amps can be given or has anyone heard have a max dose since it will mess with other labs cause vessel necrosis etc?

Thank you all for your help! ATI was today. I went in pretty nervous as life never goes as planned so my study time was probably 98% less than where it should've been. However, I ended up scoring an 82.7 which translates to a 99% predicted NCLEX pass.we were kinda blindsided with a 2016 version when everything else has been 2013. But it worked out for most of us. They do put a survey at the end that makes you want to start yelling when you just want your score. From all the stress I literally started laughing out loud. That was a dirty trick of them to play!

Thank you!! So the comp predictor the practice tests that are available on ATI or the practice proctored ones? I do the app nonstop when I do not have access to anything else. Congrats on your 80! ATI does this new thing now where you have to login again after the proctored assessments to see your scores. I thought I had to retake my nutrition because when it went back in it went to the "waiting for proctor" screen. I have never sworn so much when we are supposed to be quiet during a test than I do waiting for those stupid ATI scores to show up!

What did you title it?! I didn't find it! I agree it is a high score and to have graduation riding on that one test :/ I have been doing all the tests, however it seems like it is no help when you get to the real ATI for example Pharm ATI practice seemed like more common meds and the real one was medications I have never heard of! Same for ob and peds all stuff I have never heard of!

No, no make it about you! That's fine! It makes me feel better to hear positive outcomes!!

I know there are tons of posts on this, but they're older. I have the ATI comprehensive predictor in a few weeks. It is worth half of our grade and we must get a 71.3% which translates to a 94% chance NCLEX pass rate. I have leveled every ATI 2 or above as required by my school for points, but I am still extremely nervous as this depends on me graduating. I never had to study in high school which has really hurt me because now in nursing school I do what I can, but I am gonna give most of the credit to luck. I have started redoing all the ATI tests that I can, but I am wondering if there is something else I should be doing? I do not have time to go back and reread all the ATI books as we still have a full load this semester with clinicals and a lot of busy work in my eyes. If anyone can tell me what worked for them I would really appreciate it! The ATIs I leveled on (such as Pharm) were not because I knew the content it was more I was able to figure out the best answer with luck. Way to shatter confidence right before the NCLEX :/