Dachshund9

I agree that quitting is not the answer. It is frustrating. The one thing to always remember effective communication and teamwork is essential for the delivery of high quality, safe patient care. Recognizing that everyone's job is important also is a big thing. It's always hard when you're the new employee, a lot of people, not just Techs will test you, they want to know they can trust you. You will fit in just fine you just need to give it more time. I'm here to tell you, the old saying "the grass isn't greener on the other side", it's true in the medical field

I have worked at the same hospital for close to 18 years, and it's my observation that CNAs (we don't have Techs on our units), are getting more of an attitude simply because management doesn't back us up. Depending on how the unit is set up, on my unit we have 2 CNAs down each wing, that comes out to roughly 6 patients per CNA. So if I delegate a task, I would expect that it get done. Not always the case, there often times is an excuse why it wasn't done or management gets involved and seems to almost side more with the CNA. If the hospitals continue allowing their managers to do this what's going to end up happening is a bunch of ancillary help that thinks they can pick and chose tasks they want to do.

I am an RN and have been working on a Neurology unit for close to 18 years. It does take a lot of patience, more on some days than others. It's can definitely be a very sad specialty to work in, seeing young adults in there early 20s being admitted for a stroke or one of many neurological diseases. It can also be rewarding to have a patient that has very little residual from a stroke they had or the surgeon was able to remove the entire brain tumor, or the patient that has a full recovery from a neurological chance mentation, etiology unknown. I think Neurology is very interesting, even after 18 years:)

Congratulations on a job well done!!! I knew you could do it:). I remember sitting on a airplane, on my way to CA for a wedding. We had not taken off yet and my best friend was waiting by her computer for the results to show, which was suppose to happen at 0800. My flight was due to take-off at 0830. She finally called and I was so scared, and when she told me I passed I think everyone in the plane knew as well....lol. I remember the feeling. It's a good feeling that is well deserved 😊. Another huge Congratulations on a great job! 💥💥💥

It sounds like you wracked your brains like the rest of us:). The test automatically shuts off at 75 questions. Not to scare you and make things worse for you because I bet you did fine. The 75 question shut-off of the computer is when the test taker has answered the minimum number of questions, and it basically means you did well enough answering those 75 questions, you don't need to go any further. On the other hand, it can also mean you did poorly answering those 75 questions it wasn't going to let you go on any further. A person must have to get a certain percentage to continue beyond the 75 questions or not. The computer shut off at 75 questions for me as well, and I was convinced I failed. I passed. I was also a horrible test taker. I could study and study for hours and I still did bad on tests. Most people I've talked to who only had to answer the first 75 questions, they all passed, but we can't assume anything by that. I bet you did just fine. You did good on the practice tests, that's a good start:). Good luck!

The pharmacy should have taken the medication off the MAR since the patient was no longer taking it. Things like this do happen though, I have had it happen to me many times. If I'm doing my 5 checks before giving the med, it's then that I realize I'm giving a med I'm not suppose to be giving. I think both wrong time and wrong med would be appropriate in this situation since the med shouldn't have been given at all. The med error started with the pharmacy, and we all know well enough, if we,, meaning nurses give any med we will be held accountable.