nurseypants123

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1. New to med surg

   nurseypants123 replied to JenParrish's topic in Med-Surg

   Our M/S floor has such widely varying orientations! Our new grads got 4 months of internship, then 3 months of preceptorship before working on their own. I got 6 days of float orientation over the course of several months (no experience in medical). ...

2. The Elephant In The Room and Evidenced Based Practice

   nurseypants123 replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

   I work in a small hospital with a union that is not owned by a large corporation. We have good staffing ratios. On Med-Surg we typically have 4 -5 patients, 6 at the most, occasionally as few as 3 (true for days and nights). Our house supervisors ten...

3. Scanning in the supply room

   nurseypants123 replied to elizabeast7's topic in General Nursing

   I hate doing charges. I never took a class in nursing school on billing and reimbursement. Because that's not my job. We've done charges on paper, using stickers and now we have a scanner. The scanner is cumbersome and rarely works. It takes 5 or 6 s...

4. 1/9: What I learned this week - Worst. Vagina. EVER.

   nurseypants123 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   This week I reread "A Wrinkle in Time" and learned where ixchel got the name from. Also that book is way preachier than I remember. But still good. Especially the ixchel part. I also learned that if you can't find the dressing, maybe you should have...

5. Clothes that fit the Job

   nurseypants123 replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

   Well, thanks, now I want pizza scrubs. I usually work 3 days in a row. I wear my least favorite scrub top (navy) on my Monday and my favorite scrub top on my Friday (bright teal!). If I work more than that I get into the funky left-over color combos...

6. New Grad off Orientation

   nurseypants123 replied to froggy93's topic in New Nurse

   Medium. I had a 4 month orientation on Mental Health, and I felt confident in the general day-to-day stuff, but totally terrified about the emergent situations. I had about 6 days orienting to Med Surg which felt woe-fully inadequate, and after a mon...

7. 12/31/15: What I learned this year

   nurseypants123 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   This is good advice, but I think perhaps you meant wig.

8. Have you met your husband at nursing? Is nursing a good career to meet men?

   nurseypants123 replied to Upward_Bound's topic in General Nursing

   When I worked long-term care, the sweet (married) 70 something guy with dementia I took care of would tell me I needed to sneak out the window so his mom didn't catch us. I received a number of marriage proposals on the psych unit. LTC, too, probabl...

9. Lacking compassion?

   nurseypants123 replied to Rbrown12's topic in General Nursing

   Feelings are not experienced the same way by everybody. I don't think that empathy is a binary choice - you have it or you don't. Peoples' capacity for empathy/compassion exists on a spectrum, which may be related to their brain chemistry or the expe...

10. How much do you really make?

    nurseypants123 replied to AnnaK12's topic in General Nursing

    I came out of nursing school 2 years ago with around 80K in loans (spent 6 years getting my first degree, paid for an expensive accelerated program). I live modestly and put between $1000 and $1500 a month towards my loans and will have them paid off...

11. One Atheist FAQ Answered

    nurseypants123 replied to bluegeegoo2's topic in Spirituality

    I would probably call myself an atheist, but I certainly never tell my patients that. Religion doesn't have any place in a professional setting, in my opinion. On the other hand, I am happy to reflect my patients values, ie, if they ask me to pray fo...

12. Transition out of psych

    nurseypants123 replied to Jmira.BSN.RN's topic in Psychiatric

    I worked my first year and a half on psych, then transitioned to Med-Surg in the same hospital. I had oriented to Med Surg as a float area (6 days), and the manager did not want to give me any further orientation, even though I felt like a new grad ...

13. Safe to take new admit at shift change

    nurseypants123 replied to russianbear's topic in General Nursing

    As a new nurse, I really felt unsafe getting patients in the first hour of shift. After some time, I prefer getting them at 2000 rather than right before 2200 med pass. The only time I really get peeved now is if they insist on bringing them up in th...

14. 2016 Salary thread

    nurseypants123 replied to kbrn2002's topic in General Nursing

    Alaska, small hospital, RN, union. New grad started at ~$32. I'm at ~$37 after 2 years, and will be ~$40 if my manager signs off on my CNIII. $3.75 nights, $4 weekends. Everything is expensive. Housing >$1200 for anything. Food is expensive. Gas i...

15. Pharmaceutical companies are crooks!

    nurseypants123 replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I buy generic aspirin and put it in the old Bayer aspirin bottle because my husband thinks there is a difference. I guess that is harder if it doesn't come in a bottle.