AvaRose

Apartments will need you to fill out an application and submit credit/background checks. You may need to stay in a hotel for a short time before move in but I would recommend a regular hotel for a few days. There are some cheap and decent hotel rates...

Yeah but why pay extortionist level union dues to maybe have the union rep protect your job after you fight for a year or more to be allowed to work again. At that point I seriously wouldn't care and would have found another job. That's the thing, al...

1. I don't know what Reno is like but Las Vegas is relatively good for new nurses, though it can take some time to get into a hospital job. 2. The Valley Health System often hires new nurses, especially now at their new hospital (Henderson Hospital)....

Today was my second shift on my own off orientation and it was HELL. I had 2 units of PRBCs to hang (and the patient's IV blew halfway through the 2nd unit), plus 2 admissions where the patients had dementia so I couldn't get admission histories on e...

Training all day today (though they did give us lunch and a $5 gift card to the hospital coffee shop, plus a pen and badge holder), and my manager gave me a new preceptor (not really a gift for nurse's week but he waited until today to give me my sc...

Definition of a Nurse: The first person you see when you wake up after saying Hold my beer and watch this!

The contrast does smell nice though. From personal experience Lisinopril/HCTZ tastes like a horrid combo of bitter and sweet if you can't swallow the tablet fast enough and it starts to melt on your tongue or down the back of your throat. They say th...

I hope I've pushed that slowly enough. I had a patient at the rehab who was getting this on a regular basis and never complained. I guess in the future I'll slow down when pushing this med just in case.

I feel more at peace today, granted it is day 2 of my 4 day weekend so I've had time to be a little lazy and play computer games, watch tv, and browse my favorite shopping website to see if there's anything I'd like to add to my wishlist (I'm sure my...

I like those suggestions. Maybe I should use some of the money I've tucked away to buy something non-nurse related to play with on my off time...maybe a craft kit or some books to read for fun instead of education (I don't think I've read for fun sin...

Someone should send this repeatedly to every Senator and Congress person. I would say Trump as well but unless it's a tweet he probably wouldn't notice it. Make the powers that be think again about eliminating chances for families to save their child...

I can try I suppose but I'm not much for the whole group dynamic and the insistence on some kind of higher power. What I think I need is enough energy to find a hobby of some kind. I used to do a lot of things to relax and unwind but now I work less ...

You guys are so lucky you've found something to help with the anxiety, stress, and other issues. I haven't found any kind of release except daydreams of finding a new career. Sad after all that work to get my license only 9 months ago and only workin...

One of my coworkers had a patient today who she had to call Code Grey on 3x in about 2 hours. He had DT's and had been admitted for seizure but today he decided to demand more Ativan by telling the nurse that he would just have a seizure so someone w...

Thanks for the replies. I noticed that she hasn't been assigned to sit for him anymore and he seems more lucid the past several days. I'm not his nurse right now but I'm guessing that his meds may have been adjusted a little. My hospital uses CNAs as...

Background: One of my patients the past 2 days was a 70 year old man with Dementia. I'll call him Bob for the sake of clarity. Bob was in a camera room and had a sitter due to a tendency to wander and have outbursts but all in all is a very kind man ...

Not as bizzare as all these but my newbie brain apparently isn't making the connection. Patient was admitted S/P Seizure at home. Thankfully father caught him before he cracked his skull open in the bathroom. No history of seizures and no residual ef...

I had one of these moments today...actually today was mostly stupid silly moments. The main one was after spending 20 minutes changing the PICC line dressing on my patient I went to spike and hang her next dose of antibiotics. No big deal right...wel...

Today was my first shift with my preceptor. I have just under 6 months experience at a SNF/Rehab, but the hospital environment is way different. I wasn't sure what to expect from my preceptor, but I was pleasantly surprised. Most of the day I observ...

What really gets me is that no one else makes the effort to talk to me. I apparently have to make all the effort and it reminds me of high school where I used to practically beg people to talk to me by joining in on every conversation whether I was w...

I appreciate the advice. I'm just not sure what the problem is. I talk to everyone like I said, even if it's just to say hi. I can chat more, but then I might have time management problems. At this point after 3 shifts I still hardly know anyone enou...

Update: I just finished my first week today. The first 2 days were great...as was most of today. I got my 2nd IV start (2/2...though to be fair a blind man could have gotten the stick I got today, the vein was right there even without doing anything ...

This sounds like me throughout clinicals and my first job in a rehab. I was 1/4 on IV starts in clinicals and 0/4 at my first job. Now somehow in my first hospital job I'm 2/2 and I have the clinical judgement to not have tried to stick my assigned p...

I could have used a good old B52 tonight on our dementia patient. He had a code brown, got out of bed (thank goodness for bed alarms), pulled off his soiled gown and carried it halfway down the hall while he was naked. Then he yelled that he was goin...

Right now I would do anything to not be an nurse. I'm not sure if that is just anxiety over starting orientation for my new job tomorrow or if I really have no interest in continuing in this field but I guess I'll find out once I start at the hospita...