AvaRose

My hospice patient starting to turn a lovely shade of grey/purple just after giving the latest scheduled dose of Morphine and Ativan...oh wait that's already happened that week. I went to pass my next patient's meds and suddenly call light goes off i...

Hey everyone! Today went way better than I thought. I was almost positive that I was going to get fired when I went into the rehab today or at least written up for last week's chaos of ineptitude that I felt I was in, but I didn't even get talked to ...

Everyone on here has been great replying to my sometimes frustrated vents about my first nursing job in short-term rehab. Lately I've been putting applications in for something in the biggest hospital systems in Las Vegas. Well not only did I finally...

My DON already has it out for me so this is the one I was worried about the most, though I think the family may not have hated me quite so much by the end of the night after I bent over backwards to do everything for them. I gave the Solu-Medrol at 1...

Well I was excited but now I'm fairly certain that I won't be taking the new job after all. Turns out I made a few mistakes on Thursday at my current job and that I may not have a job after Tuesday and if the hospital were to call my current DON she ...

I haven't had that experience yet as an RN, but when I was still in high school I volunteered at the hospital in my hometown and was assigned to ask the few pre-admission questions in the ED. Nothing too hard just ask for their name, age, and chief c...

Thanks! I'm super nervous but also excited. HR has started my paperwork so now it's just a wait to have a solid job offer in hand so I can see what my pay rate will be (hopefully not much less than what I am making now) as well as when they want me t...

I just got offered a job in MedSurg after 5 months of working transitional rehab. To be honest I'm not sure what I said in the interview that had them offering the job not even an hour after the interview (the 2 people that I spoke to said the proces...

Well I just got back from my interview. I think it went well but I'm really not sure. I was asked to tell the 2 interviewers about myself as a nurse, what makes me a good nurse, and my biggest weakness and how I'm overcoming it. I introduced myself b...

Thanks you guys! I wasn't planning on saying anything during the interview, but was just curious how bad it would look if I did get an offer and couldn't start immediately because of a vacation of all things. This is the first trip I've gotten to go ...

I was thrown into being charge nurse right from day one at my job. Granted all of the nurses are charge nurses but trying to figure out how to handle my run of patients and then getting admits and discharges on top of that right away with no real tra...

The first time in clinicals that I gave medication through an NG tube was pretty much an utter disaster. My preceptor for the day helped me to crush and dilute the medications and observed me check for residual and placement of the tube. Then she had...

Dickies or Cherokee are the brands that we could pick from when I started my job in order to get work to pay for the first 2 sets. I chose the Dickies because of the pockets and the style of the top (as in not a giant pillowcase but not so "fitted" t...

A bonus lesson I learned today was that Glucerna smells like baby vomit and the smell doesn't go away all shift. I had to brush my teeth three times and blow my nose at least 6 times to get the smell/taste to go away. In addition, feet are quite poss...

I learned how big of a difference there is between 8 patients and 12 especially when 6 of them are diabetics with very little control of their sugar (or so it seems as all I was doing today was BG checks, texting the doctor and giving additional insu...

All I know is Trump has already started to repeal the ACA and when it is gone I will be back to having no insurance as my currently affordable plan through my employer will jump from $75 a paycheck to at least $400 a paycheck. Then again I'll be work...

Location: Las Vegas Experience: 4 months (will be 5 months on Feb 12th) Facility: Transitional Rehab Pay: $27/hr with 2 weeks vacation per year and employer subsidized health ins. Biweekly take home averages out to $1750 after tax, more lately with p...

When they've had the patient before and they still insist on me spitting out the entire medical history and all 20 diagnoses and get offended if I don't remember them all and have to reach for the hard chart or pull up the face sheet on the computer....

I wish I could be entirely self-sufficient since delegating often leads to things not getting done on time. However, we just hit "maximum" capacity at work for our current staffing levels (though I'll bet they try to sneak in a few more patients desp...

Perhaps she should have spoken up to the CI then and said that and/or the CI should have escorted the student to the nurse to make introductions and would have heard from the nurse's mouth that she had a senior student already and could have figured ...

This sounds a lot like most of my clinicals. The difference was that we as students had to sign a form that stated we were not allowed to change assignments no matter what. So if we were assigned a nurse that hated students (and there were more of th...

I have no choice but to stay late and finish things that the night shift could very well do especially on heavy admit/discharge days or when I have 8 patients who all have 10-15 medications each med pass and 3-5 wound care orders. If I don't get abso...

This week was the lowest of the low. On Thursday I got a verbal "write-up" because night shift accused me of leaving things unfinished. Even when I later proved that I had finished the things they said I didn't do the write-up stood because admin als...

I'll be leaving shortly due to micromanagement from administration and a culture where asking questions is met with threats of "corrective action" for not knowing everything about your patient and what to do in every situation since we have so much t...

I reinforced my knowledge that I am not the best person to train the new nurse on the floor considering I've only been a working nurse for 3 months and I tend to get some degree of paperwork OCD which makes me start doing things (like putting in all ...