AvaRose

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    Day 2: 2016 Nurses Week Fill In The Blank Contest

    AvaRose replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Update to my situation

    AvaRose posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Looking at possible new job

    AvaRose posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Looking at possible new job

    AvaRose replied to AvaRose's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Looking at possible new job

    AvaRose replied to AvaRose's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Have You Ever Had to Take Care of Someone You Knew?

    AvaRose replied to NewGradRN114's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    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...
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    Looking at possible new job

    AvaRose replied to AvaRose's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Those of you who transitioned from LTC

    AvaRose replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in Medical-Surgical

    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...
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    Looking at possible new job

    AvaRose replied to AvaRose's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Looking at possible new job

    AvaRose replied to AvaRose's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Can you be forced to be charge nurse?

    AvaRose replied to yourfuturern22's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    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...
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    Ask A Stupid Question . . . .

    AvaRose replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Input Needed - What brand of scrubs do you prefer?

    AvaRose replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    WILTW 1/22: Cozy Up To Gas Exchange

    AvaRose replied to LadyFree28's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    WILTW 1/22: Cozy Up To Gas Exchange

    AvaRose replied to LadyFree28's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Should Obama care be repealed?

    AvaRose replied to luv2's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    2017 Nurse Salary

    AvaRose replied to Darkstar1485's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Annoying words/behaviours during report

    AvaRose replied to NewRN'16's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    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...
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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

    AvaRose replied to Cisabel's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    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...
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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

    AvaRose replied to Cisabel's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    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...
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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

    AvaRose replied to Cisabel's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    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...
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    Endorsing to the next shift

    AvaRose replied to whatdayisit11to7Nrse's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Why Do Nurses Quit?

    AvaRose replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Why Do Nurses Quit?

    AvaRose replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    WILTW 12/10: Now THAT's a BONUS!!!

    AvaRose replied to LadyFree28's topic in General Nursing

    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...