LovingLife123

LovingLife123

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  1. new nurse advice. screwed up?

    LovingLife123 replied to introuble7's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I would have called. A HR of 41 while awake is concerning. Sleeping would be one thing. Even groggy she was awake. That combined with the BP, I would have called. Don't you have call

  2. Balancing Nursing and having kids

    LovingLife123 replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    You just do it. The days where I'm completely drained, my family lifts me up. Coming home to the smiling faces of my 3 boys changes my whole day and outlook. They are always excited and happy to...

  3. Overtime

    LovingLife123 replied to _littlemissBSN's topic in General Nursing

    It's about 50/50 for me. Anything can happen, at any time. One of my patients decide to start crashing at 4:30 the other day. I left late. But, it's not a big deal on my unit. Our OT is not...

  4. Raises?

    LovingLife123 replied to Stella_Blue's topic in General Nursing

    We get raises yearly based on performance. 3,4, or 5%. Normally it's 3% which isn't much. We get bonuses every year which come to about $500. I'm worried lots of these will start being taken away...

  5. Night shift

    LovingLife123 replied to Busyybee's topic in General Nursing

    I always had snacks when I was on night shift. I ate vegetables and

  6. So you're an RN - you must be earning big!

    LovingLife123 replied to _littlemissBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I make enough money to contribute to my household. If I was single, it would've great money. Not so much with 3 kids, a house, cars, food, utilities. I live debt free too so I don't have any extra...

  7. Should I feel bad for not picking up shifts?

    LovingLife123 replied to cheesypuff's topic in General Nursing

    First, stop with the I worry about my license. That's wrong. Unless you are grossly negligent or divert drugs, that's not going to be an issue. Second, an LVN does not need a CNA certificate. She...

  8. Thinking about going into nursing but...

    LovingLife123 replied to Honeybee2486's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I don't hate my job. I'm not miserable. But, I was fully aware of what I was getting into beforehand. On this site, we see many people every day with your exact post. We then see them about two...

  9. you honest opinion

    LovingLife123 replied to btf4's topic in General Nursing

    Pretty much everything I've learned has been on the job. Nursing school was a blur and it focused on the wrong things for the most part in my opinion. Nursing fundamentals was by far the most useful...

  10. Any Mormon/LDS nurses here? I need help?

    LovingLife123 replied to MaryFutureRN's topic in General Nursing

    You could work night shift. My unit has plenty of nurses who attend church almost every Sunday. They work nights and then they can still fulfill their weekend requirements and make church every...

  11. Protecting Your License: Notes from a Nurse-Attorney

    LovingLife123 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    Well, don't drink and drive, obviously. Why any nurse would do that boggles my mind. As I sit here with my one glass of wine, and sent hubby to the store because I've drank half. Why on earth would...

  12. Follow up to "new grad per diem offer - am I being ripped off??"

    LovingLife123 replied to meganec17's topic in General Nursing

    I'd take it, get experience while looking for what you want. Do you want to end up a new grad that graduated a year ago with no job looking for a job. Snap it up now. You can always quit later....

  13. AN Scholarship

    LovingLife123 replied to NICU Guy's topic in General Nursing

    Posts that don't know the difference between lose and loose. I want $10 for because we are professionals!!! And if we graduated nursing school, we should have basic grammar

  14. Treating Dehydration DT Physical Exertion

    LovingLife123 replied to NurseNurseNurseNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing school questions are ridiculous. There is very little practical use for these questions in the real world. You can't apply it, because it's not what happens. I would not question a...

  15. TJC and prn analgesics - How are your orders?

    LovingLife123 replied to raymori's topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to be brutally honest here and I'm sure I'll see some backlash, but if somebody can't figure out how to go around that, then how can they claim nursing judgement goes out the window? Can you...

  16. Labor as a spring board to acute care?

    LovingLife123 replied to jcol1460's topic in General Nursing

    Acute care is any type of hospital care. I think you are thinking more of critical care. Think about the meaning of acute. It's short term. Acute pain vs chronic pain. Acute would be a hospital...

  17. Waking your patient when coming on shift?

    LovingLife123 replied to Gardeninggirl's topic in General Nursing

    I think it depends. Are you in an icu? Do you do head to toe assessments? Obviously, for your case with the previous head bleed, you need to do a neuro check. That's without question. But say a...

  18. Student - ICU central line access frequency

    LovingLife123 replied to nsk2135's topic in Critical Care

    I could not even count how many tones a day a central line is accessed. It all depends on the patient, why they need it, what all we are using it for.... People get them because they are sick enough...

  19. Do I have critical care experience?

    LovingLife123 replied to pepino23's topic in Critical Care

    I guess it depends on the hospital you are applying to. If it's a bigger hospital then if you check yes, they are going to expect you have ventilator experience. Your progressive unit does a lot...

  20. What's the nicest compliment you've gotten as a nurse?

    LovingLife123 replied to NurseNinja1990's topic in General Nursing

    I had a very emotional terminal wean. After it was all over, the woman's son came up and grabbed me on the shoulders, told me I did a wonderful job, thanked me, and hugged me. It meant a lot as the...

  21. Extremely Lost...Graduated with B.S. in Biology but Decided to Pursue Nursing

    LovingLife123 replied to grand_theft_avocado's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Not many employers pay for additional schooling these days. I think I get a $1k discount at certain schools, but the majority of the cost is left to me. Do not do a direct entry MSN. I have heard...

  22. HELP! Classes are expiring!

    LovingLife123 replied to Brittanydlopez's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    None of us know your grades, the competition, and why you are being rejected. $110k for a degree from West Coast? How does that sound remotely reasonable? How much do you think you will make? Also...

  23. Very Low Gpa...Is there still hope?

    LovingLife123 replied to Futurern2013's topic in General Students

    I don't know if you can realistically bring up a 1.4 gpa. Did you take a lot of classes already? You are going to need probably at least a 3.5 to even be considered. You need to talk to an advisor...

  24. Blatant false documentation

    LovingLife123 replied to Elpeon75's topic in General Nursing

    So you audit your own charts? I'm sure there is so much more to this but that is only privy to you. We audit nursing charts, not physicians. You must decide how far you want to take it and be ready...

  25. Blatant false documentation

    LovingLife123 replied to Elpeon75's topic in General Nursing

    How on earth did you discover this? I would never be allowed to access a patients chart 2 weeks