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"Tell me about your first experience coding your patient. Did your instincts automatically kick in, or did you freak out?" - MrsICURN14
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"Your ER sucks!" and other pleasantries...how you handle them?"I have to tell you. Your ER SUCKS! Your waiting room sucks! The staff here SUCKS! No one was in here. This should be like the ICU. You should be in here every 5 mins making sure he didn't fall out of bed!" How do you handle this stuff?! On having 2 titles: Nurse and Patient
Rookie ICU Nurse Headed Your WayI'll start 12 weeks of orientation on an ICU, all of my prior nursing experience is outside the hospital. I have some fairly simple questions for all of you seasoned ICU nurses in hopes of planning ahead... Army Nursing: All Good Things Must Come To An End
Best way to get into NICU?I'm a new BSN RN who currently works in an adult ICU. What can I do to make myself more marketable for a NICU position? There's an opening for one and the listing says NRP and STABLE are highly preferred. Should I get certified in those? Did you know? "Code Brown" means tornado ... LMAO!At both my hospitals Code Purple means natural disaster. At one hospital, this includes weather events. At my other one, I recently attended orientation, and the safety officer (not a medical person) described another color, Code Brown, for tornado. "I think it's a shame," he said to the group, half of which were RNs and CNAs, "that these colors aren't standardized around the state and the nation..." [Toon] Writers' BlockEveryone knows allnurses is looking for writers. We are interested in your stories, your experiences, your lives! However, most writers at one time or another have experienced some type of writers' block. Even those of us who are not writers, occasionally have to write something. Maybe put together a resume, a proposal for a piece of equipment or some type of paper. What influences you to write?
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Taking care of pediatric patients, my awareness about AD remained dormant. The only older people I was very close to, were my parents. Our close daily relationship, either over the phone or visits, stopped me from noticing the slow, but progressing change in personality and in ability to perform daily activities. I did not see the early stage of AD.
The hardest part of my job though is when I've been assigned a diabetic patient. Checking their blood sugar and injecting them, these tasks make me think back to my health choices in a negative light. Why am I not practicing what I preach? I mean, if it’s as easy as I say it is, then why not try harder? This is a constant battle within my mind and soul.
My relatively short time in the Army has contained some big life changes: a not-so-graceful exit from my 30s into my 40s with a divorce, a new relationship and marriage, nine months in a war zone, and a new-ish and abiding love of running. I came very close to completing my MSN (everything but the capstone) on the Army’s dime. It's been full of good things, and some very sad things, but it has been more positive than negative.
