owlhaveyouknow

owlhaveyouknow has 13 years experience and specializes in Emergency Nursing.

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1. What's your favorite nursing task?

   owlhaveyouknow replied to beekindRN's topic in General Nursing

   Accessing a port-a-acth is oddly satisfying to me. Especially when it's tricky and you get blood right away.

2. Real Talk- "Ideal" Nurse Personality?

   owlhaveyouknow replied to BSNbound21's topic in General Nursing

   Yep, you just described me to a T. It bears repeating that learning to let things roll off your back will really help you. Learn what requires action and what doesn't. Another piece of advice would be to go into an area of nursing that fits your pers...

3. 2 year night shifter thinking about days need help!!

   owlhaveyouknow replied to Smartash89's topic in General Nursing

   Go for it! The other posters are right- usually if you want to go back to nights, they will gladly take you back and typically there are more staffing issues/needs at night so it's not usually a matter of staffing. Who knows when this opportunity wi...

4. Emotional Detachment

   owlhaveyouknow replied to achristineg's topic in General Nursing

   Yep, sounds like emotional burn out to me. I worked in the ED about 10 years before I started feeling like this. I made a change to an ambulatory care setting and it was refreshing.

5. Seasoned Nurses VS Newbie Nurses

   owlhaveyouknow replied to Alexx_xox's topic in General Nursing

   As someone who has seen both sides of the coin, here's my little bit of advice: Follow the golden rule before anything else: Keep them breathing, keep them safe. If your preceptor does something that puts either of these into question, then you have ...

6. From er nursing to endo

   owlhaveyouknow replied to Ryan RN's topic in Gastroenterology

   You sound just like me! I worked in the ER for many years before transferring to in hospital endoscopy. It's a small department and typically one where someone has to retire or die for a position to become available. I'm not sure how your hospi...

7. Would you do it all again?

   owlhaveyouknow replied to wooten3955's topic in General Nursing

   I would do it different. I would probably stay in nursing but if I had the ability to know what I know now, I would have continued my education and gone for CRNA.

8. Highest temp

   owlhaveyouknow replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

   Highest was 106.7 on a one week post surgical patient with sepsis. Developed DIC and died. Lowest I've seen was 86 on a patient would got drunk and fell into a creek and stayed there for few hours.

9. Migraines and nursing?

   owlhaveyouknow replied to MeganStar's topic in Disabilities

   Have you determined what any of your triggers are? I began having migraines when I was in college. I slowly whittled the list of possible triggers down and have realized that my migraines are almost exclusively caused by lack of sleep. I've since put...

10. Why don't you just read the chart?

    owlhaveyouknow replied to Guest219794's topic in Relations

    As an ER nurse, I'll put my two cents in. I don't mind calling report a bit. I work in a hospital that has an EHR that is available no matter what unit you are in. With this said, I still don't mind calling report. I try to give a concise account of ...