GeologistRN

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1. What's the biggest mistake you've ever made as a nurse? What did you learn from it?

   GeologistRN replied to Mini-Murse's topic in General Nursing

   What an incredibly poignant post, and what courage to talk about it. I can easily imagine myself in the exact same situation (I work in a MICU and wish withdrawal of care for at least 50% of my patients, witnessing their suffering and aching decline)...

2. Are we doing good for our patients?

   GeologistRN replied to GeologistRN's topic in MICU

   Wow, that is really great to hear, reassuring and inspiring. I hit my first refusal to do something yesterday: Attending ordered us to remove Fentanyl and Propofol drip from an ARDS patient artificially paralyzed on Vecuronium. The patient's lungs lo...

3. Are we doing good for our patients?

   GeologistRN replied to GeologistRN's topic in MICU

   What a beautiful reply, what lovely thoughts. Thank you so much for tapping them out.

4. Are we doing good for our patients?

   GeologistRN replied to GeologistRN's topic in MICU

   Anna - That is reassuring and distressing to hear. Have you stayed in nursing/found a field that makes more fundamental sense to you than ICU nursing? I do not want to be a quitter, do not want to leave a thing before I have really given it a chance...

5. Are we doing good for our patients?

   GeologistRN posted a topic in MICU

   Hi everyone, I am a brand new nurse, went straight into a MICU. I am about 2.5 months in (of a 3 month preceptorship) and struggling on a fundamental level with what this job is: It seems that all we are doing for 90%, perhaps 95% of our patients is ...