rescueninja1987

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1. Exposed to patient positive with coronavirus

   rescueninja1987 replied to IRN2011's topic in COVID

   One addendum to my previous reply: a lot of hospitals are scrambling to fill positions and offering crisis pay right now. So as far as getting in trouble for calling out, if they fire you first thing in the morning you could almost certainly have a c...

2. Exposed to patient positive with coronavirus

   rescueninja1987 replied to IRN2011's topic in COVID

   Your manager is a jerk and an idiot. Mechanical ventilation causes aerosolization, and anyone who has been awake at any point in the last month knows you can be asymptomatic for quite some time after contracting the virus. Hopefully you can get teste...

3. Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

   rescueninja1987 replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in COVID

   My hospital has N95s but is trying to conserve them and wouldn't give me one for COVID patients. I threw a fit and insisted on one and they finally gave it to me. My wife has asthma and I'm not taking my chances.

4. How to get into ICU?

   rescueninja1987 replied to alli.'s topic in General Nursing

   I had a hard time getting an ICU to hire me with just med/surg experience, so I kind of went from med/surg, to LTACH, to step-down, to ICU. I would've much rather gone straight to ICU but I couldn't get any of them to hire without any knowledge of dr...

5. Bosses teenage daughter allowed to sleep in recovery bay

   rescueninja1987 replied to OhioRN0916's topic in HIPAA

   I would just ignore her and go on. And "ignore her" includes I'm not going to tip toe around her or clean up after her. Otherwise unless it's keeping you from taking care of patients I would just let it slide; there may be more extenuating circumstan...

6. Long Term Care Stigma

   rescueninja1987 replied to TruvyNurse's topic in Geriatric

   Forget them. Do what you enjoy and don't worry about it. Long term care can be very challenging and you depend heavily on your assessment skills. One of the reasons I like ICU is because with the monitor, recent labs and so on, I know the second my p...

7. Inappropriate CNA behavior?

   rescueninja1987 replied to matcha-cat's topic in General Nursing

   I would report it to the DON at least. I'm sorry but the "we're shortstaffed" stuff is a load of crap. I've been a CNA with 18 patients, many of whom are total care and the nurse refuses to help, I've been on a med/surg floor where we routinely have ...

8. IVDU pt kept asking for pain meds. Managment kept saying to just give it to her.

   rescueninja1987 replied to ella2990's topic in General Nursing

   No, you did not do the right thing. If it's ordered, the patient asks for it, and there's no clinical reason to hold it but you hold it anyway, you are practicing well outside your scope. If you're concerned about long term opiate use, see about cons...

9. Antagonistic NP Article

   rescueninja1987 replied to Dodongo's topic in NP

   I see where they're coming from, but as a whole the article is a condescending piece of garbage.

10. If you could redo it....would you choose nursing?

    rescueninja1987 replied to ICURNPA92's topic in General Nursing

    I'm headed back to school for a computer science degree in hopes of being a software developer, but I will still work PRN in the ICU and keep up my skills/license. I have always enjoyed nursing, but I'm 29 and I already have back and knee pain, and f...

11. Contacted multiple times for same empty shift

    rescueninja1987 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This is one of the reasons I quit my old job. They chose to hire too few people, then chose to provide those people with poor working conditions, then chose to allow any worthless idiot with a pulse to stay on because "a warm body is better than noth...

12. PLEASE HELP: New grad, 3 months into first job, want to quit and leave it off resume

    rescueninja1987 replied to roseofmay's topic in General Nursing

    Definitely don't lie because then you will have to remember what you said. You don't want to slip up later and say " Oh yeah I worked at Blah Blah Whatever Medical Center and it was awful". I would just start actively looking for something else and b...

13. Does anyone else ever envy their patients?

    rescueninja1987 replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    I work in ICU, taking the place of my patients is my worst nightmare.

14. Experienced RN's cannot get new jobs!

    rescueninja1987 replied to duca's topic in General Nursing

    Have you looked into doing per diem for an agency? It's been my experience they pretty much pay a flat rate for everyone and will pretty much take anyone with experience and a clean background check and drug test.

15. Patient abuse and the board taking too long to act

    rescueninja1987 replied to bgriffin32's topic in Safety

    Honestly this sounds like it would qualify as a police matter and that criminal charges should be filed against her. As you said, it sounds like she's in the right place, just in the wrong role.