amzyRN

amzyRN specializes in ED, Cardiac-step down, tele, med surg.

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1. Should I pursue advanced training as an educator?

   amzyRN posted a topic in Educators

   I have been a nurse for almost 8 years, the last 3 in the ER. I was contemplating going on to get my NP license, but have heard mixed things about it, like struggling to find a job or taking a pay cut. So I am considering education. The primary reaso...

2. Are We Too PC?

   amzyRN replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

   I think Li Nel might be a troll poster. If they go back and actually read what I wrote, there is not bigotry there. My intention on sharing my personal history was to make a point that not all "white" people come from privaleged backgrounds. I will n...

3. Are We Too PC?

   amzyRN replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

   I acknowledge there is racism, sexism, and other prejudices. But your reply is presumptious, that I am like "the majority" when in fact I am not. Most of my family came here to escape the Nazi persecution and were sent to concentration camps. I have...

4. Are We Too PC?

   amzyRN replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

   I don't want to touch your hair, nor do I have a desire to touch a stranger's hair regardless of what race they are. You can make all the assumptions you like about other people's intentions, but that doesn't make you right or some kind of righteous ...

5. Are We Too PC?

   amzyRN replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

   It should not be banned. Book banning and the banning of cultural videos is fascism. I did look at the instances differently because statistically, men have been more sexually persistent and in some cases aggressive and forceful. Men and women are di...

6. Are We Too PC?

   amzyRN replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, it's awful. It's so fake too because using the "correct" language doesn't mean someone is a good person or gives a damn. People should be able to say the "wrong" thing and take feedback to correct it if it is hurtful. Similarly, someone should b...

7. 41 yr. old business executive going to Nursing School

   amzyRN replied to ESP808's topic in General Students

   You will probably have to pay your dues as an RN to be competitive as a DNP. Unless you work in a hospital (especially in CA or WA) you won't make that much money as an RN. Maybe there is some other high paying state, not sure. I was really excited b...

8. Extreme nurse burn out need help please

   amzyRN replied to NURSEJSS's topic in General Nursing

   Stress leave or medical leave might be in order. Security is your friend. Patients are still accountable to the law. Sexual battery is a crime. It was appropriate to put him on BiPap if he's a DNI. I think I would have told her that you feel unsafe w...

9. I don't do well under pressure. Pls help

   amzyRN replied to stephrooth's topic in School

   I think becoming comfortable with anxiety will help you. I mean giving yourself permission to feel your feelings and know that it is okay. Try to notice it in your body where you feel it and breathe into it and it will pass. Perhaps do this when you ...

10. Futile ressusitation

    amzyRN replied to amzyRN's topic in Emergency

    I get discouraged sometimes when my efforts fail to give the desired result, but the cases presented here have given me a more hopeful approach. Everyone deserves a chance to beat the odds, and that's what we try to do, provide the right circumstance...

11. When family fails the patient... it breaks my heart

    amzyRN replied to Kharma711's topic in Critical

    That's rough. That's the primary reason I don't think I could work in the ICU. I might accidentally tell the family exactly what was on my mind and get fired.

12. Futile ressusitation

    amzyRN replied to amzyRN's topic in Emergency

    Yes, moments like that do happen, to actually save a life of a person to make a meaningful recovery. There was a patient a few days ago that came through our ED, full arrest, got pulses back EKG showed STEMI. She re arrested twice, we finally got her...

13. Safe Nursing a thing of the past?

    amzyRN replied to butterball1980's topic in General Nursing

    The Face tingling and left arm tingling along with HTN and headache warrant an esi 2 in a patient with risk factors (like diabetes or prior stroke or MI). It might be a TIA or CVA or migraine and perhaps the development of neuropathy in a diabetic. I...

14. First code blue, hard not to blame myself.

    amzyRN replied to 1793stopper's topic in Critical

    It's weird the CT wasn't done initially especially with a high d dimer. That's unusual actually. Unless her Hgb is like 4 or 5, the CT angio should have been done as soon as the d dimer was found to be high. Unless the patients bleeding out, I don't ...

15. Seasoned nurses really affecting my self esteem as a newer nurse..need to vent?

    amzyRN replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    Can you talk to her in private and say that the things she says bother you? It will feel really awkward but if you two are in private no one will know and you will feel so much better after speaking with her. Regardless of what she says, you will kno...