SalineFlush

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1. Is Bedside Nursing Really for me?

   SalineFlush replied to confessionsofaRN's topic in General Nursing

   I understand you fully. Bedside nursing is what I consider the trenchwork of nursing. It can be miserable and depending on where you work and your own constitution, psychologically and physically debilitating. I've reached a breaking point myself ...

2. And this is why I hate floating to stepdown...

   SalineFlush replied to calivianya's topic in Critical

   It frightens me that your hospital doesn't have monitors in the room in a unit that it designates as "Step-Down". Scary. I can easily answer your question on what was my (most recent) experience floating to a floor without monitors in the room. It...

3. Why Nurses Don't Want to Be Identified in Public?

   SalineFlush replied to Mully's topic in Relations

   I've always had a horror of having someone collapse or need medical attention and being expected to tend them outside of the hospital. I can do CPR but without my medical equipment and colleagues around me, I suppose I have a fear of failing to save...

4. Best advice for when a patient insists on asking you personal/awkward questions?

   SalineFlush replied to ScarletCeylonRN's topic in Professionalism

   Of course I know what HIPAA is really "about".

5. Best advice for when a patient insists on asking you personal/awkward questions?

   SalineFlush replied to ScarletCeylonRN's topic in Professionalism

   I attribute everything to HIPAA. Patient: "Where do you live? Me: "I can't tell you. HIPAA..." Patient: "Are you married? Do you have a girlfriend?" Me: "Can't say. HIPAA..." Patient: "Please tell me you're not voting for ______!" Me: "Well...it...

6. Higher Paid Nursing Jobs

   SalineFlush replied to mbrn1985's topic in Career Support

   Actually, there are differences. That isn't opinion, it is fact. I've worked in telemetry, and I've worked in Intensive Care. Shake your head till the cows come home if you want.

7. Higher Paid Nursing Jobs

   SalineFlush replied to mbrn1985's topic in Career Support

   All nurses should be protected by a union. When we aren't, we are the perennial sacrificial lambs and long-suffering servants of the hospital.

8. New laws requiring LPNs and RNs to become BSN by 2016

   SalineFlush replied to Vocationofalifetime's topic in LPN/LVN

   I see no reason to force LPNs to obtain BSNs as LPNs and RNs traditionally perform slightly different roles, but I support having all BSN-prepared RNs. It is in the better interests of the profession. In my state, most LPNs are in long-term care, an...

9. Higher Paid Nursing Jobs

   SalineFlush replied to mbrn1985's topic in Career Support

   Actually, it is that ICU is "somehow worth more than med/surg or OB", and I am an ICU nurse. The care we provide carries more risk for harm and liability. Nurses in med-surg and or telemetry may have more patients, but they are doing less for them ...

10. Higher Paid Nursing Jobs

    SalineFlush replied to mbrn1985's topic in Career Support

    Get out of the South. I'm leaving. I've been with my current NC hospital for 3 years and my base is still less than yours ($22.44). I'm tired of working nights, and I don't feel that we should have to work "overtime" to bring home a decent wage. ...

11. How to survive 16h shifts...

    SalineFlush replied to lydzMtl's topic in Career Support

    That sounds like hell. Nurses at my hospital are never scheduled for 16 hr. shifts, certainly not on the floor. 12 hours is cruel enough---16 hours is torture. Nurses only work 16 hour shifts in extenuating staffing circumstances when there is no ...

12. Concealed Carry...as a nurse?

    SalineFlush replied to mcknis's topic in Activism

    More guns will never be a solution to the gun problem.

13. Pulled to other floors?

    SalineFlush replied to DroogieRN's topic in MICU

    Floating can really stink as it never makes for confidence when you are pulled into an unfamiliar environment and made to care for an unfamiliar patient population with unfamiliar staff. I am also an ICU nurse, but at our hospital, while we can floa...

14. Everyone wants to be a nurse...

    SalineFlush replied to Joe V's topic in Humor

    Well, I was a traditional college student when I obtained my nursing degree. I went straight from high school. I don't think there is any other profession that allows for more direct amelioration of the lives of others, and I wouldn't trade that as...

15. New grad, first job on a busy med surg/telemetry floor and I LOST my cool

    SalineFlush replied to aem31's topic in General Nursing

    Med-Surg/Telemetry is hell on earth for most nurses, and many that I have met on such units are unhappy. I graduated in 2010 and I've said many times that if I had started in med-surg or general telemetry, I would have probably left the field in the...