NuGuyNurse2b

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1. Do you have to be an adrenaline junkie to work in the ER?

   NuGuyNurse2b replied to Nola009's topic in Emergency

   When we have ICU patients waiting in the ER for a bed, guess where the family members are...

2. New Grad Nurse Might Lose Job Struggling In Orientation

   NuGuyNurse2b replied to Scrubba Dub's topic in General Nursing

   I hated that question during my orientation, during my requesting help from other people when I was off orientation, and anytime I would ask someone else a question on something I've never done. We all have different backgrounds. New grads are comi...

3. Help Quit New Grad ICU Job

   NuGuyNurse2b replied to lclapps's topic in General Nursing

   This is what you say in interviews, you tell the interviewer that one of your strengths is being honest with yourself. Your patients' lives mattered more than your pride, you realized you were in a higher acuity situation than your new grad status s...

4. Write Up's and Potential Termination for Pain Reassessments

   NuGuyNurse2b replied to MiralaxOnIceRN's topic in General Nursing

   Same at my place, re-assessments are required or it's a write up.

5. What do you do...

   NuGuyNurse2b replied to hungup's topic in General Nursing

   That's a rare site for the ED or any place in the hospital. Usually we get sent home.

6. Written Up

   NuGuyNurse2b replied to medteleER's topic in General Nursing

   I wouldn't have given both doses. We just had this exact situation with morphine for a pt. One of the other nurses asked me to cover her pt, there's an order for Morphine 2mg stat, and then for morphine 2mg Q4hrs (standing, not prn). Well the bri...

7. Why working as an ED nurse so competitive?

   NuGuyNurse2b replied to DCA's topic in Emergency

   ^ people leave from my ED to ICU all the time. Some want that ER/ICU experience for their NP future.

8. Associates if I don't get into a BSN program?

   NuGuyNurse2b replied to n0rse's topic in General Nursing

   it depends on how saturated your area is. When I was applying to nursing programs (both ADN and BSN) my area was flooded with applicants. I didn't get into most programs and the one ADN program I did get into had 90 spots for 1000+ applicants throu...

9. New grad job offers....what do I choose?

   NuGuyNurse2b replied to SoontobeNewGrad2019's topic in General Nursing

   go with your first choice! As a new grad I wanted to work ER, couldn't get in anywhere, settled for med surg and I hated it. The floor I worked on had a high turnover, majority of the other new grad nurses leaving after 1 year. I became a statistic...

10. Safe staffing vent

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Swellz's topic in General Nursing

    yup, precisely why I hated floor nursing and went to the ED as soon as I could. Fix 'em and send 'em off.

11. I Hope This is Not the Latest Trend

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to PhyllisMSN's topic in General Nursing

    It's a broken system. While some of the fault falls on the nurses, I know people who work in LTC and at nursing facilities who say admin at those places are content with allowing a nurse to oversee as much as 20 patients (!). There is simply no way...

12. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I doubt she'll actually end up in prison. She will lose her license, though. And to the person who thinks pharmacy has anything to do with this....*rolling my eyes*

13. Resignition Timeline?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Dragonfly949697's topic in General Nursing

    Most places have policies in place that requires at least 3 weeks notice, so i'm not surprised there are institutions that require 4.

14. I'm Shocked

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe he didn't understand why the ER doc is heading to a floor code blue so it might've confused him in that moment? At both hospitals I work at, the ER MD's do not respond to floor codes. There's a whole nother team that does that. So if it was ...

15. What is happening with safe nursing..

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to butterball1980's topic in Emergency

    Congrats? Must be nice.