icuwant2rn

icuwant2rn has 1 years experience and specializes in Med/Surg.

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1. I'm a horrible employee

   icuwant2rn replied to Emma123's topic in General Nursing

   completely agree!!

2. Nursing Graduates SHARE your advise Here

   icuwant2rn replied to SA2BDOCTOR's topic in General Students

   I think a work study would be a great oppotunity! Several of those I graduated with got jobs as NAs part time at the local hospital while in school, and it really seemed to help them. Also, form a study group!! Smaller ones are usually better so ther...

3. The worst or strangest orders you have seen...

   icuwant2rn replied to MadisonsMomRN's topic in General Nursing

   I work med/surg (mostly surg with med overflow) and you would not believe the # of pts that want a foley placed! Usually they want it "just for the night" because they've been up with PT that day now they are sore and don't want to be assisted up to ...

4. FollowUp to "Was I Out Of Line?" - Walking C Spine Injuries

   icuwant2rn replied to TrudyRN's topic in General Nursing

   This was years ago, but there was a lady who walked 1 mile after a MVA to my cousins house to use the phone (this was in the boonies, so no cell phones) who has broken her neck! Still talked about by some of the old EMTs who can't believe she didn't...

5. Can they do anything to me?

   icuwant2rn replied to christian51's topic in CNA/MA

   Our hospital has a patient to CNA ratio of 10:1 on our floor. The ratio for nurses is 7:1. We do help answer call lights, give baths, turn patients, etc. I think 25:1 is way too many for anyone. Of course the other responders are correct in that it u...

6. any advice on working a strike?

   icuwant2rn replied to Jennifer Couty's topic in Activism

   Some of the older workers that have been there for years let me know this quickly when I started work and asked why no one had tried forming a union if they were all so unhappy. Of course, management would never fire you for trying to form a union, t...

7. any advice on working a strike?

   icuwant2rn replied to Jennifer Couty's topic in Activism

   Let the "white coats" step out of their office and work the floor for a change. As for my family, they wouldn't cross a picket line even if they were bleeding to death! We do not have a unionized hospital where I work, but there are plenty of unions ...

8. any advice on working a strike?

   icuwant2rn replied to Jennifer Couty's topic in Activism

   I don't think she was endorsing anything just being truthful about what will probably happen. If the OP has never seen a strike she should be prepared for everything including the fact that some people might resort to throwing things at them or their...

9. I need to vent, everyone is mad at me for quitting the "superhospital"-long story

   icuwant2rn replied to NurseLatteDNP's topic in General Nursing

   Good for you! I am a single mom and being a good mom is my top priority also. Everyone thought I should move to a larger city 2hrs from here to work at a more prestigious hospital. Let them know real quick I have no intention of uprooting my kids. Th...

10. I need to vent, everyone is mad at me for quitting the "superhospital"-long story

    icuwant2rn replied to NurseLatteDNP's topic in General Nursing

    (((hugs!!))) So sorry everyone is reacting that way! Hopefully your DH will get over it quick and give you the support you need. Just to play devil's advocate, he may have been put out about it if you just did all of this without giving him a heads u...

11. Wacko RN - Write Up vs. Direct Report

    icuwant2rn replied to antidote's topic in General Nursing

    UPDATE PLEASE!! Did you find out what was up with her? Is it something medical or did she flip out from the stress? In any case, that's just scary that she would do something like that.

12. Colonoscopy Jokes

    icuwant2rn replied to pagandeva2000's topic in Humor

    Too funny!!

13. Obsessed

    icuwant2rn replied to tigress_8207's topic in General Nursing

    Good luck! That kind of enthusiasm will help pull you through the rough spots.

14. FINALLY a lower ratio

    icuwant2rn replied to icuwant2rn's topic in General Nursing

    I figured that we were going to have to fight to make sure that they stuck to this number, and of course I was right. The last two nights we have had to call our manager at home and have her speak to the house supervisor whom was trying to give us mo...

15. Is Rn More Paperwork---less Pt. Care?????

    icuwant2rn replied to DanisTeeta's topic in LPN-RN

    Agree with the above posters. As an RN I do everything an LPN does on the floor plus the RN only stuff. Completely depends on if you are talking hospital work (what I am doing) or LTC. In LTC in this area at least you do more paperwork less bedside c...