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I am definitely looking for a higher acuity, and am located between and fairly close to two major metro areas. I don't know about ECMO, but NICU is absolutely out of the question. They are entirely...

Right. I feel like I'm running around doing 'busy work'. There's no challenge, nothing interesting.

Had a neurosurgeon who was consistently a jerk. Think I've only ever heard him speak civilly to the nurses one time. So, there he was, out in the hallway, yelling at this poor little GN, when the...

No joke, I had a patient who was looking to move into an area. He called me in at the busiest time of night to show me real estate ads in the paper and ask what I thought about each one.

Exactly. I'm trying to talk to people and find out what different areas are like, so I might find where I can fit best, but since I've never been there... Good luck to us all. I, at least, am going...

When a brand new nurse, still on orientation. It was about 1 am, and my preceptor has gone to get a snack from the vending machine. So I'm sitting alone at the nurses station, and in walks this...

PennyWise: Yes. Exactly. EVERYONE told me in school that all new nurses needed a good year of med/surg or ER. Small, rural area ER was mostly clinic and I'd hated it (my baby threw up once in 3...

Good Morning, Gil: I was sort of leaning towards ICU, but you're right about needing a change of pace. I'd be willing to take just about anything to get out of med/surg. Jenni811: Good luck...

I didn't even think about that - but you're right. All the fun stuff without the 12 hours of pillow fluffing... I may look into that.

That's what I'm trying to look into, I just don't know enough about them to figure out what would be a good fit for me. So I'm trying to talk to different people about their jobs and see if I can...

I have that happen a lot. Unless she's confused, she probably meant "thank you for being here/taking care of me"

Bored. To death. I've given it 2.5 years (when I wasn't really interested in the first place) and now I desperately want OUT.

The filthiest word in a hospital is five letters long and starts with Q. And if you should say this word, all He!! WILL break loose.

As a CNA working during nursing school on a geri psych unit: Had a little old lady, 70's but ambulatory. On the 2nd day I had her, I noticed she was hiding from me. She'd pull covers over her head,...

Not very creative - I'm a nurse and a blackbelt, but "ninja-nurse" sounded better than "karate-nurse". Sooo...

jodiw4572 You forgot the tattoos from knuckle to neck.

Noo, honey. Kudos to YOU. I recently made my whole family laugh hysterically when, holding my 2 week old niece, I said that: "She's just too small. That's it, I'm never having kids, I'll adopt...

AMEN! My whole floor does this!

*to questout on pg 3* You may have to be older to get the reference, but not the action! Can't tell you HOW many times I pat pockets going "now WHICH one did I put that..."

Two words: Doctors. Bedpans.

*background info* Got pulled to help in ER many times at my first hospital. The n/v babies were my faves. Call comes in, 2 month old with n/v. I'm thinking GI issues, dehydration, so on, and God only...

Hey, everyone. I need to get out of med/surg (am desperately sick of it) but I'm not sure where I might fit, so I wanted to ask some opinions. My only other experience is back in school, and...

Agreed, hikernurse - though education was FAR from our only peds issue. 3 month old with pneumonia, when RT has been griping for a month that they don't have pedi masks... scary. Or nurses using...

Ah. See, this is why I posted this - because it's bugged me all this time. I was young and new, and my co-workers, my supervisor, and even the ICU and ER nurses all agreed that it was too much...

I got 3 days of observation - and the 3rd was ONLY because my renal patient happened to have a transplant available that day. 2 days I was placed in a corner and ignored. The day I wasn't supposed to...