your favourite??

[butterfly134]

What is your favourite aspect of nursing? What procedures do you like best? Whats the best thing about your day (working day)? I would just like to hear all the positive things about nursing!! I know it can be tough but it can be great too!

Personally I love the mornings because its busy! I love doing the drug round (with my preceptor-still a student) and I love spending time with the patient, talking to them and getting to know them. I really like the TLC side of nursing where its relatively calm and easy going :) :)

[nerdtonurse?, BSN, RN]

I love the satisfaction of a good looking, clean dressing that I just changed. I also love wound vacs. There's something so satisfying about turning on the vac and seeing the "low leak" level, haha. I'm like... YESSSSSS! I think I'll eventually go back to school to be a WOCN or something, cus I really enjoy wounds!

I work nights too so my favorite part of the shift is the beginning, when you're meeting everyone and everything is going on. I like being busy!

Oh, thank heavens, I thought I was the only weirdo who liked wound vacs. I have seen huge, and I mean Grand Canyon huge wounds heal up with those things. They are miraculous!

[No Stars In My Eyes]

I like other nurses who like to, and are good at, starting IV's 'cause I can't hit a vein the size of a garden hose! I'll trade you for trach care or a LOL w/ dementia who needs to be cathed but can't stop wiggling and screaming!

[Debilpn23]

I work on a dementia unit and I love some of the stories my residents tell.

I love being there for them. I love when I can get one of my difficult residents to take their meds

This might sound crazy but I actually like doing paper work ,Monthly edits, summaries 6 month assessments, and working on Care Plans

[RNperdiem, RN]

I love seeing my SICU patients make big improvements.

The patient who was sedated and intubated at the beginning of the shift can be up in the chair, extubated and talking with their family by the end of the day.

[butterfly134]

They are all really good!!! I also love givin injections and then the patient says i dont hurt them. Ive been complimented on my technique a lot......apparently ive a special gift for injections hahahaha ive only given the subcut tho! dreading givin the IM.....sounds awful scary!! Its so great hearing all nursing positives!!!! All the negative things like lack of time etc can bring ya down so might as well look on the bright side :) :) :)

[nerdtonurse?, BSN, RN]

Patients always tell me "I didn't feel a thing" when I give injections -- what they don't know is that the first "people" who I have shots to were large farm animals and the cats/dogs on the farm. If your "patient" can bite, scratch, or kick you thru the wall, you learn to do it fast. I usually say, "okay....one, two, three" and by "three" I've wiped down the site and am putting the needle in the sharps container. Maybe doing training on a stamping, snorting, kicking cow or horse that's trying to whip around and take a bite out of you would make us better at it...*grin*

And of course, for special stuff or a thick med, I do it slowly. But an insulin injection, or lovenox? Just call me zippy. FYI, if you give lovenox, slow makes it worse...had to take it for a month, and slow hurts a lot worse and bruises more often than fast.

[ShannonRN2010, BSN, RN]

I work in surgery, PACU right now, I kinda love those emergent situation that make you use all your nursing skills and focus on that patient.

[chicookie, BSN, RN]

I'm going to sound like a druggie but I love mixing medications. Whether it's putting it in a bag, or drawing it up in a syringe. I love IVs. I don't know why but I just do. That and central line dressing change. *sigh* a clean dressing change to me its like getting a piece of cake. Oh so satisfying.