I give in, I'm a COB

Jensmom7, BSN, RN · Jul 24, 2015

I need to what?
I'm sorry I don't understand your use of derogatory language.
Because the site bleeps it out.
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Ok, I thought it was just me lol. I've been going over every bad swear I can think of, and nope...got nothin'.

Bwahaha I just reread the posts-it has to do with you excitement peering!!

It rhymes with "hiss". ðŸ˜‡

Jensmom7, BSN, RN · Jul 24, 2015

Ok, I thought it was just me lol. I've been going over every bad swear I can think of, and nope...got nothin'.
Bwahaha I just reread the posts-it has to do with you excitement peering!!
It rhymes with "hiss". ðŸ˜‡

Or not. Now I'm really confused. It's past my bedtime, I'm just going to curl up under my blankie. *sigh*

WellThatsOod · Jul 24, 2015

Or not. Now I'm really confused. It's past my bedtime, I'm just going to curl up under my blankie. *sigh*

I'm pretty sure you were right.

But you know, a bit of pee ain't gonna bother me!

floridanurse1983 · Jul 26, 2015

Jul 13 by Ruby Vee, BSN, RN

Quote from OCNRN63

I don't know that there's a specific number, but certainly a whole lot more than one or two. IMO, anyone who has more than 20 years...no brainer.

I think if you have at least ten years of exp., you are well on your way to being a COB. If you've been a nurse more than half your life, then you are in an elite group of COBs. >()

I've been a nurse 2/3 of my life. I wonder what that makes me.

A legit straight up superhero? Or saint? I don't know if I could do 40 years on the floor without having a complete meltdown one day lol.

Ruby Vee, BSN · Jul 26, 2015

It's not the years at the bedside that are dragging me down, it's the flat out disrespect from the brand new nurses.

WellThatsOod · Jul 26, 2015

It's not the years at the bedside that are dragging me down, it's the flat out disrespect from the brand new nurses.

I don't understand how someone can be disrespectful to someone you could learn so much from. It baffles me. I also don't understand hating a police officer simply because they are a police officer.

I'm weird I guess.

ixchel · Jul 26, 2015

I don't understand how someone can be disrespectful to someone you could learn so much from. It baffles me. I also don't understand hating a police officer simply because they are a police officer.
I'm weird I guess.

Not weird at all. In my opinion, this is how people should be.

SubSippi · Jul 26, 2015

I'd love to get some COBs on my unit, I don't care if they're nice or not!

As it stands now, our critical care units seems to be run by RNs and PAs in their 20s, and MDs in their 30s. We seem to do alright most of the time, but after the dust settles I can't help but think how much more smoothly things would go if any one of us had been at it longer than a few years!

Ruby Vee, BSN · Jul 26, 2015

I'd love to get some COBs on my unit, I don't care if they're nice or not!
As it stands now, our critical care units seems to be run by RNs and PAs in their 20s, and MDs in their 30s. We seem to do alright most of the time, but after the dust settles I can't help but think how much more smoothly things would go if any one of us had been at it longer than a few years!

There's a lot of stuff I know from decades ago that still works, works better than what we're doing now, works when what we're doing now doesn't work or comes as a complete surprise to my younger (I'm talking 20 year veterens of nursing now, not 20 year olds) colleagues. For example, how to time a balloon pump after your aortic line has clotted (due to the 21 year old nurse not noticing an empty or deflated flush bag, but I digress). What that funny looking bulb thingy is -- the one that came with the HeartMate XVE patient from another center. (It's a hand pump). And why said patient has a pulse. (It's a pulsitile VAD.) How to know how fast your IV is infusing, even if you don't have it on a pump. What is safe to run off the pump when your hospital is out of them -- and how to get it to run at the rate you want it to. How to hand calculate vasopressor drip rates.