I give in, I'm a COB

Nurses General Nursing

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Ok, I've had it. I'm tired of whippersnapper nurses, smart alecky new grads who think that their gold plated degrees trump experience.

I'm hungry for young flesh. ;)

I'm officially a Crusty Old Bat, to put it nicely.

Specializes in critical care.
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.

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!

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
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.

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