Szbeylik

Szbeylik has 9 years experience and specializes in ICU.

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1. religion and interviews

   Szbeylik replied to CticuRN95's topic in Job Hunt

   Atheist travel nurses? í ½í¸‚

2. religion and interviews

   Szbeylik replied to CticuRN95's topic in Job Hunt

   Seriously...? this is so ridiculous. What people will put up with in the name of religion... uh oh. Can of worms opened....

3. religion and interviews

   Szbeylik replied to CticuRN95's topic in Job Hunt

   Perhaps you should seek a type of job that fits your schedule if this is so important to you. I had to accommodate to my kids and our custody schedule; I had to be off certain days to be with them. Wouldn't have missed that for anything. So I worked ...

4. Why I'm leaving nursing

   Szbeylik replied to UK nurse88's topic in General Nursing

   Sad to hear your story. What do you do now?

5. How to deal with a bully patient?

   Szbeylik replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

   Wow... boy am I glad I don't have to work with you. What an unpleasant, arrogant, nasty attitude you have about your fellow nurses... I did agency work for a few years to match my custody schedule and be with my kids as much as possible. I think I k...

6. Don't do the physicians work!

   Szbeylik replied to ModernRN's topic in Relations

   And that's exactly her point. We shouldn't be responsible making sure that those things are done. The DOC needs to be responsible. My job is to carry out his orders, not to guess what his orders would be and then suggest them. They are taking advanta...

7. Waffle mattress over ICU bed?

   Szbeylik posted a topic in Critical

   Hello All, I need advice. At my previous employer, it was standard procedure to remove waffle mattresses from under the patient as soon as they arrived and were placed to the alternating pressure ICU bed. Which makes sense, as the waffle mattress nul...

8. Why I'm leaving nursing

   Szbeylik replied to UK nurse88's topic in General Nursing

   About two months ago I was in the exact same place. I had the same bitter feelings. I was depressed, exhausted, burnt out and hopeless. I worked for a big private hospital, in a busy ICU. Acuity was high and it got higher over the last few years. The...

9. Why I'm leaving nursing

   Szbeylik replied to UK nurse88's topic in General Nursing

   Don't do it. I'm a nurse of 10 years and I passionately try to talk every want-to-be nurse out of the profession. I'm in the US and ratios are mostly enforced, we do have union help, and it's STILL horrible almost every day. Find another profession...

10. Neuro Check on awake, alert patient

    Szbeylik replied to Szbeylik's topic in Critical

    Ok. Let me clarify a little further. What if you did a full, thorough assessment initially and then you saw no change in behavior or alertness? Would you still go through EVERY single step by the book?

11. Nursing Starting To Scare Me

    Szbeylik replied to nessa_chambers's topic in Career Support

    I hate to tell you this... But it's mostly true. Most nurses I know hate being nurses. It depends on where you work too, though. Beside nursing is the hardest and most taxing branch. There are lots of other options that might not be so dreadful. Also...

12. Neuro Check on awake, alert patient

    Szbeylik posted a topic in Critical

    I'd like to get some feedback on this from seasoned neuro nurses, since I had an issue with this: When you have an alert and awake patient who has a stable, not fresh, smaller intracranial bleed, when you have every 2 hour neuro checks, do you, in yo...

13. Anion Gap Acidosis

    Szbeylik replied to cassmorin's topic in Critical

    @roser13: Way to treat and beat down the desire to learn and good intentions. No offense but nurses like you make young nurses miserable. Why don't you just not answer if you don't want to?! This is a forum for exactly those kinds of questions. Go t...