rotteufel

rotteufel has 12 years experience and specializes in L&D, Same Day Surgery.

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1. Biggest Misconception about nurses you've heard

   rotteufel replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

   My friend, "When I was in the hospital recently, I was shocked to see how busy the nurses are. They don't just pass meds." My patient, "You shouldn't have to empty my bedpan, don't they have a maid that comes to do that?" A doctor, "What did you s...

2. ICU Stepdown workload

   rotteufel replied to rotteufel's topic in General Nursing

   I, too, was hired on the spot. I just find this floor frightening and I was worried that I was just underestimating what I had gotten myself into. I have about 4 months left before I can transfer. They gave me an 8 hours training class on vents, ...

3. ICU Stepdown workload

   rotteufel replied to rotteufel's topic in General Nursing

   DeLana, it sounds like you were in the same nightmare I am in. I feel foolish because my acquaintance tole me not to go to work on that floor before I took the job, but when I asked why she told me, "Because they take vents" or "The patients are rea...

4. ICU Stepdown workload

   rotteufel replied to rotteufel's topic in General Nursing

   Ok, I am glad to know that this floor is a little on the ridiculous side. We don't have our own manager. Our manager is the ICU manager and she is rarely seen. About the only time I see her is when she comes over to tell one of us that we did some...

5. ICU Stepdown workload

   rotteufel replied to rotteufel's topic in General Nursing

   My coworker told me she got in trouble for using her smart phone to look up a drug. I am not making that up. They said that we have to use the reference materials that are on our laptops. I complained that the internet isn't always working on the co...

6. ICU Stepdown workload

   rotteufel posted a topic in General Nursing

   Who else works on a stepdown unit? What is your workload like? Do you have your own charge? Do you have a CNAs? I just started on an ICU stepdown unit, with the hopes of going to ICU and I am having a hard time accepting the workload on this floo...

7. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

   rotteufel replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   I have to put my two cents in. I started a new job a month ago. I had been working in a doctor's office for a year prior to that and decided I liked the hospital better. Anyway, on my second day their, I had a nurse tell me that she didn't want me...

8. What's the dumbest remark you've heard yourself make...

   rotteufel replied to KidsRNstill's topic in General Nursing

   Another nurse had asked me to start her IV and as I was doing so, I our OB/GYN walked into the room. I had seen him in the hall earlier and he had told me he was off to a delivery. So, I asked if it was a boy or a girl. It turns out the patient wa...

9. What are your ideas?

   rotteufel replied to rotteufel's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for your responses. I am definitely open to the staff's opinion, but we all know how nurses can tear apart the new person sometimes. I specifically asked the nurses for their input and the answer I got back was, "You're the boss." Not helpf...

10. What are your ideas?

    rotteufel posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi Everyone! I am new here, but I am looking for advice. I just took a job as a charge RN in a Same Day Surgery Clinic. The RNs in the clinic pre-op the patients, send them to the OR and then receive the patients back from the PACU for discharge. ...