Meg, RN

Meg, RN

Med-Surg, ICU

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About Meg, RN

Meg, RN specializes in Med-Surg, ICU.


I'm a newbie, getting my ICU experience, and am soaking it all in!

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  1. Oh, the Q is silent...

    Definitely EGD! A patient laughed when us when myself and a fellow nurse were doing walking rounds. The other nurse said, "Hi! My name is ****, and I will be your nurse today! Are you all ready for your EGD?" (Cue the patient looking at us, all confu...
  2. Encouragement for New ICU Nurse

    Phew! I'm so glad someone else feels the same way! I just applied to transfer to ICU after working Med-surg a year and a half, so I'm a little intimidated to say the least (it took me three months to put in for the transfer)!! I heard the preceptor i...
  3. Holy cow! 7-8 patients! I work on an ortho/med-surg unit and that's plain ridiculous for experienced nurses, much less a new grad! I mean most of the time, we don't have a nurse tech/CNA either so it's wild; juggling post-op patients in a lot of pain...
  4. Haha! R!XTER, that's exactly what I'm talking about! And I know in ER, I'm sure ya'll have to deal with that crap constantly! Apparently, they have our establishment confused with the local Marriott...and even there, they wouldn't put up with that ye...
  5. Had one of my patients who had been terribly nasty and demanding every time I went into the room all night (and he had been there for a month already because of certain "unhealthy lifestyle habits" shall we say.) And him and his strange son kept me t...
  6. My Nursing Career In Six Words

    To the very needy patient: No this is not a Marriott. (or) No I am not your waitress. About me and my nursing career: We have a love-hate relationship! To the big headed doctor (you know who you are): You aren't God's gift to women! (or) Your jokes ...
  7. Do Not Enter - No Boys Allowed; Setting Boundaries

    *sigh* Unfortunately, going down your list, I feel like my current job as all of these characteristics and more! Nurses who dump all kinds of tasks on me at the end of my shift when I'm trying to go home. Example: having to do stuff like NG tubes etc...
  8. Too little too late

    Hi everyone! I am in need of some encouragement here. I've only been a nurse for about a year and so I feel stupid like I missed something and can't forgive myself. On my first night working this week, I had an older adult female (patient A) 61y.o. t...
  9. Ever have a major crush on a doctor

    Haha! I'm the same way CASTLEGATES. I have a raging crush on a surgeon at work. He's at least ten years older than me too! (I love older guys!) I think it's the bad boy flirty thing that he does. And his butt looks cute in those surgical scrubs! I tr...
  10. The Ethics of Managing Your Personal Time

    I definitely agree with the OP, it sucks when you count on people to show up for work and you're consistently being dumped (no pun intended) on by people that call out for the silliest "reasons." (Such as "I can't go to the bathroom, I'm stopped up s...
  11. Not to exhaust the topic, but I'm looking for the most comfortable kind of shoes for a person with high arches that underpronates? With every kind of shoe I've had (Nursemates) the "squishy" wears out within a few months, leaving my heels and the arc...
  12. Getting called off too much!

    Hi everyone! Thanks for the input so far. In response to some of your questions, yes, we do keep a call off log on our unit, so that everyone is called off in rotations. Also, yes, everyone wants to keep their hours; even the people that would normal...
  13. Getting called off too much!

    Hi everyone! Just needed a little advice: I've only been a nurse working full-time on a med-surg unit for the past nine months (I'll have a year's experience at the end of July 2011). I signed a contract (ends in January '12) with a sign-on bonus at ...
  14. Low Census - Is it Happening to You

    Yes, our hospital has closed some of the units (not mine, a med-surg), but our problem is that they're calling off some of our full-time people to put float people in their place, which sucks. So essentially we'll have two nurses working from my unit...
  15. Tell me I'll be okay...

    Maybe like you said, you can work part-time or prn. I worked as a student nurse tech PRN through nursing school to get my BSN. I'm sure your NM would rather have you on part-time or prn instead of quitting altogether, but you do what's best for you a...