PrincessElleRN

October 6, 1994 1 post, 0 likes PrincessElleRN Dear world, today I was born.

Sometimes I forget that AllNurses is different than the rest of the internet. A lot of you guys are just regular, working people and don't spend hours and hours on the dark web and deep in facebook debates late at night, and therefore don't recognize things like this. What we have here is an Edgelord. You may have never encountered one before, now you have. We're not a bunch of slimy, backstabbing, competitive jerks out to get each other and there is no college stereotype of such. Just move along and let this post die.

If you're willing to come to Salisbury (about 30-40 minutes depending on what part of Charlotte you are in), you can get hired as a new grad at Novant Health Rowan Medical Center on one of their medical-surgical floors.

On my floor (medical-surgical) it is required that all patients have IV access and that it is rotated when expired unless there is a doctor order in the chart to leave it out.

Well did you at least try?

I can't even imagine. We treat prisoners all the time and if any of them ever had a chance to make a break for it, they would take it. God bless those nurses and I hope they can heal peacefully from this horrifying incident.

I currently work on an understaffed medical-surgical unit that is bleeding nurses and CNAs and we constantly work with unsafe ratios, safety cases but no sitters for them, and patients who are truly not appropriate or too critical for a medical-surgical floor. The thought of living out my career on this floor makes me sick on my stomach and is something that haunts my nightmares. We have a joke on our floor that if any of us ever truly lose it, it will be okay because we will go down to the ED and be sent right back up to our floor as a patient and never leave.

This was so much further than bullying, this was assault. How heartbreaking! :'(

Comic nerd here!! Claire / Night Nurse from the Marvel Universe. She is currently being portrayed in the Netflix series' Daredevil, Iron First, Defenders, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage. It makes me happy that the superhero creators did a nurse justice and acknowledged that human heroes aren't always bulletproof. She is constantly stitching the non-invincible heroes back together and doing it in style!

I spent $0 on my study material. I spent like 2-3 weeks of "hardcore studying". This consisted of me lounging at the pool and doing questions on my 2 apps on my phone, Kaplan and ATI, and rereading through all my unit test and final test study guides. However, I had JUST finished school. If I was 4 years out, I think I would have paid the money to do the Hurst review or something similar. If you don't pass this round, definitely look into getting Hurst or Kaplan Review! :)

God, can you imagine living your whole life being as salty as OP is all the time?

Praying for you.

Like everyone above has said, communication could have completely changed the outcome here, assuming the patient's family wasn't just cruel and psychotic. I usually use humor and it almost always works with calming my patients down. I would have came back into their room still huffing and puffing and been something like, "Well everyone in HERE is still breathing, right?! Wooey what a day it's been so far! Now who is up for some fun in on the potty? Lemme go get that stool softener, you still want it right?" Of course, one must take into account that I am 5 feet tall, look/sound like a 16 year old, and my nickname is Sweet Cinnamon Bun. Old southern women and me get a long really well.

You will probably feel a lot more at ease if you switch to working full time on a post surgical or med/surg floor for now. I would be lost if I didn't have time during my orientation to learn where things are on the unit, how to work the phones and call bells and tvs, get my routine down, etc.