FAB_RN BSN

FAB_RN has 8 years experience as a BSN and specializes in Cardiac surgery.

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1. What is the toughest part of nursing?

   FAB_RN replied to MoLo's topic in General Nursing

   Not being able to be in 4 places at

2. Assessments

   FAB_RN replied to Cricket183's topic in General Nursing

   Things have only gone from bad to worse after COVID. I would suggest you demand to speak with either the manager or house supervisor and ask them why they're clearly not staffing

3. Is nursing burn out really that bad?

   FAB_RN replied to nursingcand's topic in General Nursing

   Forget about what public surveys or whatever Google says—if you want the real answer compare what the average pay, benefits, and working conditions are between the two. So are nurses really...

4. Precepting After 4 Months Off Orientation

   FAB_RN replied to MDelainy's topic in General Nursing

   I'm so sorry you're being put in this position, OP. It's certainly not ideal and in times past it would have been considered inappropriate, but unfortunately this is the reality we're all facing in...

5. 4 Reasons to Love Bedside Nursing

   FAB_RN replied to Laura-Lee Nuttall's topic in General Nursing

   I love your confidence that this will make any burned out nurse feel less burned

6. Why do the younger generations have less empathy? And how can we stop them from going into nursing?

   FAB_RN replied to RitzyCinnamonRoll's topic in General Nursing

   Millennial here. Will you accuse me of lacking empathy if I tell you that you're an

7. Illinois Nurses Speak Out for Patient Safety: Hospital Retaliates

   FAB_RN replied to Doris Carroll's topic in General Nursing

   How about making average nurse-to-patient ratios reportable information? Given the choice, are you going to take your loved one to the hospital where their nurse will have 4 to 5 other patients to...

8. Illinois Nurses Speak Out for Patient Safety: Hospital Retaliates

   FAB_RN replied to Doris Carroll's topic in General Nursing

   Until these issues are addressed on the federal level both nurses and patients will continue to suffer. What will it take for that to

9. Signs of Toxic/Unhealthy Workplaces

   FAB_RN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nursing Career

   I’d really love to know if there’s a unit that DOESN’T have at least one of these

10. Nurses are the 'Canary in the Mine'

    FAB_RN replied to RN WRITER NC's topic in General Nursing

    The American healthcare system is so broken from top to bottom I honestly don’t know how (or if) it can ever be fixed. I’ve been a bedside nurse for going on 5 years now and I can honestly...

11. Wastefulness in healthcare

    FAB_RN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Medicine cups. Unless it’s being used for a liquid med I try to leave the medicine cup on the patient’s bedside table so we’re not going through 3, 4, 5+ medicine cups during the day when the...