Morelaur288 BSN, RN

I’m looking to upgrade my stethoscope as the one I have now isn’t the best quality. I work in the MICU and could potentially be working with cardiac patients later in my career. Which stethoscopes do you recommend?

Hey fellow nurses! So I am a total newbie nurse in ICU. Still on orientation and I’m on a mission to find a brain sheet to help organize my day. Which ones do you all use?

Hey everyone, so I’m a new grad in ICU about to get off orientation and I’m going to nights. At my hospital, we are allowed to self schedule (although it’s not always approved). Anyways, I was just wondering, for those of you on nights, how do you li...

Thank you all for the advice and tips!

I’m 31 and I just graduated from nursing school. You are still young and have time! Do what you think you can handle. Best of luck!

Awesome! Thank you so much : )

Hey fellow nurses! So I am happy to say I just recently passed the NCLEX and I’m officially an RN. Whoo hoo! Now that that hurdle has been overcome, I now face another one. So I’m a single mom to a 5-year-old girl who is starting Kindergarten next w...

Oh I also want to add she gets out of school almost days at 2 pm. So on the days I work days, I will not be able to pick her up or be home for her. The afterschool program at her school is completely booked up and she’s on a waitlist. So yeah... not ...

Hey everyone, I had an interview today for ICU at my dream hospital. I got a call 4 hours later saying I got the job! I am beyond excited but nervous since I am going to be starting as a new grad. Any tips or advice to prepare?! Thanks and I’m exci...

Congratulations to you as well! That’s so exciting. I have never heard of ECCO but my hospital does a Versant residency program that is a year long. We start with preceptors and classroom time and then gradually get to go on our own. Is this your fir...

Thank you for the tips and advice! I will definitely have to check out that book. The hospital I will be at has a really good residency program and I will be paired with a preceptor and will be doing classroom time as well, so that is definitely rea...

I’m sorry I have no advice to give because I’m not an ICU nurse (yet)... I’m still in school. But I am also freaking out just about starting my career in the ICU. I wish you the very best of luck! I think you will pick up the pace with time. I’m sure...

Im a senior in a nursing program about to graduate and scared outta my mind bc I still don’t know where my passion lies. I got into nursing because I had a daughter and I wanted a job that I could support her with. That was my initial reason. Once I ...

Hey fellow nurses! I'm in my final year of nursing school and it's almost time to pick where I do my practicum. We are given the chance to pick our top 3 areas we are interested in and then paired with an RN to do an externship in that specialty. I ...

Thank you for the advice. I think I'm going to give the ICU a try for my practicum and if I decide it's too much, then I can always change to something else. I'll never know unless I try!

Yes, I am seeing a therapist. I used to take medication and still do PRN. I only take it when really needed though. I also do yoga, although I haven't had much time for that with school.

Thank you : )

As of now I'm thinking FNP

Yeah, my med surg rotation gave me so much anxiety but I didn't feel that way in ICU. The again, I've only had 3 ICU days so far. So it's hard to tell. I did a year of med surg first year of school. I hear med surg is great to get fundamental skills ...

Lol oh, sorry I'm still new and learning how to use this site

Thank you for your reply. I think my heart is definitely telling me NICU at this point. As far as treating my anxiety disorder, I have been looking into a good therapist but worry about taking medication that could make me drowsy, which a lot of anxi...