Grogon

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1. I always get called if someone is sick

   Grogon posted a topic in General Nursing

   Is this common elsewhere ? I have lateshift today and they called me this morning to come a bit earlier cause someone got sick. I finally said no this time. Just came to work and everyone is making me feel bad. I told my boss that it's not my busines...

2. What is my "unit" called in english and what profession is it in the USA?

   Grogon replied to Grogon's topic in General Nursing

   Hm yeah, it sounds good and is good but if I'm honest my skillset is kind of "***ed" lol. Dunno if I'd rather go back to a normal hospital with more "stress" but more "knowledge" needed. I wouldn't say I don't need "no" knowledge what I do, its just ...

3. What is my "unit" called in english and what profession is it in the USA?

   Grogon replied to Grogon's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks all of you the quick and nice answers. I get paid "okay", which means I get the same amount of money I would get if I were to work in a normal hospital as a nurse (in Germany we don't get a lot of money), a bit more than the total average inc...

4. What is my "unit" called in english and what profession is it in the USA?

   Grogon replied to Grogon's topic in General Nursing

   Its just so weird. I asked a friend of mine that works ICU currently if I could join him a day or two at work (no profit) and check it out. A lot of things I kind of "relearned" after trying it 1-2 times but I'm sure I couldn't do a shift alone at al...

5. What is my "unit" called in english and what profession is it in the USA?

   Grogon replied to Grogon's topic in General Nursing

   So my job is still nursing related? I sometimes don't feel like a nurse anymore if I compare my tasks with ICU or ED etc.

6. What is my "unit" called in english and what profession is it in the USA?

   Grogon posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey everyone. I'm a german nurse and I work with people that have several different kind of disabilitys. I assist people with cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental and physical disabilitys, basically a mix of everything. Every patient has t...

7. Is Nursing Dangerous?

   Grogon replied to Bones17's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I work LTC with patients that have mental disorders as a basic disgnostic and other psycho disabilitys with it. Imagine a person with no arms that refuses to eat your food and screams at you the entire time because your trying to poison him. Thats al...

8. From psych to ICU?

   Grogon posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello Nurses, maybe someone is in a simular Situation and can help me. I work on psych since my graduation in Germany. While I was in nursing school I die my clinical finals on a neuro rehab icu. It was interesting but difficult at the same time for ...