speedynurse ADN, BSN, RN, EMT-P

This is not a shocker - I left the ER basically because of an incident very similar to this.

I am currently a PACU nurse - I enjoy my job, comfortable with the surgeons and anesthesiologists, and absolutely love my team. It is the easiest bedside nursing job I have ever had (and by far the lowest stress!). However, I have had fairly ext...

I had a good team in general that was wonderful to me as a new grad. However - this incident eventually made me lose all respect for my manager. And honestly, I would never work for her again.

Sign on bonuses are never a good sign. Job hopping may or may not catch up with someone. In all honesty, since Covid, I feel like there is a ton of forgiveness in terms of job hopping out of desperation for finding experienced nurses and no...

It can be difficult to live your own life/make your own decisions when still living in your parents house. Once you are in your own apartment or house, it will be easier to separate yourself from these. It’s your life - make your own decisions and th...

Everyone above has given some good advice. One thing I want to mention is have your thought of trying for a different bedside nursing job first? Inpatient floor nursing is TOUGH. Nights are miserable for those who struggle with that shift. I nev...

I completely understand that for some, it truly is hard to work nights. I have worked all shifts and honestly, I never could adjust to nights. However, this is a night position. In addition, many people are on the list to move to days. I know I ...

Pink doves - there is nothing wrong with looking into a non-nursing job/career. I do agree that often the way nurses are treated has become much worse throughout the years. One thing I recommend on your days off is to truly try not to think about wor...

So....all I have ever heard is that the cost of living is unbelievable in CA.....which from what I have looked up - it is. I am looking more around the Orange County area and am just interested in renting. I have also thought of travel nursing. Hones...

I worked in the ER for 7 years - before Covid we were holding patients (sometimes all the ER rooms were full and we had nowhere to place ER patients). Now it’s worse of course. I moved from the ER to pre-op/PACU nursing and we are now holding patient...

Okayyyy….not sure where this post is going. I actually think basic cleanliness and scrubbing into surgery is one of the most basic forms of ethics in the surgical field. Working in the surgical field….I know of one surgeon that doesn’t follow b...

I hated all of nursing school - I couldn’t wait to finish. Two miserable years….saying that nursing is nothing like nursing school but is very hard and stressful - in a different way. One way or another….2 weeks in is not enough time to make a decisi...

There are multiple threads on this so this is very redundant. There are legitimate reasons for not getting the vaccine (anaphylaxis, etc). There are other precautions to take as well. On another point - that’s how I feel about surgeons not washi...

I think it depends what you are up for. I personally would go for the day shifts but that is essentially because I know the last time I did nights, I essentially crashed and burned…..never a good situation to return to. It depends on what wo...

In all honesty, I generally try to be positive but I also think sometimes it’s needed to see things as they really are - here is the reality: nurses are working shifts that are impossible, patient safety has fallen by the wayside because there is no ...

I think this title was used short term and has now gone away in my opinion. I don’t think our profession ever needed that title - what we did need was compensation, decent insurance, and not having to essentially work double shifts with is not even c...

I would be cautious any time the supplies in a hospital is used - I know of one nurse who got fired over a slightly similar experience….well an experience with hospital supplies. It was an innocent enough situation that ended badly. Just be careful i...

My guess is if we go home an hour or two or is it’s called “on call” then it can be seen as “acceptable”. One way or the other though, we are awake for 24 hours ?

My guess is that it can continue because it is called “on call” even though it’s really not on call but staying all night. I keep telling myself it’s still better than the ER ?

I don’t work in the ICU but can say the pandemic has changed things drastically in nursing (even if they were already going that way). I know once upon a time we were never allowed to work beyond 16 hours. Now we are working sometimes 24 hour shifts ...

I left the ER for pre-op/PACU and have never looked back. I would like to try endoscopy nursing at some point maybe, but am happy where I am for now. The only thing to think about is the on call requirements for Pre-op/PACU as those can be draining s...

I am *possibly* thinking of going into travel nursing. I have ER experience with staff/preceptor/triage/charge experience and more recently pre-op/PACU experience (less than a year on that). I am planning on staying a full year at my current job, but...

I actually haven’t seen this at my facility. Maybe it’s a matter of where you work. One thing though is that I think a lot of these nurses realize they are easily thrown away and undervalued by these facilities. Most administration lacks common sense...

As I have mentioned before, I think covid has simply illuminated what was already broken in healthcare. I do know I left the ER during covid for a Preop/PACU job and now no one can pay me enough to go back to the ER. We are working sometimes 24 ...

Correct. Any generation can be entitled and any generation can be hardworking with critical thinking. It often depends on what they have gone through in life, how they responded to it, family support, etc.