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Totally agree with Jen! I am definitely a worrier and know exactly how you feel. Your pt will be fine. Bonus is they're already getting g+ coverage, and that IV was removed shortly after! And good thing is that's not your usual practice and you'll be even more cautious going forward. It sucks to worry but that means you care and try to do right by your patients. I was in the ED once as a patient (for sepsis, felt like crap), and the nurse didn't scrub anything before connecting and gravity-dripped my vancomycin! I survived! ?

Hi all. I was just wanting to get a feel for how other states and hospitals are running their ICUs these days. I work in a community hospital that is hybrid ICU/PCU. When I worked in ICU at another hospital a few years ago, the ratio was 2:1 or 1:1. Period. Now that I’m in this smaller hospital, we are all over the place. It’s not uncommon to have 2 ICU plus another PCU or MS. I had 3 ICU recently. I know COVID has changed a lot of things, but I HATE life how it is right now at this hospital. Plus never having a CNA to help most of the time makes it sooo much worse. So tell me. Is there no longer such a thing as 2:1 or 1:1 assignments? I know I need to get back to a bigger hospital to have a shot, but I’m just trying to gauge the odds of finding a happy ICU home again that doesn’t make me work myself into an early grave.

I've been an RN for over 13 years. You'll do JUST FINE in an RN program. You learn your foundation in nursing school, which you already have more of than you think. Skills you learn on the job. Really. I learned how to insert a foley catheter, practiced one IV on a dummy arm, and IM injections on a dummy. That's really all I learned in school. If you want to learn it, you will! Have faith in yourself! :)

Hi all! I was accepted into the Duke FNP program and figured I would say hello! Coming from Tennessee.