vanburbian

Hoping to start July 1st as well. Not sure I'll make deadlines, as I don't have the official interview with the enrollment counselor until this Friday. Paperwork is all done, transcripts sent, just hoping there won't be hold ups as I'm on an employer...

We do it on nites where I work, I hate it, because I may not even know I have a pt in a room for 20 minutes if I'm busy elsewhere, but the chart says they were roomed at a certain time, and it ends up looking like I ignored them the whole time. Plus...

Been using it for almost 2 years now, the transition will be a huge PIA. It's a good system, it's just so very different from anything else most people are doing. Things like the code or trauma narrator, charge capturing and documentation so that pa...

I always say I would make the ultimate sacrifice, and remarry if I could only find a man who had a playlist like mine....

well, seeing as how it was a 5 or 6 dollar bottle I've had since Xmas, I didn't want to waste the reindeer on guests or anything. Not like that stinkin' bottle of Freja (drink local) sitting in my fridge. Wodka is too much for me (I am a pansy).... ...

We can help your chicken. I'll get the bovie out and fry him right up.

Yeah, but I work nights too. And days. And mids. I am a dreaded VARIABLE RN. And I don't think it's freakin fair, cuz I have been a nurse for 23 years. Just cuz I just started in ER last year, I should have whatever shift I want, you know, cuz I work...

Crap...are you telling me that my reply to rnbeauty was a wasted effort at reality confrontation because that poster was writing tongue in cheek? I wish I would have read this whole thread before I replied, darn it..... Oh well. I was anxious to go ...

Ahhh yes, I recall the good 'ol days, when I was a "regular" young nurse working ortho and gen surgery floor. Everyday I asked myself- "Self, WTH is wrong with these people that had a BM last night and now are asking for MOM, or an enema? Who has not...

What happens when stoma sex occurs with a nurse in scrubs???/ Stomites....

i can only second what bostonterrierloverrn stated: "but, if your hearts really in it, i promise you that every minute of the battle fatigue, stress, fear, even panic sometimes, and the general feeling of drowning-they are all worth it, and the rewa...

Well, I've had to work for 2 days, and missed this til now, but hellzz yeah!!! I want me some Fomite Factory Scrubs, can you make them in poo brown/ bile green/blood red camo?

I see you know my last blind date....

Pardon my interruption here, just performing a routine Fomite Inspection...carry on.

We will occasionally start a PIV in a fistula arm in the ED, but generally only after getting an OK from the nephrologist. And, it's always a very distal line, like hand/wrist. It's only meant as a very temporary stop gap until someone can get a port...

Anyone who thinks I am gonna go home, change and clean up after I just ran my azz off for the last 12.5 hours all night before I stop at the grocery store on my way home is, IMO, only seeing half the picture here. All that "ick" that I came in contac...

Geez..can't even make a joke about Real Nurses not crying in a thread about nurses feeling harassed by older nurses without being harassed and corrected that yes, indeed, real nurses do too cry.. I need to go cry now. In my closet. With a bottle of...

Did my "wink" not show up?? Not a LITERAL statement here folks. Hence the wink.

I am shocked- SHOCKED, I tell you- that the older nurse was Chinese. Because that has everything to do with why you're (OP) feeling harassed? Hmmm...the fact that you mentioned her nationality leads me to believe you already have a pre conceived bias...

Majority of my pt.'s are homeless, and we send them out walking. Otherwise, the insured visitors generally have someone they can call, or we make them call a cab, or if we know they are driving we don't narc 'em.

I am so stealing this line.....and I'll use it too.

You're still young, so I'm, not sure you really know exactly what you love. As far as nice house, car, paycheck etc...if that is why you think nursing is for you, DON'T do it. If you LOVE the building job, go for it. I LOVE nursing, but if I didn't,...

No IV Valium either, versed on limited list...Oy Vey. Interestingly, I got an email from Medscape today and they had about 6 articles, as well as Methotrexate shortage on MSNBC/national news. 258 meds listed as shortages.

The answer will be different from probably each and every nurse you ask. Heck, it could be different depending on the day you ask the same nurse. Too subjective to gather any quantifiable data OP...sorry. Why don't you start by telling us what you ...

Bonus for working ER- hot EMT's and Police Officers....