Bugaloo

Bugaloo has 23 years experience and specializes in Med-Surg, HH, Tele, Geriatrics, Psych.

Bugaloo's Latest Activity

1. Nursing Student Photo - WIN $250! Nurses Week Contest 2018

   Bugaloo replied to Brian S.'s topic in General Students

   Two nursing students have been up all night long writing out notes for their clinicals, studying for two big exams and writing a paper that was due yesterday. They have only had one hour of sleep in the last 24 hours. As they stand before their instr...

2. Doctors Say the Darnedest Things - WIN $250! Nurses Week Contest 2018

   Bugaloo replied to Brian S.'s topic in General Nursing

   A long time ago, I was taking care of a little old lady who had just had a hip replacement. She has Sundowner's and kept trying to climb out of bed. The bed alarm had went off about 10 times in one hour. Concerned for her safety, I called the on-cal...

3. Best Tips for Nurses - WIN $250! Nurses Week Contest 2018

   Bugaloo replied to Brian S.'s topic in General Nursing

   Learn to listen to your intuition. If "your gut" tells you something isn't right, more times than not, you should investigate things further. If you aren't happy in your current job, look for something else. The great thing about nursing is that ther...

4. Share Your Favorite Motivational Quote - WIN $250! Nurses Week Contest 2018

   Bugaloo replied to Brian S.'s topic in General Nursing

   "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"

5. What Being a Nurse Has Taught Me

   Bugaloo replied to Bugaloo's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you, TimeToShine! I am so glad you enjoyed it :)

6. Confess! Whats the craziest force of habit you've done in the "Real World"

   Bugaloo replied to vhern246's topic in Humor

   I have signed checks and receipts with RN at the end. Haven't we all? I look at veins too! I diagnose people in my head when their color is "not quite right". The job I have had for the last 11 months is in a secure facility, which requires unlocking...

7. are we human .. really ??

   Bugaloo replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

   Only in nursing do you get raked over the coals for "human mistakes", this I have learned. And, yes, I have cried over write ups too. We have feelings, therefore, we cry. Please try not to beat yourself up over it. Learn from it and move on. I hope ...

8. Snow- at what point do you call out?

   Bugaloo replied to EMSnut45's topic in General Nursing

   Reading some of these comments made me feel as if I had to say something. I have worked as a nurse for 17 years. Not once, when I made it in from 45 minutes away from my home, in snow and ice, have I been thanked by management or patients for making ...

9. Physical Assessments: Do Any Nurses Do Them

   Bugaloo replied to romie's topic in General Nursing

   As a med-surg nurse, I always did thorough head to toe assessments on my patients, and I have been a nurse a long time. That being said, I highly suspected that there were some nurses who did not. Why? Because it is impossible to assess your patients...

10. Tell Me What It's Really Like

    Bugaloo posted a topic in Correctional

    I could really use some advice right now. After almost 17 years as a medical nurse, I have the opportunity to work much closer to home at a sexual offender's unit. As I understand it, these are men that have been convicted of sex offenses and have be...

11. Pt./Family Comments that Leave You Speechless

    Bugaloo replied to Riseupandnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Twenty family members in the room telling me, in all seriousness, that the gauze dressing on Granny's foot wound was saturated with liquid and it all started when another nurse hung that bag of IV fluid on her. Me: I don't understand. Them: Don't you...

12. Nursing: Experience Does Not Mean A Higher Salary

    Bugaloo replied to Bugaloo's topic in General Nursing

    I really feel that it depends on the facility that you are applying to and how badly they need help. I worked as a traveler for a year at a facility. When I decided to move on, they asked me to stay on as an employee, yet we could not come to terms o...

13. Nursing: Experience Does Not Mean A Higher Salary

    Bugaloo replied to Bugaloo's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks so much for your response. That makes a lot of sense. What is really crazy is that I had to actually leave one place of employment for almost three years in order to come back at a higher rate of pay. If I had stayed on throughout those years,...

14. Nursing: Experience Does Not Mean A Higher Salary

    Bugaloo posted a topic in General Nursing

    Why does it seem that in the nursing field, salaries do not seem to really increase that much with experience? I was an LPN for ten years and have been an RN for six. I have a lot of experience in many different fields. I was talking to a friend of m...

15. Who hates nursing, honestly????

    Bugaloo replied to believeallispossible's topic in General Nursing

    I don't really hate nursing. I LOVE caring for people. It is all the other stuff that takes up a 12-hr shift that is totally uncalled for: crazy family members, out-of-touch administration, pulling staff 2 or 3 times, quadruple charting, etc...