Sirapples

Hey all, this is a topic that is a little unusual for me. I enjoy the anonymity of the internet for it. Ive been in the healthcare field for over 15 years. A cna for approx. 5 years before I became an rn, at a lock down dementia unit. My career spa...

Ive been a nurse for about 8 years, work in icu/ed for 3 years before that medsurg. In the past 6 months I have seen maybe 12 cases of patients requiring intubation from lisinopril reaction. all of these cases the patient came in with angioedema an...

I work 7pm to 7am. I am on the verge of switching my job so I can work days.

So I was out the other night with my girlfreind who is charge nurse at boston medical center on a surgical floor. I work in an icu, I have been here for almost 2 years. Discussion comes up about work and someone listens in on us and says to me.. you ...

2 months? its fat soluble I know that. How much were you smoking?

I dont know why you would smoke prior to taking this drug screen. marijuana stays in your urine about a month fyi. I dont think this would be kept as info by the state. Try again. Whats the worse that could happen? Just this time, avoid smoking a...

charting does not save a patients life. appropriate actions to critical situations does. I am also a new icu nurse, Ive been here for a little over a year and a half.. some very tough nurses here as well. Especially I think because I am a male n...

Im glad Im not the only one that feels this way. I tell you what... when I get in my 60-70 Im putting in my will that the first person that forces the dr to remove a dnr and signs that paper that removes dnr status shall at that point forfit anything...

Ive been a nurse for 7 years, almost 8.. Before that I was a CNA for 3 years. IVe worked med/surg, tele, been a float nurse, done agency, and now I work in an icu. Ive worked at a multitude of facilites and dealt with all kinds of charting. Before...

I work icu now and I loved med/surg. I still float sometimes to med/surg because I enjoy it. Now with my icu background I have a bit more knowledge and can help out more when a med/surg patient goes bad. I do not miss the powerstrugles with cnas. ...

I think down the road Ill look into teaching. I know I will be doing tons of papers, but I think Ill actually enjoy that. I dont really look foward to seeing what nursing will be in 5 more years. Computers were susposed to make our life easier in m...

Hello all, well I am starting to look at rn to msn online degrees and recently sent my transcripts to walden university online. I have always been interested in teaching and a 3 year online program for rn to msn in education seems like just what I...

ah sorry just read that wrong that you werent scared. my bad:)

Ill be honest, I dont work in CCU, but I do have some tele experience. One thing that is an issue is fear of doctors at night. Its our patients lives that are in our hands and if you have a clinical question like... do I hold this medication without ...

nice!

Whoever thought of this ingenius idea was not a nurse. I am a very honest and forthright nurse and I would be tempted not to report if this was the drama I had to go threw. You guys have like 40 patients on a nightshift. I can only imagine what it ...

I am a convicted felon in massachusetts. I was arrested with possesion of marijuana with intent to distribute. I was 19 and thats that. Went to school after and got a 3.89 gpa associates in liberal arts and then went on and got an associates in nursi...

lol fits me to a tee. I have a shaved head, tattoes, scars and about 225lbs at 6'0 powerlifter. But my patients love me and the little old ladies always try to throw thier granddaughters at me. its funny!

Always. Be very upfront about it. I think honesty in these cases is a lot better then them finding out about it with a cori check. I have found that managers respect that and so does human resource.

No offense, but If I was a manager I wouldnt hire you. Seems our society is breeding entitled people that think that because they are having a bad day or because they live far away from a job, they can come and go without fear of losing that job. ...

ya thats right. Just got report on a 88 year old lady. report stated that she was in with confusion and vitamin b 12 deficiency. lung sounds clear, not attempting to get oob. After assessing the patient and reading the h/p patient actually had a ri...

great post

No, its actually pretty common with her. I can be frazzled at times too, but I dont forget too include things like the fact that my patient has a recent 2 day right hip replacement. Ill give an example. Another patient was in a MVA report sheet said...

Ive been a nurse for about 5 years, floated, done agency, rehab, tele, medsurg. But about 4 months ago I got a job on an ortho-medsurg floor. I honestly dont like it much. Not very critical and mostly manuel labor. Push meds, remove the pca's, get pa...

ha well 2 more months I can do internal transfers. Im already doing searches now.