chuckz BSN, RN

I was just doing my job.

I've been a nurse for about 6 years. Like you when I started nursing school I was so excited to do something to help prepare. I wish I would have taken the advice of others and did nothing. That's a long 2 years. Enjoy time with family and friends...

I echo. It takes time. That was the hardest part of nursing for me. The time mgt and prioritizing. It takes a while and will come with time. Just learn more everyday. You will be fine. We all felt like you.

Nope!

Nice reference to Stuart McGill. I never thought I would see somebody reference him in here. Good stuff. Thank you for that. His vids are very good and he is wonderful on knees too. As a competitive powerlifting and also a Male nurse I am stronger r...

I was 36. Best decision I have ever made. Unlimited overtime in er and icu. I work 5 12's because I need cash and get called or texted to work the days I don't. It's fantastic. My 7 yo looks up to me and that's the best thing of all. What a great ch...

Yep. Male nurse. Did MICU ER and now CVICU. I'm also a former competitive bodybuilder and currently a competitive power lifter. I think being a bit bigger and muscular has helped me out many-fold in nursing. I worked in the emergency department at a ...

I was 35 and male when I started......still male. I had a son who at the time was 2 when I started. I had the time of my life. I enjoyed making friends. I did not feel I "stood out" or didn't fit it all. I would drink with my friends and would hang o...

As a student instructor while I was in school.........learn the Mechanisms of action of all the classes of drugs and you can figure out anything you need to know. That is the key to learning forever as opposed to memorizing.

No increase and I had to pay for test out of pocket

Yes you can get an icu job as a new grad and yes it's doable. Worth it's weight is a good preceptor. A lot of new nurses will come into icu and there preceptor will expect them to know everything and will not be understanding. A new nurse does not ha...

When I was a new grad I hired in at a MICU at a trauma 1 hospital. For nine months every day I thought I was gonna kill somebody. I would leave and just hate the thought of going into work because i didn't want to mess up or do anything wrong. I went...

Trauma 1. Cat1...High acuity Usually 2-3, but have had 6 when busy Cat2...Pts don't need to be monitored, but can be sick. Usually 7, but have had as high as 20. Cat3/peds. Laceration, ob and peds. Usually 6 or so but can be as high as 20. MHT......

No way.

When I worked in the MICU we didn't place them, only peripherally. I work in the ER now and yes, we do put in EJ's. Seriously, I'll place a line anywhere I can to get access in certain situations. I've placed them in toes, calves, upper chest, sho...

I don't know about now, but back when I graduated in 2010, I was a graduate nurse that hired in at the MICU at Henry Ford Main. I also was an extern in the Emergency Department prior, during school. I went back to the ER and I know they have some n...

Gosh that was the same question I asked myself when I was in school. When I was in nursing school I was an extern for a year in a large inner city hospital. My last semester of nursing school I precepted in a CVICU. As a nurse right out of school ...

I have been a nurse for almost 2 years now and I still feel stupid at times when I don't know something. It's called, "Caring about what we do." I did the lat 18 months in an MICU and I just transferred to the ER. I put IV's in maybe once or twice...

Graduate in may 2010. Licensed in June...started in the MICU at a large hospital right before I got my license. As the above stated, I am real lucky to have gotten in and I never take it for granted.

Dano, They did the same to me. Kept asking, "Then what would you do if that didn't work....Then what?" Luckily we have 2 great managers that trusted us enough to hire us as new grads. I didn't have the floor time like you did when you came to the ...

Hey Guys and Girls, I am a male nurse of just over a year and I have a wonderful, amazing, awesome son named Ben who is my life. My absolute world. He does everything with me and we are inseparable. I work a night shift that is a cadre shift. I w...

Lor, I got hired as a grad nurse in an ICU and let me tell you, I wanted to quit everyday. I would drive to work with a messed up stomach and have it until my last of 3 days where I could walk out the door and know I had 4 days off. All I wanted to...

I'm a dude so when a patient's family or patient calls me sexy....I like that stuff...hahahh! I am a guy, I am a nurse, I am not gay, and I'm not going to medical school. There, I said it. I have a lot of people ask me, "So your going back to schoo...

Thank you so much folks, but like I said, Ben is an amazing kid in his own right, without my input. Last summer at the gym I bought him a water blaster to play with at the gym pool. It was the first day he got it and he was so excited. When other ...

Last one of him at his school play.