Jw1724

Does anyone have experience with the company Novasyte? I applied for a position as an educator with them but can't find a whole lot of information on them. Thanks!

I'm thinking this will be my solution shortly as well. All this time in the day to just DWELL is a killer.

So I work on a busy surgical unit. We are not med-surg. We see strictly GI, urology, vascular, plastics, trauma etc. I work an odd shift 2p-11:30p. This shift exists because we get a lot of post-ops from 2pm-on. It's normal for me to have 1-2 patients on the floor, plus 2-3 postops that I will take from PACU. It's the busiest shift on the unit, day and night shifters agree. I've been managing it well, my time management has improved ten-fold. My issue is BEFORE I go to work. I am up by 9am, and spend my whole morning until 1pm dreading going to work. It puts me in a funky mood and my boyfriend can tell, sometimes I feel like I even take it out on him. Part of it is that we also float to other units kind of often and I DREADDDD that possibility. Does anyone have any good methods to help me overcome this and to improve my outlook on the impending shift? Currently, we wake up and eat breakfast together. Most days we will take a 30 minute walk through the neighborhood, come back and eat lunch/shower. But I still between all that find a way to be a grump about work. Would a more vigorous workout help me?

Thank you for the response. I appreciate the positive points, without the immediate 'get rid of him' attitude. We've had talks about all of this before. We had another recently. He is being more positive about it and did say he is just jealous and wishes he could have the time off with me. (Id feel the same... I think thats human). He agreed that he needs to be more understanding and less jealous etc. I had not confronted his mother about it all but did this past weekend. She felt bad, and promised to keep track of how she is handling things... big italian family, they want EVERYONE there so it's hard for her to feel like shes "leaving me out." Anyways, I think things will get better. To everyone with positive encouraging advice- Thank you!

entitled? I was asking for encouragement from one professional to another and got a bunch of relationship advice in response. Which was pretty crappy relationship advice, if you ask me. I don't just give up on someone I love because I'm not selfish, and I can see where his frustration comes in as well.

I came looking for advice and got told to dump my boyfriend. I didn't ask to find a new job, etc. I'm asking for advice on ways to stay positive about a crappy (yes I agree with him) schedule. I love my job. I don't plan to leave it. I'm looking for ENCOURAGING words. Totally inappropriate to come on here, never having met me, and tell me to just "get rid of him." Not happening. We've had plenty of "stressors" much larger than this. And I guarantee other nurses have run across this same issue and haven't just "gotten rid" of their significant others. No wonder why divorce rates are so high.

At my work, we have an online system to report anything like this. Called a PIDS, we fill out the form, the form gets sent to everyone it needs to, and the issue is addressed that way. They have drilled it into us that it is not a system for 'getting people introuble' but a system for safety. I've been PIDs'd and so has everyone else. It doesn't affect how other people see you as a nurse, it's an improvement system.

I work on a surgical specialty floor. We don't do purely medical unless there's a good chance they'll end up surgical. But we do also take traumas with chest tubes. I spent a day in the OR with a surgeon when I first started and he told me "you work on a sophisticated units. lots of us surgeons would rather send our sickest patients to your unit than to the ICU." And maaaan do I believe him now haha. We specialize in urology and GI for the most part. LOTS of urology and GI. But also do plastics, trauma, vascular, etc. I work evening shift which is busybusy because lots of postops are coming up. We range from lap appys to bladder augmentations to fempop bypasses, masectomies, prostates, bladder slings, hernias, amps etcetc. Always changing and ALWAYS interesting.

I'm on a surgical specialty floor (we don't do purely medical). Days is 4-5 patients, nights is 4-6 patients. I normally have 3-4 fresh postops on my list.

I think part of the issue is MY dislike of my schedule. I definitely think he feeds off of that energy so maybe I need to make a better effort to accept the suckiness of it.

We've been together for a year now, and are absolutely in love and it is the best relationship I have ever experienced. Until schedules come up!

I think a big reason you read a lot of negativity is because people tend to come to these forums to vent or look for advice. If there were a bunch of posts saying "I love nursing!!!" all the responses would just be "YEAH!" etc... not very useful (although nice sometimes!)

I've done 12 hour shifts and I now do 4 9 hour shifts. I much prefer 12 hour shifts. It's not necessarily burn out that way... I think it's more exhausting to have to physically be at work for 4 days instead of the 3.

I've been struggling for quite some time. Do I like what I do? Yes. In fact, most days I love it. Do I hate my schedule? Sure I do. I hate working weekends and holidays and missing out. The main issue is my boyfriend, who I now live with. I get guilt tripped for missing things on weekends. I constantly have his mother trying to get me to switch shifts for family events. They think I can just say "nah, don't feel like working this weekend." It's stressful. Another thing, lately our census has been low so they've been calling off nurses. I pretty much always accept it. It's not affecting our vacations, it's not affecting my pay drastically. I get the guilt trip from the boyfriend. He acts angry and then tells me he's jealous I'm off and he's going to work. I feel like it's lose-lose. I've seriously considered getting an office job or otherwise, just to get rid of the scheduling conflicts. This major issue has been getting in the way of my love for nursing. How do you all deal? How do you keep the positive thinking going about your job when there's negativity nagging at you?

we use those plastic pieces that have a luer lock on one end to attach to the syringe and the plastic "needle" on the other. i DO use these and leave it attached until i am at the bedside. it would be pretty impossible for it to fall out, the plastic piece goes with the bottle to the sharps. however, heparin.. we have prefilled syringes and just attach a needle. in that situation, id rather draw up at the bedside.