Coffee Nurse

Coffee Nurse BSN, RN

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  1. Should nurses get paid according to specialty?

    Coffee Nurse replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    The assumption seems to be that with more critical patients, there's more things to manage and more things that can go wrong. Still, this is the nature of the job, and a nurse hired into the post...

  2. Should nurses get paid according to specialty?

    Coffee Nurse replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, I added this to my original response but clearer to post it here: If you're extending your role with skills like PICC insertion, taking charge, etc, then that I believe is worth a pay bump. But...

  3. Should nurses get paid according to specialty?

    Coffee Nurse replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    My unit segregates the truly NICU patients (vents, inotropes, complex fluid management, post surgical, etc etc) from the grower-feeders; you can have 1-2 of the former but up to 4 of the latter. I can...

  4. Telling Patients/Residents You Love Them?

    Coffee Nurse replied to robynnel's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't think anything could top the enforced "I have the time!" scripting. I was

  5. I'm a nursing student thinking of quitting my CNA job?

    Coffee Nurse replied to michigan94's topic in General Nursing

    You have to look out for yourself, too. If you ruin your back before you've even started your nursing career, it's going to close doors for you in the future. You've been at this job for a year and a...

  6. Do Nurse Practitioners Assist In "Pulling the Plug"?

    Coffee Nurse replied to SunshineeStudent's topic in General Nursing

    This is one of the reasons why I don't see the point of planning a grad school career before getting some experience in the relevant specialty first. If/when you work in NICU and/or PICU, not only...

  7. Always being told to "ask questions"

    Coffee Nurse replied to kater_92's topic in General Nursing

    At this level of uncertainty, you should still be a very new grad, probably not with 6+ patients, possibly still working with a mentor/preceptor. On a well-managed floor, you shouldn't be given that...

  8. Walking tall today

    Coffee Nurse posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Going to try not to post too many details here, but the crux is this: the team responded to a crash call in the adult ICU for what they told us was a stillbirth. Half an hour later, we walked out of...

  9. Walking tall today

    Coffee Nurse replied to Coffee Nurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    The other shoe drops: we withdrew care on the little one a few days later. Perinatal asphyxia, catastrophic brain damage. I am heartbroken and angry about this like I've rarely been before. We see a...

  10. How do you saline-lock? / What is saline-locking?

    Coffee Nurse replied to 757RN's topic in Patient Medications

    "Why not ask on allnurses" is because you have no idea who anyone here is or whether they know a saline lock from their elbow. There's at least one frequent poster on these boards who enjoys...

  11. Negativity from non NICU nurses

    Coffee Nurse replied to adpiRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    What the what? S/he was responding to my interpretation of the original

  12. How do you saline-lock? / What is saline-locking?

    Coffee Nurse replied to 757RN's topic in Patient Medications

    If no one has explained something to you, then you really need to take the initiative to ask one of your coworkers or possibly your clinical educator, not a bunch of Internet strangers who may or may...

  13. What is with this angry nurse?

    Coffee Nurse replied to itsybitsy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well, all right, fair point. Still, my main point stands, which is that OP gave more history than s/he originally indicated and therefore this might not just be the nurse being aggravated over lack of...

  14. What is with this angry nurse?

    Coffee Nurse replied to itsybitsy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Okay. Except that in no way does your "etc" in your original post imply that you said any of that, which is the patient's history. I'd be very surprised if the oncoming nurse, having heard all that,...

  15. What is with this angry nurse?

    Coffee Nurse replied to itsybitsy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Have to say I disagree with your take on the situation. Maybe the oncoming nurse could have been nicer about it, but I definitely want some sort of history to give context to a baby I'm getting...

  16. The nurse that assesses the newborn immediately after delivery??

    Coffee Nurse replied to BSNSt3ph's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I did my capstone placement on a postpartum floor, and IIRC there was a nurse selected on each shift to attend routine deliveries and perform the sorts of tasks you're talking about. No guarantee...

  17. Taking a Position as a Float Nurse as a New Grad

    Coffee Nurse replied to ColleenT's topic in General Nursing

    It depends on the facility. I think some places have new grad float programs that are designed to give you the support you'll need as a new nurse while still letting you taste different areas of the...

  18. Early Morning Nurses (and Nursing Students)

    Coffee Nurse replied to oldsockventriloquist's topic in General Nursing

    I've just never let myself get into the habit of snoozing alarms, so I set one and get straight out of bed when it goes off. I wash my hair every morning (otherwise I feel like a greaseball), so by...

  19. Pregnancy and birth

    Coffee Nurse replied to Lakielake's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Your timeline doesn't make sense here. You're a rising sophomore, why do you have to do two more years for your bachelors and then three years (of nursing school?) after that? What are you currently...

  20. Essential oils

    Coffee Nurse replied to aceplace22's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Preemies can be very sensitive to strong smells. I was taking care of a kid once who had been stable all day but then starting having desats like crazy when his dad came in and was standing next to...

  21. IM injections in a site with edema?

    Coffee Nurse replied to mmcewan's topic in General Nursing

    If you need to give the medication intramuscularly, and you instead inject it into a pool of fluid, the med isn't going to have the desired

  22. Why white shoes?

    Coffee Nurse replied to oldsockventriloquist's topic in General Nursing

    I think traditionally the white shoes, as well as the white uniform, was used as a yardstick to measure a nurse's cleanliness. Obviously white hides nothing in terms of spills and stains, so it was a...

  23. Negativity from non NICU nurses

    Coffee Nurse replied to adpiRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I think you've misunderstood the OP. I don't think she's saying that delivery is scarier than working in a NICU, I think she's saying what's scary is being the lone neonatal nurse with a sick 25...

  24. Nursing abroad

    Coffee Nurse replied to cspb's topic in International Nursing

    It won't be enough for registration in the UK, unfortunately. From the Nursing and Midwifery Council: "Applicants must have completed a programme at post-secondary level leading to registration as a...

  25. Question to Catholic nurses

    Coffee Nurse replied to KatieMI's topic in General Nursing

    I'd feed that back to the chaplaincy office and see what they say. Worst case scenario that's actually their "policy" and you might open their eyes to the suffering it caused, more likely I expect...