Sterren BSN, RN

I am looking to replace my bag and am wondering what types other people have? I want something big enough I can easily carry my clipboard, a book, and my lunch bag, preferably something with many pockets so I can keep my ever-growing collection of s...

I've been doing inpatient nursing for 4 years but I'm seriously considering a move to home health. I love what I do but for family reasons I need something with more flexibility, and I have a friend who does home health and finds it to be amazingly f...

I hired directly into L&D, and have never worked a single day of med-surg in my entire life. L&D is it's own little world, and a lot of what you'd do in med-surg wouldn't even have any usefulness in L&D (and vice versa). I'd go for the O...

Is it time for someone to claim that they've seen twins named Orangejello and Lemonjello yet? Because if it is I totally took care of their mom last week. For real. I'm sure you will all find these names as shocking as I did, having never ever heard ...

I would try to go straight to OB if it's an option and you know that's where you want to be. The job market is pretty bad for new grads in every specialty so take what you can get, of course, but I wouldn't force yourself to do med-surge if you don't...

Specifically for OB I'd keep an extra pair or socks (and shoes) just in case you get splashed. Wet shoes are not fun. I keep a spare stethoscope, snacks, tylenol, basic toiletries, about $5 in change, a book for nights where not much is going on, pe...

I worked up until my water broke too. By choice, twice. I could have started my maternity leave sooner but I didn't want to waste my maternity leave sitting at home being bored waiting around for my baby, I saved that time for after the baby was actu...

I make more money than my husband, so I guess I'm one of these young breadwinner nurses you're talking about. My husband and I don't really think of it that way, though. We both work the same number of hours, but I get paid more for my time than he d...

Why don't you request the same thing every week then and trade for whatever days you don't get? Then you've got your fixed schedule. I have a coworker who has worked the same thing every week as long as I've known her, and that's how she does it. I h...

Well no, but I'm straight and married and all my patients are female. Honestly I think it's very unethical and unprofessional. I don't really buy the "well what if you bumped into each other at a bar later" either. If it was a significant enough nurs...

You forgot Shithead (Sha-theed), that one gets mentioned pretty often too.

Sorry the bed is uncomfortable. It's not my fault that you came to the hospital and begged to be admitted for labor when you were demonstrably not in labor but were whiny enough that the doctor admitted you anyway, and then ordered NPO and bedrest wi...

I am a new nurse orienting in the ICU. I feel like I am having trouble managing my time efficiently. My preceptor has been very helpful, but I would love to hear how others manage their busy days so that when unplanned things come up (as they seem ...

I'd want to work at Seattle Grace/Mercy West Hospital. The residents there do EVERYTHING.

I am wondering what is "average" for the time between graduation and NCLEX. I was planning to wait about a month, I graduate in May and was planning to take the NCLEX in June. But, part of me wonders if I should wait until July and take more time t...

I had a patient recently that I really connected with. After we discharged her, I wondered how she was doing and wished I'd given her my email address or something so that if she were comfortable with it, she could update me on how things were going...

My patient the other day had quadruplets and they had the best names ever! The identical boys were Lemonjello and Oranjello. The other boy she named Shithead (pronounced Sha-th-eed) and the one little girl was Female (Fuh-MAL-ee). She had an older ...

This.

No. I'm not interested in being a guinea pig.

I think it really depends on the person. There are areas that I would consider insanely stressful, that might be someone else's day in the park. I happen to love the area I work in, and don't find it that stressful, but I'm certain that someone out...

I always say I'm 30. I'm not 30, but that's the answer they get.

You will probably make 50K as a nurse, working 3 days a week most weeks. True. You will also probably feel ridiculously underpaid when you consider everything you have to know, do, understand, and put up with over the course of what is often a VERY ...

You are obnoxious and unhelpful. We've taken a vote and will not be unlocking the door for you when you come back from your cigarette break. Goodbye! (oh, how I wish we could get away with this sometimes)

If you write orders, give the chart to the secretary or put it on the correct shelf or in the correct bin (and if you don't know where new orders go, ask) so that those orders are made known to everybody else who is taking care of the patient. If yo...

I read the whole thread. Again with the assumptions about what other people do or don't do. I still stand by my post. If your attitude in real life comes across as it does online, it's no wonder that night shift nurses respond to you the way they ...