justmanda

Does anyone know anything about what it takes to become a Cosmetic Dermatology Nurse (aka Nurse Aesthetician)? They perform skin peels, botox, etc. for Dermatologists or Plastic Surgeons. I have searched the internet and only see workshops, but not...

Our hospital has started deliberately understaffing the floors. No secretary. Only one tech for 18 patients. No phlebotomy department. This is not because we don't have enough staff...they actually send techs home all the time because they have r...

This morning, after a twelve hour shift, I found out that my relief was just getting out of bed and wouldn't be at work until 9am. I was expected to stay, without complaint, until my relief arrived. When I dared to mention that my young children we...

A nurse's heart is covered with a thick black shell but when you peel the black away, uhhh....more black. I am only half kidding here. Maybe because we deal with such serious issues we lack the sentimentality that most people have. But I don't q...

Just the other night at my facility a nurse was sick and wanted to go home. The supervisor could not find a replacement and we each GLADLY took one of her patients on. We ended up with one more patient than our max load a peice, but the poor girl w...

I think the nursing profession is the only field in which a promotion means less money. The director of our unit makes only about 60,000/year. The nursing supervisor doesn't make much more than that. I'm an ADN and made 90,000 last year. Granted,...

I am an RN in Florida and made 100,000$ last year. This is with overtime though. Most hospitals give you overtime pay plus incentives to work extra shifts, so it is easy to make 100k as a nurse. Well, I shouldn't say EASY because you have to put i...

I agree. Whenever I see a forgotten prescription pad lying around I cringe. Like you said, I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

What happened to computer testing? I took a computer exam for my boards. You guys have to sit for paper tests now? How long does it take now? Mine took an hour.

Sometimes correctional facilities contract out for nurses. I know they started doing that in Florida. Try calling the facility and asking them if they do this and if they do ask for the company's info.

The only problem with being slow but thorough is the patient population. You can't be slow in a crisis, even if you are being thorough. You have to be quick and thorough. Quick thinking, quick acting. Not saying that is me...but I do understand t...

Go ADN....more money, more autonomy and you can get a job anywhere.

Major problem in the nursing field? How about Nurses! I speak of the grumpy self-righteous,backbiting type who make your job a living hell. It may be the poor staffing, poor funding, and poor management listed above that turns someone into this ki...

I cried my first two weeks as a nurse. Thought it was the worst mistake of my life. Nursing is a hard profession. You will be worked like a dog. But, after awhile, you'll get used to the workload and will be more comfortable with the environment,...

Don't forget to DRINK and PEE....you could throw a rock in a crowd and hit at least 10 nurses who have had a kidney stone.

always wear a mask and goggles when doing trach care....the stuff that flies out of there during a cough is high powered. "Now here's spit in your eye"

I can cath a lady from across the room but have a HORRIBLE time with men, for some reason. It always gets hung up on something and I practically have to give the guy a hand job (with all the repositioning of the penis) to get it in. Someone in nurs...

You don't have to know the entire chart. Just have the chart in front of you when you talk to the doc. Tell him "give me a sec I have the chart right here" You don't know how many dumb things I've said to a doc, and you will too. It will give you...

Someone will always think you suck...no matter how good you are. That is just the way a lot of nurses are, unfortunately. If a nurse following you has a busy day, she will find a way to blame it on the shift before her. Not all nurses, but a lot. ...

I agree 100% You don't know how many hours I wasted as a newbie going back to charts a million times to see if something was missed. Now, once it is checked off on my list, I don't give it another thought. Chart check DONE! Instead of Chart check...

---->I don't nor do I want to live, eat and breath nursing. I like to leave the stress and the job behind when I go home. Uh oh...wait, I'm on this board talking about NURSING! Would that come under the Living, the Eating or the Breathing categ...

Unfortunate fact about nursing. For every one minute you spend with a patient, you will spend ten minutes, if not more, with the chart (checking boxes, doing chart checks, doing checklists, consents, rewriting mars, studying history, looking up labs...

And how is taking her out of the fire going to make her more competent in handling emergent situations? She can't go back and change what she did and many of the responses in this thread are trying to do just that. She knows she did something wrong...

Listen, you are new and are still grasping what your role as a nurse entails. It's pretty simple, when you boil it down. Keep your patient safe and report any changes to the Doctor. Of course we do other things, but those two will guide you throug...