GucciRN22

i was a nurse for about a year and a half before i came to the icu. i felt fine out there (of course after the initial wanting to throw up every night i had to go to work;)) and i wanted something more challenging. i've been in the unit for a littl...

i've been off orientation for about 9 months now and it just seems like all that ever gets back to my manager about me is the negative stuff. it's really starting to **** me off because i may not be a great critical care nurse yet, but i've done som...

I DO want to take the CCRN exam sometime...I went to a review recently and it was awsome! ;-)

There's a nurse on our unit who sounds like she's about your age and she just started not too long ago (from a med-surg background) and she's doing great! I say go for it!! :) By-the-way, what's HDU?

:heartbeat:redbeathethanks for the input, it really does help. especially when i feel so down about things. you guys are great!:heartbeat:redbeathe

i'm having a huge problem at work because of my chronic migraines. the sick calls are mounting and technically, i'm only allowed 3-4 per year and i passed that a long time ago. fortunately, my boss has been pretty understanding, but it's getting to...

i'm not saying that i don't want to work with people who won't report me at all, but to pick things that are serious (and both times with this one nurse it wasn't anything serious). i would totally expect someone to call me out on something that was...

that this is even a problem is stupid! if i don't expect myself to do a task that requires 2+ people, then why on earth would i expect someone else to do it?!? i guess some people don't think before designating tasks....

thanks guys....i guess i should've mentioned that i wasn't a new grad when i started in the icu...i had a little over a year of m/s (plus floating to other units) under my belt, so i guess i figured i'd be better at my job as well las the ups and dow...

When I was on the floor I'd say about a year, but since I've switched to ICU, I don't really see an end in sight! lol It gets better every time I work though, so that's saying something, I guess.

i actually met with my boss today and told her a few of my concerns and things i wish would get paid more attention to. i mean, i don't want pats on the back for doing my job, but having good things noticed once-in-a-while would be nice. it was a g...

thanks for all the comments....it's just kills me that i let it get to me because that doesn't help me at all. my manager isn't like that at all and most of the other nurses i work with aren't either. i guess i just care too much about the fact tha...

It's always nerve-racking to start a new job and there are always gonna be people who make you feel stupid or not good enough so don't do that to yourself! I mean, I did and still do, but we shouldn't! Just never get to where you think you know eve...

I thought I wanted to do L&D or PP or Nursery. Well, after I graduated I got a job on MedSurg/Onc/Tele and was pretty happy with that but still thought I wanted to do something OB (I love babies!!). Thought I'd ruled out everything but mental h...

I was a piano performance major who didn't want to be an RN ever, despite what my parents wanted me to do. They knew I wouldn't want to teach it and that's pretty much all you can do unless you want to perform for a living. I tried to do both major...

Obviously, Critical Care is complicated, but when I float out to MedSurg, Oncology, or any other floor for that matter, I find that I rely a lot on all the monitoring we have in the ICU. It's not that you don't watch the patient too, but when you're...

omg, thank you for posting this!!!! i worked on the floor for 13(ish) months before coming to the icu, but i still have those sick feelings most days and i've been there almost a year. it's usually never as bad as i think it will be and most of the...

a lot of the nurses in my icu have that opinion of the trauma neuro icu nurses and i don't know why. i guess they assume that people are always in the prime of life with no other problems when they get into accidents, etc and that their issues are m...

nurses (on the floor, critical care, etc) should be paid more for what they do! i was working a few months ago and we had a quiet moment in the icu so we were chatting at the nurses station and a doctor (who's been rude on more than one occasion!) c...

i heart a-lines!!

i was lucky cause our med/surg unit is also a mixed tele unit so we were all acls certified soon after orientation. i also floated to oncology a lot (honestly, i was there more than my own floor, i liked it so much!!). i was there for about 13 mont...

Yup, still sick sometimes! :) But now it's usually only after I've been off for more than like 5 days or if I had a really crappy shift the last time I worked.

That story weirded me out...how irresponsible for those around him!

i just looked at job openings at a hospital that has three icus: a cardiovascular icu, a coronary icu, and a regular icu. why do they have a coronay and a cardiovascular icu? are they different? again, i'm sorry if this makes me sounds stupid. my...

god, that was so frustrating!!!! i always had people cheating in one nursing class or another. my friend was the one who actually saw them (always the same people), but she never said anything. if i had seen them, i probably would have said someth...