NurseMikki

You really are a unique little snowflake aren't you?

I would, and have in the past. At the time I was mentioning some odd things to my charge whom I was friendly without about the new nurses taking extensively long breaks and returning acting odd. During her next long break management swarmed the unit ...

Sadly, these things will occur. I've experienced it nursing in metropolitan cities. Some battles you don't have to show up for. There's no reason you can't start looking for your next position now. Anyone willing to to consider you for an interview w...

Depends oN the talent of the nurse inserting it. The one time l was awake for it l swear she forgot to use lubricant. I wanted to jump off the bed.

Thank you for sharing this.

I recall my Peds rotation being the one l got my best feedback in way back in nursing school. Stories like this are why l chose to work with the elderly.

Ha! I bet!

At a previous employer some years ago our nurse managers would make rounds on new admissions within their 1st 24 hours. Apparently my elderly pt was upset that I just so happened to be born Black and she wasn't so happy to have that "N****r nurse tak...

This is nothing. A GI doc I used to work with saved his wife's hardware from when she shattered her ankle. Once her pins and screws were removed he had them dipped in resin and had them made into a Xmas ornament and that was her Xmas gift that year....

So sorry Nurse Beth!

this explains a lot. The hospital system our doctors are associated with are still using Meditech. Us on the outpatient side switched to EPIC from Nextgen a year and a half ago. Boy to say its been a learning curve would be an understatement! When we...

I don't see anything wrong with asking this question. My friend who does home hospice has been asking this for years. When I still worked bedside it was a routine admission question right along with "do you have stairs at home?" and "do you feel safe...

The position I was going to take would have been on the system wide team of 'experts' on Cerner. My current position uses EPIC which dare I say it? Is much easier and intuitive to use.

This is interesting Donnakhamm. When I was interviewing for my current Telephone Triage position I was also interviewing for a Clinical Informatics job.

Am I alone in my thinking that with my BSN, and 17 years of nursing throughout a couple of different sub-specialties that being a competent RN is enough? I enjoy being a nurse and after close to 20 years I cannot think of doing anything else. But I ...

Lol. Thank you Beentheredonethat. Believe me I see it for what it is, I was was trying to keep my post happy, happy, joy, joy for those not quite as jaded. I'm actually no longer doing bedside care, right now I'm doing telephone triage for a large in...

Another option is telephone triage nursing. This is currently the role I'm in for a large IM group. It's never something I imagined I'd do, but it's afforded me the opportunity to take care of some elective medical procedures I'd postponed. Also as I...

Years ago on nightshift l had a cute little Bil AKA lady that apparently sundowned. She used her bedside phone to xall the vols saying we were holding her against het will. The police HAD to come to the unit to investigate. After they left we decided...

I can't claim to be a newbie anymore with nearly 20 years under my belt but you hit the nail on the head in the reality vs what you envision pre nursing.

Sorry, I have to say no.

I refuse to fake my disbelief anymore. I spent the 1st half of my life being constantly disappointed by what I was being taught in church, Catholic High School and University top that off with my father being a minister I feel I have 'done my time.' ...

Have you considered telephone triage or case managment? I made the transition to it after almost 20 years as an inpt nurse as well with med/surg, tele, and PACU experience under my belt. I am a bit younger than you but couldn't handle the stress ment...

I've been a nurse for 15 yrs now, and I can honestly say I'm ready to leave the profession. I always chalked up my job disatissfaction to not having found my 'nitche'. But it finally hit me that the problem is what I went into nursing for and what th...

I no longer work in patient, but I worked Cardiac Stepdown for many years. What you described would have been reson for a write up and termination at my previous employers. I hope you addressed this with your manager or the chain of command. I now kn...

So glad you said this! As an African American nurse white underwear would be like a neon flashing light on my behind under white scrubs! I haven't owned white scrubs since nursing school. They are so impratical.