ManEnough

Has anyone here ever worked at Disneyland as an R.N.? Pros/cons? All feedback appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Greetings! I posted this on the main forum but thought I might get some good replies here too. I am looking to relocate to Orange County, CA. as a new RN grad and would appreciate any input on the best/worst hospitals for a new grad. I can honestly ...

I made the transition from ER to hospice and it's the single greatest decision I ever made. Before: 12.5 hour shifts (when I got out on time), working every other weekend, one 30 minute break a shift (when I was lucky), constantly apologizing to pat...

I agree that asking questions is the single most important thing to remember. Also remember that if someone makes you feel stupid for asking a question, they're the stupid one. Good luck!

Thanks for all the feedback, everyone. I've heard similar accounts elsewhere. Along with the fact that a lot of the guests begin mentioning lawsuits the moment they get injured. As for the question if I'm man enough to dress as Sneezy or Little Bo...

I was getting an appy ready to go to the OR and took his temp. He had a fever of 102.4. I told him we'd have to do a Tylenol suppository and gave him the option of doing it himself. "Yeah, I'd rather do it myself." It was hour of 11 of my shift and...

:icon_roll :icon_roll i soooo hear ya! and we have doctors that order full septic work-ups for every kid with a fever (presumably 'cause they were sued once when a kid with a 99.8 fever ended up getting something serious). as for educating paren...

MDs as patients. Give that smelly homeless drug addict ANY day over the "do you know how easily I could get you fired?" crowd.

I found it interesting and not at all difficult. Not nearly as instense as ACLS or PALS.

Thanks for pointing this out. When I took ACLS the first time I was so overwhelmed by all the information. And all those catchy phrases and abbreviations are not nearly as useful as one might think. Unless you're Rain Man I have no idea how you ca...

I had a study group during nursing school and the 5 of us consistently scored highest in the class. And the dirty little secret we never let out.. not a single one of us read the assigned material! I did not miss a single lecture in all of nursing s...

For what it's worth, all my plants died when I was in nursing school. And that was only first semester. :imbar

This thread has made my day! If we're going to talk about fashion emergenices in medicine, I've seen far worse than some creepers popping out of my male collegues' tops. If we're gonna make a rule about wearing t-shirts beneath scrub tops, I'd sugge...

Spend one Friday or Saturday night with me in the ER and explain why alcohol is legal and marijuana is illegal.

Before nursing school, the only time I had ever set foot in a hospital was to visit ailing relatives. I had NO knowledge of medical terminology and felt way behind my classmates, many of whom had been CNAs, paramedics, phlebotomists, etc. The first...

Extremely well said. Same for the nurse who's constantly falling asleep on the job. I'd rather the occasional potsmoker take care of my mom than the chronically sleep deprived, over worked nurse. If you provide safe, competent care, what you do at...

If they had kicked the potsmokers out of my nursing program, we'd of had 3 graduates. A LOT of people smoke weed (whether that's good or not). Most are not stupid enough to announce it to the world.

Earlier this year when I started out as a new grad, starting IVs TERRIFIED me. I wanted to puke every time a patient needed one. It's been said on here before time and time again.. the only way to get good at IVs is to practice, practice, practice....

I think it might be worth looking into another hospital. All through nursing school, I was told that "nurses eat their young" as some kind of justification for all the s**t we put up with from the nurses we worked with. I was told it was a well know...

Giving pain meds to a screaming kidney stone pt. It's one of those few times where the smallest intervention will be remembered for life.

The part where you don't get tipped 20% for doing it!

So many brilliant posts. I'm still deciding if ED nursing is for me (I'm heavily leaning toward "no" for many of the reasons posted.. the never-ending chaos, the drug seekers, the angry, often dumb families, the management that wants you to run a Ri...

I do 12 hour shifts in an extremely busy ED. When I first took the job I was so excited about having 4 days off a week. I wasn't thinking about just how grueling those 12's can be! It's especially challenging when I do 3 in a row. It's basically ...

Inserting NG tubes. If I had an entire lifetime to come up with the most cruel thing to do to someone, I couldn't come up with a better device. My entire family knows that if one is ever ordered for me, they are to shoot me first.