crb613 BSN, RN

I get you so completely. I know how it feels to desperately try to save the mangled child hit by a car .....and to hear the heart wrenching screams that do not even sound human coming from the mother....just to have the next pt complain in that high ...

I don't see how the examples you gave would fit into the whiney category.....not at all what I feel like the posted is speaking of. For someone who presents as so compassionate I am not feeling it...the poster is venting!

When an adult starts whining ....my eyes roll, my head starts shaking, I suddenly go deaf, and my feet automatically go in different direction! Its like a reflex....I have no control! Please just ask in a normal voice & tone for what you need.....

As long as they A&O its their choice. I ask them to sign ama form, if they won't I chart refusal...and move on to help those that want it.

Frequent flyer that had no business being there to start with????

giving nebs....sometimes, but rt usually drawing own labs...yes most with iv start and if techs are busy or mia starting your own iv's....always, and draw labs at this time. running own blood gasses...no rt cleaning own rooms...most of the time walki...

Good Job! Its great to see enthusiasm .....hope this attitude is with you for a very long time!:)

You look at people's neck veins while standing in the grocery line, and You are faster with the Ez-IO than Jessie James was with a six shooter.

I was working M/S, and they needed someone to float to the ER...I went, and loved it. Then there was an opening, I applied, and got the job.

I did just this. I went to out pt surgery, and I am miserable! I miss the ER! I am bored to death, and I have been in this new position for one week! The nurses I work with are super nice, and helpful. The work is easy,and I am off every weekend/holi...

I call the police period.

Yes....my whole ER has set days off! I work W,T,F and every other Sat. I am off Sat, S, M,T one week....Sun, M,T the next....always unless I choose to work on my days off. The other end of the week works when we are off....and are off when we work.

I have been offered two different positions where I currently work. One is outpt surgery, the other OR circulator. I am an ER nurse and really like what I do....but, I have found my self getting a little aggravated with people that abuse the ER. I tr...

We have'em & I use'em!

When my husband was at home he, his dad, and brother use to coon hunt a lot.....his mom said they would have deer ticks all over them....she would have them shower using Rid....the head lice stuff.....worked for them!

I had a pt come in the other night severe resp. distress. We had little hx on the pt at the time except COPDer, and he could not talk (working to breathe). He was diaphoretic, rr 30+ guppy breathing, tachy,lethargic. Sats with good wave form 70%. Lun...

I use the black out curtain panels, on top of that navy blue sheets double thickness......taped all the way around the edges....then my normal curtains over the top. Fom the inside/ outside looks like normal curtains.....and its dark as night! I also...

eeeewwww! The library....seriously? I have never had any dealing with the little critters....and hope I never do! I am itching like crazy!

Like I said unless there is a very good reason.....sedation, and paralytics.....

This makes me sick & furious! Write his sorry butt up! Unless they are totally unresponsive, and death will occur....no excuse. While I am at it..... I will also have a fit if they are not sedated....along with the paralytic...inhumane!

OK....a baby that was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome underwent Norwood procedure.....released home, sats staying in the 77-low 80's range family stated this is her normal. Instructed to use o2 if sats went below 70, ....to all you nurses t...

Awesome images! Thank you so much!

debRN0417....I just about puked while I read your story.....I think any of us that have made or thought we made an error feel just about like you did!.....been there and had those feelings. When I was a brand new nurse I had to hang Dilantin....I kn...

I was a MS nurse for about 1.5 years...and I was always being floated around....Tele mostly. Then one day I was sent to the ER....the rest is history. I loved it, and moved from MS to ER. I would suggest that if you can get some Tele/ICU experience f...

I know these are never to be charted in a pt chart. So how do you prove you followed policy, and that you did an incident report should one be necessary. Things get lost, and if it wasn't charted it wasn't done. I know the reasons admin does not wan...