I've been a nurse 15 years. Primarily ICU but I've worked ER as well. I HATE the ER. I just hate it for many reasons. I LOVE ICU. I mean we have our days there too but to me I get more satisfaction...
Ha, most places I have worked, ambulatory surgery is usually where older nurses close to retirement go to die. They did their 30+ years in ED, ICU, med surg and finally had enough. Day surgery it is!...
So it sounds to me like health care is not exactly your passion but I dont think that necessiraly will make you a bad nurse or hate the profession overall. Have you been to clinicals yet? Had direct...
Ive seen plenty of men wear danskos. to me they are unisex. Ive seen a lot of male surgeons, male physicians etc wear them. If you just get black or born pretty unisex to me. Or if you want to be more...
Creamsoda replied to GilligansPlace's topic in General Nursing
You literally did nothing wrong and everything right. IF she does report you, which I doubt she will, its likely just threats and intimidation, you documentation will back you up. You followed all...
Creamsoda replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in PACU
In my experience you dont really need a brain. And I am an ICU nurse who requires a brain sheet when I am working in ICU. In pacu not so much. I might just have a piece of paper that as patients come...
Creamsoda replied to Barbara Fouch Lentz's topic in General Nursing
Like someone else said, they wouldnt be fired for not doing CPR, they would be fired if the issues was they didnt find a patient for 5 hrs and they were stone cold dead. You would not do CPR on...
dont give up. maybe you just need to try something non inpatient based. IV infusion therapies PACU is not bad, only 1-2 patients, but you do have to be on the ball watching for airway issues, ensure...
If they have a palpable pulse, you do not continue with CPR. If there is any question that there is a pulse, just continue with CPR, but if you have a pulse, even if weak, you dont need to continue...
What you are feeling sounds very normal, and I think nursing school does not really prepare you for feeling that way, even though I would say most of us went through the same thing. It takes a while...
Creamsoda replied to 2018nurseandbeyond's topic in General Nursing
Patients who insult me? Muahaha bring it on. They could call me literally anything in the book and it would not bother me one bit. I know im doing my job and what im supposed to. If they want to fling...
Ding ding ding! exactly. Im not sure why so many nurses think that staffing is their burden. So the DON has to cover for her. let the DON whine about you using your PTO which your entitled too. WHO...
me no understand....just take more days off. Its your own fault for capping out and not being able to acrue more. Unless of course they wont approve time off. But you know how much you accure, so plan...