Meg, RN

Definitely EGD! A patient laughed when us when myself and a fellow nurse were doing walking rounds. The other nurse said, "Hi! My name is ****, and I will be your nurse today! Are you all ready for your EGD?" (Cue the patient looking at us, all confu...

Phew! I'm so glad someone else feels the same way! I just applied to transfer to ICU after working Med-surg a year and a half, so I'm a little intimidated to say the least (it took me three months to put in for the transfer)!! I heard the preceptor i...

Holy cow! 7-8 patients! I work on an ortho/med-surg unit and that's plain ridiculous for experienced nurses, much less a new grad! I mean most of the time, we don't have a nurse tech/CNA either so it's wild; juggling post-op patients in a lot of pain...

Haha! R!XTER, that's exactly what I'm talking about! And I know in ER, I'm sure ya'll have to deal with that crap constantly! Apparently, they have our establishment confused with the local Marriott...and even there, they wouldn't put up with that ye...

Had one of my patients who had been terribly nasty and demanding every time I went into the room all night (and he had been there for a month already because of certain "unhealthy lifestyle habits" shall we say.) And him and his strange son kept me t...

To the very needy patient: No this is not a Marriott. (or) No I am not your waitress. About me and my nursing career: We have a love-hate relationship! To the big headed doctor (you know who you are): You aren't God's gift to women! (or) Your jokes ...

*sigh* Unfortunately, going down your list, I feel like my current job as all of these characteristics and more! Nurses who dump all kinds of tasks on me at the end of my shift when I'm trying to go home. Example: having to do stuff like NG tubes etc...

Hi everyone! I am in need of some encouragement here. I've only been a nurse for about a year and so I feel stupid like I missed something and can't forgive myself. On my first night working this week, I had an older adult female (patient A) 61y.o. t...

Haha! I'm the same way CASTLEGATES. I have a raging crush on a surgeon at work. He's at least ten years older than me too! (I love older guys!) I think it's the bad boy flirty thing that he does. And his butt looks cute in those surgical scrubs! I tr...

Not to exhaust the topic, but I'm looking for the most comfortable kind of shoes for a person with high arches that underpronates? With every kind of shoe I've had (Nursemates) the "squishy" wears out within a few months, leaving my heels and the arc...

I definitely agree with the OP, it sucks when you count on people to show up for work and you're consistently being dumped (no pun intended) on by people that call out for the silliest "reasons." (Such as "I can't go to the bathroom, I'm stopped up s...

Hi everyone! Just needed a little advice: I've only been a nurse working full-time on a med-surg unit for the past nine months (I'll have a year's experience at the end of July 2011). I signed a contract (ends in January '12) with a sign-on bonus at ...

Hi everyone! Thanks for the input so far. In response to some of your questions, yes, we do keep a call off log on our unit, so that everyone is called off in rotations. Also, yes, everyone wants to keep their hours; even the people that would normal...

Yes, our hospital has closed some of the units (not mine, a med-surg), but our problem is that they're calling off some of our full-time people to put float people in their place, which sucks. So essentially we'll have two nurses working from my unit...

Maybe like you said, you can work part-time or prn. I worked as a student nurse tech PRN through nursing school to get my BSN. I'm sure your NM would rather have you on part-time or prn instead of quitting altogether, but you do what's best for you a...

I completely agree! I'm a new nurse and disagree that nursing is a "calling." I feel like that's just an excuse for us to put up with having long hours, little appreciation, cut pay, and to be demeaned by those who think nurses aren't as intelligent ...

-horseback riding lessons -reading outside is my favorite when the weather is warm -watching Netflix -retail therapy! -tending to my plants I too drive to Sonic often and have a milkshake while talking on the phone to a friend or my mom :-) It always...

Question: I'm trying to figure out how to revert back to a regular sleep schedule on my days off. Is it better to sleep through the day and then try to sleep through the next night? Or do ya'll just stay up all day after your last night shift and the...

-"No, the patient's IV pump beeping is NOT my priority right now." -"Our patient's aren't getting turned, their vitals aren't taken, and their sugars aren't checked because you're off in the visitor's waiting area watching soaps with your feet propp...

OP- Do we work in the same place? No really, though if you hadn't said AZ...I feel the exact same on most days. I had to switch to nights because my floor is so hectic, it's terrible trying to get a routine down pat. With patient's IV pumps beeping,...

Huge nasty blood clots. Once had a guy come into the ER with a suprapubic catheter that we had to irrigate cuz it was clogged up. When we did the hugest, nastiest clot came out. I could feel all the blood drain out of my face. I practically ran out o...

I agree. Nursing is not for the faint of heart! This is my first year, and it has been one of the most difficult and yet rewarding experience of my life. I too have lost weight from running around on the job and have gotten UTIs from not taking pee b...

I work on an 18 bed med surg unit at a hospital without a trauma center. We much prefer to have PACU hold the patients until 1930, because it is ridiculous trying to give report when PACU is calling to give report on more patients during shift change...

oh gosh I know I dreaded clinical days in the hospital like the plague! I know I asked myself countless times if nursing is what I really wanted to do. I realized the reason I dreaded my clinical days was #1 my instructor always had negative stuff to...

Oh my goodness, I can't tell you how many of these moments I've had. Once a doctor played a trick on me and told me to go get him a pair of size 12 sterile gloves (they don't exist), lol! I said "ok!" all chipper and stuff, and I figured it out immed...