mikeworksRN

Hear me out. I recall reading about someone who learned how to build a windmill from a Youtube video and with scraps and determination, brought electricity to his home in Africa (William Kamkwamba on TED talk). So why can't I learn 12 lead EKG from t...

How to read, yes, I'm looking at how to do. Run the test equipment, where to place the leads, etc.

Every time I'm interviewed for a new job they hit me with the tired cliched phrase "tell me how you've gone above and beyond." I do have an answer but it's so "above and beyond" that it may be too much for them as I always see the hiring managers sta...

Boundaries may be exactly the thing. Without outing myself I'll say it was a difficult discharge of a very anxious patient that the CM gave a line of BS to so she could leave for the weekend, leaving the patient and her extreme anxiety in the hands o...

Family choice, and as we all know, patients and families make ridiculous requests all the time. Your recourse is to accept these people are going to say silly, annoying, and outright insulting things throughout your nursing career. Rarely anymore do ...

Agree with the other posters- don't waste any more energy on this- we've all been fired for nothing at some time, also, get a penlight for night shift work. I always used a little mag light from Walmart, maybe about 7 bucks, comes with a nifty holste...

Agree with the post by Kooky Korky. This is the era when Big Brother became a stark reality. Stupid shirt, yes. But this individual has a right to his own opinions no matter if the general populace or the members of this website agree with them. And ...

If I interviewed you and you told me you were going to work 2 FT jobs, I wouldn't hire you. Most of the people I have hired can't handle 2 part time jobs. They either can't keep the days straight and don't show up, or they get sick a lot, or they cal...

PWT = Poor White Trash.

I'm not reading these long posts but I'll respond to the headline. My nursing instructor said nursing was not for me, as well. Then I became a nurse. A good one. One who patients liked. Now, years later, I know who was not right for what- the instruc...

Hi all. I had to place a patient from the ER with a low blood sugar, hypothermic with a temperature of 91 to a medsurg tele floor. I gave the nurse a Bair Hugger, however, the nurse didn't want to take the patient, felt the temperature was too low, s...

I came to say exactly what the OP already said. 3 days a week I lift weights, and 2-3 days I do 20 minutes of yoga, and I watch the body mechanics, and I'm old, and I have never had a back problem. However, I have given up trying to lift obese patie...

MRSA of the wound, the leg was amputated, so is the patient still in isolation? The wound is not there anymore. I'm pondering over this.

I didn't want to quote the whole thing. But I do need to save this reply, print it, and post it on my bulletin board. I work the floor. This is exactly what it's like. Damn it I think I love you.

I've worked many years on both shifts and I'm noticed some simple things. -They only come out at night. Some of the weirdest ones stay up all night. And I mean creepy weird. -Day shift people are the high stress, red bull, ready to have a heart atta...

Okay, first thing: You are so many kinds of AWESOME I don't even know where to begin. You were calm, you knew what to do and you handled the situation. In the future when you become the awesome nurse you will be, you'll understand more of what it's ...

I have heard, that if you work for Kaiser for 5 years, you will get free insurance for life. true? Or rumor? Also, I have heard about their 8 and 12 hour shifts. And, if you are on 12 hour shifts, you many times will float for the last 4 hours to ma...

Hey thanks to all who posted. I can now move past the rumor. I think it all stemmed from the newbies that were hired long ago when we all graduated together, and I never found out any different. I work with one of those now, who wants her schedule he...

And that, my friends, is why they are short staffed. Hospitals do it to themselves.

Okay I'm on a tele unit and the MD orders ICU. I notify the House and the manager of the Unit. Right away I get the manager wanting me to have the nurse call the doctor to see if she can put the patient somewhere else. Or she asks what are the VS, is...

i have been stood up. i have been offered the job, went home, waited to be notified about the next step, then when i finally call there they tell me they decided to go with someone else. i have been interviewed and noticed increasing hostility from t...

Had a real problem with this at my ghetto hospital, patients loved to get a pain shot then go out to smoke. sometimes get high. There, we just put up with it. Here, at this hospital, we have a strict no-smoking policy, that is, workers have to go to ...

Running up to the room to check if I was telling the truth when I said it was dirty, is a good trick.

"Tell me about that tattoo?" "I got it after nursing school. That is all" "Wow." I did, however, have a patient with the names of 5 or 6 men tatted on the insides of her thighs. She said during WW2 if you bought her a drink, you got your name tatted ...