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LOVE my 12 hour shifts! When I first started doing them I thought I would hate it, but I actually love them. I feel like after making the 40 min commute into work, I want to just stay and work and get my hours in. I love my four days off! Now whe...

So they just put one of these things on our unit. It's like a stoplight that goes yellow to red when there is too much noise. We are a small NICU unit. Seriously? I'm pretty insulted to be treated like a child. I tend to pick my battles wisely b...

FWIW, I do NICU and love it. It's not always low stress but a lot of the time it is. Also, don't pay attention to the student-haters here. Cue the "NETY" threads.

Just wondering what the significance of the timing of 72hours to one week is?

You save 21 weekers?

Just wondering... how is being on methadone for 9 years being "clean"? Back to magsulfate's question. 9 years????? Really????

I agree that I would definitely give it a year before you jump ship. After that... have at it! OR would be a completely different kind of nursing but you're young and just starting out, so now is the time to explore things. At this point, I have e...

Federally mandated Patient/Staff ratios. Less charting. NO STUPID SURVEYS.

2015 ~ State: WV RN: 5+ years experience (Per diem) Specialty: Float Pool Pay: $35/hr no benefits Housing: Decent 4 bdr, 2 bath home for $150k 2016~ Northern VA (moving here early next year) Job in NICU, Per diem no more money then Full or Part ti...

HUGE problem in our area too. We have our own unit for them now with 18 beds that says full ALL THE TIME. It's sad and exasperating. If we have a whole generation of women in this child-bearing age group who think it's nothing to gestate their bab...

We use that purple stuff in the vial too... it's called Marathon. BUT, it has to slough off after several days and tends to look stained and yucky after a few changes. We also do desitin, powder, and the butt-in-the-air-to-light-and-heat method. I...

This ^^^^

35 minutes. Always the same.

Loathe: ~ Doing vital signs (tedious) ~ Taking a patient out (hate that time waster) ~ Oral Care ~ Anything that has to do with feet ~ Ostomies LOVE: ~ IV's ~ Wound Care and wound Vacs

Occasionally you can get a recently d/c'd foley pt to pee by cracking an amonia tab into a pilgrims hat and having them sit on the pot over it.

The NICU where I work has become a "guy floor". There are lots of great guys around here and they add so much to the unit. A couple have been here their whole career. I caution you that NICU nursing is it's own specialty, so if you start there as ...

So my 17 yo, 185 lb, 5'10 son swallowed a 2" by 1" piece of plastic the other night that he was chewing on. He was just chewing on this hard piece of plastic that had broken off of his cooler or something. He started to choke on it, coughed it up a...

We also have a non-smoking campus and so the patients line the street sidewalk outside the building to smoke. I once saw a guy with two casted arms and two casted legs out there and his significant other was popping the cig in and out of his mouth. ...

I've done Med-Surg and Perinatal Float Pool. Go for it because you will learn so much! ASK questions when you don't know something, because just because "they do it that way" on one floor, doesn't mean they want you to do it that way where you are ...

I'm in the Float Pool. I've worked ALL over the hospital. The most steady, but slower paced places I've worked are Pediatrics and Pre-admit Testing.

I am a Perinatal Float nurse and work both Peds and NICU (among other areas). My advice is to go to PEDS. I LOVE NICU, but as others have said, it's a very specialized field. If you don't want to be a NICU nurse for the rest of your life, I would ...

Wound vacs can get complicated sometimes. My most complicated was a pt I had once who had an abdominal surgery and they nicked the bowel. Everything got infected and there were fistulas in several places. Her abdominal wound took up the majority o...

Absolutely. I get it... but I can't go around wearing gloves ALL the time in my daily life and/or not being friendly to people (well, I guess I could, but I won't). I wear nail polish, but not when I'm working.... unless it's clear or flesh colore...

I guess what I'm saying is that my hands are as clean as possible... always. I'm actually a bit of a germ-a-phobe. I actually wash my hands with real soap and water and try not to use that alcohol foam as much. I do wear nail polish and yes, I sha...

Here is my question about all of these nail polish issues.... aren't we not supposed to touch the patient without gloves on anyway? I have always wondered why nails are feared be so unsanitary if we are using proper protocol. Anyone have a good ans...