anotherone BSN, RN

Here we go again, with another Philly thread. This time it is a bit different. i am currently living in a pretty rural area and want out, sometime soon. I am looking at different cities in the country both east and west coast and maybe anywhere in U...

2 different issues I work in a busy unit with many pts that should probably be on step down unit and very time consuming patients. I go about tasks by prioritizing them. Sometimes that means someone has to wait a few minutes for their prn pain/nausea...

I am not sure who would stay? In a large facility , they may have MANY 15+ call offs, a supervisor isnt going to be able to fill them nor are they capable of for many units. ( I highky doubt any nursing supervisor in a large hospital can jump in...

You are scheduled 7a to 7p. 7pm comes and due to call offs, or not enough scheduledd nurses there are not enough nurses. No one wants to stay, no one agreed to come, they are short as it is so there isn't anyone for you to give report to. Th...

Depends on how my other pts are but for q1 hr demands that are not needed and I am busy , I have and will say something lile "many of my patients need things at 6:00, I can't be in 6 rooms at once." or will tell them why the request isn't nee...

OP , I think I understand. I have had 6-7pts no aides. Yeah, IV starts, rt stuff, labs are "basic" and nursing but we get pts with q4 labs. sometimes multiple. now it is yet another task. no aides (been there too) so some pts require 2 to ...

in my unit we have had many super obese (500lbs+) pts. Most have been complete care. We only use lifts to get pts oob. it is very difficult to care for such pts because of the logistics and staffing requirements involved. Turning can involve up to 5...

wow. back injuries are debilitating. one injury and one's nursing career or any! may be over! wow. some value their ability to provide for themselves and our back. Yeah, complaining won't solve obesity but it may make hospitals have more staff,...

I don't care how fat of thin they are.... Not high and mighty but don't think all thin people are that way by chance either. Once a pt is in a certain weight range, and unable to care for his/herself that pt requires more staff to care for h...

there is so much misery . and so many people who seem and are like monsters.... I am often amazed when I encounter kind people after dealing or seeing some of these lunatics. I think these stories and encounters definitely affect health care s...

heh. i meant to hit quote buy hit like instead..... i started a thread myself on the obese but with a different tone. my back hurts too sometimes. i am female but in your age group. 250-350. that is a near light weight !!!! body mechanic...

not all the time. med surg . sometimes you can plan all you want but if we are short and constant bed alarms and frequent vitals etc.. with even other nurses pts , then there isn't anyone to watch yours. some shifts are a huge spiral there is ne...

wow, i thnk it is rude and presumptuous to expect a greeting from a stranger. exceptions being work related ( with customers, not coworkers). If people make eye contact or stare i say hello, otherwise I leave them alone.

I never would tell families/pts we are short. Didn't want to worry them and knew it is a no no . Well now on shifts like the ones you describe I refuse to be seen as a bad nurse when we are short 2 nurses and 2 aides. If management doesn't like, w...

If I ever cry in front if someone, the worst thing , Ii think,, would be for it to be acknowledged. Patting my shoulder or trying to hold my hand will increase my anxiety or have me thinking you are an inappropriate weirdo. some who say to trea...

A typical bedside nurse position is extremily rough on your back, neck etc.... I can't thing of one single coworker who has been a nurse longer than a few years who doesn't have some muscular skeletal or spinal issue. It can be debillitating and ...

I work 7pm-730am 3-4 times a week. Day shift is way too hectic. nights can be stressful and busy but it is different than on day shift. i try to keep the same schedule but come on... if i did i could never go out to run errands or shop at most ...

could have, shoukd have, would have.... I see many doctors around my age at work. 80 hra at least at the hospital making peanuts, wasting their youth there... I feel the apposite of envy! I usually piy the residents! ( at least the attendings get...

pts think we are working harder when we are standing to chart as opposed to sitting..... so ... just another way society has to appeal to the lowest thinking of us...... last few timea I went to a dr's appointment s/he told me a disclaimer of how the...

the day we get treated like professionals is the day I will think we are. this is why I am strongly in the "just a job" camp. I have been to ( either through clinicals or as a visitor) many hospitals that do not have nurses stations. most had one or...

My last post was filled with sarcasm. I rather have the new md/do if they are seeing me as an out pts/he is already an attending and if inpatient the attending still rounds.

If anything Inthink nursing school should focus a lot more on patho and pharmacology. Bed making, fluff nursing theory, WASTE of time. the longer i go as a nurse the more I understand why many instructors said not to worry about skills so much. ...

Almost anyone can learn to put in ngs, ivs, labs etc. anyone. that is the least of what I bring to a pt. I think of my job and the lives I have saved by assessing pts and reporting abnormalities because of my knowledge of disease processes an...

If I wanted to be an no i would have done that or gone into medicine. I don't want to nor do I want to see a PA or NP over a MD or DO for the same reasons posters here prefer nurses rather than MAs at the bedside...

Lower ratios for nurse.. most of the nurses are new and inexperienced Also the doctors are worked to the bone too. An intern cross covering 80pts who are all acutely ill is a recipe for disaster! so much to do and barely any time to THINK. i hat...