aroRNBrooke

Friend, I am also a nurse with anxiety and depression. Please, please find a therapist, try cognitive behavioral therapy, get on meds if you need them. I take them. No judgement here. You are capable and smart enough to be a nurse. Anxiety and depression absolutely does effect your ability to concentrate. As for being fired, I've been a RN for 6 years and I've been fired twice. Both times while I was pregnant (two different pregnancies), in an at will state, for things that could have been educational moments if not for terrible management. It happens, especially when you have crappy management, which it sounds like you did. Yes, you made a mistake. But this does not have to define you or your career. You can find a good, supportive place to grow as a nurse. No job is perfect, but the one I have now is pretty darn close, including focusing on educating nurses, not punishing them. Hang in there.

Thanks, everyone. We had an incident last week where a four week old coded in the ER. A RT called up and said they needed us (NICU nurses and neonatologist). The ER doc was ticked off because he apparently hadn't been planning on calling us and told us afterwards that we weren't wanted or needed. In those exact words. I've never worked at a hospital where it WASN'T protocol to call NICU/Peds for a coding child, especially that young, so I wanted to see what everyone else does. Add to that the fact that they were pushing meds without measuring them correctly and it was just kind of a cluster. Thanks again!

Cross posted to peds/NICU boards Is there a protocol in place at your hospital to call NICU/Pedi nurses and doctors in an infant/pediatric code? Are you all trained in NRP/PALS as well as ACLS? TIA!

I'll likely cross post this to ER sub board too...maybe Peds. If you work in the hospital is there a protocol in place to call NICU/Pedi nurses and doctors in an infant/pediatric code? If not, are your ER staff NRP/NALS/PALS certified? TIA

I'll likely cross post this to ER sub board too...maybe Peds. If you work in the hospital is there a protocol in place to call NICU/Pedi nurses and doctors in an infant/pediatric code? If not, are your ER staff NRP/NALS/PALS certified? TIA!

I would like to address a few things: I am in my fifth quarter at an ITT program in Indiana. For the record--we are accredited. Our credits also transfer to some colleges here in IN if we want to go on to get our BSN, which I personally plan to do. We do our clinicals in hospital settings, just like every other nursing school. And, in fact, every quarter since I started, our school has gotten phone calls from administration at these hospitals, talking about how great ITT students are. They've even gone as far as to tell us that they like working with us more than the local CC nursing students because we seem to know what we're doing a little better. All my local hospitals will also hire ITT grads just as easily as they will any other grads. We sit for the same NCLEX, they don't care what school you go to as long as you know what you're doing. Obviously every program will differ depending on the state it's in and the instructors, but to issue a blanket statement and say that ITT is a bad school is ridiculous. Congrats to everyone who has made it into nursing school, no matter where you decide to go!