Wrench Party

Wrench Party

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  1. Hi my fellow cardiac/CT nurses!

    Wrench Party replied to Wrench Party's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Rotating has been going fine; the patient load is somewhat infuriating during days but fine at night. I'm quickly learning people will use the care nurse as the messenger when they should be writing...

  2. Night Nursing: Precepting & Perception

    Wrench Party replied to Larry2016's topic in General Students

    You opened up a hornet's nest with this one. Night shift gets equally saddled with all the fires from day shift- answering questions for the family, patient education, finishing up post-op walks on...

  3. Nurses and holiday exhaustion

    Wrench Party replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I let people with the time and desire get it all done this year, and it was awesome! Didn't have to bake, cook dinner, wrap presents, etc. I did manage to get the tree decorated and stockings up, so...

  4. Mission Asheville????????

    Wrench Party replied to qrkid's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I hear Mission is a good place to work, if competitive for work because everyone wants to live up in the mountains. Not sure their pay

  5. Still unemployed; Why am I not getting calls for interviews?

    Wrench Party replied to 2016New's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    There are scores of positions in my area in home health and pediatric private duty. They're willing to

  6. Buying a new car for a new nurse ??

    Wrench Party replied to gabriela1993's topic in General Nursing

    Forgot to add, my latest vehicle has been a RWD stick shift Nissan Frontier. That thing is super fun to drive in the snow with some good tires and sandbagged in the back. I've had to back it all the...

  7. Buying a new car for a new nurse ??

    Wrench Party replied to gabriela1993's topic in General Nursing

    Not buying it. I had a 93 Honda Civic I drove home through the WV and VA mountains every year through college, never had any issues with it. My mom did homecare for a decade in a 95 Civic in the...

  8. Do you stalk anyone here?

    Wrench Party replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Hmm... I don't stalk the following in the traditional Facebook sense, but I always appreciate posts from NOADLS Farawyn TheCommuter Ixchel Been there, done that due to their salience and/or...

  9. Can you talk some sense into me?

    Wrench Party replied to Rocknurse's topic in General Nursing

    Take this cush ICU job, set it up for clinicals (PTO/schedule/etc.) , then cruise. Else why apply in the first place? Half of being a good job candidate is believing you're good enough to walk away...

  10. Have you met your husband at nursing? Is nursing a good career to meet men?

    Wrench Party replied to Upward_Bound's topic in General Nursing

    The boys/young men on my unit? LOL! They're all fresh newbs out of school and like 10 years younger than me. Same with the doctors. I get nervous when they barely look like they're out of high...

  11. Unpaid new grad RN residency

    Wrench Party replied to heronurse's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I'd rather move to the middle of nowhere for a few years and get paid for experience than put up with this tripe. Again, HOW is this legal? No health insurance, no benefits, no living wage? Working...

  12. Ok, I am a little creeped out!

    Wrench Party replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm bringing this thread back to the OP before y'all derailed it. Sorry you were creeped out by it, I'm sure I would have thought it a little weird too. I did have some actively dying patients my...

  13. Rules for Per Diems

    Wrench Party replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Mine requires 2 shifts/month, one summer and one winter holiday. Their differentials are so good that I will gladly work a weekend night. Another per diem position I interviewed for tried to pay me...

  14. Seven Hells: Vent

    Wrench Party replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Slow your roll, OP! Have you thought about getting a part-time position in peds home health or at an office? Or get on at another unit at another hospital? Make some lemons out of this lemonade, no...

  15. Per-diem nurses

    Wrench Party replied to Vishwamitr's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There's a reason most of us work full time and keep a per diem job on the side. I consider the per diem money "extra" in my budget, and really feed myself and pay the bills with the full time...

  16. 12 hr shift makeup routine

    Wrench Party replied to RN_srs's topic in General Nursing

    I gave up on makeup about a decade ago because I was tired of it getting into my contacts. I figured I'm going to look half-dead regardless at 3 am, plus the lights are dim and the patients' eyes are...

  17. MD's treat male nurses with more respect?

    Wrench Party replied to Bluebolt's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Haven't had this problem yet- we have text paging and on-call rounding teams or hospitalists for nights, so there's generally no " you woke me up in the middle of the night (insert Rantypants moment...

  18. What's your side job?

    Wrench Party replied to thejetsetnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Oh....cardiothoracic at a big teaching facility for my main gig, cardiology for my side gig, and home

  19. Spouses on opposite shifts

    Wrench Party replied to male2serve's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure the rest of you can relate, I LOVE I can sleep in peace while on night shift. Being woken up while trying to sleep early for days is THE

  20. How did you pay off your student debt?

    Wrench Party replied to oldsockventriloquist's topic in General Nursing

    Worked part time through school, applied for all the scholarships I possibly could and applied my tax refunds to my tuition. Took my pre-reqs at the local community college (great teachers, btw) on...

  21. Is it possible to get the holidays off?

    Wrench Party replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    I've never worked Christmas or Thanksgiving as a nurse yet somehow. I volunteered myself for New Year's Eve and Day this year, because I really don't care about the holiday since I quit drinking....

  22. Safe to take new admit at shift change

    Wrench Party replied to russianbear's topic in General Nursing

    My facility is changing their policy so that we have to stop everything we're doing, accept the patient, and take report from the ED nurse. This would be great if the ED wasn't notorious for keeping...

  23. RNs playing as nurses in movies/modeling

    Wrench Party replied to V610's topic in Nursing Career

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a real-life OR nurse that has been on Grey's Anatomy for years, and also still works in the hospital somewhere. She has developed a bit of a cult following for...

  24. Today's cringeworthy event..

    Wrench Party replied to xoemmylouox's topic in General Nursing

    Just.... I. Can't. Even. HOW has she not picked up a communicable disease

  25. Nurse considering law school

    Wrench Party replied to kristie778's topic in General Nursing

    From what I've seen of some of my undergraduate peers in law school, be prepared to come out with a lot of debt and achieve only a solid middle class income with a lot of work. Law school is like...