ninja-nurse

ninja-nurse BSN

3 years MS/Tele, 10 years total ICU, 5 travel

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  1. Transfer advice please

    ninja-nurse replied to ninja-nurse's topic in General Nursing

    PennyWise: Yes. Exactly. EVERYONE told me in school that all new nurses needed a good year of med/surg or ER. Small, rural area ER was mostly clinic and I'd hated it (my baby threw up once in 3 hours....

  2. Transfer advice please

    ninja-nurse replied to ninja-nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Good Morning, Gil: I was sort of leaning towards ICU, but you're right about needing a change of pace. I'd be willing to take just about anything to get out of med/surg. Jenni811: Good luck honey. If...

  3. Transfer advice please

    ninja-nurse replied to ninja-nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't even think about that - but you're right. All the fun stuff without the 12 hours of pillow fluffing... I may look into

  4. Transfer advice please

    ninja-nurse replied to ninja-nurse's topic in General Nursing

    That's what I'm trying to look into, I just don't know enough about them to figure out what would be a good fit for me. So I'm trying to talk to different people about their jobs and see if I can find...

  5. Funny things patients say !

    ninja-nurse replied to TAM's topic in Nursing Humor

    I have that happen a lot. Unless she's confused, she probably meant "thank you for being here/taking care of

  6. Transfer advice please

    ninja-nurse replied to ninja-nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Bored. To death. I've given it 2.5 years (when I wasn't really interested in the first place) and now I desperately want

  7. Things You Need To Know To Be A Nurse...

    ninja-nurse replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    The filthiest word in a hospital is five letters long and starts with Q. And if you should say this word, all He!! WILL break

  8. Funniest/strangest dementia patient stories

    ninja-nurse replied to Angie O'Plasty's topic in Nursing Humor

    As a CNA working during nursing school on a geri psych unit: Had a little old lady, 70's but ambulatory. On the 2nd day I had her, I noticed she was hiding from me. She'd pull covers over her head, or...

  9. What does your username mean?

    ninja-nurse replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    Not very creative - I'm a nurse and a blackbelt, but "ninja-nurse" sounded better than "karate-nurse".

  10. You Know You're A Nurse If...

    ninja-nurse replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    jodiw4572 You forgot the tattoos from knuckle to

  11. You Know You're A Nurse If...

    ninja-nurse replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    Noo, honey. Kudos to YOU. I recently made my whole family laugh hysterically when, holding my 2 week old niece, I said that: "She's just too small. That's it, I'm never having kids, I'll adopt...

  12. You Know You're A Nurse If...

    ninja-nurse replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    AMEN! My whole floor does

  13. You Know You're A Nurse If...

    ninja-nurse replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    *to questout on pg 3* You may have to be older to get the reference, but not the action! Can't tell you HOW many times I pat pockets going "now WHICH one did I put

  14. TV shows and movies that are ruined, because you know better

    ninja-nurse replied to HollyHobby's topic in Nursing Humor

    Two words: Doctors.

  15. Things you really wish you could say to patient/family of pt

    ninja-nurse replied to nite_shift_4_life's topic in Nursing Humor

    *background info* Got pulled to help in ER many times at my first hospital. The n/v babies were my faves. Call comes in, 2 month old with n/v. I'm thinking GI issues, dehydration, so on, and God only...

  16. Anyone else see...?

    ninja-nurse posted a topic in Pediatric

    My first workplace mixed adult and pediatric med-surg/tele. (which terrified us all, as we'd typically get about 1 peds patient every 3 weeks. I was FAR from the only nurse who carried around a little...

  17. Anyone else see...?

    ninja-nurse replied to ninja-nurse's topic in Pediatric

    Agreed, hikernurse - though education was FAR from our only peds issue. 3 month old with pneumonia, when RT has been griping for a month that they don't have pedi masks... scary. Or nurses using their...

  18. Anyone else see...?

    ninja-nurse replied to ninja-nurse's topic in Pediatric

    Ah. See, this is why I posted this - because it's bugged me all this time. I was young and new, and my co-workers, my supervisor, and even the ICU and ER nurses all agreed that it was too much (again,...

  19. exposure to the Operating Room

    ninja-nurse replied to wishiwereanurse's topic in Operating Room

    I got 3 days of observation - and the 3rd was ONLY because my renal patient happened to have a transplant available that day. 2 days I was placed in a corner and ignored. The day I wasn't supposed to...

  20. Dealing with Circulators as a New Student.

    ninja-nurse replied to gymnut's topic in Operating Room

    Not trying to be rude, Winx51, but could you explain why the OP needs to leave OR? Granted, I'm not an OR nurse, but it seems to me that s/he raised good points about the counting issues and overall...

  21. My 9 year old patient was raped and required surgery

    ninja-nurse replied to ssouthernyankee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This is exactly why I could never work pediatrics. Or ER. I would be too tempted to shoot someone... God bless all of you who can help these babies, because I'm not strong

  22. were you scared/nervous on your first day of work as LVN

    ninja-nurse replied to mibrow81's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    lol - I was nervous my first MONTH as an RN. And that was after almost 2 years of nurse aid experience! (sorry, not an LVN, but I saw this on the sidebar and HAD to

  23. Mandatory overtime in nursing -I need your help

    ninja-nurse replied to PSUNURSE's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    My previous facility got an almost entirely new management staff, passed new policies and lost a lot of nurses because we felt the changes weren't safe and our management wasn't listening. They then...

  24. Mistakes we have made

    ninja-nurse replied to LilpoRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Oh, the mistakes... #1: A few weeks into my first job, I forgot to flush a PEG tube. It clotted. Thankfully, my preceptor was able to unclot it with some cola - but the patient and I were both in...

  25. Nurse to Patient Ratio

    ninja-nurse replied to flg2008's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    ...and this is why I desperately want OUT of med-surg. Except, reading this, apparently it's EVERY type of unit. Is there no where sane