audreysmagic RN

This. It's my understanding that the employees fired were not at all involved in the individual's care. They were literally just peeking. I work on a small unit in which we work as a team as well. I would absolutely get familiar with the charts o...

There can be a lot of information on the name screen, too, at least in EPIC.

This has been all over the news in Chicago...realistically, Northwestern can probably absorb losing the 50 employees (they weren't solely nurses) pretty quickly - it's a huge facility. I work at a nearby hospital now and we got a global email with t...

...not a real human one, though. Or even a fuzzy one. I'm a BLS instructor, among the many things I do, and all my CPR mannequins have names. It was purely for my own amusement at first, but then I found that once I told my students their mannequin...

So, yours truly is of an age where the original Power Rangers was her must-see TV in her preteen years. And because I've been stressed and needing a bit of 90's nostalgia, I've been re-watching the series...it's cheerfully mindless entertainment, if...

It has been a weird few weeks here at my current hospital, which I have decided is probably an affiliate of @Davey Do's Wrongway Medical Center...but this last week or so takes the cake. (Maybe it's because they know I'm leaving, and have decided to...

What can I say? I cope with humor. ?

And here I thought being stressed was just a common side effect of nursing. ?

I'm not laughing - I'd be sitting on the couch next to you watching it!

If someone can't be a good example, they might become a horrible warning.

And: Go on to your BSN right away, kid. Don't think that year or two gap will cure your academic fatigue, because you'll jump right in to working full-time and eventually two years will become 13. (I did go back to school, and am now proudly workin...

Eventually, there will be a day when you will fail to be surprised by a patient's antics. Impressed, perhaps, but not surprised.

I'm so excited! My background is in pediatrics, but I've done time in psych nursing, which is another specialty I love. It's given me a lot of valuable experiences, especially as I've moved up the ladder into administrative roles/education, but wh...

Funny enough, I was in Albuquerque this weekend...I must've taken a right on the way back, because I ended up in Reality...

Thanks, guys! I went away for the weekend and my current job welcomed me back with a burst pipe issue... ? So this made me smile for sure when I logged back in!

Thanks! I'm really excited. I've been longing to get back to working with small people...

I love the trend of adult coloring books. I have one specifically for nurses...it's a little sassy (ie, "The 'H' out front doesn't stand for hotel!"), but it sure helps with the stress relief!

Writing (or plotting, anyhow...somehow, that's always more fun than the actual writing), chatting with a friend/family, watching something nerdy or that I don't have to think hard about, snuggling with my kitties (well, the one that will snuggle) or ...

So I was supposed to have an inservice, like...15 minutes ago...but no one's showed up. This isn't exactly the first time I've been stood up, and it's one of multiple sessions, but...still. I have to be here because someone will claim they showed u...

Not sure what side of the argument you're on, but I'd like to see it, myself. I had a "fun" hair color for awhile, while it was not outside of my hospital's dress-code policy (they later changed it, alas, and so I changed my hair)...I found that it ...

The cape, I admit, could be awkward and it's an infection control nightmare. BUT I STILL WANT ONE. I keep promising myself that for Halloween, I'm going to do an old-school nursing uniform just so I can get myself that dang cape. Fun memory: My mom'...

I share a birthday (obvs not the same year ;)) with Lucille Ball...she's one of my comedy inspirations! I nicknamed my writing muse "Lucy," as she's always got some 'splainin' to do... My theory on the GoFundMe is that most of them don't succeed, I ...

UGH...so, venting time. Came in to do another session of this in-service, on my day off...my plan was to do it and go home (then come back for my afternoon sessions, as I don't live far). Apparently, someone figured since I'd be here anyway, they'...

Agreed. It just feels too...narcissistic. Like, I smile when other people tag me in nurses-save-lives memes because they're thinking of me, and they appreciate what I do. But posting them myself feels like Bart Simpson banging pots and pans going ...

Same! I've used "I have plans tonight" to dodge working over (now that I'm not in the schools anymore, alas)...they don't need to know that my plans involve sitting in my PJ's and eating frozen pizza. Those are plans.