Racer15 BSN, RN

The only requirement at my job is that you can start an IV and have RN behind your name. I'm friends with the site director and she approached me askinf if I would be interested.

My full time gig is the ER so I start IVs all day everyday.

Clinical research is another good one! I'm an infusion nurse for clinical research trials and make $75/hour. It's prn but there is a big demand for RNs if you can get your foot in the door.

My ex boyfriend in the room, wanting to do a post-Mortem on our relationship 😯

I share my story every chance I get. One of our own ER nurses took her life in September and it tore our little family apart. I sometimes wonder if I had opened up to her about my depression, maybe she would have reached out. I'm here for anyone that...

I got so bad at one point that my director, manager, and CNO, pulled me into the office and told me I was getting help immediately, and had to sign into my own ER, where they deemed me too high risk to go home. My stress had creeped up on my just slo...

I see a therapist and a psychiatrist.

You can draw cultures anytime after abx therapy has begun, you just have to draw ARDS as opposed to regular cultures. They have to be three days post antibiotics for regular cultures. May vary by facility, that's just how we roll at my hospital.

I'm an ER RN AND a LVT. They are veterinary nurses, just as much as we are nurses. Does this diminish your role in anyway? Maybe your feelings are a bit hurt?

Rolling up in here like a wrecking ball! I am an RN AND a LVT. The T standing for technologist woot woot! That means I am bachelors level for all you fine folks just tuning in. In my program I not only learned disease processes, I had to be a lab tec...

Oh there are several nurses in my ED that love to precept. Because they are incredibly lazy and make their preceptees do literally everything on their own, while they sit around and play on their phones. These new nurses come off of orientation drown...

That customer service BS is everywhere, no avoiding it. I've only ever worked ED and I'm partial. There's a load of crap there too. Pain reassessments, leadership rounding, reducing LWBS, was your call light answered quickly, etc...a looot of BS. I'd...

I don't like precepting and I'm not good at it. I'm impatient and I don't wait around for my preceptee when things need to be done so that they can have a "teaching moment." In the ED, I am about the opposite of what a new hire needs. I don't mind be...

I've had some pretty bad shifts, but the worst was when my sister called my in hysterics because she had tripped and fallen, dropping my two month old nephew in the process. He got flown out from my ED with a skull fracture and a minor subdural hemat...

I will give you a non-snarky answer against my better judgment. Shallow folks don't last long in bedside nursing. Especially if by shallow you mean lazy areshole. You'll encounter less of those on night shift.

The ED fits that description...kind of. We get monthly reports on our fluff em and puff em scores. We are expected to be kind, gentle, accommodating waitresses thanks to press ganey. Don't get me wrong. I am more than happy to get pillows, warm blank...

We do it in my ED. I have adopted the KISS method. "Keep it Simple Stupid." "I am going home, xyz will be your nurse, this is what we are waiting on." I give the "real" report at the nurse's station.

You can also use a speculum for the same thing. Dive in, push it open and up towards the belly button, and you'll find the head of the penis.

KY jelly on dried blood. Smear it on there, let it sit for ten minutes, the blood comes right off. One of my favorite ER tricks!

I used 25g needles on rats when I was a vet tech. I also ran all of my own labs so I had to get it right the first time or create more work for myself. An insulin needle is not appropriate for blood draws and I would advise practicing with the bigges...

I am single with no kids. BUT, my income helps support my sister, who is a single mom, and then obviously my nephew. Along with my brother to an extent. I work two jobs to make sure I'm not living paycheck to paycheck. So suck it haters.

The folks posting above were in the old version, which did not have an OA. I found the recorded cohorts under the course tips tab very helpful. I passed my OA in the first attempt.

I started in July and have completed 18 credits so far. I'm going to try to knock out health assessment before my term ends. Care of the Older Adult, Nutrition, and Information Management can all be done in a day, maybe two. Stats and biochem took me...

I'm ER, so it's not as much of an issue buuut, if the doc orders it, I give the treatment, as long as there is no contraindications like drug court or whatever. Warm blankets, coffee, soda...I'm going to give it to them as long as they are not NPO. T...

I personally would not get a puppy. Twelve hour shifts can turn into 14 hour shifts, sometimes you're too tired for a shower, let alone a 15 minute walk. I have a dog, but she is 16 years old, I got her long before I was a nurse, so she was fully hou...