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Hi all, So I'm currently looking into travel nursing. I've thought about it a lot over the years and lately I feel as though it may be time for me to make the move. I have some questions for all the travelers out there who may be willing to shar...

Truth be told, your first year as a nurse is gonna suck wherever you spend it. Eventually things will click and you'll prove yourself. Don't give up.

Its worth mentioning that ASPAN publishes their recommendations for frequency of vitals, assessments, etc. Where I work, our policies often mention adhering to ASPAN standards and guidelines. As for patient assignments, I've heard some pretty wild me...

Hello my agency peeps. So recently I've been seriously entertaining the idea of agency nursing, but I'm slightly concerned about the availability of assignments. I'm a certified perianesthesia nurse working Pre-Op/PACU and would obviously like to sti...

“I’m gonna kill you” Is what he said just before grabbing Ashley Schade’s neck with both hands during her shift in a Washington ICU. She detailed the event in a social media post: “having a strong individual’s hands around your neck, the inability to...

So I've applied to a couple of schools here in Texas, mostly online, but I can't help but have this deep uneasy sensation in my gut. I work full time in ICU with a wife and a 3.5yo daughter at home and I'm worried I won't be able to handle work, scho...

You know, I can understand how an LVN that may have been practicing for 10+ years can get a little bent out of shape when a nurse fresh out of school with no prior medical experience technically "oversees" them. Not implying that's the case here, but...

Oh, the struggle is real isn't it? I've always told myself that I work to live, I don't live to work. With that guiding principle I've come to the conclusion that yes, nursing can be the hardest thing EVER at times, but you know what? I'm home more d...

I'm personally a big fan of the BVM either hovering over the patient's mouth or just barely touching when the nurse/doc/medic quickly gives breaths

Man, I love these! Can't believe I just found this thread. It's my first nursing job in med/surg, code blue a few doors down, not my patient but I run to help. CPR has started and the nurse doing compressions is this tiny little thing so I ask if she...

It seems to be a common theme that there's always at least one heinous professor that makes you question your entire existence in every nursing program, at least through my experience that is. What I can tell you for sure is that the first year out o...

Funny, I was just talking about this the other day. I'm married now, but back in the good ol days I actually found that being a male nurse did help in the dating game, but maybe not in the way some might think. I don't think there were any girls that...

O. M. G. Becky...

I was orienting a new nurse when she said the "Q" word, of course I quickly corrected her, but unfortunately the q-karma proliferated exponentially through the cosmos before it could be dispelled. One of our patients soon choked on a piece of fish he...

Is there any harm in applying anyways? Maybe even to both? You won't know for sure unless you give it a shot. Also, in my opinion, sticking it out and retaking stats and chem if needed is probably the best way to go. There's absolutely nothing wrong ...

I guess I'm just reaching into the dark here, not sure exactly what I'm looking for, but I'm thinking about going to grad school. The idea of going back for another 3 years makes me want to literally dive face first off a ledge into a pile of broken ...

I literally LOLd reading this. Good stuff. Real talk.

Well now, it's easy, you don't...

I have to agree with beekee. I felt like I learned more in the first 6 months of my nursing career than I did in two years of nursing school. It wasn't until a year after graduation that I had my first shift where everything that could go wrong did, ...

I see this type of behavior from new nurses all the time, and to be honest I don't believe it's because they are smarter, or have more skill than you, rather I believe it to be naive of inexperience. New nurses have this master plan in their heads; t...

Me: "Mr. Jones, your surgery is over. You're in the recovery-" Mr. Jones: "No Cody!" Me: "My name is Chris and I'm your-" Mr. Jones: "Behave, Cody!" Me: "I'm gonna move you a bit and look at your-" Mr. Jones: "Cody! You behave, Cody!" At bedside repo...

It sounds kinda silly, but I didn't choose... But then again I kinda chose not to, if that makes any sense. There's so many ways to go! When I graduated from nursing school i told myself to not get so blinded by what I thought I wanted to do that i m...

I became a nurse for a lot of reasons; the pay, the challenge, the rush. But it wasn't until I was already practicing when I discovered the real reason. I had a real sick dude that had emergency surgery, coded once, and spent a very long time in the ...

I felt SO stupid when I first graduated! To be honest, I was a nurse for a whole year before I had my first shift where I felt like I knew what I was doing when the s%#t was hitting the fan. I hated talking to doctors, because they always caught me o...

I've often wondered this myself. I read a statistic the other day, that if i remember right, said the largest portion of nurses leaving the field have less than 10 years experience, and it makes sense to me. A lot of young nurses graduate with big ex...