CaitlynRNBSN

It is always my pet peeve when nurses get on my case for about what I did on MY shift. I worked a night shift, and I had an Open heart patient that had some cognitive delays. He was VERY VERY difficult to deal with. He would not allow you to touch h...

Hm, I live very close to tornado ally...and last year we had a small F1 tornado right around shift change, before I was going in for anight shift. Warnings were out, clearly I was going to be late...as is everyone else. Anyway, we have a plan for thi...

YES!!! I get calls CONSTANTLY from techs. (I.e. lab techs, ultrasound, MRI, XRay). they call me and will be like "Did Dr.X really want this PTT at 6:00? YES!!!!! if he didn't want it, he wouldn't order it. I get so so so so annoyed with techs from pl...

Another reason I hate nursing: Situations similar to this. (Don't know who to push a new policy on?? Just give it to the nurses. They can do it) I once got a "talking to" because I had infection control call me to tell me that the wrong isolation or...

Don't you just wish we could yell at them back and tell them how ridiculous they are being?? I can't stand when they claim they are "too sick" to do anything. Like onetime I had a surgical patient get mad and turn me in because I made him wash his ...

We have an IV team. it is wonderful!! They get alerts if a patient's IV is needing to be changed. We page them when we need them. They are available 24/7. They start the IV, they can do PICC insertion as well (if able). They do the dressing changes ...

1. Wisconsin 2. 2 years 3. Med/Surg-Telemetry 4. $26.41 (for a day shift. I work mainly nights. ocassionally days to keep up practice) 5. $3.00 more for nights. $4.00 more for weekends. (yes! $7.00 more if weekend nights. Which is why I like to do we...

that is nursing for you and it is only going to get worse. Our hospital is actually talking about getting rid of CNAs because "nurses can do it." think about it....If our hospital does without CNAs i will be leaving. I doubt i'd even give 2 weeks not...

I had one patient this past weekend that I truly cared taking care of. He was probably 1 in a million. I true train wreck on the phone, but when I got him, he looked healthier than me. Very very sick...he just didn't look the part, never complained, ...

You did what was ordered. Nobody could have for seen that coming.

"Decaying stench?" If this ICU had a GI Bleed patient (which more than likely it did) unfortunately there is no way to control that odor. a GI bleed STINKS to high heavens. I work on a CV-Surgery/Telemetry floor, which is down the hall from our ICU. ...

Song that reminds me of nursing??? hmmm....How about "This is the song that never ends" except, change up the lyrics and it will be "This is the job that never ends"

It's not only the patient's and families that are so ungrateful, it is the management and the "high ups." you know...the one's that sit in their office twiddling their thumbs while reading patient satisfactory scores on noise at night and response to...

I just prefer if people don't tell me. it's none of my business...if there is an issue the manager can talk with them. I once had someone call in and tell me they "have the runs" then she got all descriptive. Yea, even though im a nurse I prefer not ...

It's best to just say you want to leave when you are 2 weeks into it rather than a couple months into it. They haven't invested THAT much time/money into you after 2 weeks. a lot less than they would after a couple months. I don't think this new L&a...

If they are allowed to intubate than they are NOT a "DNI" status. That DNI stands for "Do Not Intubate" so basically you are saying in an emergency the child is DNI but allowed to intubate and family will decide later?? That isn't a DNI status. Eithe...

We had a nurse once who had a birth mark on her face. She is a great nurse with an awesome personality. One of those nurses, if you were in a code you would want her there!!! But her birth mark was a little distracting until you got to know her, it j...

MRT yes. Code? No.. I guess im confused what you mean by "complete" DNR. Because in my experience there is no "half DNR". you are either DNR or you are not, there is no in between. But to answer your question...Yes, you could call an MRT. A DNR is di...

I got yelled at once by a doctor I kept calling to come look at a patient whose mental status was rapidly changing. "He could just be a sundowner" was his response. The guy is 38 years old, he isn't a sun downer. I couldn't put my finger on it, he wa...

Yes, but good luck to them looking it up without knowing my last name. Our hospital does not make us put our last name on our badge. It is only our first name.

Nursing in general is a dead end job.

Why does this have to be generalized into "new nurses" im a new nurse (on year 2) and I feel slightly offended by this. This post might turn into another one of those new nurses vs veteran nurses...so, way to go!

besides...writing stuff on a notepad cannot be used against you. Like lets say something were to go to court and they claim they have this "notepad of notes against you" they could have written that AFTER the event or the patient's hospitalization in...

I'm such a smart *butt* I squirm my way out of it. They will be like "and what did you say your name was?" i'll be like "Caitlyn" then they ask my last name and i just laugh and say "Oh, you'll never be able to spell it. Just call me Caitlyn" Then i ...

a vein is a vein is a vein. Maybe not IDEAL spot for an IV, but it's a spot..and its a vein, and you got medications in it you needed. You were doing the best you could given the situation. It's better than the patient NOT getting his IV. What if thi...