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I'm revisting this topic..as it is now several months later and I am still on same PCU-tele floor, unsure of what to do... I recently got an interview for a CCU day shift position, and I am very nervous. I am unsure if I am ready to make the jump, bu...

Hello all, I've been working on a PCU-tele floor for the past 8-9 months and it has been a very challenging and rewarding experience. I'm an impatient woman, so I can't help but look ahead at what I want to go for next. While I'm learning a lot and s...

@sauce, NP-good points, lmao at your delivery.

@llg- What else can you do as a floor nurse besides education? You have a valid point. I've found many times the pt knows more than I do regarding how to control their blood sugars. So to lecture them on things they already know seems kind of pointle...

I'm still a pretty new nurse, in that I started my first hospital job a few months ago after working in a nursing home for about a year. I'm proud that I was able to get off orientation on a busy tele floor, but like every newish nurse I'm always fee...

thanks for your responses...it's been such a mixed bag so far. Nights that really stress me out and i feel like crying, but then I learn something new and it gets better even if just a little bit. I used to be so anxious when I first started and I st...

How common is it for cell phones to be assigned to nurses in other hospitals? They drive me crazy! Throughout the shift is filled with constant interruptions. I understand how useful they are with calling docs and other departments. And I work on a ...

The title sounds like something I would write! How comforting to know nursing is full of introverts. It often doesn't feel that way at work. I always feel like the oddball. I'm an introvert and it's been a struggle to force myself to connect with peo...

different sounds for certain types of calls is an interesting idea. I'd like to have it just vibrate if its a call light, and have a certain tone for a critical lab, and maybe a tone and text message for things like escort. I think anything to lessen...

so it is fairly common huh...I wonder what nursing was like before all this. It's just one more aspect that really leaves me drained a the end of day. I'm new too so it adds to my panicked feeling haha. Personal cell phones? I don't have any issue wi...

was not a fan of 8 hour nights FT...12 hour shifts are exhausting and the whole day is commute, work, eat, sleep...but I'm loving all the days off in between...!

This is a really touchy subject. As someone who is partially of that background, I can see where you're coming from having experienced it not just in the work place but just in general...I've learned to be very cautious, distant...but friendly enough...

I'm 10 months into my first nursing job (subacute rehab in a nursing home) and am nearing my limit of patience!! I've been aggressively applying starting at 6 months, but with no luck so far other than a couple of failed interviews. What makes thing...

Does anyone recommend taking ACLS in the meantime? I've been going back and forth trying to decide if it's worth it to spend the money on and sacrifice my sleep for. I would like to learn it regardless I'm just not sure of the timing, as I hear it's ...

if they could hire medication aids to hand out the pills, then that would help a lot. They would still need a nurse on shift to be able to recognize when someone needs to get sent out and take care of any changes in status, the multiple gtubes, ivs a...

sorry for the misunderstanding. I mainly work the subacute rehab floor (17 patients) but bc there isn't enough permanent people for the ltc floor, we've been forced to rotate floating there (50+). It's just way too much to do there for one person in ...

thanks for the suggestion.I'm going to try to do that. Our scheduling coordinator is infamous not approving time off requests which contributes to the call outs, but it's worth a try.

wow, thanks for your input! I wasn't quite sure how to market myself and the examples you gave are really helpful. I didn't think that employers would perceive that I'm a quitter--that's an interesting point. I didn't think about that and personally ...

this is horrifying that she would follow such advice and got away with it.

This is something I'm struggling with right now. After listening to patients vent their anger, listening to administrators/supervisor get angry at me for not doing this and that, after listening to coworkers complain, complain, complain about so and ...

I'm also on the boat that doesn't see what there is to like about working in LTC if the standard is high patient-nurse ratios and generally poor working conditions. I recently was scheduled to work the night shift LTC unit with 50-60 patients and wit...

I really wish we had more IV training in my BSN program in NYC. We learned how to hang IVs and count drip rates, pick the tubing, etc. But we did not learn IV starts or phlebotomy, which would have been nice to learn at least on a practice arm. It wo...

It could be you hate nursing, it could be you hate your specialty. You could stay and switch and see if you like something else. There are a lot of avenues. You could try research nursing? That sounds like it might be more up your alley, although it ...

A little bit of a tangent, but it must be incredibly confusing to be a patient with no medical background or association with someone from the field. So many titles!! MDs, PAs, NPs, MAs, RNs, LPNs, CNAs...PAs and NPs are similar to each other and to...

I'm curious- how do you feel about coworkers who refuse to work any overtime? I don't like working overtime--at all. I don't mind the holidays, don't mind every other weekend because I know it comes with the territory, but ask me to work an extra shi...