TeflonNurse

I left for Poison Control and I love it! Find your local center's website and look into it. I'll never go back to the floor.

RIGHT ON! Agree with you 100% don't listen to any idiots who tell you bedside is the only "one true form of nursing". Self care is far more paramount than anything else. You can't help others if you are personally suffering. I'm actually ticked ...

Some are ready some aren't. I went straight into ICU as a new grad and did fine. It was other things that got me burned out and lead to my leaving (I had already been a CNA for several years prior and during nsg school, also lateral violence, pressur...

When I got completely burnt out after years as a CNA then as an RN I went PRN and was seriously looking for something either outside of nursing or super chill and away from people like a job with animals, etc. What ended up happening was I stumbled o...

Not me but my friend had booked a trip to Hong Kong or Tokyo or somewhere similar a year in advance and when the time came for the trip we had a staff meeting scheduled during the time she was away. Our Nurse Manager tried to write her up for not be...

This is almost my exact story! Except i graduated last year. Best graduation present ever!!!

Im feeling two emotions right now : I'm absolutely enraged at how the OP was treated (assuming her side of the story is 100% how it happened) and I'm honestly flabbergasted at the gall of all the self righteous folks swaggering into this thread to p...

"Wow... It's like standing inside a Rorschach inkblot test." *World famous art critic happens to be strolling by* "The colors, the shapes, the intricate fluidity of the medium as it slides down the wall...THIS IS ART! "

You know I realized this when I was going through orientation (only a few months ago.) In school they make a big stink about "never tell the pt this is your first time doing anything!" This all goes out the window when you walk into the room with you...

Won't quote the whole thing for space but: I 'Liked' this comment so hard I almost broke my touch screen. What you said.... ALL of it!

maybe he said he just wanted to give the baby a tour of the hallway or get an early start on drivers ed but when he didn't come back within minutes the mom panicked....I mean I don't know that's all I got.

*Everyday (thanks for messing that up autocorrect) I mean, that's it right? No mistakes, no foul ups, customer knows best, CYA x1000, smile (always smile, even though you feel like crying), *sigh* I promise I'm not always this cynical but these new...

From what I've seen and heard yes its normal and yes it sounds crazy to me to! It seems to be purely based on which piece of paper you came out of school with. Where I worked (unless a rare agency RN came in) the only RNs I saw were in Admin. LPNs...

I'm sorry but I don't understand what you mean about not being comfortable with giving BP/heart meds without vitals.It appears to be my post that you are quoting and I said that that was one of the few situations where we DID get BP. So we are in ag...

You are not alone in feeling this way. I too have to have hands-on experience to truly 'get' things. Oddly enough it's not the hands-on stuff holding me back and causing problems right now, it's the stupid freaking computer system we use. There are s...

As someone who has worked in a nursing home (NEVER AGAIN!!!), I agree with the above poster. During my years as an aide there I worked nights and we only got BPs or temps when they were acutely ill, were taking a BP med, or when they were on comfort ...

Exactly! The same folks who are in here nonchalantly saying " its easy to be a CNA! All they do is wipe butts and change beds!" are probably the same folks who will accidently spill a puddle of tube feed or leak blood in the bed, cover it up, and le...

You lucky dog! i was so looking forward to working in ICU and having set visiting hours with only 2 visitors allowed at a time. Of course I managed to get hired into an icu that doesn't believe in visiting hours. It actually hasn't been that bad ex...

Depending on the type of unit you end up working on you may or may not benefit much from previous aide skills. I will say that working in ICU, I use my old CNA skills daily. The nurses and aides always team up to turn, clean, bathe, or move the p...

In this job market I'm thinking everybody whether ADN or BSN could use any kind of leg-up they can get. :) Every hospital I've encountered wants CNAs with 1-2 years experience before they'll hire you. Usually that experience comes from LTCs, nurs...

I read the title as 'Impatient Carb Counting' and wondered why they were in such a hurry. To answer your question: At one hospital I worked at the pts ordered food from a menu by phone whenever they wanted (while the kitchen was open. ) The menu li...

So glad to hear (see) you say this! I just graduated from a community college and I don't have any loans. Was so happy and proud to get that 1st paycheck. I worked the entire time I was in Nsg school and although it was difficult at least I never h...

Ah yes, two days after passing the NCLEX I found myself kneeling on the bathroom floor staring at a spot on my grandmother's butt where she'd had a mole removed recently. All the while she kept turning around and asking me "Does it look like it's h...

I've seen a nurse use a small tegaderm over a cut. Getting cuts sucks. This happened to me just the other night, I'll try something like the derma bond next time.

Lol. That sounds like my old hospital and the new system I work for now . At the old one they put up pics of certain employees' giant smiling faces on the elevators throughout the hospital. My new hospital has pics of real employees everywhere and ...