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I have never had C-diff and been in ICU three times where they tested me upon admission and on my way to the floor and was always negative. I took care of a TB patient for days before they told us he had it and working in the emergency room I am sure I have been exposed to things not yet named. I use the universal precautions we all know and I am not a big antibacterial hand sanitizer user I do take my shoes off before going in my house and strip my clothes before hugging anyone and in almost 29 years no one in my family nor I have been ill from something I gave them, except maybe the flu so just be smart. Good luck!

Well I guess floor nurses think down in the ER we have ideal ratios and we have the time to read it for you. So the fact we have to do the H, &P and the IV line run labs and charted it all. Oh yeah we also have 4 to 6 other patients we are taking care of that we are figuring out what is wrong. The infarct needing a cath being externally paced patient can wait for the dopamine ordered his pressure is only 60/20 it can wait as well as the level one trauma patient flown in after being cut out of her car that needs intubated and lines a Foley an NG tube and contrast for the scan to look for any bleeding she is good to wait too so I can look up the patients IV size and placement and the times meds were given so in the event you need to give blood which will take at least an hour to be ready you won't have to put another line in. Oh yeah the puking abdominal pain patient can either lay on the dirty cot it is fine no worries. Is there more of your job I can do so the 6 patients you have are all cared for tucked in snug cause my 5 patients with new orders can wait as long as you need to prepare the room for the admit. ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? Be happy you get what you get!! We are swamped down in the war zone and don't have the luxury of time as it may kill someone. Floor nurses do have a lot to do but we do too and our unit isn't a same type of patient unit we have no diagnosis on anyone when we see them. We have to put all the information in the computer and start all their care. So thanks for calling me an hour after the bed was assigned he is ready to come to the floor now and will be up in a few.

In the ER being thanked or told you are a good nurse is rare I guess due to the nature of the unit. Treat them and Street them is our motto. I however have had patients and their families come to me out in the public and tell me thank you and what a good nurse I am. That is awesome it has made me know on the worst shift I do make a difference and do my job I don't need to hear it.

Well stethoscopes are all different and maybe they have one that is stronger and easier to hear. So I got a recording of the sounds and just listened over and over til I got it. Good luck?

Sry it wasn't on purpose I didn't realize I will be more careful thx for letting me know

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I agree there r a lot of uncaring judgemental people who eat their young on here and just rip people up. So when they say if u don't want opinions don't ask I say they want help now the gun to end it! They r the ones that ***** about staffing numbers yet treat new nurses like an antelope and they r lions, seriously it makes me so mad how negative they can be so I say keep ur knives in the sheath and shut it darn mouths just read ur advanced nursing questions and keep ur words to yourself! For the love of God if is no wonder we r in such a crisis in nurses graduating.

I know I had to have it done I am much more sympathetic to patients now

We never use pumps in the ER where I work and over the years I have gotten good at eye balling it and nothing has ever happened now if we had to wait to run things on pumps that u can never find it would be disastrous. Plz don't freak out and try to bust nurses who have worked for years on the nursing theory u have learned in school it never goes well so until u work in real world nursing I would bite my tongue

Curious what did u find that worked for u?

It was at the time harder than anything I had ever done in my life! Now I was a single mom with 4 year old twin daughters working full time in a head injury ventilator unit. There were at least a million times I wanted to quit and had to tell myself it was gonna be worth it when I was done, I hoped. Looking back it doesn't seem that bad so either I have that amnesia like u get after the labor is over pain gone baby in ur arms or God keeps giving me harder and harder challenges in my life making nursing school easier than some things now. It is almost 15 years now looking back I would do it all over especially if I were young like u and didn't have all I did heck it would have been a breeze. U will make it we all did, Good luck!

I was in a Level 1 trauma, in a Level 2 facility, when this completely arrogant SOB pulmonologist and I got into a screaming match over something I don't remember what but I do know I questioned something he told me to do anyway he flipped and threw an IV pole at me. When it was done I politely in a loud voice told him he would be walking with a pole up his butt, cleaned it up as actual words were not PG lol, I somehow became his favorite nurse and he would only talk to me to give orders. I still laugh.

Holy crap how u didn't pick that chart up and smash it over his head that is crazy!

Lord some harsh comments people some of us r not from this computer/app generation and don't understand it but these days there is an app for everything and the younger generation uses them all! I don't know of any but good luck finding ur answers! Sry u got attacked. God bless!

My daughters, now 20, said the pledge until the 5th grade then it was banned and illegal or unconstitutional until this school year when schools just started saying it again so my son now 11, had to learn it. So when the big campaign to return it and God back a lot of schools banned together and just started the practice, no one has tried to stop it and the local news began saying the pledge every morning too.

I don't understand why nurses who complain continually about ratios and shortages want to be nasty butt heads to anyone much less a new grad! They were once new first off and that person is one less shift that needs covered. I make it a point to be nice and helpful to new people so they will stay! I am sry for all you have been dealing with it is uncalled for as well crazy, I hope u find justice and peace for a long rewarding career.

I have broken many doctors over the years of their rudeness by calling them for every fart sideways being the good nurse until they get the hint. The lesson a nurse can be ur best friend or worst enemy so play nice doc!

Oh I wear whatever I always have no one has ever said a word to me, maybe that's why I didn't know what a paraben was!? Lol!

We r human stop beating yourself up u were trying to just get what u had to to ensure she was stable in an ICU setting and had to prioritize. U also weren't the first person to have taken care of her. Let me tell u my daughters were being abused by my babysitters kids and I missed all the signs, well I blew them off as other reasons, for almost a year. God bless u for what u do!

I sympathize with you and found myself in a situation where no one said a word to me and I couldn't see what I was doing I just knew something was wrong and had been for a while and I kept spiraling until I was so sick I almost died. I wish someone had said something instead of talking behind my back and saying I was crazy or on drugs. Lupus almost killed me and my co-workers watched it. Good luck. Remember if you do have something wrong it is OK just get it treated and go on you are a good nurse don't be afraid to have an illness even if it is a mental/psych issue you know it is no different than a cardiac problem so get treated and go back to being a nurse.

I have Lupus and you are awesome

I have to say this I recently tried to go to home health and it has been a nightmare for me! I wish I could be more encouraging to you but after 2 years with 2 different companies that just made me wanna quit nursing, they told me Friday I take to much initiative to get the job done, I don't even know how to take that? So I am going to a different area. Good luck!

You know when I started in the nursing field we didn't even have gloves! We ate and drank right on the unit and no one thought a thing of it so now having been exposed to things with no name yet and nothing so far including MRSA or TB which while pregnant I got to care for a patient with an untreatable case and the doctors didn't feel that was important enough to put on his chart, so I drink when I am thirsty if they wanna fire me then OK.

This guy is a big jerk fave and if he would like to share a shift even at his pay rate which none of see and none of us do the job for the money then I welcome him to put on a pair of scrubs and disimpact a opioid using teen with me he can hold the KY.

Well I gotta say as an ER nurse and also chronic illness that is very painful at times I am so mad we have gotten to this point where Narcan is basically everywhere now, when I started nursing we never had to give it and now this epidemic has people having a kit like epi! So the people who r in chronic pain and need these meds we need to make sure they have them, pain is subjective and u can not say just suck it up we r all not the same I can't handle pain at times it incapacitates me and maybe u would be fine no one knows so it is our job to be advocates for the patient not their enemy