KarenMS

One shift as a sitter, which is most definitely in our scope? Absolutely. Last fall I had to do ER transport for 12 hours overnight because they were short RNs, so they couldn’t leave to transport critical patients. I was the best paid transporter on that night ?

Just apply. As long as you have a license, then you’re “eligible.” It all depends on who’s hiring. The manager who hired me liked hiring new grads into ICU, because she had been one herself. You could run into a manger who doesn’t like to do that and chooses someone else, but that comes down to specific individuals. Same for if this is experience you already have; you could end up interviewing with someone looking for very specific background or they’re looking for a new grad, or whatever.

To the phone point: I graduated in 2017, and it was made very clear to us that we *had* to have a phone or other handheld device with us at clinical, with the app they gave us (I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called!) to look up meds and procedures. I’d much rather students look stuff up on their phone than monopolize one of the precious computers that were already fighting specialists, PT, speech, and social work for.

I always thought I would hate having students, but now that I’ve had a few, I either love it or just don’t mind. The couple I’ve loved have been an extra set of hands and I just explain stuff as I’m doing it. The ones who I just didn’t mind, didn’t really seem too interested in doing anything, but I really couldn’t care less about that. It’s their education and if they disappear, well, whatever.

Does everyone else have a couple people on stand by who are available at the drop of a hat every single day and could be at the school in 20 minutes? How does that work? Do people without family pay someone to be on call everyday just in case? I have lots of people to call who would be happy to go pick up my kids, but they have lives too and may take an hour...

I would absolutely not do that. “Sorry, can’t, good night!”

It hasn’t happened to me yet, but I’m not sure what I’ll do if one of my daughters gets sick on a day I’m at work at the hospital, her dad is working in another state, and my in laws (sitters) are out of town. Luckily that perfect storm hasn’t happened yet, and I’ve been home and readily available for pickup the couple of times I’ve had to. I have a lot of people I can call on to go get the girls, but they might not be able to do it *right that second* and my daughter may end up waiting a bit.

That’s soo crazy to me as I spend all my time desperately keeping my patients from coding (yes, I’m an ICU nurse who hates codes!)

I find most of us just get used to 12s, and it stops feeling like an excessively long shift. I’d much rather have the extra days off than feel like I’m going in to work most of the week.

I’m an RN and got pulled to do transport for the ER one night. Not exactly what I wanted to do all night, but I took the low stress, low responsibility of being a very well paid transporter for what it was. It was just one shift ?‍♀️

If I were happy with my salary and not stressed out, I would just stay where I was while I finished school.

I don't know why people think "not having a filter" is a good qualit

I’m coming up on 2 years on my unit and starting now to not feel “new.”

We call all the residents by their first names, and the nurses who have been around a while call the attendings by their first names too. I haven’t reached that level of comfort yet with the attendings, but also some of the nurses may have been around when the attendings were residents, and that’s the only way they’ve ever related.

That was my thought, but if the docs D/C’d it they must have thought her reasoning was sound enough.