KarenMS

KarenMS has 7 years experience.

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1. RN's required to be sitters???

   KarenMS replied to anneRN96's topic in General Nursing

   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...

2. getting into icu

   KarenMS replied to nursingsprettycool17's topic in General Nursing

   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...

3. What does the floor really think of nursing students?

   KarenMS replied to superduper's topic in General Nursing

   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 ...

4. What does the floor really think of nursing students?

   KarenMS replied to superduper's topic in General Nursing

   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 r...

5. Why so long

   KarenMS replied to NurseHeatherBSNRN's topic in School

   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...

6. Effect of 12 Hour Shifts on Patient Care and the Nurse: A Need for Change.

   KarenMS replied to LindaGracie's topic in General Nursing

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

7. Why so long

   KarenMS replied to NurseHeatherBSNRN's topic in School

   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 happen...

8. Serial Killers Who are Nurses!

   KarenMS replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

   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!)

9. Effect of 12 Hour Shifts on Patient Care and the Nurse: A Need for Change.

   KarenMS replied to LindaGracie's topic in General Nursing

   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.

10. LPN Refused Assignment as a CNA

    KarenMS replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

    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 ?‍♀️

11. Is this really a cushy job?

    KarenMS replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

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

12. I Was Fired...for Being Abrasive and Having Attitude

    KarenMS replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

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

13. New grad nurse - how long did it take you to feel like you knew your job?

    KarenMS replied to The0Walrus's topic in General Nursing

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

14. Classism in the Hospital-MD vs. RN

    KarenMS replied to paramedic-RN's topic in General Nursing

    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 aroun...

15. Gave Tylenol to patient with elevated AST and ALT

    KarenMS replied to Imanurse123's topic in Medications

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