KarenMS

My FNP sister is married to an RN and I often wish my husband would go to nursing school as well. He’s a 41 year old carpenter so it’s probably not going to happen, but I know he’d be a good nurse. And it would be amazing to have someone at home who ...

Sorry, you’re kind of on the wrong side of this one. Not telling coworkers about other jobs isn’t being “secretive,” even if they have a friendly texting relationship. Just like it wouldn’t be secretive if they led their kids scout troop and never me...

I was very frustrated when we got our new oral care kits and procedure. In an effort to be sure q4 oral care was being done on vented patients, we are to set up a new kit at midnight, date it, and then use that kit for the next 24 hours. Fine. But if...

You are being insanely hard on yourself. Your story is no indication that you are unsafe as a floor nurse...you are NEW as a floor nurse. It’s literally impossible to be perfect 6 months (or any months) in. I was just included on an email detailing ...

I’ve asked a few times that my daughter stop being sent to the nurse for every single tiny bump but they still send her a few times a week and I get a call and a paper sent home to sign.

I’m part time, so I group my shifts together to 4 in a row as much as possible, then have 8-9 days off. When I get home after night 4/4, I sleep a few hours, kind of groggily get through the evening, then sleep a normal night. I might be slightly mor...

I hate being pushed into a bedside report at 7:15am when the patient finally finally finally fell asleep at 5:30am. Then they wake up. How is this healthy?

You must be joking. It’s entirely appropriate to be appalled at someone who claims they text and drive and that it’s really no big deal. If if you don’t actually text and drive, and it was really “hyperbole” then you need to learn how to convey that...

Our system frustrates me most when I give acetaminophen for fever, check the “not given for pain” box on scanning it, then still am required to chart a pain level one hour later. And there is no option for “not given for pain” on the reassessment, I ...

What does this have to do with free speech? You can still say the things you want to say, even if people decide they want to excuse themselves ahead of time.

I think it's appropriate to chart what you see, in this case drowsy, and then trend the findings. The patient is consistently drowsy at 3am? Makes sense, not a worry.

I'm a new grad in ICU (completed 12 weeks of orientation in May). I wonder about this myself. When I started, I was just one new grad. Then a lot of experienced nurses left for various reasons (CRNA school, moving, promotions) and suddenly, there are...

What do you mean it was impossible to measure?

Right? I'm not pregnant, but I did call my shift leader for help with transport the other night because the beds are really hard to steer alone!

I'm not even reading the comments before responding. I've been pregnant twice, my second child gestated in Zofran until delivery, and you know what? I felt disabled. I was nauseated all the time. My life couldn't stop though, I had to keep going to w...

It's not about older nurses in general. It's about older nurses who can't physically perform. That's not really hard to understand. An 86 year old took care of my daughter in NICU and she was awesome. I wouldn't expect anyone to try to push her out. ...

wtf even is this response?

Nursing hours are AWESOME for having small children!! I feel like a stay at home mom even on the weeks I work full time because I'm still home so often and get to take them to school and be present for things. And you don't work EVERY holiday. Most p...

What does this even mean? Also, you know a "pet peeve" doesn't have to be something serious, right?

I worked one 8 hour shift a week as a CNA at the hospital through school. (I also had another PRN job at another facility, but just saying it's possible to find a low commitment job)

Same pay? Absolutely would work as a CNA. I don't see the liability issues. Nurses respond to patients who aren't assigned to them all the time, I imagine it would be the same as if you were "playing cna" for the day. Respond as if you weren't their ...

Plus, not only was it free, I actually got paid to be there so that was a bonus

I think I got a lot more out of the ACLS class after orienting to the ICU. I could picture how things would happen and how I would fit into the team. I think everything would have been more abstract if I took it earlier and wouldn't have stuck.

I'm always so confused about these accusations of homework. I never had any homework like this through all of nursing school through my BSN. Do other schools really send students home with these scenarios to write essays on or something?

I expressed my concern with using the wrong descriptive words when I rounded with the wound team during orientation. They assured me I really can't go wrong just writing what I see, in any words I see fit.