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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 happen...

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 aroun...

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

This isn’t a med error; there’s nothing to report. You did a good job critically thinking about the med vs patient condition and brought up a concern to the doc, who agreed with you and then discontinued the order. This patient more than likely even...

We have an IV med administration guide on our hospital intranet that addresses where in the hospital certain meds can be administered (only critical care areas, OR, etc), dosing, rates. It’s very helpful, but when things aren’t addressed, I am a heav...

Not judging the mistake, because they happen of course. Just curious how the little girl got more than 210 even if you hadn’t changed the dose. Wouldn’t you just have put 210ml in the bag if that was the intended flush? Edit: never mind, I’m thinkin...

There’s a terrible facility near me, and my hospital often gets patients from them in pretty rough shape. I don’t blame the nurses or aides; I’m pretty sure they’re doing the best with what they’re given to work with. To brand them “uncaring” without...

Hopefully once you’ve developed your nursing judgment a little more, you won’t melt down over something like a lapsed nystatin order. It’s sort of over the top to consider this failing your patient, and having that level of anxiety isn’t great for yo...

I followed my sick pregnant patient to L&D, witnessed her vaginal birth, and brought her back to ICU. Came back a couple of days later to read every doctor’s note referring to her C-section.

Starting IVs is a task; I have NO issue with CNAs being trained in that task. I’m an ICU RN and some of my IVs go bad fairly quickly ?‍♀️ Its the RNs job to assess them and that won’t change. Its really not that special of a skill that we have to ho...

Everyone made it seem like math was going to be impossible in nursing school, but it truly was no big deal. They’ll generally show you a few different ways of doing the calculations and you can figure out what works best for you. The best thing you c...

So, 1.) I don’t really believe this person got their BSN, worked as a med-surg nurse for 3 years plus home health and then graduated medical school by 26, despite the “graduated earlier” story. 2.) I’ve never seen any nurses be actually be mean to n...

Kind of lol-ing at the idea that anyone from the BON is trolling this site for untrustworthy new grads with anonymous user names ?