Ambiguphobia

Ambiguphobia specializes in Emergency.

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1. Are Big City Hospitals Really Getting Hit With COVID-19 Pts?

   Ambiguphobia replied to EPS's topic in COVID

   NYC ER RN. We opened up 6 more ICUs, closed down psych, peds, surgical services and converted those to med/surg. Several nights ago, I was on my own with 6 ICU patients who were all unstable, vented, and on multiple drips that we are short on so the...

2. NYC Emergency Rooms

   Ambiguphobia replied to Doglover109's topic in Emergency

   Gotta agree here. I find it hilarious when people whine about having 6 patients. NYC RN with an average load of 1:20 on just my last shift. Have gone up to 30s with several critical patients in hallways and chairs, no monitors, lack of life saving me...

3. Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

   Ambiguphobia replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

   Had a young adult call for EMS to pick them up because they choked while drinking water, with no continued ill effects afterward. During ED course, continued to ask me for water and food. Ridiculous.

4. Inappropriate nurses?

   Ambiguphobia replied to hgraves64's topic in Relations

   This has got to be a joke. You were inappropriate by escalating it. You know how when people tell their side of a conversation - they'll downplay how they were and they'll demonize the person. The actual conversation was probably even more benign tha...

5. New ER RN- Normal to feel this way?

   Ambiguphobia replied to nursebabyxoxo's topic in Emergency

   I'm just browsing through the comments and lamenting over how nice the ratios are outside of NYC. My last shift, I started with 18 patients to myself, all level 3s and up. 4s and 5s are sent to fast track/smart rooms with NPs and PAs. This is totall...

6. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

   Ambiguphobia replied to workingot's topic in Career Support

   Yeah, I was born and raised in NYC, never left. I guess I'm used to working with the incredible costs here and getting by more easily than a transplant would. While I can live decently on my own salary, I have to say that my husband makes more than d...

7. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

   Ambiguphobia replied to workingot's topic in Career Support

   No OT required in NYC private hospitals. I'm making >100k/year as a staff ED nurse. 36 hour weeks. This is due to night differential and CEN differential. Decently high COL though, but my family is living very comfortably.

8. City tech nursing 2017?

   Ambiguphobia replied to Emilyyash's topic in New York

   They don't care about how high the Teas score is; the only factor is whether or not you passed their minimum required score. Your GPA is barely competitive. My group in spring of 2013 stopped accepting at 3.76. but remember, it's only the GPA for th...

9. Boldness to Speak

   Ambiguphobia replied to Parakeet's topic in Spirituality

   Still waiting on the OP to reply that this was a joke post.

10. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    Ambiguphobia replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    "I'm allergic to morphine. And tramadol. And percocet. And vicodin. What's that medication for pain that starts with a 'D?' It goes through the IV, I think. I think it's pronounced, 'dinodood.' Right? Oh yeah, dilaudid. That's it." "WHAT? The doctor ...

11. Article NY Times! Spot on...I think so!!

    Ambiguphobia replied to NurseLRW's topic in Activism

    Unfortunately, there's a lot of backtracking and repetition. There are care plans to write, as well as ticking off boxes to show performance of an assessment on the patient. Down the list for the assessment, we often run into the same exact question ...

12. Patient Nurse Ratio

    Ambiguphobia replied to ambobam's topic in General Nursing

    Working at a 1:8 patient load here. It becomes pretty hectic because we get a lot of transfers/discharges/admits during the overnight shifts. So a 1:8 patient load can quickly double, and this is in a hospital. Oh boy, the charting when this happens....

13. hiring older nurses

    Ambiguphobia replied to KThurmond's topic in General Nursing

    My program had a lot of older students (30+ age group). They graduated, and are having trouble finding jobs. Then again, our market is the most highly saturated other than California. I haven't noticed a single person over 35 working in a hospital ba...

14. Still unemployed; Why am I not getting calls for interviews?

    Ambiguphobia replied to 2016New's topic in Job Hunt

    I live 1 hour away from the hospital that I work for right now. A few of my classmates have to travel 1.5 hours to get to work at non-hospital jobs. Applying for 20+ jobs is nothing, my fellow classmates and I applied for several hundred. Do not be p...

15. ADN nurses NYC

    Ambiguphobia replied to ChrisB718's topic in New York

    I got a job with a fresh new grad with just my ADN this year. I was accepted at NYMH. I speak several foreign languages (self taught, there is a competency exam you need to take to verify), got my advanced certs (ACLS, PALS, NRP, etc.), and enrolled ...