owlhaveyouknow

owlhaveyouknow has 13 years experience and specializes in Emergency Nursing.

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1. What's your favorite nursing task?

   owlhaveyouknow replied to beekindRN's topic in General Nursing

   Accessing a port-a-acth is oddly satisfying to me. Especially when it's tricky and you get blood right

2. Real Talk- "Ideal" Nurse Personality?

   owlhaveyouknow replied to BSNbound21's topic in General Nursing

   Yep, you just described me to a T. It bears repeating that learning to let things roll off your back will really help you. Learn what requires action and what doesn't. Another piece of advice would be...

3. 2 year night shifter thinking about days need help!!

   owlhaveyouknow replied to Smartash89's topic in General Nursing

   Go for it! The other posters are right- usually if you want to go back to nights, they will gladly take you back and typically there are more staffing issues/needs at night so it's not usually a...

4. Emotional Detachment

   owlhaveyouknow replied to achristineg's topic in General Nursing

   Yep, sounds like emotional burn out to me. I worked in the ED about 10 years before I started feeling like this. I made a change to an ambulatory care setting and it was

5. Seasoned Nurses VS Newbie Nurses

   owlhaveyouknow replied to Alexx_xox's topic in General Nursing

   As someone who has seen both sides of the coin, here's my little bit of advice: Follow the golden rule before anything else: Keep them breathing, keep them safe. If your preceptor does something that...

6. From er nursing to endo

   owlhaveyouknow replied to Ryan RN's topic in Gastroenterology

   You sound just like me! I worked in the ER for many years before transferring to in hospital endoscopy. It's a small department and typically one where someone has to retire or die for a position to...

7. Highest temp

   owlhaveyouknow replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

   Highest was 106.7 on a one week post surgical patient with sepsis. Developed DIC and died. Lowest I've seen was 86 on a patient would got drunk and fell into a creek and stayed there for few

8. Migraines and nursing?

   owlhaveyouknow replied to MeganStar's topic in Nurse Disabilities

   Have you determined what any of your triggers are? I began having migraines when I was in college. I slowly whittled the list of possible triggers down and have realized that my migraines are almost...

9. Why don't you just read the chart?

   owlhaveyouknow replied to Guest219794's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   As an ER nurse, I'll put my two cents in. I don't mind calling report a bit. I work in a hospital that has an EHR that is available no matter what unit you are in. With this said, I still don't mind...