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you are right. I will ask to not to placed with that case again. Thank you all for the advice.

I mean talking smack about a patient (literally hear that from ER nurses everyday) behind their backs is unethical but you don't see them getting in trouble with the BON. Would be unethical if I quit my case with this current patient if I were to pursue relations with their mother? Or still?

Interesting rule. But I would never risk my career dating a patient; I figured a patient's mother would be a different scenario LOL. And since I work PRN ( will probably be leaving to a different company next month anyways), I'm not even working full time with the patient since I have other patient's I visit for home health.

I could see how it can be argued that it is unethical but why would I get in trouble with the BON? I am not messing around on my home health job; strictly focusing on my patient. Would it be against the rules if the mom were to ask me on a date and I agree (outside of working hours)? I looked up moral turpitude and it seems so broad. Murder, lying, theft, etc.

Started working home health recently and I don't know if it's illegal to date your patient's parents. Obviously, if we were to date or have any relations, it would be outside of working hours when I am not on duty. I feel like their mother is coming onto me and I was just curious about the situation. I work part time PRN at home health so I don't care if I lose my job/get fired; I just don't want my license to be affected.

how are your reports do you think? I try to make mine pretty simple and to the point by going down body system by body system. As a night shifter, I will update them of any overnight events as well as any morning procedures scheduled. like others have said, there are two types of nurses: those that only want critical information ( my fav because the reports only last 30 seconds LOL) & those who want every tiny detail like what horoscope sign is the patient.............you also have to keep in mind that some nurses probably have had the patient before so they may know alot already so maybe thats why they seem disintersted (still no excuse). Either way, just tell your report and go. It's their fault

eh in the ICU, there is no such thing as having too much IVs especially when we have like 3-4 different IV antibiotics ordered with other stuff as well. A sedated patient maxed out on profofol probably won't even feel a pinch but 7 tries cmon thats still too much and overboard.

aint no one giving PRN miralax cus aint no one wanna clean up doodoo LOL!

I just wear an n95 respirator if I'm going inside their rooms to fix a beeping IV alarm or something minor like that. I don't see the point in wasting supplies if imma be in the room for <2 minutes & not touching the patient. I don't think anyone actually does handwashing at my hospital tbh unless we did something dirty like change soiled bedsheets. It's also very common to take off our masks in the nursing station if were drinking water or having a tiny snack. I guess we can break "some " rules as night shifters LOL

way more guy nurses in the ICU/ER than medsurge, L&D(duh), OR and cath lab, at least in my facility. I think my ICU is like 70% dudes

When I first started in the ICU, I was pretty bad at IVs so common advice I got from other nurses was to try on sedated, vented patients LOL. So I can see why the nurse asked you guys to try. But if your school stricly allows no IV insertion, just don't risk it. It's not worth having a meeting with the dean and being risked kicked out of your program for it. You will have plenty of practice when you get your first job don't worry. But why is this a rule for 1st semester nursing students only? Or for your entire program? Seems like a dumb rule but whatever

It’s definitely about the money. She works for a crises agency so it’s probably why she’s making 10k biweekly...yes 10K. That is just a huge amount of money to pass up LOL. I don’t care if it’s hard or stressful tbh it’s worth the $$ LOL. I just wanted to know if it’s unsafe for someone with no nursing home /psych experience to work there in those respective fields. I don’t know if it helps but I’m a male in my 20s (for psych purposes IDK LOL).

One of my old buddies from high school just got her LVN and told me she got hired by some travel agency to work at nursing homes & other psych places. The interesting part is that she is nearly making 3x as much as me as a new graduate LVN......and I am an RN/BSN with almost 2 years of experience. I currently have been working in the ICU for about 5-6 months now (1 year in pediatric home health) but my friend told me she would find me a job with her agency. I obviously would not want to be working in the ICU as a travel nurse since I feel like I need more experience but lower acuity places like nursing homes & psych wards seems like something I can handle. Basically, if a nurse works in the ICU, can they handle nursing homes/psych wards?

describe a time where you had a conflict with a co-worker and how did you find a solution, describe a time where a patient didn't have an expected outcome and what did you do, tell me about your self, etc, why are you interested in our unit..........I think those took up the most time. I think they also asked "what would you do if there was a patient coming into the ED with a heart attack"

I am having a hard time finding anything online about Fall cohorts. I've already tried looking at St Davids, Seton and BSW (BSW closest location was at Temple for me). The St. David's page says they have an October cohort but I haven't seen anything posted as of yet. Do you guys think Covid is affecting that or something?