Serhilda ADN, RN

Cardiac Telemetry, ICU

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    Patient going to complain against me?

    Yeah I absolutely couldn't care less when patients threaten to make complaints. Roll your eyes at this idiocy and move on. You should be angry at them for their disrespect, not the other way around.
  2. When the doc sees the patient and tells them they're going to be discharged today, they're no longer NPO, etc... But haven't and won't put orders in for hours.
  3. Interesting. Any other race would be urged to file a complaint of racial discrimination and decry racism in this situation. But instead, you're expected to walk on eggshells in various ways or leave. The choice is yours. Personally, I've dealt with p...
  4. Absolutely NOT. The recidivism rate is extremely high for pedophiles and a profession such as nursing wouldn't be tolerant of that.
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    Med error..... Could I lose my license?

    Just move on. I know some Florence Nightingales will roll in to encourage you to snitch on yourself, but literally, nothing good will come of it. It'll only make you look suspicious that you waited two weeks to come forward.
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    Frequent Flyers

    I was a "frequent flyer" in elementary school and there was certainly more going on. I went without help for years because of nurses with this attitude. Sometimes these kids have absolutely no idea how to ask for help, no matter what the issue is. So...
  7. Doesn't really take a seasoned nurse to answer this honestly, but most nurses I've known have gotten their BSN ASAP after graduating and that's with full time work and full time school. If you have any doubts about your time management between school...
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    New Graduate starting in SICU

    I don't think they're going to have higher expectations just because you were a tech in another SICU. Being a nurse and being a nursing assistant are very, very different and they'll understand that. You have a nice plan so far with learning mor...
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    More critical thinking & knowledge: ER vs ICU?

    I've worked both (though my time in the ER was significantly less than ICU) and I'd have to go with ICU. There are so many patients that just don't need to be in the ER that half the time, I wasn't learning much. I've gotten to use much more of my kn...
  10. Reusing N95's is unfortunately still occurring around the country although from what I've heard, using them for multiple weeks at a time is less common now. I haven't heard of units staffing tele floors quite that poorly but likely, California (like ...
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    ICU Residency ; How I got let go.

    Telling someone they shouldn't have even bothered to become a nurse is grossly inappropriate. I'm sorry that happened. A lot of times, the unit's culture can be a big influencing factor on a person's success during orientation. It drives the expectat...
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    allnurses has Become so Politicized

    I'm sure we've all heard this before, but why not go ahead and define power in this sense. Who and what does it look like, specifically, and how is this something exclusive for white people?
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    allnurses has Become so Politicized

    Shove it all in the breakroom, problem solved. When leftist opinions aren't allowed to be front and center in any aspect of life though, outcry ensues. Mind you, I'm saying this as someone who typically votes democrat but I can't help acknowledging t...
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    Unionizing during a Pandemic: Another story from the bedside

    I switched from a union hospital to a non-union hospital here in Massachusetts. Guess which one had better PPE and pay? Needless to say, I'll never work for a union hospital again if I can avoid it. All the MNA did was write a ~strongly worded~ lette...
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    My one chance at MICU

    I'm assuming you're in an accelerated BSN program with a previous bachelor's degree? If so, yes I would take this position for the reasons stated above. It's incredibly difficult for new graduates to find a job right now and many that did land jobs, ...
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    Trump Goes Maskless

    If he makes any action now to suggest the pandemic is as serious as it's been portrayed, how could he explain his repeated dismissal of warnings and signs of impending disaster for months? He can't. What would he say? Whoopsies, there goes the econom...
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    Co worker

    Men are typically seen as more competent solely for being male, hence why it's relevant to his incompetence being ignored/unnoticed.
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    Failed nursing school(technically)

    I have no advice regarding your appeal, but I will say her response to your stethoscope breaking was awful. I wish it surprised me though. Back when I was in nursing school, we had this new professor. She'd never worked in a hospital setting yet felt...
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    mediation with BON..What should I expect?

    Dear God why haven't you hired a lawyer! There are plenty of posts here on allnurses describing what websites are helpful in navigating the BON, especially with how to obtain a lawyer. Please take a look through those and start contacting lawyers ASA...
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    Orientation As A Semi-Experienced Nurse is Aggravating

    My orientation drove me crazy. I was coming in with experience and made that clear, but this one preceptor refused to let me even so much as start an IV without hovering. While I tried explaining how important I felt it was to allow me some autonomy,...
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    New Grad Nurse Unlicensed but Want to Help in NY

    No offense, but your help isn't direly needed like you seem to believe it is. There isn't a shortage of nurses, nor is it total chaos as it's been portrayed in the media. Where there has been chaos, it's been in a select few ICUs. The fact of the mat...
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    What is your "favorite" procedure?

    Wound care! Give me all the worst wounds. Stage 4 pressure ulcers, maggots in dead tissue, doesn't matter to me. The more extreme, the more satisfying it is to fix people up.
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    Sphygmomanometer that doesn't suck

    I picked up one from Walgreens years back when I was in my first semester. Did the job. Couldn't complain.
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    CVICU to something new

    I've never worked ICU, but cardiac tele was wonderful. It required a lot of strategizing with how on earth I was going to manage my time. Night shift had predictable downtime but everything else was constant movement. Patients were either doing great...
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    MA Hospitals using Epic?

    I've recently moved to Massachusetts and got a job at a community hospital in a new specialty. I used Epic for the entirety of my nursing career (coming up on 2 years) and this hospital only uses meditech. I heard how inefficient meditech was but I n...