Heart_<3_RN

i think my message was miss understood i did not question the parents, i understood why they choose that. i only added that part to explain my interpersonal thoughts. I have never and would never say anything like this to a family member. I was being selfish not wanting to see this little girl go. she passed away at the beginning of last week. I didn't stay away from them i was there for anything the mother needed. I cried with the mother but was able to keep myself together and be a therapeutic supportive nurse. thank you for your comment

thank you for your words, this one is just really getting to me. I know it is not about me and I maintain a very professional therapeutic approach with the family but at home I am a mess. I am an OR nurse not a PICU nurse. So this is a new feeling for me.

I was expecting a comment like that i almost wrote a reference to it, and i would feel the same way.. which is why these emotions are surprising me.. thank you for your post

Today I was given the news that a pediatric patient I cared for is potentially not going to make it. I had run into the parents in the hall and they let me know they had decided not to have CPR preformed if needed (I wanted to scream noooo please, aren't there other options can she/he be transferred to a hospital with a new set of eyes and possibly higher level of care, I am aware that the parents decision is a valid option that I am sure the parents have throughly thought out and hopefully been completely educated on) I have been crying my eyes out and so sad I am actually hurting. This is my first time experiencing this as a nurse, I have had patients die before but all with severe diagnosis, much older and with co-morbidities. I am sure some of you Pedi nurses go through this more often, how do you deal? i am trying to do what we nurses do and separate my feelings but I can't.

Hi I am trying to find any updated post about ASU (ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY) RN to BSN online program. Has anyone enrolled if so do you like it? Are you able to balance work and school? (I work a lot and I'm on call.) If anyone already as a topic about this please link me. I found some topics but it seemed like it was entry level BSN.

working in heart surgery this behavior i have seen a time or two ..blades hitting the wall, steps flying across the room, personal insults. I find that when the doctors are in a very high stress situation they can be out of hand.. I am not condoning this behavior at all it makes for a very volatile and unsafe OR. Situations like these that are brought to risk management the doctors at hospitals I have worked for did receive disciplinary action, write ups, and mandatory anger management, But the other people involved in the situation are not given an update on what the action is. I hope your hospital is doing something. I hate that this behavior goes on who wants to work in that kind of environment. often i don't feel i have a voice especially in private hospitals. teaching/public hospitals tend to handle these situations with a much stronger hand.

i think it is feasible, any operating room "should" have a good training program we have many nurses that were floor nurses first and came to the OR with a fine transition, psych is a lot different than the OR but OR is so specialized that you should receive adequate training after when you transition

My mentor asked if I wanted to move up I would like to do the feb cohort because my work will reimburse $3000 per calendar year (Jan-dec) so if I start feb it will run into the following year and so on. Check with your work if they have something like that! It's great

Ha ha a troll. I'm surprised that your surgeon is on board with wanting only 2 people in the room.. This is heart surgery!!! I know why the hospital would want it to decrease operating costs (they may be pressuring the surgeon) ... I have heard people say at other hospitals once you give up that body you will never get them back in the room. We spend hours in the room with these surgeons yet they sometimes still don't see how hard we work for the surgery to have a positive outcome..A Thankless job but keep fighting for your team and for your patients.

The nurse tech does the Anes tech job and helps turn over the room, run labs to blood bank, gets blood, basically a runner because the Circulator does not leave the room. For weekend call we have 4 people on call 1st scrub, 2nd scrub, circulator, nurse tech... I have worked at another hospital that was a teaching facility and there call team was only the 1st scrub and they dealt who ever else was available to circulate

i work M,T,F 12 hour shifts, call every other weekend, and call 1-2 other days a week

im in the same boat as you.. I am realistically putting myself at 4 terms but will be very happy if I can do it in a shorter amount of time

I will be starting in April, received my transfer eval and I am very pleased :)

In the room at a community hospital setting we have 1 circulating nurse, 1 first scrub, 1 second scrub the 2nd scrub can break to help the circulator if all he** breaks lose. We also have 1 nurse tech (2 rooms)