GeologistRN

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1. What's the biggest mistake you've ever made as a nurse? What did you learn from it?

   GeologistRN replied to Mini-Murse's topic in General Nursing

   What an incredibly poignant post, and what courage to talk about it. I can easily imagine myself in the exact same situation (I work in a MICU and wish withdrawal of care for at least 50% of my...

2. Are we doing good for our patients?

   GeologistRN replied to GeologistRN's topic in MICU, SICU

   Wow, that is really great to hear, reassuring and inspiring. I hit my first refusal to do something yesterday: Attending ordered us to remove Fentanyl and Propofol drip from an ARDS patient...

3. Are we doing good for our patients?

   GeologistRN replied to GeologistRN's topic in MICU, SICU

   What a beautiful reply, what lovely thoughts. Thank you so much for tapping them

4. Are we doing good for our patients?

   GeologistRN replied to GeologistRN's topic in MICU, SICU

   Anna - That is reassuring and distressing to hear. Have you stayed in nursing/found a field that makes more fundamental sense to you than ICU nursing? I do not want to be a quitter, do not want to...

5. Are we doing good for our patients?

   GeologistRN posted a topic in MICU, SICU

   Hi everyone, I am a brand new nurse, went straight into a MICU. I am about 2.5 months in (of a 3 month preceptorship) and struggling on a fundamental level with what this job is: It seems that all we...