rescueninja1987

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  1. Exposed to patient positive with coronavirus

    rescueninja1987 replied to IRN2011's topic in Disaster Preparation

    One addendum to my previous reply: a lot of hospitals are scrambling to fill positions and offering crisis pay right now. So as far as getting in trouble for calling out, if they fire you first thing...

  2. Exposed to patient positive with coronavirus

    rescueninja1987 replied to IRN2011's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Your manager is a jerk and an idiot. Mechanical ventilation causes aerosolization, and anyone who has been awake at any point in the last month knows you can be asymptomatic for quite some time after...

  3. Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    rescueninja1987 replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    My hospital has N95s but is trying to conserve them and wouldn't give me one for COVID patients. I threw a fit and insisted on one and they finally gave it to me. My wife has asthma and I'm not taking...

  4. How to get into ICU?

    rescueninja1987 replied to alli.'s topic in General Nursing

    I had a hard time getting an ICU to hire me with just med/surg experience, so I kind of went from med/surg, to LTACH, to step-down, to ICU. I would've much rather gone straight to ICU but I couldn't...

  5. Bosses teenage daughter allowed to sleep in recovery bay

    rescueninja1987 replied to OhioRN0916's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I would just ignore her and go on. And "ignore her" includes I'm not going to tip toe around her or clean up after her. Otherwise unless it's keeping you from taking care of patients I would just let...

  6. Long Term Care Stigma

    rescueninja1987 replied to TruvyNurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Forget them. Do what you enjoy and don't worry about it. Long term care can be very challenging and you depend heavily on your assessment skills. One of the reasons I like ICU is because with the...

  7. Inappropriate CNA behavior?

    rescueninja1987 replied to matcha-cat's topic in General Nursing

    I would report it to the DON at least. I'm sorry but the "we're shortstaffed" stuff is a load of crap. I've been a CNA with 18 patients, many of whom are total care and the nurse refuses to help, I've...

  8. IVDU pt kept asking for pain meds. Managment kept saying to just give it to her.

    rescueninja1987 replied to ella2990's topic in General Nursing

    No, you did not do the right thing. If it's ordered, the patient asks for it, and there's no clinical reason to hold it but you hold it anyway, you are practicing well outside your scope. If you're...

  9. Antagonistic NP Article

    rescueninja1987 replied to Dodongo's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I see where they're coming from, but as a whole the article is a condescending piece of

  10. If you could redo it....would you choose nursing?

    rescueninja1987 replied to ICURNPA92's topic in General Nursing

    I'm headed back to school for a computer science degree in hopes of being a software developer, but I will still work PRN in the ICU and keep up my skills/license. I have always enjoyed nursing, but...

  11. Contacted multiple times for same empty shift

    rescueninja1987 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This is one of the reasons I quit my old job. They chose to hire too few people, then chose to provide those people with poor working conditions, then chose to allow any worthless idiot with a pulse...

  12. PLEASE HELP: New grad, 3 months into first job, want to quit and leave it off resume

    rescueninja1987 replied to roseofmay's topic in General Nursing

    Definitely don't lie because then you will have to remember what you said. You don't want to slip up later and say " Oh yeah I worked at Blah Blah Whatever Medical Center and it was awful". I would...

  13. Does anyone else ever envy their patients?

    rescueninja1987 replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    I work in ICU, taking the place of my patients is my worst

  14. Experienced RN's cannot get new jobs!

    rescueninja1987 replied to duca's topic in General Nursing

    Have you looked into doing per diem for an agency? It's been my experience they pretty much pay a flat rate for everyone and will pretty much take anyone with experience and a clean background check...

  15. Patient abuse and the board taking too long to act

    rescueninja1987 replied to bgriffin32's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Honestly this sounds like it would qualify as a police matter and that criminal charges should be filed against her. As you said, it sounds like she's in the right place, just in the wrong

  16. How to Handle a Bully as a Supervisor

    rescueninja1987 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    If I were the boss I would be very quickly moving toward the "you're fired" phase of the discussion. If you aren't focused on your patients I have zero use for you. Hence, I am not in a supervisory...

  17. My parents don't want me to become nurse but I don't care anymore

    rescueninja1987 replied to JayLuv108's topic in General Nursing

    Well when people ask me why I didn't become a doctor, it's real simple: I didn't want to specialize in one thing, I didn't want to have anything to do with the insurance/reimbursement side of it, and...

  18. Does it ever get better? (Job hopping)

    rescueninja1987 replied to brit.pz's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I would go back to the PCU like, yesterday. Maybe you could obtain ACLS certification and see if you can orient a little bit in the ICU so it won't be so bad if and when you're

  19. Nursing Ethics Question!

    rescueninja1987 replied to Nugget's topic in Psychiatric

    "This patient will just end up spending it on crack", well I guess there's the issue of a psych patient using crack cocaine vs. a psych patient going unmedicated? I definitely don't have any solid...

  20. Am I too old to become an RN??

    rescueninja1987 replied to bananerz84's topic in LPN to RN

    Do it!! My dad finished his RN in his early 30's; I'm turning 30 in a few months and going back to become a nurse practitioner.You'll find that a ton of people your same age have had completely...

  21. Nursing is not what it is made out to be..

    rescueninja1987 replied to ModernRN's topic in General Nursing

    I became very discouraged a while back and almost went back to school to become an engineer; the only reason I didn't is because I heard so much about the opposite, engineers wanting to become nurses...

  22. Is this reasonable or just over the top?

    rescueninja1987 replied to Lakeshore18's topic in General Nursing

    You lost me at "wake the patient up", and it gets increasingly ridiculous from there. Whoever made this stupidly goofy decision shouldn't be running a child's lemonade stand, much less a nursing

  23. Would you be content if you worked your current job/specialty for the rest of your career?

    rescueninja1987 replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    Well frankly I considered getting out of nursing entirely to study computers or engineering or something, but I decided to stick it out.Ultimately my plan is to start a business teaching BLS, ACLS,...

  24. Question for nurses that are male...

    rescueninja1987 replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    I don't care. Not even a little bit. My friends and I sort of joke about being "murses" and heavily outnumbered by women. One guy says "I'm a man in a woman's world, and I'm just trying to survive" My...

  25. Emergency Titration Protocol ?

    rescueninja1987 replied to Kimmy_RN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    They are always looking for something to justify their own existence. If they don't find problems, they don't have a job. Too bad they can't actually go do some good in the world instead of hanging...