rescueninja1987

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 in the morning you could almost certainly have a c...

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 contracting the virus. Hopefully you can get teste...

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 my chances.

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 get any of them to hire without any knowledge of dr...

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 it slide; there may be more extenuating circumstan...

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 monitor, recent labs and so on, I know the second my p...

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 been on a med/surg floor where we routinely have ...

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 concerned about long term opiate use, see about cons...

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

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 I'm 29 and I already have back and knee pain, and f...

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 to stay on because "a warm body is better than noth...

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 just start actively looking for something else and b...

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

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 and drug test.

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 role.

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 capacity of any kind because I recognize that I have...

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 I wanted to be in a more hands on role where I cou...

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 floated?

"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 answers because I'm very unfamiliar with what you do,...

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 unrelated careers, and are now going back to either nurs...

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 (or doctors). I'm glad now that I found a 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 unit.

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, and first aid classes to the community including cla...

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 dad used to be a nurse and a lot of his buddies w...

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 out in the hospital terrorizing nurses and complaini...