So, it's been a lame few weeks. By lame, I mean really crappy. I am thankful for our guest OPs! You've helped keep the party going! Thank you [emoji5]ï¸
Some stuff I've learned.....
I just walked in on my ten year old taking notes on radioactive and stable isotopes. This kid. OMG.
DNP will cost me $60k. And by all the anecdotal banter around these threads lately, it seems my program will be a bit better than many.
My kids are excited to see me more when I go back to school. Problem is... If I don't find enough aid, I'll still have to work. (I do want to work maybe a day a week.)
Apparently my forte is critical thinking. My crutch is apparently time management.
The words "I can't even" have not come out of this mouth more than they have these recent weeks. For real. I can't even.
If you haven't worked at a hospital where the CEO and all senior management are nurses, do it.
I could not get back on night shift fast enough.
Receptionists need to be taught that "stable" is not the same as "not a problem". Or, maybe just hand the phone to a nurse with common sense.
Our med/surg floor sees no problem with keeping discharged patients' names on their census to maintain staffing. IN FACT, they have no qualms with short staffing another floor to do it, and they'll give the pulled nurse a full patient load and the rest as few as literally two patients.
Good performance ratings = bigger bonus
I know I'm the last person on the planet to think this through, but I was reading a summary of HCAHPS and I realized the MOST important thing that SHOULD be measured wasn't on there at all. The ONE thing that would make all the rest really not matter. What's that one thing? OUTCOMES! Holy stethoscope but why?!
I hope your week has been awesome! What have you learned?
We have totally had this sex coloring book discussion in another thread. I just don't remember which one.
It never fails to amaze me how many people are actively killing themselves every day with their noncompliance. I mean, I've always known it was bad - but I feel like the patients who were dying of COPD/HF used to at least be 60 or so. We have several patients in their 40s with end stage heart failure, end stage COPD, etc. on my unit right now. I'm like my god! The end stage stuff is supposed to be for people who are at LEAST middle aged!
It's just ridiculous. I just don't know how people can let themselves die of a lifestyle-induced illness before their 50th birthdays. That's just way too young.
Oh god no......they call the office and the answering service texts me. Then I *67 before i call back so they won't have my number.
Whew! Thank goodness.
It isn't unheard of . . . I fight colleagues all the time who give their personal cell phone numbers to patients. That circumvents the proper way to get a hold of a nurse. Frustrating but no matter what I say, they still do it.
Bad search terms. lol Posters here used "adult" to differentiate from stuff like, Dora the Explorer. That's not what you'd search, though. Try the stuff I mentioned in my last post.
We have a friend who moved to the mountains from the beach. She feels out of place up here. But I'm reaching out to include her in things I think she might like and I love her kids. We both love to hike so we've done that.
I'm kind of a hermit myself so it takes some pushing to get me to move out of my comfort zone.
Hope you can find a way to branch out and make friends.
I live in Fargo and people are friendly up to a point. They are very reluctant to make friends with outsiders, never mind I've been living there for 3 years now. It's a city, but more like a small town in so many ways. It goes both ways as I have a hard time making friends too. I'm not sure I'll remain in Fargo for long anyway.
I live in Fargo and people are friendly up to a point. They are very reluctant to make friends with outsiders never mind I've been living there for 3 years now. It's a city, but more like a small town in so many ways. It goes both ways as I have a hard time making friends too. I'm not sure I'll remain in Fargo for long anyway.[/quote']
I lived in a town not too far from Fargo for about a year and making friends felt like the hardest feat... Townies just don't budge
I live in a small mountain town. Population 600 in the town itself. About 3000 in the whole valley. 
calivianya, BSN, RN
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We have totally had this sex coloring book discussion in another thread. I just don't remember which one.
It never fails to amaze me how many people are actively killing themselves every day with their noncompliance. I mean, I've always known it was bad - but I feel like the patients who were dying of COPD/HF used to at least be 60 or so. We have several patients in their 40s with end stage heart failure, end stage COPD, etc. on my unit right now. I'm like my god! The end stage stuff is supposed to be for people who are at LEAST middle aged!
It's just ridiculous. I just don't know how people can let themselves die of a lifestyle-induced illness before their 50th birthdays. That's just way too young.