Your one stop for all the most popular pressing questions on allnurses!

Published

I am seeing SO many repeat threads here, so I thought I'd throw in a few words of wisdom.

Question: Is nursing for me?

Answer: No one can answer that but you. As with every job out there, nursing has its pros and cons. To answer concisely, if poop, puke, pee, catheters, blood, ostomy spillage, gaping oozing wounds down to the bone, or pus make you squeamish then the answer is no, nursing is probably not for you. Anything else you're just going have to work out in your head, heart, and your own state laws. We don't know you or your history, and i think I can safely say no one here can read souls to find out your true destiny.

Question: Should I move on from XYZ job?

Answer: No one can answer that but you. If you've given it enough thought to post about it on a nursing forum, you're probably ready to move on. If you're burnt out, exhausted, overworked, underpaid, underbenefitted, your nurse/patient ratio sucks, your managers suck, your coworkers suck, your commute sucks, or any combination of the above, then yes, you're probably ready for a new job. Be forewarned though, you sometimes go from the frying pan to the fire. No matter what field or hospital you move to, you're probably going to find at least one of the above things suck. If they all suck, run, don't walk.

Question: I have XYZ medical problem, advice please?

Answer: The answer is we have no advice. NO MEDICAL ADVICE CAN BE GIVEN HERE. EVER. NO MATTER HOW NICELY YOU ASK OR HOW STRANGE YOUR PROBLEM IS!

Question: What is a day in the life of a nurse like?

Answer: Shadow one in a position you're interested in. Every nursing job is vastly different, even from facility to facility. The only truly good way to experience a day in the life of a nurse is to witness it firsthand. Don't forget your rollerskates.

Question: Can you help me with XYZ nursing assignment?

Answer: Only if it's something you can't look up yourself, like an interview. Being on this forum is usually a way to decompress for nurses, and the last thing we want to do after an 8-12-16-20:uhoh3: hour shift is relive the glory days of nursing school by doing homework.

Question: What should I wear for an interview?

Answer: If we really need to answer this then you may need to go back to either Nursing101 or your professional role transition course. Also, just because it's usually the next question to follow, yes, send the damn thank you card.

Question: Why is XYZ nursing job superior to XYZ nursing job?

Answer: No job is superior to any other job. Nursing is comprised of many different fields, all with its own unique set of challenges, whether it's high nurse/patient ratios or vast amounts of paperwork. Anyone who think their field is harder than someone else's is usually playing the "mine is bigger than yours' game.

Question: What is the difference between an LPN/LVN/RN/NP/PA/MD/DO/PHD/BLAH BLAH BLAH? Followed by, which one should I become?

Answer: Do a search and stop asking this question. Only you can decide what profession is right for you, and you're on a nursing forum so take a wild guess what the majority of the answers are going to be?

Question: Is XYZ out of my scope of practice:

Answer: Check your facility and state policies. Every place is different. What one facility encourages may be completely prohibited by another.

Question: Is it okay that I never get a lunch, don't get paid for my overtime, work short-staffed to a dangerous capacity every shift, my manager treats me like crap, or that I get written up for arbitrary things because my hospital is in the process of converting to a hotel?

Answer: No. See question/answer #2.

Question: Does a new grad belong in the ED/ICU/PACU/OTHER CRITICAL CARE AREA, or is it better to start out in med-surg first?

Answer: You might as well ask if the chicken or the egg came first. It's six to one, half a dozen to the other. You're never going to get a uniform answer on this so just make the choice you feel is best for you and your career.

Question: What's your IQ?

Answer: Really?!

Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.
well Hi-dilly-ho, neighborino!

After reading that I just wanted to tell you that Imploring people I never met to pressure a government with better things to do to punish a man who meant no harm for something nobody ever saw, that's what I'm doing!

:uhoh3::uhoh3::uhoh3:

Is this a bad acid trip????

or is English not his first language? It may have lost something in the translation...or am I missing something?:confused:

What government? Or perhaps Momar Kadafi is on AN and we never knew it....love his screen name...I heard he was a big fan of the Pirate movies!:idea:

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Med/Surg, LTC/Geriatric.

Love this thread!! :lol2::yeah::redbeathe

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in OB.

And it's almost time to start the next round of the annual :

"Why should they make me work the holidays? After all, I have children/a boyfriend/a dog/etc. so I shouldn't have to miss being with them! Why don't they make all those old, ugly single nurses work the holidays? After all we know they don't have a life!"

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Hospice.
So I got written up again. My boss is a meanie! I've been working nights at my job for a month. I'm totally exhausted on nights....so I need to catch my zzzz's. You know....only 2 to 3 hours at a time. What's the big deal?? Ok....I'm the only nurse working. But if you slip these people a couple of extra pills, they sleep through the night. Is it legal for them to write me up for this?? What should I do? I mean, I've been asking to switch to days. This isn't my fault!

Run fast, quit that job, and get a lawyer. You have a solid case for a hostile work environment.

ETA: and while you're at it, report them to the BON, NLRB, DPH, Board of Pharmacy and CMS.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in med/surg,ortho, tele,.
well Hi-dilly-ho, neighborino!

After reading that I just wanted to tell you that Imploring people I never met to pressure a government with better things to do to punish a man who meant no harm for something nobody ever saw, that's what I'm doing!

Hope you didn't knock your bong over while typing this.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Ooh Ooh Ooh this is an actual statement I overheard a co-worker say the other night:

"I don't understand why we have to give this Lactulose. I mean, seriously, this patient just keeps crapping and crapping and crapping. And it is so freakin' yellow! I did not get my BSN to do nothing but clean up **** all night. I hate it when we don't have a tech. I am just gonna chart that he was nauseated and refused the med and I am requesting to not have the same patients again tomorrow night".

Yep........this happened on the unit I floated to last weekend. And it was a veteran nurse to boot. Funny how a patient in liver failure kinda needs lactulose. And kinda poops a lot. Lots of bili filled yellow poop. What were you expecting on a liver failure unit.

Carry on......this thread is phenomenal!!!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.
Hope you didn't knock your bong over while typing this.

Yea, sort of like Cheeh and Chong visit allnurses.com:smokin:

Up Vote Up Vote ×

this thread makes me say:

oh, snap!

:clown: :lol2: :D

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Anyway, I have a problem. I think I may have HIV. I work in a bank and one of the customers coughed, wrote on his deposit slip, then HANDED ME THE DEPOSIT SLIP! EWW! He looks like the kind of guy who has HIV. He's skinny and smelled like Kurt Cobain, so I'm sure he does heroin.

This made me laugh hysterically!! Can't... breathe... :lol2: :lol2:

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.

By the way...Johny Depp is visiting other threads...each and every one a total experience...see if you can find where he struck last...sort of like a surreal scavenger hunt!!!!! teeheehee

Shoot I have to go to work....see you guys later! Have fun today!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.
Hope you didn't knock your bong over while typing this.

I don't know about him, but I laughed so hard I knocked over my pint of vodka. Looks like just one quart today, kids!

Up Vote Up Vote ×

"moderators this thread is highly offensive. i came here for support and all these nurses are mean. please close this thread. my feelings are hurt. :sniff::sniff::sniff::sniff::sniff:"

oh, go suck an egg. grow up. if you're tough no one will want to chew on you. are you one of those kids that has sixteen trophies from youth soccer in your closet just for showing up?

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion