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new grad here waiting for my ATT and I receive this… I do plan on following up with my regulatory department but just wonder if anyone has ever gotten something like this… I’m left feeling anxious because now this is pushing my start date for my job back significantly and I don’t want to end up losing my position even though it’s genuinely something out of my control. submitted by /u/unknownsecret01 [link] [comments]
There was a rapid on my floor that I went to help with. The patient was going back and forth between SVT in the 180s and stable Vtach and completely asymptomatic. When in Vtach the MD running the rapid ordered 1mg epi given. No other meds were given up to that point. I was surprised to see them jump straight to epi rather than adenosine or another antiarrhythmic, and the house sup asked why not adenosine at the time, to which the MD said "it's VT, adenosine wouldn't be effective". The VT was monomorphic with a wide qrs, which I thought adenosine was appropriate for but I didn't say anything at the time. After the epi was given the patient was still in stable VT in the 180s and still alert but now "feeling like shit" per the patient. To which the MD declared them unstable and to prepare to shock. SBP was still in the 140s at this time and again patient was wide awake and scared. I was thinking "no shit he feels bad, he just got a dose of adrenaline". The MD said "everybody clear to shoc
Finally switching her out for a Pyxis. I prefer the rx but she’s out of date now. Farewell old girl. submitted by /u/JustCallMePeri [link] [comments]
Most of my coworkers give me this look (see photo) especially if I'm running around. Should I just leave? submitted by /u/Logical-Schedule-176 [link] [comments]
I’ve worked in healthcare my entire life, and while I know I still have plenty to learn, I’ve always been someone who adapts quickly, seeks feedback, and genuinely enjoys learning. I’m a millennial, so maybe I’m biased, but I don’t think experience alone should outweigh curiosity, collaboration, and the willingness to improve. Lately I’ve been struggling because my leader frequently comments that I’m “not experienced enough” or says things like, “Leadership sucks,” whenever I bring ideas forward or show interest in growing. The irony is that there is almost no professional development, mentoring, or coaching happening. I want feedback. I want to learn. But instead, it feels like experience is used as a way to shut down conversations. The part that’s frustrating is that I’ve met nurses with 30+ years of experience who are incredible mentors, and I’ve met others with the same amount of experience who haven’t changed their practice in decades. On the flip side, I’ve worked with newer nurs
Hi guys! Just curious about what your hospital’s med surg floor is like. I had an assignment the other day that I felt had way too many LDAs and want to know if other med surg floors are like this lol So in total (for a four patient team) I had 1 trach 2 PICC lines 2 Foley catheters 2 NJ feeding tubes 1 peg tube 1 JP drain 3 chest tubes 1 epidural 1 colostomy And on top of that there were multiple wounds, including a tunneled wound in an abdomen that required packing. I just felt like it was a lot of lines to manage for one team…. But I’m not complaining, it makes me excited to when I manage all of it well. I work in a large-ish hospital, but I’m curious if I went to a larger hospital that I would see more on med surg that I already do. Let me know your experience! submitted by /u/Inside_Maize_8522 [link] [comments]
I’m new to home health after working on a spinal cord injury unit for the last couple of years. Today was the second weirdest thing that has happened in the first month so far. (The first was the hoarder home… but that’s a post for another day). I’m going to see an 88-year-old male to basically just do a routine visit and make sure that he doesn’t have any exacerbation symptoms from his CKD and CHF. I’m staring at this great big tree in the backyard. I feel like it must be 100 million years old and it is surrounded by old lawn chairs covered in rust assorted other scrap metal and detritus. His wife answers the door and I introduce myself and ask her how she’s doing. She says “not good!” I ask her what’s going on and she says “my husband fell!” I find this poor old skeleton of a man lying supine on the bathroom floor between the toilet and the tub completely naked with his lower extremities covered in feces. I throw some gloves on get him off the floor stand him up while he holds his wa
Long time lurker here but I'm not a nurse or in Healthcare. Perhaps one day. How do you deal with all the pain, suffering, and death you see on a daily basis? Do you just get used to it or does it gradually weigh on you? submitted by /u/scorpion3510 [link] [comments]
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I’m a 25 year old female and have been a nurse for 4 years. I have always worked peds and started in a neurology and kidney/liver transplant floor then made the switch to peds ER. In the past 4 years I’ve seen death, learned about all kinds of diagnosis in children that I never knew existed, and seen a lot of kids suffer from poor quality of life. I love taking care of my kiddos but I have this guilty feeling all the time that I want to have children but I could not handle a kiddo with special needs. I’m scared to have my own children and go through pregnancy because of everything I’ve seen. I respect deeply all the parents I work with on the daily and see the way they go above and beyond for their children. Yet, I struggle with the feeling that I would rather let my child go than have them spend their life as total care patient and it makes me feel like I’m a horrible person. How do I let go of this feeling? I know I can’t live my life in fear but it truly scares me. submitted by /u/k
I have been a nurse for 11 years now. I’ve worked in the ER, maternity and now postpartum. I was at the pool today with my kids when I hear the whistle being blown and not stopped. I looked around quick and saw a child trying to hold/pull another child out of the pool. I threw my snacks and (not my best parenting moment) ran to the child and told my 7 year old to pick up the stuff I dropped and go get her dad. 3 of us nurses helped pull him out, myself and an ER nurse confirmed no breathing and no pulse and I just immediately just started chest compressions. He was so limp and pale, eyes completely fixed up when we pulled him out. Thankfully after almost 2 minutes he started breathing again was talking to us. I cannot stop questioning myself- I know I didn’t feel a pulse but I keep thinking I didn’t check long enough or maybe could it have been there and thready? I asked my husband how my cpr looked because I was so scared to do it on a child(pre teen aged), but he keeps reassuring me
One asked the other, “Hey, do you need more manure for your garden???” submitted by /u/MillHillMurican [link] [comments]
Permit me a little self praise 😂 I'm a plastics wound care nurse, I've got a long term plan to be a nursing lecturer at applied sciences uni, I asked about it here a few weeks ago. Anyways we had a 5th med student in our unit learning the ropes and their instructor introduced me as a really good teacher. I was shocked because that particular surgeon is a perfectionist and I took it as high praise. The student was with me and I threw her kind of in the deep end, debridement tools in hand with me watching over them, telling them what to do and not to do. We spent an hour together debriding the legs of an elderly man who had been two months without debridement. I must have made a big impression. They had their last day today and I got to my workstation with a hand written card thanking me for my excellent instruction and patience and a small chocolate. It's not much, but I'm proud of myself and I hope they remember something about wound care I their future career. It feels very cool that
I work per diem now at my old doctor's office, and the office staff asked me to help vet the resumes of nurses applying for clinic positions and NP students seeking clinical placements with us. I've noticed a huge uptick in these colorful, highly stylized resumes that include a headshot. Most of them seem to have the same template. To me, the photo just distracts from the actual content of the resume. It's especially common among NP students, particularly those coming from schools that provide little or no assistance with clinical placement *cough* Walden *cough*. I understand that headshots are common in industries like entertainment and modeling, but why has this become a thing in nursing? Is this a new trend, or are schools actually recommending it? submitted by /u/ExiledSpaceman [link] [comments]
Has anyone ever had to take a massive dump during a code blue? Recently happened to me in the middle of a code and I was the main nurse recording. FML submitted by /u/Bruce_Lee_Roy248 [link] [comments]
Been a nurse for 7 years; critical care and trauma. I quit my job in April and took a much needed break. Started applying for jobs these last 2 weeks and WHOOPS your girl had too much of a good time on this break 😅😅 6 weeks pregnant. My partner and I are gonna go forward with this pregnancy; I’m so nervous for everything. Despite it being super early, I don’t feel I should bring it up in interviews? If they offer me a position, do I tell them at that time? Also, i’m curious if anyone has worked ICU while pregnant - After finding out the news I applied for a cath lab job because I’m nervous the stress/adrenaline of ICU would mess up my pregnancy, and i’m also terrified of getting kicked. I’ve had my fair share of WWE days, and seen quite a few pregnant coworkers get kicked throughout my years. Any advice anyone is willing to share I would be so grateful for it. submitted by /u/hamsandwich18 [link] [comments]
I raise deadblueroses meal option. This was a safety tray breakfast. I honestly thought it was cat food. submitted by /u/Ok-Astronomer-2702 [link] [comments]
I leave em outside my door because i don’t want to bring that nastiness inside. A fucking porch pirate stole them. Now im in my regular shoes at work. What kind of asshole steals worn out disgusting crocs? submitted by /u/Mayor_Gubbin [link] [comments]
I know every ICU has its’ patient populations, but I was curious which is more challenging. Which ICU do you think can take other ICU specialties? I feel like it also depends what level trauma the hospital is too. submitted by /u/Weird-Flounder-5928 [link] [comments]
Has anyone ever put in their 2 week notice then called off your last day? That’s what I’m planning to do🤷♀️ submitted by /u/AlleyCat6669 [link] [comments]
**THIS IS A MADE UP STORY NOT BASED ON A REAL SITUATION FOR LEGAL REASONS** My last shift I had a terrible shift, had to have been my worst ever. I had a patient right at the start of shift after getting report, noticed the HR was alarming on the monitor in the 160s. I asked day shift nurse if HR had ever been that high, they said no. The pt had active TB so I threw on an N95 and went in there, not knowing I wouldn’t leave the room for 2 1/2 hours. The HR was increasing even to the 180s, quickly ended up calling a rapid. Because it was an airborne room I had to keep the door closed obviously and no one was coming in to help me. People were all standing outside and looking in but no one was actually doing anything. It was just me and 2 doctors. They were giving me many verbal orders and I wasn’t even able to document anything because I was facilitating them. Eventually I opened the door and said “I can’t be the only nurse in here.” Luckily one coworker came in and helped me. The rapid l
(english not my first language so i seeked some assistance translating) I’m a relatively new med-surg nurse (about a year in), and I’m honestly feeling sick over what happened during my last shift. I’m on shift rn and can’t focus… I feel so terrible and incompetent. We admitted a patient around 11:35 PM who had orders for PRBCs, platelets, and cryoprecipitate. She was a CCU transfer, transferred that pt with critical labs that time. I wasn’t very familiar with cryo since I haven’t transfused it before, so I asked my charge/head nurse for guidance. He told me to give the blood first, then the platelets, so that’s what I did. What I didn’t know was that the cryo was supposed to be transfused within a certain timeframe after it was ordered. I also didn’t realize cryo is typically only one bag and infuses pretty quickly. I had assumed it would come after the other blood products since that’s what I was told. By the time we got to it, the cryo had expired and couldn’t be used. I was later t
I’ve noticed this since the first time I saw a patient pass away. And not just the feeling of, “this patient is not doing good, their vitals are sh*t, labs are sh*t, and they’re tanking” but just by walking in the room it feels like death? I had two patients last week that I had bad death-y feelings about days before they started tanking, and they ended up passing. It’s like a quiet palpable electricity that gets louder the closer death is. I really hate my job currently and I just got a new one at a better network that’s a closer commute, better ratios, and better management so idk if this is just my misery and morbidity creeping out cause I’m so miserable at this job but does anyone understand what I mean? submitted by /u/44444cats [link] [comments]
Patient came in the ED. Saw he had an allergy. The allergy you ask? Pepper. The reaction was sneezing. Matched the tone of the ED that day honestly. submitted by /u/Capital-Scar [link] [comments]
She’s foreign and chose “bolognese with diced carrots” as her entree and didn’t know what bolognese meant I guess. She can’t have beef which is in her chart. So instead of giving her a sandwich or some other entree, they literally gave her diced carrots, with a side of carrots. Not gonna lie I laughed my ass off, but this is so ridiculous. submitted by /u/deadblueroses [link] [comments]
I can handle the codes and stressful situations but it’s the situations where a 90 year old man with late stage dementia who is actively dying and looks absolutely miserable that get to me. No PRN’s that would make him more comfortable because the family believes he will pull through again and isn’t ready to go hospice. Tube feedings, foley, rectal tube, extensive wound care, and worsening secretions that won’t suction. This patient is on a telemetry unit btw. I feel like 60% of my job is torturing old people for no fucking reason. I get off work, scream like a maniac in my car, and then go home and ugly cry. I’ve been doing this shit for over six years, started on a covid stepdown floor right when the pandemic started, and it has all been downhill from there. submitted by /u/Baumer9 [link] [comments]
Hi guys! So I’m preparing for my second job as a school nurse and I love kids. I’ve done a lot of work around kids, but I know they’re little humans who you have to get creative with. I would say I only have work acute in adult settings. So any advice do I need to look at and learn beforehand? How about emergencies? Experiences as a school nurse is welcomed as well! submitted by /u/KaleProfessional7211 [link] [comments]
Does anybody else say this when they’re doing an NIH because who tf holds a pizza like that submitted by /u/ohlongjohnson1 [link] [comments]
Swedish nurses are voting on whether to unionize for the second time in two years this week. Why the revote? Because it was determined (and a decision upheld after the hospital appealed this decision) that HCA broke the law, violated workers' rights, and made a free election impossible. Employees have been encouraged to "become educated" about the vote, when in reality the "education" has been in-house "labor relations meetings" held by paid union busters. The CEO sent mail to all nurses asking them to vote no, citing increased staffing and "better workplace safety" - with no specific evidence of how that's been implemented. Anyone who works as Swedish will tell you this is simply not reality. Two thirds of Swedish nurses left after the last union vote. This says a ton about the working conditions. Nurses need representation, support, and bargaining power in a system that exploits them consistently and egregiously. If you're a Swedish nurse, VOTE YES this week. Let's build a better and
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My partner is a DSP who works in a group home and administers medications to residents. The other day he said, "Why do nurses even have to get a degree? All they do is pass meds like I do." What are your thoughts? This irritated me so much. submitted by /u/SympathySecret799 [link] [comments]
Anyone else anxious? This is really unusual for Canadian nurses, right? I moved to BC last year from the states. I am pretty used to US strike culture by now. How is this gonna go? We are still mandatory workers. I am still going to be expected to show up if we strike. But apparently you cant do anything clerical, or answer a phone, or do OT? Have any Canadian RNs been through this? Over 98% of us voted to move for action. Thrn, the more recent vote to not accept the new offer was over 68% of BC nurses. Hence the notice to strike. What do you think about this? submitted by /u/Nfgzebrahed [link] [comments]
They haven’t been able to find travelers willing to do nights, likely because they aren’t paying enough, so their answer has been to hire them for days only contracts and make core staff rotate more…. And then they wonder why we can’t keep staff? I’m only required to work 6 night shifts per 8 week schedule period. They moved me around and put me on 11 night shifts with the upcoming schedule. I love the type of unit I’m on, but management has me seriously questioning how much longer I’m going to put up with this kind of BS. It really hurts because I love what I do and I love my patients, but this kind of shit is just getting OLD. submitted by /u/Outrageous-Boat-9111 [link] [comments]
I’ve been an ICU nurse for about 8 months now. Worked in the OR for 6 years. I’ve never really been the type to get upset in the moment. I’m quick to brush off patients deaths, stories of what brought them to this point, doctors being shitty, and the traumatic shit you see in the hospital. But recently I’ve been thinking about how much this all has actually changed me. My already dark sense of humor has gotten darker, my views of death and end of life care, how I want to go, how my family goes. I’m literally putting together a PowerPoint for my mom of what we can do for people and letting her decide if she wants it or not (I’m her proxy lol). I think medically assisted death should be a universal thing. Some of the things we do to keep people alive is inhumane. It’s getting to the point where I see people even doing it to their pets and I just think it’s horrible and has gone too far. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should yknow? Idk, my last shift has me going through it and makin
Can we just please ban all the posts about drug testing? 10 times a day. “I smoked weed what do I do?” “Cod made me fail, now what” What does it have to do with nursing. submitted by /u/bfed133 [link] [comments]
Thank for your comments. However, almost all of you are saying why don’t you, leave, sue, eeo, and other like things. I am not under American Civil Law. I could quit, but then I’d have to leave. I can’t sue. To file an EEO I would first have to ask permission of at least one other person which if it didn’t get me fired, would tank my career. This is all fully normal and legal here. Many of the providers and RN’s have never seen a type 1 diabetic before. I am American. I am not in America. Not looking for advice on how to fix the system, not mine to fix. Just came from my endocrinologist appointment. Got yelled at for all my lows. They are almost entirely at work. On one occasion I was nearly falling asleep in a meeting and the alarm on my pump went off, BGL 47. Not only was I called out by name, I was also denied being allowed to leave. It’s been like that ever since I got diagnosed. I’m the only person with type 1 in the facility in an area with maybe 10 in the entire population. I fe
So in an effort to promote workplace safety, we got an exercise to do. Mind you I work in a hospital, not in a kitchen at home. Also I'm not 5 years old. Good job management. submitted by /u/FIRE_Bolas [link] [comments]
They even specified two different types of power abuse. Show this to your charge the next time they step out of line 😂 submitted by /u/HealthyCantaloupe731 [link] [comments]
Alright friends- I desperately need more text based emojis that I can send through secure chat. My emotional range will not be contained by epic approved emojis so far I have: ....................../´¯/) ....................,/¯../ .................../..../ ............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸ ........../'/.../..../......./¨¯\ ........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...') .........\.................'...../ ..........''...\.......... _.·´ ............\..............( ..............\.............\... ( * > * ) ~ (ó__ò) ~=== o_O O.o (-_-) :/ <( ^ _ ^ )> :D e__e \_(^-^)_/ (all of these are verified able to send through secure chat) There's a limited number of symbols that can be used in secure chat but I believe in our creativity submitted by /u/Realistic-Cloud3453 [link] [comments]
Been a nurse for 2 years now. It doesn’t matter that we save lives, keep patients stable, heal them…. no, it matters that the patients are satisfied and happy and that our survey scores are good. Had an awful patient go ballistic on me because I didn’t want to OD him with TYLENOL LMAO. He made a really bad complaint and I think I might be in big trouble. Why do we do this, what’s the point of it all submitted by /u/Skymoon88 [link] [comments]
Manager’s plan for improving morale 😭😭 are we 5 years old?! submitted by /u/omgthishurts [link] [comments]
I'm just a CNA and don't have enough experience to know whether or not I'm overreacting here but I feel like my facility is just letting this patient die while I watch. I work in a SNF in the USA. Patient is in her early 80s and just a month ago was completely AOx4, ambulatory, talkative. Then she got a really terrible UTI that made her confused, almost completely nonverbal, barely able to move. Her urine sample was crazy. They put her on antibiotics and was almost immediately back to normal: completely alert, aware of her surroundings, back to recognizing me, able to get around with her walker, talking intelligently with staff and her family, socializing with other residents. As soon as her antibiotic ran out she started going rapidly downhill again, right back to the condition she was in before. It feels super obvious to me and the nurses and basically everybody with common sense that the antibiotics didn't make her UTI go away all the way and she just needs a little more care. Every
The topic is.. “Delegation” 🫣🥲 Hey allll. I hope you all are having a good morning, afternoon, evening, night, wherever and whatever you’re doing. So.. I started in house keeping, was trained to be a tech/aid in the hospital. I was a tech for two years while I went to school for my LPN. I absolutely loved being a housekeeper, then an aid. After I attained my LPN, and started working in that same hospital as an LPN, about half the aids would make smart comments and sneer at me when I asked them for ANYTHING. I hated asking for help, but eventually got to the point where I realized I had to prioritize my job. I needed to do the things that needed to get done that aids could not do. I came in early, and would leave late 60-90 minutes. Every time. Everyone loves to JUMP to the conclusion that “you’re a nurse, you can do anything the aid can do”. Obviously, yes! And I’m more than happy to do what I can. I had a really hard time even learning my job, because people would get nasty if I asked
ICU nurse my entire career. Just recently started traveling. Bless you MedSurg nurses. You guys are fucking thugs. I have 6 patients tonight and I legit hate it. Fuck this 💩! submitted by /u/animebdsmplusweed [link] [comments]
Has anyone left management after a couple of years and had a hard time finding a job? Seems like the fact I’m currently in a leadership role and applying for non-leadership is some sort of a red flag for employers. I am a great nurse, I swear! 2 years of management is more than enough. The mental stress has brought me to a breaking point, and it’s not worth the price I am paying with my life. I’m completely ok accepting it’s not right for me. Just want to clock-in, take great care of my patients, and clock-out. submitted by /u/Pretentious_Capybara [link] [comments]
Sure some patients are annoying but I do not engage with these coworkers who talk crap about the patients. This one CNA I worked with was unhelpful, but that’s besides the point, I can deal with that. But when she had to clean up literally ONE patient all shift, she exited the patient’s room with the door open and said “that’s it, I’m not cleaning up any more fat asses today.” I know my patient heard that. Made me both sad and mad. This patient was very sweet and didn’t do anything to be considered annoying at all. How does this person still have a job with that level of unprofessionalism? Wasn’t the only comment and it’s definitely not the first time. I’m off for 3 days, gonna try to forget that people like that exist and pray my family never encounters her if they’re ever in a hospital bed. submitted by /u/amyscott214 [link] [comments]
Hey guys, I am an IR nurse who has a primary duty of sedating and monitoring patients intra procedure. I work at a big hospital, lots of call, lots of traumas etc. One problem that is frequently popping up that everyone is aware of but none of us can fix is that we will receive critical patients from the ER/ICU levels of care and be asked to sedate these patients/continue their care which many of us are capable of BUT we do not have doctors that are critical care focused. Or any staff when I am on call it is me, a rad tech, and a doc. We have radiology doctors only. So we get these traumas where our IR docs will say yes we can take this patient bring them asap, and the ER doc will say “they’re stable” but simultaneously this is a code trauma requiring fluid resuscitation and blood and pressers on a child. How do you guys handle this? Is there some kind of algorithm or flowsheet that determines this patient needs to go to the OR vs this patient is appropriately stable for a procedural s
Im on my 4th week off orientation as a new grad NICU RN and I am in a 1 yr nursing residency program. Its an amazing and rewarding specialty, and I love the patient population. However, I always get pre shift anxiety and I sometimes cry while getting ready because idk how my day is going to be. I am always scared of messing up and looking like a dummy. I dont get help like I was promised. Is this normal to feel as a new grad nurse? Has anyone not finish a nurse residency program and was able to find another nursing job before the residency program ended? submitted by /u/Realistic-Number7023 [link] [comments]
Seriously though, PLEASE stop asking us if it’s too late to become a nurse. It almost certainly is not, but it depends on YOU. Your stamina, your family situation, and your financial stability. Can you do it? Probably. Should you do it? Asking us is as effective as asking a magic 8 ball. This question has been asked so many times already, please just search the subreddit. I went to school with someone in their late 50s. Your life isn’t over because you are 30 with kids, life is longer than that. This is a community for discussing nursing and nursing issues, not to give you answers to your exams or career advice. I’ll step off my soapbox and say good luck out there I hope you make the choice that works for you and makes you happy. Edit: shoutout to the kind people who think I’m actually an 89 year old CRNA applicant submitted by /u/trypan0s0miasis [link] [comments]
I’m talking about members of the MDT so Drs, physios, OTs ect. I just feel like all day every day they are coming to me asking me things that they could just do themselves. Constantly coming to ask me if their next patient is sat out of bed or not. Surely when you go to see them you will see with your eyes if they are in bed or not? It’s not something to interrupt a meds round for. Or I would have started my shift 5 minutes ago and hounded with questions if a patient can walk, swallow, drink yet we all had the exact same handover at the exact same time. So how would I magically know more info Physios and OTs recently keep interrupting my meds round to tell me they can’t get a patient out of bed as they are soiled. So instead of going to the aids themselves, they come to me to ask me to stop my meds to get the aids for them. It makes no sense Just all day coming to me interrupting me for things they could do themself but for some reason expect me to do. Not to mention every time a patie