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I have been offered an interview for a very lucrative concierge nursing position within a well-established company. Has anyone ever done this type of nursing and is able to provide some insight? I have the gist of what services are being offered, but are there any unique experiences or differences for anyone that has transitioned away from typical bedside or clinic work? I'm just hoping to be overly prepared, because this generally feels like an incredible opportunity if offered the position. Thanks in advance. submitted by /u/RequirementFun0407 [link] [comments]
Our unit manager is insisting that it will soon be required for every nurse to have a specific certification. How is it so that they can force us to pay for a certification especially one that we don’t want to obtain? Has anyone had this happen? submitted by /u/Away-Wave2523 [link] [comments]
I’ve worked in the ER for nearly 3 years at a level 1 major trauma hospital. I’m an RN4. When I arrived in the ER as a baby nurse, I had so much compassion, empathy and care to give to all. I wanted to learn, make friends and become a better nurse, build my skill set and become a super nurse. I really romanticised it and thought it was going to be my homebase. I’m now resus trained, paeds trained and am like mid-level senior in the department because of the high turnover of staff. But lately has just been so hard. We have no beds in the hospital, that somehow becomes my fault. Getting yelled at, called names and abused by patients and families is a regular occurrence. Being blamed for long waits and being expected to absorb the negativity and hostility that people bring with them inside the ER is regular for me. But I’m not allowed to show emotion, I’m expected to function as a robot. Feeling unsafe is a regular occurrence. I’m approached regularly for OT, which I don’t have the capaci
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Multitasking? Difficult patients? Charting and remembering everything? Having little room for error? Emotional weight? Transitioning student to a nurse. How are you doing now? submitted by /u/NewvelopedSound [link] [comments]
Recently our executive team and new CNO has decided to use our ED as a ICU. They've decided to take outside hospital ICU/IMCU transfers and board them in the ED. They have told us that ER nurses will be expected to take these transfers from outside hospitals and provide care for them and continue to take an ED patient load. One patient has passed already due to minimal appropriate staffing and monitoring. I'm tired, boss submitted by /u/Keurigthecoffeemaker [link] [comments]
Freaked out about this. Said ChatGPT said it wasn’t sanitary or sterile. Now she’s contacting the cdc about it 🤦🏻♀️ submitted by /u/Conscious_Passage479 [link] [comments]
Papers - scientific/medical or an unexpected fields! Anthropology, historical, etc! Books - non-fiction, fiction, poetry, etc submitted by /u/shatana [link] [comments]
The way people, including NURSES, speak about female nurses is honestly infuriating. I hear it all the time irl, I see it on instagram, tiktok and on here. Especially when compared to male nurses. Do people not realise how misogynistic they are being when saying male nurses are so much better because they’re sooo unbothered, chill, laid back, unlike their female counterparts that won’t shut the hell up during report! Do y’all realise it sounds exactly like when people say they’d rather be friends with men because women are so much drama? I have received and given report to both female and male coworkers who wants to discuss every lab drawn in the past decade, and I’ve given and received reports from female and male coworkers who doesn’t even have a pen with them. Some of yall are too grown to be doing the whole “murse” shtick. Rant over. submitted by /u/thinima [link] [comments]
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I never bring it with me, I was rushing & didn’t realize I had it until I entered a pt’s home. Normally I’d just put it in my bag but my pt has a 4 yr old brother & I was worried he’d find it. So I stupidly kept it in my scrubs. I know, dumb. Anyway, pt’s mom leaves for the day & im warming up my lunch when I bent over to grab my water it fell out. I quickly grabbed it, but I guess the 14 yr old brother saw it. He told his mom & she switched moods instantly. She said I can’t vape in their house, I tried explaining my side, that I would never do that but regardless she was pissed. She said she can’t have her kids exposed to it. That I’m a “great nurse” but that crossed a line. I apologized. Said it wouldn’t happen again. I’m just worried she’ll tell my employer I was vaping around her kids when I wasn’t. Truly it was a mistake. I’m on my way home hyperventilating, sobbing. Can they fire me for this? I’ve never been written up before or late. I bust my ass and take cases nobody wants. (N
I work in urgent mental health care in the community, and I heard the saddest patient story of my career. I'm pretty resilient, and can usually handle hearing the wildest, traumatic shit, but this was the sort of story that will stick with me for the rest of my life. I was doing my best to keep it together, but in the end I cried in front of my patient and had to step out for a breather. How do you think it would it make you feel if a mental health worker cried for you? I reflected on what happened and remembered a time when a nurse cried for me in A&E, and it was the most validating moment in my patient journey - I've never forgotten her and it meant so much to me that she cared so much. I'm just hoping my patient felt the same way... submitted by /u/_yessica_haircut_ [link] [comments]
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So for context I am a senior nursing student and just want to learn more about what a nurse is supposed to do in situations like this because I have never seen it before. I was at clinical and this man comes in with young children to visit their mom. She is a multiple limb amputee and very sick with what I assume is a systemic infection, and he just left the kids there and went home, which is neglectful. We made sure the kiddos had snacks/drinks and stayed put because their mom was in no condition to be doing mom stuff at that moment. It was really shocking to see and very upsetting/enraging. Is the burden on the nurse to make contact with CPS or are you supposed to delegate that task, or what are the steps to handle this? I am just wondering because the hospital is not a daycare by any means but I was told by others on the unit that is actually not uncommon. submitted by /u/Maize-Opening [link] [comments]
I’ve been a nurse for 8 years, majority in the operating room, so I am absolutely trash at inserting IVs. It’s been almost 6 years since the last time I even attempted one. I think the longer it’s been, the more I’ve built up my fear about trying and being bad at it. I’m a people pleaser by nature, and it’s hard to like the nurse who has stabbed you in the arm five times lol. That being said - I’m starting to really crave a career change within nursing that is a little more patient focused than the OR. I miss connecting with my patients. I think I would do well as a pre-op nurse given I have a lot of knowledge about what goes on in the OR. There’s also several hydration clinics near my house that are hiring and I’d love to have an option for extra cash. But my IV fear is holding me back!! 😭 Has anyone been in this position? Is there a class you can take where the stakes are lower than on the job training? Any advice appreciated! submitted by /u/typeBbride [link] [comments]
That's it. That's the post. Tell me I'm doing the right thing. Also, I propose we add a "support" or "just seeking support" tag for posts. submitted by /u/Butthole_Surfer_GI [link] [comments]
Are nurses allowed to be on methadone therapy for opiate addiction? Are they required to disclose that information to their employer? If you provide your prescription to the drug tester, will they mark the test as negative before it's given to your employer? Has anyone been on methadone and had trouble finding a job in nursing? Due to HIPAA, can you withhold that information? I haven't graduated yet, but I am having intense cravings to relapse (been clean 10+ years). I am considering going back to MAT before it happens, but I don't want to throw away my career. Please, no comments about how I should have chosen a different career path. I am afraid to inquire about this because I don't want to be labeled as an addict. Edit: I am inquiring about Michigan & Virginia submitted by /u/RealFactor9150 [link] [comments]
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Let's get it out from the forefront. I'm a new grad RN with one month of experience working in the ICU. Before I was an LPN for almost four years, and enlisted military for six. Base rate I make $39.50 an hour, $2 differential for being critical care, and $4.90 differential when I work the weekends. After orientation, if I wanted to, I can pick up incentive shifts for an extra $13 differential, IF I wanted to.Take note, I only need the bare minimum for benefits because the VA handles my health care and I wanted to the tax benefits from investing in 401k and HSA, but annually I'll be bringing in roughly $77000 before disability, but without it, I get roughly $4500 a month. I take home roughly 73% of my gross monthly paycheck biweekly, off an associate's degree, and I'm single with no kids. My family's mostly lower middle class, low class. If you come from that background, you've heard it all before as soon as I got into my LPN-RN program, "Oh you gonna be making that big big money." The
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In case anyone out there is wondering what nurses have to deal with…..I had a patient with all manner of chronic lung issues recently who came to my hospital for shortness of breath. Her lungs sounded like a bowl of rice krispy cereal and she was coughing. Then refused her Covid/flu testing by telling me Covid wasn’t real and it was all because of Joe Biden. She didn’t believe in Covid so she knows she didn’t have it. Regardless of your stance on the pandemic, I think most of us who were nurses during that time can agree that Covid was a real illness and absolutely NOT a fabrication by the far left. I have also had patients who needed a blood transfusion tell me they don’t want the blood of anyone who has been vaccinated. Anyways happy Wednesday. submitted by /u/ERnurse2019 [link] [comments]
As title says, I just need to vent because I was hired into a management position and I was transparent with my experience but they hired me into anyways. They said my attendance was an issue and removed me with no warning. All I got the entire time was praise. Then out of the blue they said my attendance was an issue. No talks, no write ups. No warnings. Nothing. When I made a complaint to corporate. I knew they were just there to protect themselves. But I wanted to try to protect my job because they didn’t want to fire me. Just remove me. Then the DON took information we talked about and used it against me. Accused me of being unreachable and unable to find. Had two bogus “witness” statements……… and I had no one in my corner to back me up. Just my word against theirs and I lost. The job was a blessing. It was a sure fire way for me to become debt free and take care of my family and manage my life for once on a trajectory that would have been so beneficial for my family as I’m the bre
For some reason everyone in my hospital is terrified of being sued, worse than any other hospital I’ve worked at. So I have been just sitting on the thought of malpractice insurance and wanted insight and recs submitted by /u/carmelamacchiato [link] [comments]
i honestly had no idea what to expect. i was trained on epic at all the hospitals i had clinicals at. i’m honestly just baffled, but i better start learning fast because it already looks so confusing 😭💔 it could be worse though. it could be paper. submitted by /u/Exotic-Coconut-8573 [link] [comments]
I was an office nurse in pediatrics for a year before going to work at a SNF due to my schedule demands. The facility has 3 units - rehab, transitional care, and LTC. I was originally hired on for rehab, but my training consisted of 5 days of rehab, then 3-4 days of TCU and LTC. They said this would allow me to be more comfortable floating to other units if the need arose Turns out towards the end of my training they don't even have a position available on rehab, and they told me instead I'd be on the LTC hall I hadn't trained on. They asked me if I was ready to be on my own on LTC. I voiced my concerns about me not feeling ready and expressing that I didn't have enough consistency in my training. Right when I was starting to get used to a unit, I would be thrown on another one to start with a new nurse. They gave me 2 days of "training" on the new hall where I worked by myself with another nurse sitting at the nursing station on standby for any questions I have. Well on my own, betwee
This patient was 1/5 I had today. While 5 isn’t that many patient’s all of them were needy… this one especially. At 11 o’clock after I had already done her head to toe and her vitals she looks at me and says “My throat hurts and I’ve been telling everybody for the last few days and no one has done anything about it.” Now this is the first time she has said anything about it to me. I asked if she told the doctor when he did morning rounds. Which she did not. (As that would make sense) I explained that the NG tube she had was probably irritating her throat and would message the doctor about it. All was good until lunch… Her NG tube was clamped and her diet was advanced to Clear Liquids. She received a popsicle for lunch and then proceeded to ask me how she could eat that due to the NG tube that was in front of her mouth. I never had anyone ask me that before and had no response other than “Very carefully” she did not like that answer and made me go get her a fork and knife to cute up her
These two docs have impressed me so much and I wanted to do something small to show my appreciation for them. I am sending this letter to both of the attendings in our ICU. Fingers crossed that they get the recognition that they deserve!! (Names of people and facility blurred for privacy reasons) submitted by /u/whoreforhslot [link] [comments]
Hey everyone! I’m currently finishing up my final year of my BsN and seriously considering joining the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) once I graduate. I’m leaning toward the Air Force or Navy, but I’m very open to learning more about the different opportunities within the CAF, especially nursing. I’d love to hear about your experience as a military nurse, particularly about: - Lifestyle and work-life balance - Day-to-day work and work environment -Opportunities for travel, deployments, and career progression -Job satisfaction -What the transition from civilian nursing to military nursing is like -Any advice you’d give to a young guy considering this career path Please let me know about your honest experience about the Good/Bad/Ugly Thanks for the help guys! - All the best. submitted by /u/Plus_Competition1437 [link] [comments]
Last night was my first day transitioning to the ICU. I was told to basically observe, absorb, and learn as much as I could. I was paired with a very experienced older Filipina nurse who clearly knows her stuff. She was extremely competent but she had ZERO patience for teaching and can be blunt and rude. When she heard she is being paired with me her eyes rolled and left the huddle room. I met her in the floor then she went “Grab your WOW because you will be hands-on and I dont like sharing computers” She would let me chart independently without really explaining what she expected, then call me out when I missed something At one point, she was lecturing me about missing some drain assessment details “Who oriented you before? Where did you practice nursing?” blah blah I finally had to tell her, “Please be patient with me. This is literally my first day.” Whenever I asked questions, she’d sometimes just say, “Check what I charted.” During rounds, she basically threw me into the fire: “Yo
So i work in a nursing home dementia ward. And today i stood yet again alone. 1/12 instead of 1/6. We also need to cook, make drinks, give meds, comfort residents, clean the dishes, clean the living rooms. Anyway no responsible job for one. So around 4.5 hours into my 8 hour shift i was already burned out. Everyone kept asking for attention, safety or to go to bed. And some of my residents noticed how burned out i slowly became. One tried to to clean the dishes. When getting some residents ready for bed they talked how it wasnt normal that i was alone and they thanked me even more then normal, and when i passed the meds to my last residents because everyone else was in bed she started to scratch my back for 20 minutes straight. And well it felt motherly and good. After the 20 minutes i felt a lot less stressed. Even when management makes you question if you want to stay a nurse the love you get back from youre residents makes it worth everything. And thats why i love being the a nurse.
I want to apply for new jobs but on applications they ask if I’ve ever been fired. My previous employer said they use hire right and phone verification and basically just say dates of employment and whether the employee was full time or part time. I was at the hospital less than 90 days. What do you think? I asked my friend in hr and she said if they use hire right I need to list it. I don’t need to say I was fired but I need to come up with an answer. submitted by /u/BearyManilowOfficial [link] [comments]
I want to preface this by stating that I don’t intend for this post to gloss over the fact that not all nurses are rolling in money. I know that many are stuck in low-paying southern/red states due to family/personal/various reasons. However, if you were fortunate enough to have the freedom to move around, travel, or advance your career through different avenues (NP, CRNA, etc.), how are you doing investment-wise? Are you happy with your financials for your age and did you perform better than you thought you would? What’s the plan for semi/full retirement? Do you intend to keep your license and go part time, prioritize travel more often, or pursue something else entirely? I always see people in tech discussing this, so I wanted to hear about the experiences and goals of nurses who have been working for a while. submitted by /u/CelticNomad95 [link] [comments]
These broke pricks will withhold benefits for bullshit reasons, allow providers to cherry pick benefits from insurance that they “accept” and won’t do what’s right. Fuck Wyoming, that is all. submitted by /u/BulletSwaging [link] [comments]
How do you handle missing your kids while you work? I’m on week 3 of nights 3x/week (1845-0700) and everyday I leave, I burst into tears because I miss my kid so much. She’s at daycare during the day so I can sleep and I feel like i’m missing out on so much because I can’t be there. She will be 2 in September. Any advice? submitted by /u/invisibledog5 [link] [comments]
So I’m an elder millennial, raised in the south by boomers and was oriented to nursing by people who remembered smoking at the desk. Point is I always called doctors “doctor _______.” Fast forward I’m 20 yrs in and moved from an old school group of neurosurgeons to an academic hospital and work in research closely with the research physicians. Everyone calls them by their first names. At first I thought it was just an over friendliness but after a while I feel like some weird overly formal old asshole. Isn’t it like working in accounting and calling your coworker/boss “Mister _______” instead of just their damn name. I know I’m overthinking this but also just curious if this is a generational thing or what? I don’t have an opinion either way- Im just curious! Also with Dolly dead, nothing matters anyway. 😔 submitted by /u/Murderinodolly [link] [comments]
So I am about to graduate soon and I currently work as a dialysis technician. My boss said they will hire me as soon as I’m licensed. I enjoy my job but my only “concern” is dialysis nursing is simple and easy (in my experience) and there is not much you need to do compared to like medsurg or ED. I’m just afraid that if I start as a dialysis nurse it would be hard to branch out or switch specialties. But dialysis pays way more in my area than hospital jobs. I don’t know whether I should start in Dialysis, make more money but not grow my nursing skills OR find a job as like a critical care nurse, make less money but learn more and become a competent nurse. Any advice? I am also ignorant about this topic so my “theories” may not even be correct submitted by /u/mixxed_baby [link] [comments]
How many weeks of notice do you give? And give me your reasoning. Just interested in hearing the variation of responses submitted by /u/ConstructionSharp976 [link] [comments]
Been in the ER for almost a year. Prior to that I worked the floor for about 2. I get it, floor nursing and ER nursing are different. Our priorities differ. However, I’m really put off by the laissez faire attitude from a lot of my coworkers. I’ll admit, I’m a baseline anxious person and wanted to try out the ER for some exposure therapy and learn new skills. But I’ve noticed in this ER at least, people shrug a lot of things off, and we get away with way too many safety events. Red alarms going off at central monitoring station? No one looks up. I’ve hustled taking care of my own patients and walked by a room to turn off a red alarm going off for at least 5 min when I noticed this patient is barely responsive and satting in the 70s. People were just on their phones at the nursing station. I feel like it’s me and one other person who actually looks at central monitoring to see what’s up. I’ve had to stabilize my quickly decompensating patient who suddenly experienced chest pain and seve
I’m an RN from New Zealand, and getting my nursing license here in the US has been one of the longest and most challenging journeys I’ve been through. From starting my very first registration application to today, it took me ** 2 years and half*\ * to finally sit for the NCLEX, pass it, and officially become a USRN. And honestly, this journey tested my patience in more ways than I can explain. One of the biggest hurdles was the **education review**. Things work very differently between New Zealand and the US. The core of nursing is the same, but the courses, clinical hours, and scope of practice can vary quite a bit. I started my CGFNS/TruMerit evaluation about two years ago, and when my report came back, I had **two course deficiencies: OB and Peds .** Those two words still haunt me. 😂 As nurses educated in NZ/Australia, we know these areas are not covered as part of our Bachelor of Nursing. In New Zealand, there is a separate profession for midwifery, and depending on where you did y
hello everyone, new grad here i’ve been a nurse for a few months now and on the floor on my own at a small rehab hospital. no residency just hired on as a new grad and had 2 weeks of orientation because they felt i didn’t need the 3rd week. i was spoken to by the nurse manager about how a patient said i didn’t do an assessment on them. 1/5 patients said this. apparently it’s a new thing they’re doing by going to each patient after your shift to ask if they had an assessment done. i was baffled. asked how is that possible, i for sure do all of my assessments and even tell patients right when i get on and take their vitals. i’m telling yall im 100% sure ive done all my assessments. anyway they showed me this document about how i could be sued or whatever for falsifying documentation and could get my license taken away. they didn’t make me sign anything. said it was a “coaching” moment. didn’t explain who said it or when, just that if it happens again i’ll be written up or worse. i’m feel
Working in the ER and family stops you in the hall submitted by /u/Dr_Beardsley [link] [comments]
I don’t know if anyone feels this but the entire day before my 7PM shift, so it’s 10AM now…. I just feel so bored. So useless, so non productive. I don’t want to do anything. I want to stay home, it’s beautiful outside but I don’t have the energy to go outside. It’s like this “cloud” is forced above my head, knowing that I have to clock in tonight at 7PM. It’s quite depressing and it definitely is triggering my depression. Somedays I think a simple 9-5 making 5x more in the corporate would would be better. Dressing up nicely in the AM, leaving work at 5, catching a happy hour on the way home, be home all night. I don’t know… I have no life before my night shift. And then the worst part is … I finish my shift at 7AM, come back home, sleep, and boom work again in two hours. submitted by /u/Constant-Big5731 [link] [comments]
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And the VERY FIRST thing I need to say is that I see and hear all of you that are psychiatric nurses, techs, NP's, docs, managers, risk managers, the entire crew!!! Cause what the absolute f***!! I have been a nurse for 21 years. Mostly ER, but also a few years of case management and workers comp and some ortho thrown in there. Big and small volume ER's. I took a job at a local state operated psychiatric facility in April. I'm on the geriatric ward. The final straw was last Friday when I had to provide oral and written statements for an abuse investigation re: my "work wife" - who, to be fair, is both equally amazing and terrible at the same time. I'm not the accused but I'm squarely in the middle of this nasty, awful mess. In 21 years of nursing, I've never even come close to an abuse investigation. Like....not even a whisper. I do my job well and try to establish a rapport with my patients and give mutual respect to everyone. The accused put us in so many dicey situations because of
Hi everyone, I am a new grad nurse and was able to land a outpatient clinic job as my first job. I actually really wanted a hospital job and later in a couple years get a clinic job to be able to keep my clinical skills. But sadly with no CNA experience, lack of clinical hours in the hospital and no connections I was not able to secure a hospital new residency program. I am very excited starting my outpatient job next week but now I am thinking I want to be a prn nurse in a year or two. Do you think I will be able to find a PRN job after one or two years of experience? I really don't want lose some clinical hands on experience like IVs and needle injections. Or do you think it's best to apply for a Fellowship program in a year or two? submitted by /u/No-Significance5914 [link] [comments]
Hi everyone, I’m a new grad RN and I’m terrified. 😭 I’m starting on a telemetry med-surg floor, and I genuinely feel like I forgot everything. I spent basically my entire summer relearning everything for the NCLEX because I knew I’d need that knowledge as a nurse. I went through all of Archer’s videos, reviewed every body system, and hand-wrote a TON of notes. I passed in July, but now it’s almost September and I feel like all of it has disappeared from my brain. I don’t even remember how to read telemetry anymore, I’m rusty with medications, and I feel like I forgot how to do a proper head-to-toe assessment. Obviously I’m going to review before I start, but I’m just so scared that I’m way more unprepared than I should be. Is this normal for new grads, or is something wrong with me? 😭 Did anyone else feel like they forgot everything before starting? submitted by /u/Weekly-Office-1391 [link] [comments]
i recently obtained a job and have been training for around 17 days. i feel so stupid 97% of the time, and i ask so many questions about the stupidest smallest things that i feel like my co-workers are getting sick of it. i can’t help but feel that my bosses want to get rid of me too because i’m not as exceptional as others, and there are better new grads than me with more experience and stronger personalities. each day i come in, i just feel dread and guilt because i feel like i’m slowing everyone down. a lot of people have told me it’s normal to not know what to do, but i feel like somehow i know even less and that i suck so bad. submitted by /u/Top_Mathematician286 [link] [comments]
Just doomscrolling through Indeed posts and going through another period of my life where I don't quite want to be a nurse anymore. I'm 25, I haven't even been at it that long. Don't get me wrong- I love my patients- but I'm tired. I am tired of a clinical setting. I am tired of lives in my hands. I am tired of being anxious dreading my next shift. I have worked both inpatient and outpatient, and honestly, all I'm looking for is something low-stress. Boring, even. I only have an ADN, so I'm sure not having a bachelor's limits my options, but I'd be willing to go get a different degree, take a pay cut, whatever. I am tired. I'd be willing to stay healthcare adjacent if it was something remote, but I know that's not realistic with how high demand those jobs are. ideally, the further I am from healthcare, the better. Is anyone leaving/has left? Where you heading? submitted by /u/indogneato [link] [comments]
Multiple Prime-owned hospitals across the country announced unionizing campaigns or strikes today! (blocked out faces for privacy!) submitted by /u/ChickenSedanwich [link] [comments]