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I’m an LPN who has not worked as a nurse for almost 2 years, and I graduated 3 years ago. I had to take time off for personal health reasons. In my state, lpns can insert peripheral IV’s, administer IV medications and fluids, and give IV push medications per the BON. At my new grad job in acute rehab, I often administered IV antibiotics and fluids. However, these pts usually came to us with the IV already in, so I don’t have any clinical experience inserting them. I’m trying to get a job now, in acute rehab or medsurg again. With my employment gap, it looks like I’ll have to go the SNF/rehab route. However, these jobs notoriously do not provide adequate training. I’ve had recent interviews and all of these facilities provide IV therapy. My only experience inserting an IV was in nursing school 4 years ago, on a fake arm! Would taking 1 of those online refresher courses be worth it? I tried looking for in person refresher courses for nurses but don’t see any in my area! I also have no ph
I agree, it needed to be banned. TN was not prepared to handle the fallout before banning it. Anyone else seeing it at their hospital yet? submitted by /u/brittathisusername [link] [comments]
I’m so amped up right now even if I barely passed. I took the CCRN and failed by 2 points 3 days ago .. (dam ethics questions got me which are so tricky) I knew I could pass this test and didn’t want to have it on my mind anymore .. so I reloaded it ASAP while everything was fresh in mind and I passed with a 88/125. That may be a low score but honestly I’m just glad I can add this cert to my name! So happy. submitted by /u/osujayy [link] [comments]
Has anyone here done this? How did you go about it? I left after really bad burnout and dealing with mental health issues and a bad living situation. Got my shit together and ready to try again. But I don’t think my previous job would give me a very good review and I’ve been out of practice for awhile now, so I don’t even know where to begin. I have 10+ years psych experience but only 4 of those were as an LPN, and that one job was basically the entirety of my nursing experience. Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. I really need to get back to work and pay off my private student loans ;-; submitted by /u/oopsiepoopsey [link] [comments]
Looking back, I think starting off in Nuero Medsurg was not the best idea. There’s so much gray area, things that are gauged by interpretation, as well as TBIs. All nurses on that unit are ::eventually:: put through MOAB (management of aggressive behaviors) class. Powers that be on my unit sent me to that class in my 6th week. As corny as it sounds, I left feeling empowered. Before the MOAB class, during week 3, I had been sent in to administer blood and several push drugs to a young adult with a frontal TBI. He had punched nurses in the ER and had a red light outside of his room. As his nurse, he had already spent the first half of the day yelling at my preceptor and I while being visibly agitated. Problems began when my nurse manager stated after that ordeal, that “I seemed hesitant to deal with some of our patient population. Do I think I can care for our TBIs moving forward?” This is when I pointed out that I had not yet been trained to deal with situations like that. Yes, I was he
I was working in a NYC hospital during the first wave. I had been a nurse for about two years. My mind still brings up COVID times multiple times a month, usually in a passing thought or two. More often when I'm at work - especially since I still wear a (simple) face mask in every patient's room ("I can't believe we didn't mask up for every single patient before COVID."). Sometimes I will spend a long time just pondering and remembering those days, like watching a documentary film or making sure I don't forget. I wouldn't say I get flashbacks, but I just... remember it a lot. The makeshift units in hallways and outside the hospital, the extra morgue trucks, the paper bags for our single N95 (I remember one day the nurses on the unit decorating their paper bags with markers when they had a breather), the emails from hospital administration telling us not to make a big deal of what was happening or gaslighting us, the times management would scold us for pushing back on lack of PPE or tes
Typo : proud moments 🫣 I came home from work today feeling my super powers. I looked after a patient 1:1 who has been super aggressive to staff in their 3 week admission. Security called several times every day. Spitting, punching, throwing things. Verbal aggression & threats. The whole family is super irrational and egging the patient on. Home life must be absolute chaos. It's been escalated to the TOP-top levels of consultants & execs in my major metro hospital, who are about to legally take away the decision making capacity. Patient is in 4 point restraints and furious about it. And baby they were like a lamb for me. Not at first, I copped my share of verbal abuse and threats of violence. But I was just calm and rational and by halfway through the shift they just basically went "ok I'll behave". I was able to give all the care they needed and we chatted for about 2 hours about their life (born into a biker gang, so have never known anything but violence and crime). Was able to relea
My dad had unexpected surgery Wednesday and is in the hospital. It’s July 4 today, and my sister and I are going to celebrate with him in his room. We’re going to pick up some fried chicken and cookies, and I thought it would be nice to order extra to give to the nursing staff on his floor who have to work on the holiday. They have been amazing. I asked about it and was told it’s fine as long as the food doesn’t come into his room first. Then I got curious about whether doing this was a good idea or not, so I thought I’d ask this group. How do you think a few buckets of fried chicken and a tray of cookies would go over? Is there something else we could do that would be more appreciated? Edit: Thanks for the replies! Happy Fourth of July everyone! 🇺🇸🎆 Update: Fried chicken, mac n cheese, watermelon, and cookies have been dropped off! We separated and labeled the food for the night shift. Thanks for all the recommendations. submitted by /u/carpe_diem_yolo [link] [comments]
Hey everyone! Before I get into my issue, I’ll give some quick background on myself, I’m a recent new grad as of last year and secured my first position! I work at a hospital on the detox unit overnights. Now the issue. As charge, I have the unfortunate duty of making patient assignments. Someone is almost always upset about not having the “easiest” patients on our 20 bed unit that is almost never filled to capacity. This morning I got reamed by a float nurse because he had 3 patients, who were all medically stable, polite, cooperative, you name it. This nurse was also made aware there was a POTENTIAL admission that may be added to their assignment upon day shift but that would be up to the day charge and other nurses to see who would take them. This guy immediately gets upset DURING report as I address the team and says “Oh of course you’re dumping on the float, aren’t you? These patients are new admits, I don’t even know them, you should know better than to give them to a float.” I w
I graduated in May of 2020 so got to experience Covid wreaking havoc. Started on a med surg floor. Came in one day not that long after getting off orientation to an awful assignment- I just didn‘t know it yet. 3/5 of my patients covid positive. 1st patient CIWA in the 30s, 4 point restraints, delirium tremors, pumping him full of 3-4mg of Ativan every 2 hours. Doc had been notified of his condition but didn’t want to transfer to ICU to keep beds open for Covid patients. Dude needed a precedex drip. Went in to assess patient 2-couldn’t keep his sats up, RT put him on a non rebreather and recommended transfer to ICU. Gave report to ICU. Just as I was getting ready to transfer him down, third patient who was also Covid positive coded. Gave report on that patient to the same ICU nurse who was like, “You’re having a bad day, aren’t you?” Don’t remember my other 2 patients because I basically had to ignore them. Oh and also want to punch the person who gave me a Covid positive insulin drip r
Honestly, I’m starting to get a little burnt out. I never thought I would say that because I’ve only been a nurse for two years, but recently our unit, good ol medsurg tele, specifically night shift, has been stepped and trashed on as the hospital dumping grounds. I’m not sure if it’s because we got a new unit manager a few months ago, or if it’s because of things out of her control like hospital staffing on other units, and it’s likely the latter, but when I’m telling you that every. single. one. of. us. have been floating a minimum of once a week… sometimes twice a week… If I’m not floated, a lot of the time we will have 7 nurses scheduled on for a night, they will float three of them, leaving us with 4 nurses for a 32 bed unit and we will all get flexed up to six patients. Their excuse every time is “the other units are short staffed and we are overstaffed for the census”. Okay well that’s the census at 5pm before the emergency room has time to fill up. Come 8pm when we’re all doing
Picture this. It is 6:55 and everyone is waiting for report. One patient hit the call bell because their IV pump is screaming and four nurses hear it, and yet they keep staring at their computers. One gets up without saying a word. That is the nurse that everyone wants beside them when the floor becomes hell. Degrees or Experience does not impress me anymore, Show me what you have got when no one is watching you. submitted by /u/xavier_in [link] [comments]
Picket line at Vanvouver General Hospital July 7. Tell all the nurse influencers! submitted by /u/PdxOrd [link] [comments]
I have been a nurse/RN for close to 5 years now with my ADN. Nursing school was absolutely brutal for me, like I genuinely fought my way to that NCLEX. So much so that I had genuinely no desire to ever go through nursing school again. Fast forward to now, I’ve truly found my place, fortunately yet unfortunately in the acute care setting in a large hospital….where the BSN is required. I’ve been absolutely dreading it. I finally got to a point mentally where I just finally took the dive and started an online program. And immediately out of the gate, I get a 76% on the first “big” assignment we had. Now I’m just riddled with anxiety because what the heck have I gotten myself into??? I haven’t written anything in APA format since 2021. And I know there’s nurses who are going back to school and they’ve been out of school for 20+ years and I literally can’t imagine what kind of issues they’re having. But holy crap it’s literally giving me like imposter syndrome LOL. How did I do this before?
I am on the struggle bus. I had an RN position but was on long term disability and got let go when they were taken over by another hospital (about two weeks before I was cleared to go back to work). I have been trying since April to get a new position and no dice. What the heck is going on in San Diego? I am finishing my MSN (just 100 hours of preceptorship to complete) and recently finished my WOCN and am taking the exams now. Ive been applying to floor nursing jobs and wound jobs if they come up (although that’s less likely for me to get since I haven’t passed my exams for that yet). What’s a girl gotta do to get a job these days as an experienced nurse??? submitted by /u/Practical_Platform76 [link] [comments]
I recently was released from my new grad residency program in a NICU due to failure to progress during orientation at the speed that was expected by leadership. I would rather not dwell on the specifics of this as I put every ounce of effort I could into improving and ultimately the unit turned out to not be a good fit. I am devastated and unsure what comes next for me. This experience has made me realize that acute care may not be for me, but I’m unsure of what other options there as so many people say new grads must pay their dues and do bedside in order to explore other areas of nursing. I am very passionate about public health and have a prior degree in public health so I would love to pursue public health or community nursing but know that those positions are competitive as well. I would really appreciate any advice or recommendations from people on how I can make a game plan to bounce back from this and what steps I can take career wise. Thanks so much, looking forward to the wis
I’ve been in a critical care setting since graduation for about 9 months. Apparently others are talking badly about me because I still haven’t had an intubated patient assigned to me. I guess it makes me seem incompetent. What are your thoughts? submitted by /u/Cschyd [link] [comments]
Edit #2 Thank you all for the kind words. Unfortunately we made the decision to let him go. After making it through the Cath he coded in the ICU. They gave him more epi than is standard and it wasn't doing anything. I couldn't put him through any more suffering. I am a later in life career change nurse. Just passed the NCLEX at the end of May. Haven't even started my new job yet. My husband had an inferior STEMI this evening. I'm actually in the ICU waiting room while he is in the Cath lab. I saw him collapse and immediately did what I was supposed to do. He collapsed in an awkward position so I was trying to get him to where I could do CPR while on the phone with 911. But I panicked. This was the first time I ever had to do CPR. I don't think I did enough and now I'm questioning if I should even be taking care of people. As a nurse how do you get past the guilt of treating a family member?. He went into cardiac arrest 6 times at the ED and it took a while to get him stable enough to g
I started off in med surg as a new grad in 2021. Worked nights and with the second big wave of COVID, I was getting mandated 1-2x/week. So I burnt out very quickly and didn’t last long. I left in July 2022, went to the OR for 6 months, and then realized my mental health was at its ultimate worse and decided that outpatient was the best for me in that time. I’ve been working in outpatient OB/GYN for 3.5 years now. Originally I loved outpatient because of the stability. Working 8-5, Mon-Fri and no weekends or major holidays. I’ve been able to truly focus on both my mental and physical health after spending all of nursing school and first year of nursing neglecting myself. I feel the better than I’ve ever had before!! But now I’m starting to think I want to go back to the bedside. While outpatient providers stability, working the typical 8-5 is now starting to drain me (I never minded the 12 hour shifts). I love women’s health, so I think I want to possibly go into L&D or postpartum, but
Honestly, I’m starting to get a little burnt out. I never thought I would say that because I’ve only been a nurse for two years, but recently our unit, good ol medsurg tele, specifically night shift, has been stepped and trashed on as the hospital dumping grounds. I’m not sure if it’s because we got a new unit manager a few months ago, or if it’s because of things out of her control like hospital staffing on other units, and it’s likely the latter, but when I’m telling you that every. single. one. of. us. have been floating a minimum of once a week… sometimes twice a week… If I’m not floated, a lot of the time we will have 7 nurses scheduled on for a night, they will float three of them, leaving us with 4 nurses for a 32 bed unit and we will all get flexed up to six patients. Their excuse every time is “the other units are short staffed and we are overstaffed for the census”. Okay well that’s the census at 5pm before the emergency room has time to fill up. Come 8pm when we’re all doing
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This is insulting for 5 8 hour days. Is Ohio one of the lower paying states? In Michigan usually around 2k/week for LpN and they’re 12s submitted by /u/CodyJoelOwen13 [link] [comments]
MeeMaw is 102, has dementia, is A&O x1, has no teeth, has no bladder/ bowel control, weighs 86 pounds, and has Afib w/ RVR. The doctor came in to discuss changing Meemaw to DNR. Family said NO! She’s fully aware of everything (A&O x1 doesn’t mean she’s number 1)! She has a lot left to live for, and we’re just trying to get rid of her, according to tbe family. If she codes, we’re going to end up breaking every rib in her body. When I first saw her age and full code, I thought it was a typo. I fucking cannot do this shit. She’s going to code and end up in ICU taking up extra resources because the family refuses to let her go. What could be a peaceful transition is going to be a painful event - if she even survives it. I can’t see her surviving a code at this point. submitted by /u/Unlimitedpluto [link] [comments]
Ive always heard from co-workers that healthcare workers who have been on the other side of healthcare end up being the worst patients. I personally would feel like i would be a better patient because I understand how hard nurses work. Whats your opinions and own experiences on this matter? submitted by /u/prettylittleRN [link] [comments]
Nursing wasn’t my first choice of a career and I’ve spent time working on not letting my emotions get to the best of me when dealing with incompetent people Shitty nurse? Fine. Shitty CNA? Fine. Shitty unit manager? Whatever what’s new. I can handle working with that as long as it doesn’t affect my patient’s care. Now a shitty HR? Ok I can’t do this anymore because now who am I supposed to come to with anything?? So please. I need ideas and suggestions on what other jobs that some nurses have transitioned to once they decided nursing isn’t something they can no longer work in. Sigh thanks. submitted by /u/dbl0svnx [link] [comments]
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I work on a med surg unit. Had an admission (my 5th pt) get admitted with active DKA. Had Q1 blood glucose checks, on an insulin drip, with LR + D5W fluids, and hung 4 bags of potassium q1h to prevent hypokalemia. (Potassium was within a normal range on admission). Anion GAP 26, bicarb 13, BG on admission was in the 300s. Such a sweet patient, when I left her labs were all good and oncoming RN was to discuss plan of care with day provider as patient could likely come off drip Is this appropriate for med surg? This was my first ever insulin drip. and with 4 other pts it felt difficult to time manage as I wasn’t checking in with them as frequently - however they were not nearly as critical Curious as to what other nurses think? Is this pretty common for other med surg nurses? submitted by /u/icedcoffee1976 [link] [comments]
Thoughts on this crazy case? The article says the doctor isn't facing any charges, either! submitted by /u/RNnoturwaitress [link] [comments]
Picture it. You work night shift. It’s 7:30am and you’ve been watching the day shift nurse look up all his patients for the last 20 minutes instead of offering to take report. Right then at 7:30am, your patient calls and says they had a BM - you’ve been waiting for a stool sample. When you give report to the day shift nurse after he finally decides he’s ready, he says to you “can you go get that stool sample and send it off before you leave?” submitted by /u/Minimum-Possible-415 [link] [comments]
Nursing school spends so much time prepping you for the Level 1 trauma scenario — crashing patient, alarms going off, ten people in the room, attending there in two minutes, everything runs by protocol. Then you graduate and end up at a 200-bed community hospital and it's 2am, your patient's O2 sats are trending down, and it's just you, one other nurse, and a phone call to the on-call doc who's barely awake. I've actually learned more about trusting my own assessment in the last year than I did through all of clinicals combined. But I wish someone had told me that "real nursing" for most of us doesn't look like an ER episode. It looks like standing in a dimly lit room at 3am trying to figure out if that subtle change is something or nothing. Anyone else feel like nursing school clinicals should include mandatory night shifts at a small hospital? submitted by /u/WyattNurse2000 [link] [comments]
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We got some new policies rolling out, one of them bans meta glasses (agree), smartphones, and smart watches. Mind you, doctors, management, supervisors, and charge nurses are apparently exempt since they keep coming in with their smart watches while actively telling us we can't have them. I'm sick of the micromanagement and hypocrisy. submitted by /u/vivalalyn [link] [comments]
Hi everyone, I’m unable to really ask this question to my coworkers because I don’t have any (we all work different shifts). I am a home health nurse to 1 young child who receives home health nursing via Medicaid. I’m new to home health nursing. My question is this, how much are pediatric home health nurses doing that is more in the parenting/babysitter realm? These parents expect me to play and read to their child all day, we don’t go outside, we don’t do activities, it’s a really really long day. When I’m with my own child, I don’t even play with them 7a-7p with NOTHING else to do. The parents also leave the house entirely for hours and hours sometimes to go to the movies, do other things. I watch her while they make dinner, watch Tv, etc… so she isn’t a distraction. Gee, I wish I had that type of service when I’m trying to make dinner with my toddler but instead I have to multi task while she unloads every pot out of my kitchen cabinets. I feel like my patient sees me more the she s
31M Bay Area nurse here. 6+ years experience in inpatient psychiatry; adult, adolescent, pediatric, and chemical dependency. To get down to brass tacks, I absolutely despise my career. I originally got into nursing because I spent four years at community college with no real ideas, I was good at biology, and I needed a job that paid more than minimum wage. Nursing was sold to me as a rewarding, well paid career with a reasonable work life balance and time to figure out what I actually want to do with my life. I initially sort of enjoyed it, but after six years of being repeatedly assaulted by people who don’t want my help and dealing with our satanic management, I’m officially at my wits’ end. I want out. Not just out of psych, but out of the whole circus. Unfortunately, six years of psych experience doesn’t exactly scream “hire me!” To any other nursing jobs, let alone jobs that don’t involve nursing at all. I make about four times as much money as my partner, so a significant reducti
I was let go from a job I held for almost 16 years. I was 2 months shy of 16 years. The last 7 of those years of coming in when needed, picking up extra, working 12+ hour shifts. Working 6 days in a row at 12+ hours. Coming in early, leaving early only to be able to have the required 8 hrs off to come in for an earlier shift the next day. I was let go because I called in for being sick. Too many call ins over a 6 month period. For being sick. Years of covering others shifts because they were sick. Years of switching with others because they needed a day off. Was I burnt? Did that lead to my immune system being off that I caught everything just by being around it? Maybe. I worked ER, ICU, Med/Surg and House Super as needed. Primary was ER. I could also cover LTC because I was trained in ALL those departments. Nobody else I worked with is able to do that. Bummed doesn’t begin to describe it. Thing is, I didn’t wanna leave bedside nursing. I’ve applied and applied and applied and been tur
Had a patient today, ANO x4. 40s. I was taking his vitals, and we were chatting. He asked me if I worked during COVID. I did not. I made a comment that "we lost a lot of nurses during COVID". I do realize I could've phrased it a little bit better, but I was referring to the fact a lot of nurses left. He was surprised by this. He asked me, "How could you leave your livelihood? Something you went to school for? Like they just left?" The example I gave him is typical ICU ratios are like 1-2 patients, right? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but you were going up to 4 during COVID. (This was per my aunt who was an ICU nurse at the time. She had 4 and was charge). This blew his mind. I tend to make it a rule to not talk about politics at work, but I added in that it was even harder with a lot of the anti-science things that came out. It really hit me that people outside of healthcare don't get it. I went on to say that if there was another pandemic, the healthcare system would probably collap
I’ve been working as a nurse in acute care and mental health for just 2.5 years, and I was thinking today that we never learned anything about death/dying. Obviously we learned about the million different causes of death, but we received no education on end-of-life care, medications used for comfort in palliative and hospice settings, post-mortem care, how to support families through grief, or how to navigate our own grief when a patient passes. In almost every nursing setting, we will encounter death, so I feel odd realizing we never received any education on it in school… I remember getting my first patient who wanted to opt for MAiD and not really knowing what to say to her. When I was new, I didn’t know how to navigate conversations about death with patient’s loved ones… and of course I have cried when patients have died without understanding that this sort of grief is normal. Did ya’ll receive education on death/dying? If not, do you wish you did? If you did receive education on d
I'm an ICU nurse. Had a patient last night who was hypoxic. Very confused. Bit me, kicked me, kept calling me a bitch and an awful nurse. Screaming all night. This went on for hours. Maxed on precedex and getting Ativan pushes. Neither working. Restrained so no bipap but on high flow. Residents, charge, attending aware of behavior. Residents/attending were trying to avoid intubating her. By the end of the night, I was starting to get snippy and just overall exhausted from this lady but still was obviously respectful and professional. Anyways, I come back tonight and patient is aox4. Doing much better. Apparently zyprexa did the trick and her status improved. I walk in and immediately begin telling her she looks so much better and l am so glad to see she's doing well. What does she tell me? That I was a bitch and that I should know that being bit/kicked is a part of the job and I need to get used to it. And she's totally alert and oriented. I'm just...I don't know. I never ever imagined
I started a position in an ICU in February and I can’t stand it. I’ve never hated a job like this. I dread going to work on my days off, I have panic attacks before shifts and after shifts. I was put on anxiety and depression medications. I hate watching all of my patients die. I hate keeping patients alive who want to die. It took me 6 years of college to get my degree (switching majors, and struggling with microbiology) and I’m terrified that I’ve done all of that just to hate it. I’m scared to go to my managers and ask them about what I should do. So I guess I’m here to see if anyone else felt like this. Does it get better? Will the panic and dread and fear go away? Will switching units or specialties help? Or is there somewhere where I won’t be scared of hurting someone every time I do anything at work. I don’t usually make posts like this but I’m desperate. I’m tired and I don’t know how much longer I can do it if it feels like this. submitted by /u/annistonblondie [link] [comment
This coworker wrote a MIDAS on me (my first one ever) because when I was the relief nurse, I took her patient down for a quick head CT. I returned him to the room and told her we were back but she needed to settle him in because I was behind on my other breaks for being in CT. She snapped at me for turning off and disconnecting both tube feeds and Lasix gtt. I was gone for maybe 15-20 minutes. It quickly spread that day to the charge nurse and the rapid response nurse ( even though they told her, they would have done the same thing as me and not to submit a MIDAS) apparently she still did. Management ended up just rolling their eyes and chuckling about the situation, basically it’s a non issue. But today I hear that she presented the situation to the ICU council committee and they all turned on her, stating she was in the wrong and she will lose trust in others if she keeps Submitting MIDAS’. I’m kinda livid, not because of the MIDAS, because had I stopped a pressor or inoprtope ( with
I work in a VERY sick medical ICU. They just hired OVER 20 NEW GRADS that are going to be starting over the next month. They are asking people to precept who haven’t even been off orientation for a year… IN A VERY SICK MICU!! They’ve already said at huddle that almost everyone will precept at some point. This is what happens when hospitals refuse to pay experienced nurses well. Our unit is going to be extremely unsafe for the next 8 months. Wish me luck yall. submitted by /u/xCB_III [link] [comments]
The MNA has been fighting for a fair contract for over a year. submitted by /u/Redbandana325 [link] [comments]
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Oh you had to wait months to see your physician and then fight with your insurance to get prior authorization for an MRI? And then you had to wait weeks to even get scheduled? And then you had to wait another 2-3 months to even get the MRI? Must suck to be poor! You should be rich and get a private MRI like Mindy. Be proactive, not reactive - dummies! submitted by /u/SuspiciousMap9630 [link] [comments]
Hey guys, it’s me again. I followed everyone’s advice and got another job offer. I’m in SoCal, 2 years ICU experience in the Philippines, 7 months MS/Tele experience in the US. I just migrated last Nov 2025. Now I know the obvious choice is the ICU, that $20 difference per hour would be a big help to me and my family back home. BUT I am scared af. The unit manager gave me a tour of their ICU and it’s nothing I’ve ever seen before. I don’t know how to use pyxis or epic (my current hospital uses meditech and omnicell). I don’t know ECMO or how to use fancy ICU equipments. Back home we didn’t even have feeding pumps or CNA or even computer charting. I was honest with this during my interview. I’m genuinely surprised they even hired me lol. They did highlight how much they liked my personality tho. 🤷🏻♀️ I’ve been self studying on my days off. I’ve been reading “Critical Care Nursing made incredibly easy” and “AACN essentials of critical care nursing”. They want me to start July 27. Their
I’m a new grad and just experienced for the first time my patient passing during my shift. She had terminal cancer & had an acute illness in which she declined for surgical intervention and decided for inpatient hospice care. It was my first day taking care of her & the previous nurse told me they finally got her comfortable after turning her. My entire shift, I spent a lot of time trying to reposition her to a comfortable spot that would help alleviate her pain. Despite boluses for pain, nothing would help. She kept groaning. Near the end of the shift, the tech and I attempted to turn her to a different position to get her comfortable and then 2 hours later, she had passed. I can’t stop thinking that maybe I caused her to pass away quicker, or maybe it’s because we turned her to the other side that it happened. Did i cause too much stress for her? I thought she was having urinary retention so we placed a Foley catheter & she was retaining about 700. Maybe the foley stressed her out to
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lol moment Hit with a heavy assignment, I said 'you can't be serious' to a nurse manager but not my nurse manager. Got a verbal warning about inappropriate work conduct and how to remain professional. submitted by /u/Majestic_Flower_7772 [link] [comments]
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i have a tech whos rly interested in medicine and i think shes in premed and everytime i have her assigned to my pod (our ed has different pods of different rooms) she follows me around like a shadow as if im precepting her. like she watches my charting, she comes in to listen to convos between me and the docs and the patients, shes constantly tryna tell me nursing tasks like “u should put the pulse ox on the forehead” (horrible example but thats the gist), she talks to the patients and visitors as if shes the nurse like “we’re gonna do some bloodwork to test for this and stuff” how would u feel about it and how would u go about it without being mean submitted by /u/cool-beans1013 [link] [comments]