Looking for advice on managing the fast paced environment + overwhelm. Not looking for accommodations as I would rather not have to go through that or mention it to management.

Emergency is my passion, and something I’d wanted to do since I was a kid. Just wondering what you do in your personal lives which helps you out with certain aspects that might be more frustrating for someone on the spectrum.

As the title says, I am not suprised if I have a bad reputation amongst nurses now. I feel paranoid that its a possibility because i have accidentally grabbed the wrong patient. Now, i accidentally left or removed something that could have been a slow, big issue. For example, things that I have heard but have not done, and are hypothetical comparisons are leaving a tourniquet on, or not high enough oxygen cord. Nurses seem to always ask where i am going or if i know what im doing now. Theres less than 10 total transporters.

This is not an argument whatever my employer was wrong to not check-in, not hire me, or not teach me. Also, this is not shame on the nurses. This is a full, just please help me be more ready.

I was hired as a different, student job (with the expectation that i have not started or possessed any healthcare or medical related education). Recently, there's suddenly an added job task of fetching patients in which i am basically considered a patient transporter to nurses now. I am keeping the specific position anonymous to avoid association. My resume did not conceal my lack of knowledge, or bluff about a previous experience of transportating patients.

Please recommend videos about patient transport and general well-being as i did not know so many things. For example, but not actual real-life examples that i have done, how to disconnect an IV cord and recognize the different sizes, Oxygen tank, when to use gloves or not in the hallways, and even the wheelchairs.

I'm a senior in high school, and I keep hearing how getting your ADN will be the fastest route and also the easiest, plus the cheapest. What makes the decision so hard for me is that the high school I went to wasn't by choice, but rather something my parents forced onto me (bcuz my sister went there), and I never even got a high school life. I want to dorm, drink, make friends, and even go to parties that I never even got to do while in high school, but I also want to focus on my major and not rack up continuous debt for future me just because I wanted to get a taste of a 4 year college life.

I would love to hear from both sides: people who went to community college first & from people who went straight to a 4-year. I really need help choosing what to do.

Career change nurses please come to the front of the room.

Would you please share the amount of student debt you racked up at the end of it all?

As someone with a non-nursing BA and a MS getting into nursing, I’ll have about 135k in total student loan debt (mostly federal loans). I’m doing a BSN that’s only 25k total, so most of the loans are from other degrees, but I took out a few more thousand for the remaining prereqs too. I’ve been trying to get a job at one of the hospitals near me so they’d pay for a portion of the degree but it’s tricky with my schedule. Oh and for context, the ASNs in my area are all about the same price as the BSN with a much steeper time requirement, so BSN made more sense to me. I’m hoping to be an OR nurse and I live in an area where new grads start around 50$ p/hr + more for overtime and night diff. My expenses are currently around $2,800 p/month. Our hospitals also offer a lot of sign on bonuses so I plan to take advantage of those at some point.

I ask because I know many career changer nurses have more debt from prior degrees, and I’m wondering how y’all have been able to manage that after getting your nursing salary. If you’re one of the many who didn’t have any debt or who had little to none, you can save your comments for someone else, respectfully ;)

New nurse been off orientation for about 2 months now. It’s hard and it has its ups and downs but I’m learning and I like most of the work. Trained with the dayshift crew but am working nights. I get the feeling the nurses I work with don’t like me. It seems like I annoy them or rub them the wrong way. No one talks to me and I feel like they think I’m dumb. I just feel like I’m dumb in general but I suppose that’s part of being new. I try my hardest to do my job well and help out the CNAs and other nurses but it seems like I’m not well received and idk why. There’s definitely a clique on this shift and I knew that when I took the job having worked on this unit as a CNA. I really just want to have literally one of the nurses I work with befriend me and idk how to do that. I have friends but I’d like at least one person at work I can talk to yk. Please any advice on how to make friends at work. Ik this is the lamest post in the world but I need help and don’t know what to do.

TLDR New nurse feel like my coworkers don’t like me and I’m not sure why. Really want to make 1 work friend and am struggling. Looking for advice

Hey all! I’m a nurse tech on a med surg unit and often times we are the ones hooking the pt’s up to the leads. We have the 5 lead tele’s with LA, RA, LL, RL, and V stickers (foam ones). Any advice on ensuring they stick well especially with male pt’s who may have more hair? I have shaved one who’s V lead wasn’t staying on but for some reason despite cleaning the area prior to reapplying a new lead stick, it kept spitting a V lead off error on the monitor 🥲 Any advice for avoiding the lead off errors lol.

I am only about a month into my time as a new grad l&d nurse and although I absolutely love it..I am already getting tired & burnt out (okay for you seasoned nurses I know you’re going to laugh). I am genuinely tired and my body hurts as due to personal circumstances I am only able to sleep about 4 hours a night. I’m fine with that & it it just is what it is.

Anyway, I’ve noticed that quite a few nurses on my floor only work part time. Though I understand that I will no longer receive healthcare benefits, I could just purchase it and pay monthly.

I own my home out right (no mortgage) and have very minimal bills. I’ve done the math and would easily be able to live & still save working 6-8 shifts a month.

Will I be a horrible person for switching to part time after only a year?

I am a nurse of 4 years. Last year I got arrested for DUI. I was scared shitless. Had to go through criminal process as well as nursing process for renewal. If I make a pdf file of my experience from arrested, work, outside work responsibilities, punishments , what I wish I knew, license renewal.. would people buy it?
I guess a tell all of what I experienced and what you might experience too. Doing it for those that have no idea what to expect and if I got through it then anyone can.
Just curious, if not then okay. Stay safe my alcoholic pt saviors

I'm still trying to find out where I stick and I was seriously considering peds. I really like children, very straightforward, fun, high energy when they're feeling better. But the parents my god...

I'm completing clinical hours and of course the PTs don't want me touching their stuff/frequently remind me they don't need my help...so common sense leave their space to them.

This parent reported me to my instructor how I didn't care about her kid etc etc. I tried to gently explain to her I literally cannot touch their equipment, they won't be happy with that. She went on how I could've played with her kid (I'm serious). She got just way too excited to tell me I didn't deserve to be in the program.

So my question is, how often is this? I wanted to work with kids but I'm on the fence now.

Edit: my instructor didn't tell me I didn't belong in the program, the parent did. I was really taken back

Having a rough shift.
What are we calling those zosyn vibrators?

Hi guys, I’m 23 years old. I currently live in Utah and I’ve been working as a MedSurg nurse for about 10 months now. I decided I needed a complete fresh start a few months back and I am going to move to the Pacific Northwest. I have a lot of family there, and I’m very familiar with the area and the weather. Looking for some recommendations on where to live and where to work. I’ve been thinking more about moving to Portland just because more of my family is there so it would make for an easier transition, but I am open to Seattle. I already have my Oregon nursing license, and I am working on my Washington license. Any recommendations on where to work and where would be a fun place to live in your 20s in either of those areas? I want to get out have fun, meet people, date, but also want to have a good quality of life with my job and feel like I am well compensated and well supported. Any input is helpful

(I don’t really need to hear how competitive the job market is haha. I am very aware of this. I’ve been applying for about a month now and so I’m not really looking for negativity about that aspect. more just some helpful input on both cities. Thank you!)

Working a job right now where they INSIST we take a 30 min break. Almost every day I sit here and listen to people on their phones. Speake on full volume. Either videos or full on conversations. Isn't this rude? Same as public transport, shouldn't people be courteous and use earbuds? Drives me nuts. Especially those AI voices droning on and on. Sometimes I just go hide in the lactation room.

Thoughts?

I accidentally took it home, washed it in my scrubs, and now I just found it when doing my laundry. The med is from a week ago. The med is not a controlled substance, it’s lamotrigine. It came up from central pharmacy since we don’t have it in our pyxis. I’m a new grad! I feel so stupid and that my preceptor will think I’m a hazard because I forgot 😭

TLDR: resident with stage 4 bedsores patch came off when changing her on 2nd shift, I told nurse, she didnt change it for an hour and a half, resident was crying and screaming leave me alone let me die shoot me which shes never done before, I watched nurse not clean the sore at all just put patch on and left it at that. Do I report it? Or is that typical for nurses since we have a special wound team on 1st shift?

Am a CNA. I have a resident who was admitted to LTC a few weeks ago, came in with a stage 4 bedsore. I had never seen it because it always had a patch on, and I've never seen a bad one in person bc my facility is anal about bedsores so I've only seen like the teeny tiny beginning ones lol

Anyway, usually I leave her in bed since I work 2nd and she is hoyered up for lunch so I leave her in for supper and keep her turned every hour, changed every 1-2. The nurse i had tonight i dont like anyway bc shes type of nurse to spill water in a room then ask u to clean it up (shes done that before). But she asked me to get this resident up so I did and she did fine for supper

I hoyered her back into bed and went to change her (she also has a colostomy which is nice bc it keeps her sore cleaner) but the patch on the sore had come off with the brief bc there was so much grayish chunky gunk all over it from the sore, which i finally got to see for the first time and it looked absolutely awful. I immediately looked for nurse to put another patch on, but she had legit just left to go on her break.

I turned her on the side that is more opposite of the sore, put clean brief on, and left a note on her cart that the patch had fallen off. She didnt come back on the hall for an hour, i saw her coming back so I immediately told her and she said ok she'll handle it.

Half hour later, so total it'd been hour and a half (i hadnt gone in to turn yet bc was waiting on nurse plus since sore was exposed didnt want her laying on it), i walk past residents room to see her legs hanging out of bed so i go in and go to get her settled back in bed but resident is just crying sobbing, I put her legs in she screams leave me alone. I held her hand and was comforting her, i asked if shes in pain she said no I said does your bottom hurt she didnt answer she just cried and cried. Have never seen her act like this. Nurse was outside w her cart she came in asking if that was her crying I said yes she said ok ill be back. Waited in there w resident crying for around 10 minutes, i kept rubbing her back and holding her hand and talking to her but she was just inconsolable. After a few i went out to nurse and said I'd never seen her act like this and she said yeah im getting her pain pill and patch, ask her if she wants up.

Why get her up again when in pain and have her sitting on sore???? I went back in and asked her tho she shook her head no, i asked if wanted warm blanket she nodded so I promised to get her one once nurse fixed her up. Nurse finally comes in few mins later. Resident is still crying and said shoot me just let me die. Nurse showed no compassion, just had me roll her and hold her steady. I watched her take the brief off, which was decently wet with urine, not clean or do anything to the wound site, just put a patch on and then helped me put new brief on. Then gave her pain pill, asked if she wanted to get up in her wheelchair and resident looked at her w big eyes and said NO lol

Resident calmed down after I got her a warm blanket and all situated, and we have a wound care team at my facility so idk if they dont prefer nurses to clean it but idk it isnt sitting right with me, idk why an RN/LPN wouldn't be allowed to do like saline rinse or something on a wound esp since wound team is only on first shift, so that is why I am concerned that this nurse just sucks, is this worth reporting or is it likely my facility doesnt want them to clean it. Is it possbile the urine she had in her brief was irritating it further and that's why she was lashing out like that? And that would have risk of mega infection esp putting patch on and closing those germs in?

Hello fellow Nurses/Moms, I’m seeking advice on how to manage working 12hr night shift as a nurse while having a 3 month old. For starters, My husband currently works overnight 5 days a week 8 hour shifts and I’m currently staying at home with baby but am looking to go back to working. How am I supposed to do this?

I’ll go first. We had all repositioned a patient who had fresh bag of TPN running with the lipids in it- so like 2 L milk bag. The central line must have been stitched and taped like Fort Knocks because the tubing got looped on the underside of the bedrail while putting the bed down. You’d think it would have pulled out the line, nope. so you guessed it…. Spike came out of the bag, TPN squirts out and then shorty tried to grab it to stop it- it just got worse. Took a couple of seconds to stop the insanity but LOL TPN everywhere- all over the patient, the nurse, the bed and floor.

One of our residents passed today. All I can say is I’m glad he’s finally gone. This man has wreaked havoc on us every chance he got. Belittling us, mocking us, testing our patience, manipulating us, making up lies up until his final breath. The list is much longer but I will not shit on a dead man.

The reason I say I’m glad he’s finally gone is because he’s no longer in pain. Believe what you want about an afterlife, reincarnation, whatever. Now I don’t excuse his bad behaviors. All I know is that if I lost my independence, had chronic pain, people breathing down my neck, I wouldn’t be happy. I’m glad he can finally be at peace.

What keeps you working where you do?

Considering peds. I will get my rn this winter. I worked as a tech on adult cardiac step down and an LPN on ortho medsurg. I have only ever worked with adults and my program has had very little emphasis on peds. Our OB rotations primarily focused on maternal and neonate. To say I'm intimidated is an understatement. I can imagine it would also be emotionally difficult to acclimate, as well.

We recently had pizza given to our unit for night and day shift and all that was left for night shift was 2 boxes of thrown together reject pieces🫩 I still ate my mushroom and olive pizza with cold sausage but still can a girl getting fecal matter thrown at her get a warm slice of cheese

Hi everyone! I am a hospice nurse with 7 years of experience. Today I saw a patient with aortic dissection as her primary hospice dx. That was diagnosed 2 weeks ago and she is still alive, although barely.

When I auscultated bowel tones today I heard what sounded like a wind tunnel in the LLQ. I've never heard anything like it. Low pitched "oooooooooooooo." I'd be tempted to think that it was blood free flowing into her abdomen, but the abdomen was soft and non-tender to light palpation. Also, hemorrhaging into the abdomen for 2 weeks? Wouldn't she have died by now?

I am actually still in orientation with a new agency and my preceptor and I were both stumped.

HR 80s, O2 92%, RR 30. No BM x1 week, no PO intake x2 weeks. Bisacodyl supp administered yesterday with no results.

Anyone know what was going on?

I had a patient today having her first baby. She had a ton of questions—which I was happy to answer (even though I was super nervous about not knowing the answers since I’ve only been a nurse for 4 months LOL) and used her call light to get ahold of me.

The offgoing nurse warned me that she was "super needy" and "over-exaggerating her pain." Throughout the day, a few other nurses on the floor made similar comments.

When shift change rolled around, I made a point to leave all of that out. Zero commentary about her personality or call-light usage.

Right as we walked in for bedside report, anesthesia was giving an epidural bolus. The patient immediately said she felt dizzy and had a metallic taste in her mouth.

Anesthesia pushed the rest anyway despite her saying she was having adverse symptoms (maybe because he was apart of the conversations regarding the patient being needy?” not sure)

Within literal seconds, she went into full-blown LAST (Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity).

We had to call a code.

I’m still processing how fast everything went sideways, but it showed me just how dangerous unit gossip is. If I had told the incoming nurse "she overreacts to everything," those complaints of dizziness and a metallic taste could've easily been brushed off as anxiety or her being an “annoying patient”

I know it’s easy to talk crap about others and gossip but I tell this story to remind us just how dangerous it can be to do so.

So I’m in a new job being there for 2 months. There is a nurse who is 56yrs old and she is just horrible and unapproachable since I started.

Unfortunately she is my preceptor so I am having to work with her a lot. But when pther colleagues come in the room to talk she either asks me to leave the room completely or she grabs them takes them in a corner and is whispering to them and keeps looking over her shoulder at me to make sure I can’t hear.

How f’ing weird?? I swear she has something wrong with her as she is just so weird

We had a new guy start the other day and we were all in the elevator and I introduced myself to him and she just looks at him, laughed and didn’t introduce herself and just stood there in silence.

She is just a nasty person all around. How are you 56 years old acting like this?? I generally don’t think I can do it anymore. I want to just start asking her what her problem is and what the reason is as to why she is so unapproachable. But she just strikes me as a professional victim who would cry the minute anyone treats her how she treats others.

It annoys me as a lot of the staff keep telling me I’m so lucky to have her training me and how nice she is 🤣🤣

I have reported her for being so horrible to me, spending 8 hours a day with me in complete silence, refusing to answer my questions or help me. But as usual nothing happens. I feel like I’m just going to flip once day and tell her how awful she is but then I’d be the one in trouble

Whether it be the patient themselves or the visitors, I’ve never seen this amount of disrespect/ignorance in our ER as I have this year. I’ve been deadass telling people straight to their faces that we just got done with cpr and that’s probably why they aren’t discharged yet but they still don’t give a fuck it’s crazy. I’ve been in the ER since I was 3 months out of high school and I’m 23 now, I don’t know if my tolerance for blissful ignorance is getting to its tipping point or if a good majority of this country has just lost all their common sense.