I had a patient the other day who was a nurse and a family member and oh boy was it the most frustrating experience. Patient was a sweet older gentleman. Family member was a nurse on a different unit. She was HORRIBLE! This guy spoke Spanish as his second language but spoke English very well. He even worked as a cashier! The daughter was awful. Would not let staff talk to the patient in English, refused to let us use an interpreter service and stayed overnight despite KNOWING we have a policy against it. She demanded a private room despite the patient being a good candidate for a shared room. She refused to let nursing staff do their own assessment, demanded we give the medications she asked for without any context or being able to do any kind of personal assessment. Every time we walked in the room she micromanaged how and when cares were done. She used her badge to access supplies. I couldn’t believe it. I tried to gather information and provide cares as best I could but ultimately decided this patient was better cared for by a different nurse. But seriously, you are a nurse AND AN EMPLOYEE! Since when is this acceptable behavior?

Due to my work schedule, I can't do in-person classes to complete my prerequisites right now. So I was looking online and found straighter line as an option. I was wondering If anyone else has used them to complete their prerequisites and if your college accepted them. How long does it typically take to complete all pre requisites?

Hi everyone,

So I’ve been a nurse on a cardiovascular step down unit for almost 2 years now. I’m just getting tired of only night shift and just how crazy busy it is. They’re also changing our unit in June to an IMC status, so we’ll get stable trached vents and some pressors, but seemingly no more staff support and 3:1 ratio. We supposedly are 3:1 ratio now, but get 4 patients often, so I don’t know if I trust that the ratio will actually be honored. I recently applied to a vascular surgery position. It is a 8-5, M-F job. Everyone seemed really nice when I shadowed. The nurses mostly chart prep for the surgeons and see patients, but no real clinical hands on stuff. My only worry is I will feel like I’m always at work, but it would be nice not to have to work weekends and nights. Also, would I ever be able to go back to bedside if I didn’t like it/get a more procedural job like outpatient surgery in the future if I don’t come from inpatient directly?

Thanks everyone!

I’m wondering if you can do travel work with a pre-nursing degree and if it would be worth it. Has anyone done this before?

Hi! I am currently looking at nursing schools to apply to for my junior and senior year, and NYU is my top choice! I'm just wondering, does NYU accept community college transfers from a different state to pursue a BSN program their junior and senior year? And what do I need in order to be accepted (stats, GPA, experience)? Thank you!

My new department manager is wanting all the nurses, despite their specialty, to work in different areas of the unit. I work in a prep/recovery unit. We have neuro,cardiac, IR, vascular, gi, bronch, etc. Most of the nurses were hired to work in specific areas. The new manager now wants everyone to now work in every area. Most of the nurses have been on the unit 10 years or more and are now having to work in areas not trained. Is there anything we can do? Also, the physicians are very upset about this. They want the experienced nurses working on their patients. This is causing multiple people to search for new jobs. So much for employee satisfaction!

In the summer I plan on taking a 8 week CNA course, I want to gain expirence in the Nursing field and see if I like it. I am also enrolled in a community college taking my pre reqs to become an RN, but my biggest dream in life is to write books and become an author but I have no motivation. What do you guys think, is being a CNA worth it, if not what would you recommend?

Is ambulatory surgery really less stressful than bedside? Pros and cons from those that have done both? I have 9 months at the bedside and I’m over the shift work(Night Shift🙃) long hours, and just bedside in general…. Almost rethinking my career but might try ambulatory surgery before I go to something else completely

What’s a typical day?

I love IVs so that may help lol

Pro’s/con’s? How was the transition? Did you feel supported through the learning curve? Is it terribly boring? Did you take a pay cut, and is it worth it?

I said what i said! They are inconsistent with sizing and just overall not comfortable in my opinion! Ive tried the fabletics brand and i do like it a little better than figs but i find the tops to feel constricting! Im really over the one pocket top tuck into bottoms craze… im also not a fan of jogggers. I want something cute and flattering! What is everyone wearing? Ive been looking into jannu lately!

I've got questions about how you handle your weekly team conferences. We're currently brainstorming ideas of how to make our more effective.

So im a CNA and i was looking into becoming a nurse eventually because of a combination of both pay and job security anywhere i go but i keep on seeing post about how the job is miserable and you get paid nothing and talking about switching to jobs like a software engineer and just wanted to ask.

Is it really that bad? Is the pay gap that wide compared to other jobs for similar or less work? Is the job security less secure and less universal anywhere you move then it seems?

I currently reside in Ohio and need a new change. Ohio is cheap but very boring. I lived here for about 13 years now, originally from Brooklyn and moved out when I was 18 with family. I miss the city life and was thinking about moving back to NY. I am 30 years old, single and no kids. I feel like I am wasting my life here in Ohio. My worries for New York are transportation as I drive a vehicle. I heard parking in ny is horrible, I honestly can’t parallel park lmao. I am worried about leaving my car a couple blocks away. How is the nursing culture there? I am a pediatric nurse and only work in that specialty as adults is not my calling. Is the pay good? I currently make $ 36 + per hr which is decent for Ohio.

Has anyone on here worked for Maximus as a functional assessor before? I just need some advise on the recruitment process and what's it like working there? I'm trying to transition to a Non clinical role for family reasons.

What’s everyone’s advice to fast track to case management?

Hi all! I’m a med surg/tele nurse who is really getting sick of this profession. I’m not sure I want to be a nurse at all anymore. I just have no idea what I’d do. This is the only job I’ve ever had. Has anyone left nursing for another career?

hi! i am a new grad who requested to rotate- from the CCU because I just feel so burnt out from the bullying of my co workers, including the charge nurses and the head nurses. I can count in one hand the number of seniors who are slightly friendly to me and would still have a number or two fingers to spare.

Anyways, I'll be starting at a new ward tomorrow, medsurg I think haha and I'd probably have worse nurse pt ratio than that outside of our CCU which is our post icu unit, composed of 6-10 patients.

Any advice on how to adjust, how to manage time, nursing hacks, how to treat potential bullies (i know i can never get rid of them wherever i go)

i want to start anew here because everyone seems to hate me from the CCU no matter what I do.

I have also been trying to reflect about what I did wrong to make them hate me but I guess I can't just please everyone. I think it started with a bad 16 hour shift leaving me exhausted and was sent to the ER because I passed out. After I woke up I checked my phone and saw dozens of messages telling me how inconsiderate of me (to be sick) and maybe my work is not important to me because i dont have a family yet (i'm 23, a new grad, only have a nice caring boyfriend who brings me treats at work)

One time a patient's relative gave me a box of donuts, ive put it in the station and one of my coworkers said

"wow, who's is this?"

"i think it's (my name's), it's your's right?"

me: "yep!" (i still cant eat it since im busy prepping meds)

"okay, let's get 2 each" said one coworker.

there were only 6 donuts and there were 3 of them, leaving me with nothing. I was speechless, but not surprised. They hate me that much and couldn't give less fucks probably.

anyways, any advice would be of great help!

Specifically looking for nurses with insight into the ICU. Currently at a pretty busy, high acuity, frequent 1:1 assignment position and would like to gather information with intention of possibly applying in the future. Thanks in advance everyone!

Hello, has anyone here worked as a Medsurg RN or Cardiac RN in St. Lukes Bayor? They’re offering Cardiac Day Shift and Med Surg night shift. I really am a night shift girlie but hesitant with med surg cause I think it’s finally time for me to leave med surg and chill a bit lol

But also, I’m a bit hesitant doing day shifts cause I know it’ll be hard for me to wake up every single morning! I’m not a morning person 100%. Though being a Cardiac RN means I’m stepping up my game and could easily open doors for me to get into either CCU or cath lab…

Help! 😭.

I work in NICU and paediatrics. I've been here for about 5 months.

I noticed that some experienced nurses don't believe what I have to say about my patients. For example, there was one time when I had to measure the length of a premature baby. It was a tiny baby - his length was about 40 cm. When I told my experienced colleague, she said, "really? Did you use the scale?"

I was using a paper tape but I let her measure the baby by using an infant scale. I was right. It was indeed 40 cm.

There was another example where I had a mother who was producing good milk and she was breastfeeding her baby. This is important when you calculate the input and output. When I was giving a report to another colleague, she interrupted me and said that the mother does not have a good milk supply. Even though she has years of experience, she has never had this patient before but I have for the past 2 months. I got frustrated and just gave up.

How do you deal with this?

Anyone here works in a nursing home and hired dietitians? I have few questions to ask.

Anyone work PRN at INOVA? Specifically float pool?

Just curious pay rates and PRN requirements. Thank you 🙏🏻

Am I the asshole? I get annoyed when I get a crappy report and realize things about the patient and find myself saying “this would have been nice to know!” So to prevent doing this to others, I believe in giving a full report on a patient to the oncoming nurse if they have not already had the patient the previous day. I do this in front of the patient at managements insistence. I can sense the annoyance. Some nurses don’t even write notes (don’t tell me you can remember everything because you can’t). I do understand that for many nurses they’d rather look up the patient themselves (we should do so anyway) but if that’s the case we should just get rid of report all together. But of course we won’t because 1. It’s EBP to do so and 2. Managers/Satisfaction scores.

A couple more reasons I believe it’s important to give full report: -We are human and can miss things (which is why you former waitresses who can remember everything should still write down patient reports). -I don’t ever want another nurse saying that “the previous shift nurse didn’t mention that in report.” -I believe families appreciate it and as annoying as it is to have family members interject with irrelevant shit, sometimes they are right to bring things up and will mention something that I would have failed to mention during the report. -I have a high standard, hard on myself and want to do a great job. Giving a half ass report creates a moral injury for me because I believe I’ve knowingly done a poor job. So….Am I the asshole for insisting on full reports?

im expecting this to get a lot of negative comments but hopefully I can get a few answers. Does anyone know anything about this for Florida healthcare workers? Im entering nursing school and wondering if this applies for clinical. Thank you i really appreciate any feedback from those working there or who have gone through nursing school recently.

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Are there actual case management related positions that doesn’t involve screwing patients over to save money for the insurance company? I’ve been trying to get into case management and have become disappointed to learn it’s less about helping patients find resources and more about helping the insurance make money.

When patients come in on these anti-diabetic drugs, like SGLT2-i, GLP-1 agonists, DPP-4 inhibitors, does your hospital try to continue normal use or switch to insulin while inpatient?

(We had an interesting case of euglycemic DKA related to use of an SGLT2-i which made me wonder what practices surrounding these drugs were at other hospitals)

What do you think about changing paths from nursing to physician assistant? Have any of you considered this? I'm feeling discouraged with people telling me how 'bad' nursing is—as they're non-healthcare workers. I would love to know your thoughts.