#nursing adventures

[baristaoverlord]

Working in the Ed at a level one trauma center is wild because you can go from having a mass casuality incident and trauma critcal after critical patient, to bagging a dead 19 year old girl for the mourge and awkwardly standing in front of the grieving family, to wiping and cleaning up someone who has altered mental status and messed themselves to just something as mundane as cleaning a room in literally a matter of minutes. No time to process that horror, x y and z need to happen like, yesterday.

[kristiemewisstan]

i want to be an er nurse but in paediatrics, any advice?

Work in the ER at a children’s hospital! It’s the perfect solution and what I originally wanted to do, but I ended up getting a job at an ER a few friends already worked at. Make sure that you focus on your pediatrics and your pediatric dosing of emergency medications and you should be good!

[kristiemewisstan]

omg wait I just noticed your bio says you're an er nurse. I'm currently in my 3rd year of nursing school and I want to off myself!! tell me it gets better!! pls

im actually currently at work lmaoooo but yeah it definitely get better! 2nd year 2nd semester and 3rd year 1st semester were (personally) the hardest time span in schooling for me because it’s just so much information. But I promise it gets better! Right now kinda sucks because we are ya know in the pandemic but I love where I work and all the people I work with! Just when interviewing places later ask if you can job shadow a day on the floor so you can get to know the people and know if it’s a good fit for you (I would like to state that in the literal middle of this sentence I had to throw my phone down because someone with chest pain walked in). I think we all wanted to off ourselves in nursing school. If you can get through it without I think you are crazier than those of us that do lmao! But yes! It does get better and don’t be afraid to go after the specialty that you want! Don’t go straight into a med-surg floor (unless that’s what you want to do) just because they tell you that’s what you’re supposed to do. If you like OB look for OB or if you’re a trauma junkie like me look for ER positions. Literally everywhere is hiring everyone right now. Just remember to breath and stick close with your study buddies to push through to the end!

[baristaoverlord]

We had a patient tonight who I shit you not, started drinking liquor in her room and when security took it away she said "say it ain't so!" And "I only have a little bit of alcyhol in me, I can have more, give me some shots" and is this real life?

[baristaoverlord]

We had a patient tonight who was in a mvc with his brother and his brother died and I can't tell him. Fhp has to. And it fucking sucks. He's the same age as my brother and his brother was around my age. Wear your fucking seatbelts and don't drive under the influence kids.

[baristaoverlord]

"it's not the patients that are the worst it's all these damn death charts and shit"

[bluudhaven]

Tfw you crying at work but you can't cry in the break room bc there's too many people so you gotta go out into the fuckin courtyard where patients walk past

[sporadic-continuum]

My Job: “Hey heather, if you could work monday(s) 8-2 in greenwich with a woman with us that would be so great! She lives in an assisted living facility but she’s totally independent, just LOVES walking around, so be prepared to walk. shouldn’t be too hard

Me: ok no problem!!

*three days later*

Nurse: Here’s her room, she’s probably out walking, she loves to walk!

Me: Yeah, they said, they said she’s pretty independent and likes walking

nurse: Independent??? She’s TOTAL CARE she’s incontinent and is basically on another planet. Who said she was independent?

APPARENTLY she has advanced alzheimers, so she didn’t even speak really. I mean she was so sweet and she told me she loved me, and I can handle total care but i was NOT expecting it when I walked in. It also sucked that they all laughed like I was the butt of some joke for the first hour I was there coaxing her to eat and stuff. by the end of my shift though, they even asked if I was coming back, guess I showed them I can actually handle this shit (literally and figuratively)