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Nurses. My ACLS expires Aug 31. My new ICU job starts Aug 31. Would it be crazy of me to ask them if I can get my ACLS done through the hospital? So that I can avoid paying that $250+ fee. (Classes around me are $250+). Or should I just go ahead and find a class? I should’ve just did it with my previous hospital because they offered it but I had to get the hell out of there because it was the type of place you lose your license at. submitted by /u/itsrllynyah [link] [comments]
Has anyone here used their license to become a caretaker for an aging family member (ie parent)? What was your experience like? Context: I currently work on a pediatric surgical/step down unit. However, my parents recently approached my husband and I about building an ADU on our property for them to live in. I love the idea, and I’d love to live in a more multigenerational home. I also know they have already made plans for what they want to do should they need assisted living. However, I feel like they’d be happier at home (in the ADU) compared to the nursing facility across the country that they have picked out. I feel like it would be better to be close to us and if I can help care for them as a nurse, why wouldn’t I? It feels like the most spiritual act of service I can do. (My husband is also on board with this whole plan.) I’ve talked about the idea in passing to my father. He jokingly made sure I’d know that they’d pay me for my services but it never amounted to anything more tha
Looking back, I’ve always wondered what it would really be like once I hit a year of being a nurse. I wanted to post a follow-up cause about last year, I went on a rant in this thread about how I’m scared I actually hate nursing 6 months into it. So here’s an update: I actually don’t mind it at all. I was a medsurg nurse postgrad for 6mos (hated it) and switched to home health nursing which I’ll be hitting my 1 year anniversary on November. I love the life that I’ve built around nursing so far. I’m in the field from 9am-2pm to see patients, would work around 3-4 days a week if I’m not oncall, I’m able to chart anytime anywhere which gives me the flexibility to go and explore places, I make decent money (though not as much as I could make in the hospital). I workout as much as I can, I read books cause I just love it so much. If I could go back, I’ll give myself a warm hug and tell her that it’ll be okay, that I can still have an impact in my patient’s life without having to sacrifice m
Hi guys only been an RN in ED for 2 years in Los Angeles county in high acuity area, but it’s slowly burning me out that Im starting to hate nursing. I love the pathophysiology behind nursing and I thought maybe it’s just the department and it’s not that bad somewhere else. I don’t see myself working tele or MST. I want to try something less chaotic. Any suggestions on pros and cons on transitioning to Cath lab or OR? Or any suggestions what to try and where. I’d really appreciate any input. submitted by /u/RudeTechnician1767 [link] [comments]
I'm fishing for some info here and I know some nurses work here in the Chicago area are in this thread. Last year ascension sold a majority of there hospitals to Prime Health leaving only St Alexius, Alexian Brothers and St Joseph in Chicago as the last bastion for Ascension in the IL market. I guess the reason was they were losing 3 billion in 2025. Come 2026 and they only lost 1.8 billion. I recently learned through the grapvine that Ascension finally sold the last of their hospital holdings to Prime Health and completing their exit from the IL market forever.Does anyone hear any of this? Ive only heard horror stories about prime healthcare as comparable to HCA. submitted by /u/PhoMaker [link] [comments]
Job (critical care float) emails me a needs list for the next 10 days. We are 2-4 nurses short on day shift and 5-7 short on nights on critical care/stepdown unit ALONE. I've been part time since March of last year. Email manager "hey any full time openings?" Immediately manager replies back "sorry no not at the moment I'll let you know". How does that make sense??? Instead of another 12 hour shift every week at my normal pay, they pay me an extra $14 an hour to pick up 8 hours once a week. I'm not complaining about the extra money but it would be nice to have guaranteed hours. submitted by /u/AmbitiousAwareness [link] [comments]
Curious how your units work with scheduling. Most places I've worked at have either been self schedule, or outpatient jobs with set days. Easy, simple. My current job is neither of those things. Our DON makes our schedules. She refuses to give ANY set shifts. Not even 1 predictable shift a week. The most she will do is accommodate ONE "request" per week, and that's not even guaranteed. So if I have 2 appointments one week, or any other obligation, it's not guaranteed that I can make it to both. Also everyone's position is "rotating" meaning we work days and evenings. She tries to accommodate everyone's preferences for either days OR evenings, but she has the power to schedule you for either shift, because "it's a rotating position." I work part time, 24 hrs, three 8's. I sat down with her and asked for atleast ONE set shift per week, so I can plan for childcare. She refused. Nope. I have one child starting kindergarten, one child starting parttime preschool. Husband works fulltime, my
What are some funny patient “allergies” you have seen listed? I had a patient the other day with an allergy listed for Metformin. The reaction listed? Lowers their blood sugar 😂 submitted by /u/yeehawbaby4 [link] [comments]
I am currently a clinical marketing liaison RN between a pharmacy and hospitals/physician offices. I’ve gain more interest in the pharmacy area. I want to leave the marketing part of it and into something pharmacy related. Any nurses out there done this transition? Or work for a pharmacy as a nurse? Interested in hearing about the nursing careers/jobs can I pursue in this field. submitted by /u/blackwid0w73 [link] [comments]
Hi, NYC nurses! I was offered a position at NYU Langone Tisch MICU and wanted to know how your experience has been there. I was told the unit also has stepdown patients, so how often do you have 3 patients, and what’s the workload like? submitted by /u/Beautiful-Violinist [link] [comments]
I have been working as an inpatient psych nurse for a little over a year. I think it is fascinating and I really enjoy doing admission assessments and getting to know patients. However, I'm starting to get burnt out by the increasing medical acuity, inappropriate admissions (ie old ladies with dementia) and shitty management. I have an opportunity to switch to a cushy outpatient job with the same pay at the same company. I'm worried I'll be bored. How do I know it's time to jump ship? I don't like my manager, but she's not on the floor a lot. submitted by /u/chaoticmosaic [link] [comments]
I’m so discouraged. I’m currently doing travel nursing because I moved to a southern state where they don’t pay shit. I was making 48/hr in a town with low cost of living and staff hospital offered me $35. In the Er. I’m not doing this for less than new grad pay. Idk what else to do. Everyone say remote job or nonbedside but those are so far between. I don’t even feel like I want to do anything health care anymore. It hurts so bad to work so hard and then be miserable at work. This can’t be how it is I get nobody likes to work but to get anxiety before the days you work. Be miserable and work is not normal. What other jobs can I do I need help. submitted by /u/ComfortableSet8644 [link] [comments]
So I was in a discussion at work over the phenomenon of the “[happy hypoxic]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent\_hypoxia)” patients that we experienced during COVID-19 and that occurrs in [certain conditions such as HAPE]( https://youtu.be/AdG5KyeIGaQ?is=ZnCo3jjHxiHq1KUU ), and it occurred to me that I have no idea how long someone has when they reach a critically hypoxic SAO2 or measured SPO2 in the field before they start seeing true end organ damage that is irreversible, or start seeing hypoxic insult to their brain. Is anyone aware of any research out there that actually says that this is the critical intervention period or timespan before irreversible insult occurs? submitted by /u/SnowyEclipse01 [link] [comments]
What would the best drugs be for fun stickers? *Edit: In the student nurse sub, some people have said that making these stickers is insensitive and disrespectful to patients. What say ye?* submitted by /u/Latter_Highway_2026 [link] [comments]
I work in long term care. Each unit usually has 30 to 45 residents. We have 8 units. Its always just one nurse and 3 CNAs to a floor. My nerves are usually shot especially when floating to the heaviest units. My biggest pet peeve lately is hearing my name screamed out loud from across a hallway by the assigned CNAs when I'm busy at my cart, or administering meds or treatments in a residents room. They scream my name like its an emergency, as if it's a fire, a resident on the floor bleeding out, an active shooter, only for me to come out or look up in a panic and hear them then say something benign like, " so and so wants a Tylenol. 😵💫 it happens on the regular and it makes me react in a grouchy way snapping back "WHAAAT?", when i hear my name screamed. Then they have the nerve to act like i just dont want to do my job. I feel like a mother whose kids call them from across the house repeatedly because theyre too busy to come find me and talk to me in person. I love a lot of my coworker
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A consulting MICU fellow walks into a dumpster fire of a room to find a liver failure patient in DIC who was quickly bleeding out after an emergent vascular surgery. With the patient there were two experienced nurses along with myself. We were doing our absolute worst to keep the patient alive. Upon seeing the chaos and without gaining any context the fellow uttered the first wise words to enter her mind… “What is going on? Don’t you people know how to titrate drips?” Those magic words brought instant silence to the room. The phrase caused us to stop dead in our tracks to ponder such a profound statement. “Do I know how to titrate drips?” I asked myself. Surely this PGY-4 MICU fellow must have vast experience titrating vasoactive medications. Their years of internal medicine training has prepared them to manage an exsanguinating surgical patient with ease. Somehow this fellow has managed to surpass the combined 20 years of accumulated drip titration knowledge and experience of three CV
What jobs do yall have that love that’s slow, chill, low stress? I have a year experience as an RN and wonder what I can get into. Bedside sucks so bad submitted by /u/Obvious-Prune-5586 [link] [comments]
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you are working in an environment no one really wants to have to be in - alarms going off, infections and viruses you may catch, fluorescent lighting, stressed out and paranoid and mentally ill co-workers, family, and patients, constantly switching from task to task, straining yourself to meet the physical demands of the job and possibly breaking your body, yet you do miraculous things. what you are being asked to do is a lot and it is tough work and it requires a grasp of science, body dynamics, a 24/7 on-the-job focus on patient safety, infection risk, interpersonal skills, an immense amount of emotional regulation, a level of self-care outside of work that most people will never have to dedicate themselves to just so that they can keep a job, and eventually you have young doctors asking you questions. so yeah, I don't think you need a doctorate to be paid well in healthcare. the things you are helping to execute and the decisions you make are inherently valuable. you should be value
Hey guys so we recently had a new nurse join our ER and when we did change of shift the narc book didn’t match the medications that were ordered they were charted under the wrong patient and one dose of a narcotic was missing. Apart from this half the charts were not completed and then this nurse texted me asking if I could meet with him to give her gabapentin and Xanax, I was so confused he then realized that he got the wrong number and he claimed that he was texting her brother who picked up his prescription to add to this one of the ER techs that works with us told me that he asked her if she sells street drugs? I ended up reporting this to the director of nursing and the medical director. I feel horrible about reporting him I’ve never been in a situation like this before but I really feel that it was needed to report this. What do yall think? What would you have done in this situation? Did I went overboard for report this? submitted by /u/Sudden_Edge8761 [link] [comments]
I am literally rotting away at my home health job and I am utterly miserable. I took a sign-on bonus and can’t quit til January 2027. I’ve been with this company (UPMC in PA) since Jan of 2025 (was graduating class of Dec 2024). I worked at the hospital on a Cardiac med-surg floor with unsafe ratios and had to check myself into an outpatient psychiatric clinic one day because I was about to lose my mind. I did an internal transfer and ended up in home health. We are expected to see 6 units a day. It can be 6 routine visits, one start of care and 4 routines, and so on. I also case manage nearly every patient I see. I have to call doctors, work on OASIS corrections constantly, order supplies for patients that get rejected due to insurance, and I find myself often charting way past our supposed end time of 4:30 PM. I usually come home, sleep for a few hours, and chart. I’ll be up until about 1 AM. This job has me thinking that nursing is just not for me. I started smoking/vaping again aft
Nurses am I overthinking this after an IV magnesium infusion? I’m an RPN on a med surge floor and I’m spiralling a little about something from my shift and would really appreciate some perspective. My patient needed IV magnesium and had poor access. Her existing LEFT forearm IV had infiltrated, so I removed it. I then attempted a new IV in her RIGHT forearm (her veins were tiny elsewhere and the hand veins were very squiggly/not straight) I got into the vein but it blew, so I abandoned that attempt. I eventually got a patent IV in her RIGHT hand below where I had attempted the forearm. I didn’t really have any another option (87 year olds do not have great veins) In hindsight I wish I had first attempted more proximal in the hand because now I’m worried about complications that could arise from this. The patient was only getting a one time dose of IV mag nothing else no continuous infusions. The hand IV flushed well and the patient had no pain or complaints. I ran the magnesium through
PREVIOUS RANT LINKED BELOW https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/s/l3nZhkF9Kq So Friday was my last straw. I have my schedule set to have light Friday’s because we have mandatory meetings every morning at 8am-8:15, 8:30 IDG that lasts 2 hrs, and another mandatory meeting at 4:30pm. Every single Friday. I had 3 patients to see already and those visits lasted some time. I got to my last patient and OF COURSE my coworker said she has a migraine and apparently her vision is blurred. She said she’s making phone visits to her other 2 patients but she has one patient who HAS to have a home visit. The part time nurse only works M-W so guess who has to see them? Me. I got to the home at 3:30. As previously stated I was thrown out so I haven’t seen MUCH AT ALL. This patient is declining and had a drain and the family wanted me to drain it. They were already frustrated because I felt it was best the patient stay in bed because they were exhausted but they INSISTED on her on getting up to pee. I was fr
I’ve been working as an out-patient dialysis RN with a BSN for about 15 years in the Greater Los Angeles area. That’s all I’ve ever done, just out-patient dialysis with no hospital experience. I get paid about $52/hr and have been told I’m already close to hitting the ceiling while nurses in other specialties are getting paid $65+/hr with 15 years of experience. I feel stuck. All the hospitals are looking for nurses with at least 1 year of acute experience. Recently, I’ve been job hunting for acute dialysis RN positions in my area. submitted by /u/elmerweird [link] [comments]
TLDR: I was told to get report on 2 brand new patients to me at 1805 pm, was approached to be given report at 1830, and I refused (shift change is at 1900). Im a PCU RN and I work 7a to 7p. Today, at around 605 pm I noticed on the assignment board two patients added to my assignment. I asked the charge about this and she said 2 nurses were being sent home. I was never told about these new patients and I was concerned about the timing and lack of appropriate handoff/assessment time. I told the charge who said to call the assistant manager. Long story short we talked for like 15 minutes and she explained budget concerns, that she told the charge much earlier to send people home, etc. At 630 pm I was approached by one of the nurses being sent home who asked if I was ready for report and I said im absolutely not getting report at 630 pm. The ANM then called to confirm that I was declining report, and I said, yes right now im not taking report, I am working on my own patients. At 6:42pm, a
Does anyone else struggle with this? It’s like my entire identity and life is revolved around it. I’ve been a nurse for 7 years ago and I’m just sick of it. I’m tired of seeing it, hearing about it, working 5 days a week, etc. I just wanna work and come home. I love being a nurse, don’t get me wrong, but I’m just…. Over it. submitted by /u/Lynkern [link] [comments]
If any of you guys are sick of bedside and looking for a way out, consider occupational health!! I have been doing it for about only 3 months now, and I can sleep at night! I enjoy my days off! I don’t dread going to work or have panic attacks before clocking in! You know what I do? Basic physicals. Send pee to a lab. Draw blood and send it out. And we deal with worker’s comp and workplace injuries so there’s a fair share of something that will keep you on your toes. No one is dying! I do boatloads of paperwork and don’t even hate it because I have time to do it, and can listen to my music in my little office 🤭 I was so tired of bedside and truly hated everyone just saying “you have to find your niche” or “something good will come”, but guys!! It will happen! Send your resume out, make the change! TLDR: I hated working bedside and switched to occupational health, and now I ENJOY my job! submitted by /u/bean-be3 [link] [comments]
Sorry just have to rant about this unbelivably unprofessional and inconsiderate nurse that I worked with the other day. New hire on the unit, I've heard negative things about her but I'm not one to socialize or gossip at work so I kept my mouth shut and said I'd give her a chance. This is a small med/surg unit with 15 bed and 3 nurses usually. Well someone in staffing fucked up and we only had 2 nurses scheduled that day. Not unheard of on nights but rare on days. Me and this nurse end up splitting the unit down the middle and I swear to god I saw her true colours come out. She was on the phone the entire goddamn day. Seriously. Either on the floor with an airpod in or in the breakroom on the phone. I've never seen anything like that before in my life. The doctor was sending her multiple secure chats, she's not answering and so the doctor calls the floor and I answer and I end up having to take over tasks for her patients because she's MIA. When it came down to breaks she was like ok I
Does anyone’s hospital try and get patients or their families to sign a document saying they understand all the things they are responsible for doing to keep safe and not fall? I cannot wrap my head around the logic someone used to create this. My fall risk patients are confused and not appropriate to sign things and what family member would sign it? submitted by /u/GiveMeWildWaves [link] [comments]
Insane assignment and busy as fuck. Walked into a pts room last night and cheerfully said hi there my name is _ and I’d like to get you set up for an XR and mee maw with the quadrupole digit trop sat there and said ‘someone said they were going bring me a warm blanket it’s freezing in this hospital and no one brought me my warm blanket when am i going to get a warm blanket’ i missed no beat said ‘its so nice to meet you. I normally only get blankets for people who say please’ Goddamn if she didn’t say her pleases AND her thank yous after that. Edit: We got on well after that. She said apologized and said please and i got her a warm blanket and we laughed about how we wished we could plug it in to stay warm. I’m just tired of how I get treated at work on a daily basis. There’s no reason not to expect a small amount respect from others. If we don’t owe each other that, then i dunno what we have. And for some reason our profession has gone from being one that people truly respected, to on
Random rant, but I feel like people are constantly telling their stories about overcoming illness and “proving doctors wrong” after being told there was no hope. I constantly see people saying things like “Doctors told us we should give up,” “My doctor told me I had 3 months to live,” “They told me my son would never talk or have any quality of life,” “My doctor said there was no absolutely chance I’d ever walk again,” Or things like “My doctor said she couldn’t believe I wasn’t dead yet after seeing my test results!” I mean…maybe I just haven’t met enough doctors, but I have literally never heard a doctor say anything even remotely along these lines lol, and if I did, everyone would be flabbergasted. Like what? They might say things like “the chance of ____ is very low,” and I guarantee they throw in a “but, we can never be certain.” Or they might say “typical life expectancy at this point is ___ months.” Or they might say “our recommendation is to focus on comfort at this point in th
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So last night I had to get a stool sample. Three different labels printed, i collected my sample and butterfly the labels and walked it down to lab. The tech told me it was unacceptable that way the labels was on, i said I did it before with no issues. He said it needed to be redone at bedside i said fine, give me the sample and I will go redo it. He then said nope and took the sample. I told my charge nurse who then went down and got my sample back, he had some words with the lab tech. My charge nurse said this guy is always on a power trip. Now I feel bad because I dont want my charge nurse to get in trouble for defending me. No matter what happens it always the nurse fault. He told me not to worry about it but I still dont want him getting in trouble for helping me. submitted by /u/ScarOk7288 [link] [comments]
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Five (yes FIVE) weeks ago I was the on-call OR nurse. I was called in once around 11pm and sent home, and then called back in around 2:30am for a c-section. So going on about 1 hour of sleep at this point. The c-section was urgent, not a crash. While we were waiting for the on-call Anesthesiologist to come in, the surgical tech and I went to open the OR and count instruments. When I got to the patient’s room, there seemed to be little urgency (the patient was talking on the phone to their baby’s father about locating her birth plan and him getting to the hospital). When she finally ended the call we headed to the OR. The OB who was doing the c-section came with us to the room while her spinal was placed. I then quickly did a vag prep and inserted a foley and was putting on sterile gloves to start prepping her abdomen. At this point the patient is lying awake on the table, the L&D and neonatal nurses and Neonatoligist are in the room. The doctor looks at me and claps his hands and says
OR nurses I need your opinion. Everyone else is welcome to chime in as well. So we had a nasty shit fly in the OR flying around in the actual room not in the halls not in the department IN THE OR. We were trying to kill that thing and in the process became increasingly aware of the fact that our ORs are beyond disgusting. We slapped at the fly on the room lights and I kid you not, pounds of dust fell to the floor. We slapped at it on the boom dust bunnies were hopping around. We literally could not believe how much dust was not kept up with in our OR. Anyway long story short the charge nurse calls in and asks what’s the hold. We tell her there’s a fly in the room and we’re trying to kill before either the patient comes back or before it lands on the setup. She tells “Oh we don’t delay cases for flies or insects in the room.” I was flabbergasted. We talk about surgical conscience and how if it was our sweet sweet mamas or family members we would change our gloves or break down an entire
To sum it all up. I was offered a job position of $31 from a hospital that I previously left (2 mo ago). Prior to my resignation, I had a base of $31, shift diff of $6, plus the hospital monopolized and $4 more were added prior to me leaving. I made $41/hr! HR at this other job position said to me and I quote… “because you’re a rehire with 3 years of experience we’ll have to drop your rate back down to $31/hr. Are there any questions?”. I immediately said “yes, I’d like to negotiate my offer. I am currently salaried but if I were to take that into an hourly it’s $36. Could we aim for this?” … they said to me “I will reach out to the director and see what they think”. Well needless to say it’s been about a week now and no response from them and honestly I’m okay with that. The least they could’ve done is matched my current pay. I even excluded the shift diff! That’s ridiculous. Especially since I’m not new grad. The sad thing is I’ve had 2 years prior of vascular surgery, general surger
What the title says. The amount of patients I see that are continued to be hospitalized when their outcome isn’t necessarily going to improve is a lot on my surgical floor. We are a level 1 trauma with no nearby level 1’s so I get to work with many TBIs, some hospice and a surprising amount of demented patients (high fall population). I get that there may not be a better place for them to go, but sometimes, many times, it seems like there has to be. And if there isn’t, then we need to be better ourselves at accommodating these complex conditions. I sit often, as I’m still a tech. I get to spend 12 hours locked in rooms with these types of patients often. It hurts my soul watching these people remain bed ridden, possibly restrained, in an unfamiliar place with sparse visitors. To be so alone, confused, and with no light at the end of the tunnel, is incredibly depressing. That’s not to say I hate my job though, because these issues are the reasons I love it. I get to be the person who is
"Hey nurse, do you have time to cut my dad's toenails today?" "Sure! I've got a 25 cent hunk-of-garbage clipper in par stock. Should be no problem!" submitted by /u/TruthWarrior27 [link] [comments]
How many measles pts are you guys seeing? I work in Pennsylvania, and we are seeing multiple a day in the ED. It is absolutely wild. It is mostly in the Amish community, because they don’t get vaccinated. The frustrating thing is we never used to get measles pts with the Amish. It is because they interact with the general public, got it from the unvaccinated general public, and now it is spreading like wildfire throughout the Amish community. submitted by /u/HubbaBubbaBubbaWubba [link] [comments]
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Tried out the ER for 8 months. Pretty soon into it I knew this wasn’t for me but I told myself to give it a year. I cannot do this anymore. I’m putting my mental and physical health on the line to care for people who berate me every day for things outside my control. The fact that wait times are 6 hours is not my fault. I have 3 other patients, one who is critically ill, and me not seeing you for an hour doesn’t mean I’m lazy. I’m sorry your mom got put in a hallway bed and needs to be changed in front of everyone. Being verbally and physically assaulted by drunk/high people who get a pass and come back every day to cause trouble and waste our resources isn’t my idea of fun. Stupid people are making more stupid people. I have such a pessimistic outlook on life. I pride myself in trying to provide the best care possible for my patients and that’s not possible here. We have no support from things like social work or pharmacy at night. I tried this out to expand my skillset but I’m just n
Kid is a hot mess, but parents can’t be bothered cause they’re too busy cuddling with each other on the sofa lol. 😂🤦🏽♂️ submitted by /u/umrlopez79 [link] [comments]
Does your facility still require dual sign off with 2 nurses for blood products at the bedside? I’m hearing some hospitals just scan the blood and nurses just double check with the computer nowadays. Is this a common thing??? I don’t know but it seems wild to me to see this practice… and a little unsafe IMO. submitted by /u/sweetdivin3 [link] [comments]
My little niece turned 7 and had a Taylor Swift themed party today. We made cute bracelets. submitted by /u/thatChickfromtheChos [link] [comments]
No PHI in the photos. This was about a month ago. I had an Amish patient who came in with no history for “not feeling well” due to “mild chest pressure” and was constantly in A-fib/RVR. BP was initially fine until I gave Cardizem. The push alone decreased his SBP from 140 to 100 over about 10 minutes, and the doc asked me to still start the drip and just give fluids if needed. Systolic rose to like 110ish, so I started the drip at 5. Monitor said the MAP was suddenly 50-55 at my first q5m BP with a rate still >140/150 🥲. Patient was still as responsive as before (moaning and pale but oriented x4), but I stopped the drip and could barely auscultate a manual BP while my preceptee alerted the doc. I pressured-bagged fluids in my other line while I waited. When they returned, doc looked at the patient and just sighed. We got the BP to come back up a little then pushed digoxin. Waited. Nothing happened. Waited. Nada. So my preceptee and I return to our computer just outside the room. I see
Hi all, I recently was offered a job on Jefferson Methodist Hospital’s PCU and was absolutely shocked at the rate they offered. The recruiter told me I’d start at $54.02. I’m moving from Columbus, OH, where I’m making $36.70 also on a PCU. I have three years of experience and am wondering if this offer is insanely high for my experience or am I just out of the loop? Thanks in advance. submitted by /u/jtodd94 [link] [comments]
I had the privilege to be with my spouse as they passed. They were diagnosed with stage 4 terminal cancer, and honestly, the realization that "today" was THE day, took us both by surprise. Hope is blind. We both knew the writing on the wall. My spouse begged me to go home so I could be rested for the next day, and I did, but couldn't sleep so went back to the hospital. What I would like to know is how much my spouse suffered because I couldn't leave their side as they were "transitioning." My spouse was given morphine to ease their passing and I was told I should request more if they seemed like they needed it. They did. But I was so adamant about not leaving their side, I think I might have made their passing more difficult than it should have been. Watching them pass, and gasping for the last breaths is a traumatic vision I can't ignore. Please don't sugar coat anyting. I'm well aware I failed my spouse. I just wonder just how difficult it was for them. submitted by /u/Lover_of_Lucy