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Ohthehugemanatee posted:Man this thread turned ugly quick. Bree, you seem a little pissed off at nursing in general. You should also know you're coming across as that guy who is king of mediocrity mountain and wants to poo poo all over everyone else while remaining oblivious to the very modest nature of his own achievement. Hey, I work acute rehab and aren't an rear end in a top hat. 
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Yes! I got the ICU job I wanted. Its the same hospital system but I don't start training til May; my current unit desperately needs me and cannot part with me til then. Since I haven't been here a full year I can't do anything about it. Luckily the ICU is totally fine with that.
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We used to have to wear white shoes then my hospital system got on a serious health kick and had some shoe sales. They sold all these colors of normal people shoes. Now I can wear my red nikes no problem. If only I can eventually get rid of this stupid white uniform.
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The ICU I work in is just filled with guys. Mostly on night shift too.
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Jun 21, 2014 13:28
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Yep. My hospital system is nicotine free.
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Roki B posted:Any hospitals test for being a great big fat person? My hospital system also gives us money off our health insurance if we are under certain wts. Also strongly encourages fatties to enroll in certain health and wellness programs.
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Wow necrotizing fasciitis is so fascinating. I had an ICU patient tonight with it and I could see both testicles and nearly all the piping. 
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I wore a tight polo as possible so the manager new I could def help lift or move or be compressions every time
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Feb 6, 2015 15:14
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drat, my hospital just instituted $10/hr extra incentive pay for this and next month.
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Apr 23, 2015 00:07
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Our hospital system has us wearing only straight white scrubs. I have like 4 pairs pants just because I like the ones with the zippers for my peehole. We can also wear hospital system branded T-shirts they give us constantly. So I wear those because im a sexy ICU nurse
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May 10, 2015 12:42
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Funny story: My friend recommended me for the job in the current ICU job I have. The same day the unit's manager calls me to set up an interview I get the rejection letter from HR/Staffing that they are looking at other candidates. And when I went for an interview there, I saw one friend from high school and another from nursing school.
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May 15, 2015 12:07
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Bum the Sad posted:Farts Always enjoy being able to lay one out when changing an ostomy
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May 18, 2015 04:38
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I just use our hospitals preprinted report sheets. Pretty much everyone else uses them and we just go point by point. Also were supposed to use the epic handoff sheet
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Jun 26, 2015 11:53
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I'm sorry upset doesn't exist. I don't have that option on my charting. You can be uncooperative, aggressive or agitated. Please act accordingly.
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Do we have any Carolina nurses here? My friend and I are finishing our traveling contract here and are looking to go South. Any god awful places to stay away from?
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Decided I liked my current travel assignment so I extended. Sure the pay here in south Florida isn't anywhere great but I've become certified in scuba diving and that's just tops here. Bring on the unbearable heat
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675 pound female patient. Got tubed as I came on shift. Thank god for wave cap because the CXR couldn’t penetrate effectively. Image being too fat for an X-ray
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We can barely turn her in the bariatric bed. Luckily our icu has a few rooms with bariatric lifts in the ceiling. We also got to play “did the catheter actually get into her urethra?” Imagine being so fat that a 20 minute debate between an ICU MD, a fellow and urology cnp and urologist at a world ranked hospital happened over your Foley.
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I work ICU in Ohio. We haven’t been hit to hard with Covid yet but we’re designated to take sister hospitals covid patients. We can manage just about everything here except ECMO. Those will go to our main. We had our first Covid + last week that was super sick. Proned twice etc. Now they are slowly trickling in. 3 total critical ones. 2-3 moderate but improving. I was able to have the 1st covid be able to FaceTime his wife and kid once he was more stable after the pronation. Took a few days but I feel accomplished. Our PPE is enough. Our census is actually down so we are lack of working some nurses but our system expects the worst in May. I’ve seen recent RNs from our unit who went to other areas in the cafeteria lately. They’re all being retrained to be beside RNs and being put into a labor pool for later. They’re are already plans in place for us on what will be expected as our staff suffers medical or LOA attrition. Our staff really wanted scrubs to be provided to us. The administration figured out the logistics for it and we have them today. Now they want to be able to wear their own jackets/fleeces or undershirts cause the unit is cold 
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combee posted:Thanks all. I’ve now done a week of solo work as an RN and it’s been full of ups and downs. I went from nearly 10 years of ICU work to a relatively relaxed ER about a year ago and I’ve just started to feel comfortable. It’s mostly about time. The fact you’re beating yourself up over it means at least you’ve got introspection to set you up for growth.
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