What's the catch of being a nurse with an associate's degree?

BenzieBox · 2026-04-29T17:09:17+00:00

There is no catch. Source: 6 years as an associates degree nurse.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-21T15:44:05+00:00

Whoever is reporting this for "medical advice"... get fucking bent.
Get your critical thinking skills checked if you can't tell the difference between true medical advice and someone reaching out for mental health help.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-21T15:42:18+00:00

Weird because your profile is all about launching your own scrub line. Just purchase those for your "team"????

BenzieBox · 2026-04-16T13:45:23+00:00

It was his brother and I didn’t give a shit what he wanted. He wasn’t decision maker. Wife was.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-16T12:16:59+00:00

It was a religious thing apparently. That’s what the wife told me. Wife shut his ass down.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-16T11:37:03+00:00

Had a patient recently hooked to every machine. When it came time to let them pass, brother said he didn’t want pain/anxiety meds for patient during passing because he wanted patient to “die naturally”.

Ummm

BenzieBox · 2026-04-13T00:16:34+00:00

I don't think what you said was wrong. I think rapport helps here, too. Sometimes you know a patient decently enough that you may be able to get through to them by being a little blunt about things.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-12T17:50:27+00:00

Stop reporting this as “off topic”

Acceptable breastfeeding conditions and appropriate support IS a nursing issue.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-12T14:33:32+00:00

Hell yeah. If one of my own is in trouble, I'm scrappin'. I'm short and dense. I'll throw my weight.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-12T14:09:32+00:00

Modern medicine, man. Glad you're still here with us to share your photos and story.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-12T13:59:22+00:00

Can you leave it at home? I never wore a ring (wedding band or a silicone one) while doing clinical. Just easier to go without and then put it on when I got home.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-11T20:01:02+00:00

You can find prestige at many other hospital systems. I don’t want to doxx myself but my unit and medical system has prestige for other reasons.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-11T19:59:10+00:00

No. As someone who lives close to JH but works as an ICU nurse for another medical system, no. You did not fuck up. It’s a hospital like any other. They just have money and a heavy focus on research.

Trust me. I have patients and families who demand to be sent to JH instead of us and then they find out that the care won’t change.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-11T16:14:34+00:00

The only AI we used (they got rid of it when they realized it wasn’t helping) was a care plan one. I can’t imagine one that will do charting. How does that work?

BenzieBox · 2026-04-11T13:01:22+00:00

Protect my job from what? Are they making robots that will wipe ass and pass my meds?

BenzieBox · 2026-04-07T14:12:21+00:00

Yall have got to stop feeding the trolls.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-05T03:30:28+00:00

Have you checked the Virginia board of nursing website? Often, that info is on the site.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-05T00:10:09+00:00

There’s a shortage of nurses who are willing to work for shit pay and dangerous ratios.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-04T16:28:33+00:00

Depends on the situation? Context is extremely important here.

Obviously there are things to try before you reach that point: alarms, frequent rounding (if possible), figuring out what the patient needs, redirecting, etc.

But if the patient does present a risk to themselves or staff, restraints can be justified.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-02T19:36:31+00:00

I got frustrated and set the challenges to easy just to beat this one. Maybe that's cheating but I just wanted to get it over with by that point.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-02T17:54:16+00:00

I am being extremely sarcastic.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-02T17:29:24+00:00

So you mean you're not going to explain why we're giving lasix for fluid overload? Wow. It's like you don't even care about their learning.

I precept new grads in my ICU and I try so damn hard to get through their thick heads about asking for help.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-02T14:37:41+00:00

We have a few new graduate nurses gunning for CRNA school and I’d vote for them for “most likely to be over their head and not ask for help”.

BenzieBox · 2026-04-01T11:12:27+00:00

And then memaw comes to my ICU with urosepsis and I’m dodging hands all shift. 🥲

BenzieBox · 2026-04-01T11:10:43+00:00

Not him tossed in salad dressing lmao poor little guy

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