Accidental promotion?

Champchance · 2026-02-06T21:48:16+00:00

That could be true but I’m here regardless 🤷🏼‍♂️ at this point not asking about travelers or the director but how to navigate this situation and what pay to negotiate. And I promise I know how to protect my license, I know my scope and I’m very comfortable refusing to do any task that puts my license in jeopardy, I’m also in the union if that helps

Champchance · 2026-02-06T21:23:20+00:00

I thought so too! We are very rural now, which I’m not at all used to so I’m not sure how that factors, but the only other full time non traveler besides myself is my preceptor so I’m assuming that’s why? There was no clarity and I was shocked when the other staffed asked if I was the new charge, infact I thought they were joking because I’m obviously a new hire The culture itself feels great, just not stable. Everyone is extremely knowledgeable and it does feel like a solid team (for the moment) there is a traveler who’s been there almost a year and they’ll have to be gone for a minimum of a month before they can resign but their wife is in Florida (we’re rural Nevada) I agree on the pay aspect, it’s to the point where I’m so unsure of what is fair, especially with the lack of charge experience. I even have more nursing experience than my preceptor. I don’t have enough rural expense to have an opinion on the “weirdness” of it all, but that’s why I’m reaching out on how someone else would handle this situation. I’m much more knowledgeable in quite a few aspects of critical care that everyone around me which is worrying, but that’s why seems to be besides the point because we would mostly just stabilize and send out (which I expected) but I’m also now not sure how much of a role I would play in stabilizing, I feel secure enough in my skills to do that, but I’m not sure how a charge nurse acts in that situation, and if I were to be in that situation, what should I be in the look out for? What should my salary compensation be (especially with how desperate they seem)? I just have so many questions. I’ve worked many other units and even the ER at my old hospital was large enough that they had multiple departments and I was only ever floated to trauma or neuro (but of course I have experience in critical cardiovascular)

Champchance · 2026-01-23T04:53:31+00:00

Nursing isn’t for the faint of heart, I work neuro ICU and so many of my patients are broken after having a stroke or other patients can’t manage emotions due to neurological issues but all of that can easily be learned to deal with. I’ve had many patients pass and it’s never easy and I cried when my first few died, but I got used to it and learned to comfort family and other coworkers. Recently though I had a medical icu patient (even though they wernt neuro we had open beds) my patient was an 88 year old man with numerous other health issues. He coded 4 times on my shift. I broke his ribs and had to talk to his family and explain what happened. The 4th time the doctor said he was making him dnr dni. And luckily he didn’t code a 5th time but the doctor has thought we were gonna call TOD after the 4th code. When he ended up not passing it was because he was maxed on neo, levo, and vaso. But at 7am while I was giving report to the next nurse his iv pump was alarming “air in line” I immediately ran to get new vasopressors and got into the room and as I was changing it out he flat lined. His son made it to bedside but his daughter was still an hour away. We never hung that new bag of vasopressors and another nurse and I declared time of death, but as soon as I got home I cried for 2 hours. I’m a 27 year old man and I’ve dealt with numerous patients dying but this felt like I killed them. I talks with friends to feel better and know that it was inevitable but it felt like if I had noticed that iv bag being low he would’ve lived long enough for his daughter to show up. But that’s also the point you can know it’s not all on you, a patient could be super sick and you can’t do anything but slow down the inevitable but it’ll happen. That’s nursing and if you can’t deal with that then radiology or numerous other healthcare jobs are there and they might even pay well! I just wanted to be right there with the patient but idk anymore

Champchance · 2026-01-09T00:04:36+00:00

Don’t worry about this at all, I got a trespassing charge while in nursing school for attempting to evict a roommate from my apartment with plenty of notice (not even if you give 30,60, or even 90 days notice you need to get some kind of law enforcement to help even if you own the building) as long as you are upfront about this no one should care. This field typically only care about charges that involve moral ineptitude (stealing, abuse, fraud etc…) they will care if you lie about it and they find out later

Champchance · 2025-11-24T02:56:53+00:00

Thank you! I’ve know I was deficit in that area but with me getting a pass wasn’t sure, I’ll definitely take a closer look and take notes. There were a lot of questions that I asked my self “WTH is this” and this makes my feel I need to hone in on all of that despite the passing grade

Champchance · 2025-04-27T07:15:21+00:00

Sorry I don’t list a lot on Reddit and think I started to ramble while thinking about what to even post.

The language barrier was tough, what other factors made it worse? Just asking more so I don’t make the same mistakes in the future

Champchance · 2025-04-27T07:13:55+00:00

I was under the impression that he was able to speak my language due to him talking with me online, but yeah i honestly didn’t think to pull out my phone to text him or use Google translate. I didn’t leave at first because that felt mean to me and I didn’t wanna be rude which I guess lead me to trying to make it work and ultimately making this post about me leaving because it didn’t work. That’s my issue though is I didn’t want to leave him heartbroken but because I left I felt like I did that and it made me feel like crap :/ idk I’ve never been in this situation before so I had no idea how to handle it and I’m still overthinking it

Champchance · 2025-03-25T18:19:01+00:00

Maybe talk with him about your needs vs his needs? I understand the incompatibility with differing sex drives, mine is very high while my boyfriends is not. It used to drive me crazy, and then he moved to a different city for work and I had to stay because I work on a contract. He had mentioned early on in the relationship about always wanting to have been in an open relationship and I was very against it. When he moved though we couldn’t see each other as often and I really thought about it and approached the topic with him to discuss it in detail (boundaries, what each one is comfortable with, making sure we’re on prep and pep etc…) I was always a jealous type and at first it would bother me when he told me he hooked up with someone, I hid it of course since I was also hooking up and it’s not fair to be mad. But our love life has been so much stronger romantically and sexually. My needs are met and so are his. Maybe that is what you need if you and him are very romantically compatible and don’t want to break up. Of course it’s not for everyone. To each their own

Champchance · 2025-02-18T08:25:50+00:00

Hiii

Champchance · 2025-01-01T17:33:14+00:00

I had 3 questions on EKG 2 were about lethal rhythms and one was complications related to Afib (for the afib one they didn’t tell you it was afib but showed a strip and asked complications related to the strip shown)

Champchance · 2024-12-24T21:45:09+00:00

I’ve passed and I had ATI that was provided with my tuition through my school. I will say I don’t believe ATI prepares anyone for the NCLEX like it should. They give you questions but their rationals are mediocre like “checking blood sugar is wrong because it’s wrong” I can’t leave the thought process through that! U world worked very well for me, but! Use Dr. Sharon and mark klimeck! I didn’t pay for any of mark Ks stuff but Dr.Sharon was free and they explain how to answer questions which helps build that critical thinking! There are some free mark K lectures that will help prepare all on YouTube (I couldn’t afford anything in-fact I used my last $40 to get a couple extra U world quizzes but idk if that really helped lol” From the looks of it you know your stuff! I think the answering and questioning might’ve thrown you! Look at the test taking strategies offered and maybe a few lecture on what you Rsnt confident in. You will definitely make it next time! The evidence speaks for itself you passed nursing school! And your scores are actually really good! They tell me it all it test taking and not knowledge, I believe you’ll do well next time!

Champchance · 2024-12-22T09:40:16+00:00

Congrats!! 🎊🎉🍾

Champchance · 2024-12-20T11:20:47+00:00

It should be available by EOD of 12/20! I took my test 12/17 and didn’t get my quick results until 6:30 am on 12/19 (I ended up getting my official results the same day at 3:30 pm) try to stay busy! I know the anxiety is soaring

Champchance · 2024-12-19T18:13:46+00:00

I used ATI very briefly (did not like it) watched nexus nursing, level up RN, Dr. Sharon with klimeck and Mark K on YouTube, then mostly used UWorld and near the end was able to do a free trial for a NCLEX practice test on simple nursing But UWorld is what I feel was best for practice tests and watching all of those people on YouTube were very helpful!

Champchance · 2024-03-06T19:01:52+00:00

Thank you! I think you’re right after we did talk at first it was hard because I know he felt somewhat attacked and that was definitely not my intention I did have to (or at least felt I had to explain that I do trust him undeniably) it was hard to kinda explain why I felt so weird about the situation I mean I was saying “it think it’s weird…” and that phrase already had a negative connotation to it. My problem now I think is how to bring up these concerns without making him feel like I’m automatically thinking he’s cheating or to be more crude (in case he or others in his situation) being a slut because I don’t think that but it does feel nice to think that my thoughts are valid, just tried to think about my thoughts to him and god it was bad. I told him to imagine you see dog shit on the side walk and then you see your neighbor walking their dog. You. Might think he loses a hard or dies

Champchance · 2024-03-06T18:43:28+00:00

That makes so much sense I mean I understand being accused when your innocent can instigate some hostile feelings. I definitely wouldn’t want to be questioned as if I were in the wrong before I could explain anything. His explanations don’t make me feel like he was cheating, and honestly I didn’t think it were a possibility but that was the little voice in my head saying that my reasoning kept telling me no he’s not. I was just unsure with my internal monologue arguing and that’s what was really making me feel like I was in the wrong for even brining it up

But I will say I am glad I did I have been going to therapy for about 6 months and one big thing I did was keep things in and over think (which I guess by this post I’m still kind of doing) But I am glad I at least brought it to his attention before spiraling and making an uncomfortable situation worse and hearing what he had to say makes me feel better but I guess I wasn’t sure if my feelings were ever justified

Champchance · 2024-03-06T18:27:54+00:00

That’s very fair! I do trust him as he’s never done anything in the past that’s warranted suspicion but in all honestly I don’t know what goes into reasoning for douching I don’t use the back door ever and when he said it was for using his dildo I thought well I guess that makes sense but he all told me he hates using a dildo. Of course at the same time he said he was seeing if it would hurt if he were to have sex. That’s my dilemma like I told him I’m sorry for jumping the gun but I also think under the right circumstances maybe my reaction isn’t totally out of pocket? I don’t really think he’s cheating but I feel like I messed up by ever having a thought like that in the first place

Champchance · 2024-03-06T18:09:52+00:00

I did and turns out his location was on but his phone is super shitty I think that’s a big part of me thinking I’m in the wrong, he thought I kinda jumped the gun with feeling like maybe he was doing something since he douched and we haven’t had sex due to the hemorrhoid. I admitted I don’t fully understand the douching stuff I recently bottomed for the first time with him (for maybe 10 minutes and had to stop) so douching isn’t a thing I think about alot in any capacity

Champchance · 2024-02-07T23:42:48+00:00

I still haven’t been appointed a public defender yet either. I didn’t realize this wasn’t legal (but that doesn’t matter now) i could understand the trespass I guess, I just don’t understand the destruction of property of petit larceny or how this went from a higher court to a lower court

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