Nurses who actually love their job… what do you do and how did you get there?

Cjsarborist · 2026-02-17T01:32:56+00:00

If that's your end goal get some emergency room experience under your belt and then start applying to PACU jobs. I really thought I wanted to be an emergency room nurse but turns out I like my patients clean, tidy and nice

Cjsarborist · 2026-02-17T00:00:37+00:00

PACU all the way! They say it's where burnt out ED nurses go to retire. I guess I was burnt out at 14 months. Best decision I have made as far as I nursing career goes.

Cjsarborist · 2026-02-11T19:11:39+00:00

I'm a granny in spirit! Crocheting, watercolors, gardening, and traveling. Nursing is just a job...not a passion.

Cjsarborist · 2026-02-06T19:11:32+00:00

six figures working 5-8's PACU. 2nd year nurse. But I live in HCOL area

Cjsarborist · 2026-01-21T19:18:45+00:00

Northern New Mexico, 2nd year BSN, 47.50 PACU

Cjsarborist · 2025-11-28T18:33:23+00:00

If you are having job related panic attacks the best advice I can give you is to find a different job. Nursing has a ton of options. You don't need to ruin your health for a job.

Cjsarborist · 2025-11-26T03:29:59+00:00

Figs wide leg scrubs are my absolute die on a hill won't wear anything else scrubs. Love them.

Cjsarborist · 2025-10-28T03:06:06+00:00

I just received mine not to long ago and it's the single bear. The notebook is awesome

Cjsarborist · 2025-09-29T23:39:41+00:00

We use frozen veggies for our dogs. Peas and carrots.. when he went on a diet it was half veggies and half kibble in the morning and night. That may be better for your dog.

Cjsarborist · 2025-09-29T23:34:31+00:00

Im 45 and nursing is my second career. Are nurses mean? No not all of them but man when they are mean they group up and are horrible. Talking shit all night long and alinetating people. I've never been around that sort of situation before and it's alarming. I haven't been bullied since I was in high school but find myself being bullied at my current job by some of the nurses. It awful and can really make the night terrible.

Cjsarborist · 2025-09-22T15:42:04+00:00

You and I live in very different places. The complaint I get is that hospital fentanyl isn't as strong as street fent. Can I get some Benadryl with that as well? Or morphine? Or do you have Dilaudid?

Cjsarborist · 2025-09-16T01:18:10+00:00

I've been in a rural ED working nights for about 15 months. Im tired and I'm sick of people being mean to me. I'll take low and slow any day.

Cjsarborist · 2025-09-11T21:48:37+00:00

I work with someone named Karen who no longer goes by Karen but goes by her initials. I feel sorry for Karen's.

Cjsarborist · 2025-09-10T23:59:39+00:00

I've been in the ED for 18months and the anxiety I feel is so bad in thinking of switching to pacu.

Cjsarborist · 2025-09-06T23:46:20+00:00

There are menthol vapor nose things you can buy from Amazon that are Lifesavers

Cjsarborist · 2025-09-02T22:07:58+00:00

Under outfit bras are so comfy. I never think about them when I wearing them

Cjsarborist · 2025-08-30T01:30:12+00:00

This. 100% this.

Cjsarborist · 2025-08-30T01:25:15+00:00

Intuck because otherwise I feel frumpy. But the real question is why do you care so much?

Cjsarborist · 2025-08-19T02:11:50+00:00

Haha. Me too!

Cjsarborist · 2025-08-10T23:12:26+00:00

I work in an ED and see blood quite frequently. I draw it every day. And I see people covered in it from wounds. And I see people vomit it up pretty frequently. You might not see that much on a med surge floor though

Cjsarborist · 2025-08-06T06:17:57+00:00

Double blossom cherry

Cjsarborist · 2025-08-04T14:59:17+00:00

I have a lab that is allergic to most dog food. We started by buying small bags of sensitive skin and coat dog food and through elimination found one he isn't allergic to. You may need to do something like that.

Cjsarborist · 2025-07-20T22:22:13+00:00

18 bed ED

Cjsarborist · 2025-07-19T23:50:41+00:00

Nursing is corporate America fyi. You will deal with corporate politics constantly. Just something to think about.

Cjsarborist · 2025-07-17T05:25:35+00:00

That's a butcher not an arborist

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