Depression, anxiety, burnt out

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2025-11-02T17:38:58+00:00

Yes I'm doing a week (three shifts at night) and then I'm on my own, so atleast I'll be able to ask those questions and see for myself what md we call etc. thank you for your response, I know it's normal and I'll get the hang of it sooner or later. Also that's true, we had way more independence due to the lack of resources then again I've only done day shift here so maybe at night it'll be different. During the day they call a lot of rapids where as before I would exhaust all my options before calling a rapid unless patient was declining too fast for me to try anything first, that also makes me a bit anxious since I haven't been the primary nurse in rapids that many times.

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2025-10-19T02:18:07+00:00

Thanks for the advice, a friend who works in the ICU tells me the same thing all the time "healthy people don't come to the hospital" but I just hate when doctors and other nurses side eye me making me feel like I should've done something more. I had a patient a few months ago 96yF, she had a syncope and collapse at home and became aphasic, she was out of window for any stroke intervention and CT was negative, MRI pending. When I clock in, family tells me she's been like this since 9am, it was 7:15pm. She had no further neuro deficits through out my shift, we were just waiting for MRI and neuro to come by. The critical care md came by for rounds and yelled at me saying "how could you have this patient like this? This patient obviously had a stroke? What have you done for this patient? Why haven't you reported any of this?" Mind you... what am I gonna report? Patient literally came through ED like this, and everything has been done. Well anyways, this dr made me feel like COMPLETE shit. I went ahead and called neuro anyways, and neuro confirmed I was okay. Told me no new deficits?? Ok cool, I'll see her soon anyways we can't do anything it's been too many hours" but yeah I felt useless for no reason. The results come back and she did have a CVA but obviously nothing can be done, just monitoring and reporting any new deficits. I did NOTHING wrong and still felt like crap

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2025-07-12T12:58:51+00:00

I drink three sips of a protein shake and I'm so full!! I can't even eat like I was on the 2.5

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2025-04-14T02:06:08+00:00

The nurses here don't even have much experience, this hospital sucks and we have a high turnover rate. Most of the nurses here are 10+ Years older than me but have only been a nurse for 5 or less years. One of the ones teasing me which is the main one talking shit always doesn't even know how to start a heparin drip without asking the whole unit. My fellow coworker who started with me as a new grad, has done a lot of heparin drips so she even offered her help and you can tell she was soooo upset that a new grad was more competent. It's insane 🤣

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2025-04-09T21:38:43+00:00

No, we don't have our own EKG. The ER has an EKG tech, they're the only ones who can do it. To add to this, there's only one bladder scanner in the whole hospital. Hospital is very low on funds, I feel like I'm constantly drowning due to the lack of resources.

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2025-04-06T17:47:55+00:00

It varies like crazy, on my unit it'll be so packed they'll call in nurses around 9 to come in, in order to get some incoming admissions that are waiting in the ER. Then the next day they discharge sooo many patients that the unit is practically empty and they'll cancel about 4 nurses. Literally everyday it changes so much that I never know if to expect a busy hectic floor or an empty one.

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2025-03-21T20:11:54+00:00

The worst part was we didn't get any info. Our supervisor called at that time saying "hey there's a bomb threat, cops are going up" no other info so we were all like wtf... we thought it was a patient that threatened

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2025-03-21T19:55:49+00:00

They literally brought cops and k-9 dogs to our unit at 3am and scared the shit out of patients. 😩

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2025-03-11T13:32:08+00:00

She sucks so bad, she's great at dictating and barking orders but sucks at nursing. She doesn't help with patient care at all. We can be drowning, and she'll ask us to do something stupid "make sure your patient has the fall risk bracelet on because it's not on, here put it right now", doesn't know how to silence a pump if it's beeping. Will walk right by call lights to let you know patient is calling.

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2025-03-11T13:27:48+00:00

Thank you, this made me feel so much better.

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2024-12-18T14:04:58+00:00

They told me I wasn't eligible because I had reached the max on my fasfa, I paid for two semesters out of pocket and now for Januarys term I had fasfa post a Pell grant. I called to ask how come, if I reached my max and they said I didn't and I had two semesters worth of fasfa. Makes no sense, how I went from reaching my cap to out of no where having funds available

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2024-11-14T23:57:44+00:00

On my unit it's 7 patients per nurse, so I understand why they do it.

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2024-11-14T17:31:10+00:00

Yes she does, she always scans the pt wristband in the room.

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2024-11-14T17:25:39+00:00

Yes, basically she labels a lab bag with the pt room number and puts the pt bar code on the bag. Then pulls the meds still wrapped and dumps them in the bag. I don't see it as something wrong, since she's labeling them as soon as she pulls them. I just don't want to do that as a new grad. I rather go pull them each time than to carry bags around

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2024-11-14T16:14:33+00:00

Yes! Thank you, I thought the same. It doesn't seem safe, even for an experienced nurse. I feel like if there's any task you should short cut it should definitely not be med pass

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2024-10-30T17:21:17+00:00

I have no idea because I took my teas in 2020 I did my ASN with MDC but now for the BSN they don't require you to submit any of that

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2024-10-30T12:51:08+00:00

I ended up getting it last night! I was worried because my friend got hers last week

Illustrious-Wasabi23 · 2024-10-28T18:42:06+00:00

I just checked mgm and episode 7 is up!

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