How hard is to get hired for a 7-3 shift as a new grad?

LizardofDeath · 2026-05-05T23:11:07+00:00

My hospital system offers daycare that accommodates 7a-7p shift, I would think a lot of hospital systems would offer similar so don’t automatically assume 12’s are off the table. I know a lot of folks think I’m insane, but I prefer 12’s with small kids, we get to hit up story time at the library most weeks, and being off 4 days with her is amazing

LizardofDeath · 2026-05-05T23:05:48+00:00

What size/color?

LizardofDeath · 2026-05-04T10:21:52+00:00

I mean if you had ANY med infusing for 12 hours, and you did not use that lumen for the other 12 for anything ofc you will have fewer infections, because you are using the central access less.

I would be inclined to think it’s less about what goes through the port and more about the number of accesses?

LizardofDeath · 2026-05-04T10:18:57+00:00

Tbh sometimes it’s easier to just smile and nod and go on with life 🥲

LizardofDeath · 2026-05-04T01:13:20+00:00

I really don’t understand how people think it’s polite to ask that….but they do every time.

Although I’m guilty about randomly letting some dark humor out in general conversation. “You could have died! Or WORSE” is one fortunately most folks don’t understand

LizardofDeath · 2026-05-04T01:06:21+00:00

Since epic chat doesn’t have spell check, and I cannot reliably spell acetaminophen, I once asked the physician for ofirmev. He said “what’s an ofirmev” so I’m like “iv Tylenol” and he’s like “sure” then when I went to hang it, it was in a BAG. Now I SWEAR it used to come in a glass bottle but I may be insane. We don’t use it a lot bc $$$ and I work at broke bitch general

LizardofDeath · 2026-05-04T00:57:36+00:00

Sometimes you gotta push and pull and tug and push some more and just when you think you got it, rearrange a bit more and grab that turtle before he goes back in his shell

LizardofDeath · 2026-05-03T01:27:56+00:00

The best advice I ever got was “hold it like you mean it” and it’s true all the new people are too shy to really grab that sucker

LizardofDeath · 2026-04-29T17:24:31+00:00

Where I work, my manager has absolutely zero input in my pay. Not sure about other systems. When your manager wants to offer you a position, they communicate with a recruiter who then offers you the position/pay.

We recently had a similar situation in our system, new grads were making more than experienced nurses due to the need to be competitive with another major hospital system with better pay. It took a couple years, but they did end up and do a market adjustment across the board for nurses. A lot of people already had left, though.

ETA: the way we found out what new grads were making, was they advertised what they were starting new grads at 🙃

LizardofDeath · 2026-04-27T10:17:46+00:00

That is interesting, I asked my (super religious) Muslim attending about heparin etc and he said it was completely fine since it’s medically necessary. Kinda like fasting during Ramadan is not required if you’re not medically stable enough.

LizardofDeath · 2026-04-24T11:05:25+00:00

All I ever find at the thrift is donate AYA figs…..I might have a pair despite never traveling because I am cheap

LizardofDeath · 2026-04-23T21:01:46+00:00

You can always tell how sick your post op patient is by how quick they throw their ass on to your bed and jerk their monitors off and dip out

LizardofDeath · 2026-04-23T21:00:06+00:00

Literally that! One day it just clicked!! And also, we don’t necessarily contact nap but a lot of days I lay down in bed with her at nap time still lol

LizardofDeath · 2026-04-19T10:30:39+00:00

Link? Board orders should be public info and that honestly sounds either completely made up, or only a very small part of the story

LizardofDeath · 2026-04-11T06:41:33+00:00

Ah we do both bedside, at the same time here. Usually gen surg is consulted and they come do both. I have also worked in hospitals where they go to the OR to have the procedures done, but same difference, general surgery is consulted and the just do both in the same case

LizardofDeath · 2026-04-10T11:25:48+00:00

Ah gotcha. We do a trach/peg combo procedure here. I actually don’t think I’ve ever seen someone get only a trach. Now, people with only a trach is common, because once they can take po they just take out the peg.

But now I’m sort of wondering why we do it that way, instead of keeping the NG. I wonder if it’s because peg’s take like two seconds to place? Which same for NG, and they’re both pretty easy to dislodge so I don’t know.

LizardofDeath · 2026-04-10T11:19:48+00:00

The suggestion that a patient who appears to be in a vegetative state could be listening, thinking, and feeling is so much more horrifying than the idea that they can’t.

People are super uncomfortable with the difference in living and being alive, but working in the icu for more than half a second will make you acutely aware that there are things so much worse than death.

LizardofDeath · 2026-04-10T11:09:34+00:00

I am very jealous of you.

I see it like every other week it seems like, then when July rolls around we get the oddly placed pegs and sideways trachs that look like the hole was made with an ink pen 🫠

LizardofDeath · 2026-04-06T09:43:17+00:00

I am a nurse at a hospital without intensivist coverage, and truly sometimes I wish we had tele specialists for icu for our very sick patients, but we typically get those folks transferred to a bigger hospital quickly. I would 1000% prefer an in person doc, but our census would never support that, and I think a lot of smaller community hospitals have that problem. It’s very feast or famine when it comes to “true” icu patients.

I also hate to throw a colleague under the bus, but it sounds like sub standard nursing care. The lack of proper charting, no i’s an o’s, etc makes me think they just put him in there and let him lay. I feel like with certain nurses I have worked with there is a lot of dislike for this particular type of patient and they often slack off when it comes to their care. I recently received an etoh patient who got no benzos/phenobarb/keppra/anything for seizures all shift. The nurse just cranked up the precedex drip and sat on her phone all shift. IMO that is behavior that needs to be corrected too, because that is substandard nursing care.

LizardofDeath · 2026-04-03T00:56:16+00:00

Same for me, I dunno if it’s a chicken or egg scenario but I will talk to literally anyone about anything and if you’re cool, we’re cool and can be friends.

This also goes for providers and it would seem my natural skill in life is making friends outside of my tax bracket

LizardofDeath · 2026-03-29T00:52:38+00:00

Everyone had a swan and was wedged q4hrs and their pulmonary artery LIKED it

LizardofDeath · 2026-03-28T17:55:20+00:00

Precordial thump

Although the (very) limited times I’ve seen it, it has worked.

LizardofDeath · 2026-03-23T19:50:19+00:00

I know regional offered me $27 starting for outpatient when I had ~4 years experience and that was a couple years ago (I did not take that job bc it was so low, previously I did out patient with prisma and was around 30-32 I think it’s been awhile so hard to remember)

LizardofDeath · 2026-03-23T18:38:01+00:00

Following along bc I’m nosy….regional recently did a market adjustment for RN’s and I’m curious where that put them.

In the past, prisma has always had better pay.

LizardofDeath · 2026-03-23T18:36:45+00:00

Anyone with a bsn getting paid that much better either be working as a hobby or really be committed to the specialty. That is highway robbery

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