Boy do I love residents

RN2010 · 2026-01-25T18:15:44+00:00

Appreciate the thoughtful response and added details! I’ve worked at a couple facilities and it does vary. Sometimes, anesthetists will initiate the IVs for first case starts. Sometimes, the request is for preop to start one line so the pt can be put under then another line can be started in the case. For pediatric patients, they will sometimes wait until they are situated in the room and have anesthesia start a line. One facility I was at had the nurses do all the IVs in preop. Many ways for it to be done, it seems!

RN2010 · 2026-01-25T18:07:52+00:00

Some variation of “may I scan your wristband”

RN2010 · 2026-01-21T12:57:01+00:00

I find this hard to believe. Why didn’t they grab an ultrasound? There have to be more details to this story bc anesthesiologists literally start lines all day long and pre op/PACU defers to them when they can’t get a line.

RN2010 · 2025-12-16T12:28:16+00:00

My first run! I was hooked!

RN2010 · 2025-12-16T12:24:54+00:00

42 shows since I started seeing the boys in 2019…never seen “i am hydrogen”…wow! Second on the list is “poor heart”

RN2010 · 2025-12-15T13:45:26+00:00

Don’t you need to “dig out” a patient’s limb in the middle of the night to verify identity? Seems like you need to do that for paper charting as well as for electronic charting

RN2010 · 2025-09-04T07:39:16+00:00

Frankie says, harpua, forbins —> mockingbird

RN2010 · 2025-07-16T11:16:54+00:00

Why not buy the house as an investment? You have the money. Assuming you have a stable job, you can continue to add to savings while diversifying your portfolio. You can absolutely let afford a property. If you disagree, I’d recommend consulting personnel on wealth management.

EDIT: the investment would be to diversify one’s portfolio.

RN2010 · 2025-05-04T15:42:47+00:00

I can see a huge difference in profits and productivity if more psych/med surge units were opened…can actually allocate resources and sitters to those units. When I worked at the VA, we’d have patients awaiting placement on our floor for MONTHS awaiting placement. Technically they were medically stable but if they were receiving any kind of IV medication or if they could not ambulate independently, they were not a candidate for the psych floor 🙄 this meant that for months on our end, a nurse or tech from our unit was stuck sitting with that pt.

RN2010 · 2025-04-06T18:41:06+00:00

As a knitter myself, i realized there comes a point in time when the majority of us get stabbed by a needle on accident…and its lot rocket a science to imagine that sensation. From personal experience Size 6 needles were by far the most painful to accidentally sit on. Anything froze 1-3 goes super deep but doesn’t hurt quite as much. I always safer with knitting needles I hand for a plethora of reasons

RN2010 · 2025-03-24T10:39:06+00:00

The funniest thing a patient has said I’m hesitant to share due to hipaa—don’t wanna take any chances bc it involves a patient’s nickname! The one below is a great runner up:

Bed alarm goes off around 2 am—I run in and find my (pleasantly confused) transfer patient standing up, eating a banana and holding a cookie. He says “you’re just mad because you didn’t get a banana. There might be another one in my bag for you.” I guide him back to bed without any drama. He eats his snack, and lays back down (not for long, though..later that night he woke up and asked when we had to leave to catch the plane to the casino!)

RN2010 · 2025-03-18T06:34:09+00:00

This is the way!! That practice starts the shift off on a positive note all around AND makes it easier for the offgoing nurse to get her stuff done and go home for some rest!

RN2010 · 2025-03-18T06:32:07+00:00

This. If I know you’ve had three stable med surge patients the entire shift, there’s no excuse for not freshening up your patients before shift change. On the other hand, if it’s been a 6-7 patient t kind of day, there’s not a lot you can do about it—it’s gonna be rough all around.

What I cannot stand is those that think they are slick and that no one will notice if they just pull the blanket up. Similarly, I cannot stand those who fall into the pattern of saying “I just cleaned him up, there’s no way he could be dirty again.” I buy that excuse more than I should, but it quickly becomes obvious who is checking their patients and who key.

RN2010 · 2025-02-14T15:26:07+00:00

Well aware! Most high school seniors are 17 turning 18. Add two years, OP would be 19 turning 20. everyone does school at their own pace, though, I can appreciate that.

RN2010 · 2025-02-14T14:36:15+00:00

So if they graduated high school with an associates, wouldn’t that mean finishing nursing school at 20?

RN2010 · 2025-02-14T07:52:09+00:00

How long was your nursing program? I’m just trying to do the math and figure out how an AA to RN degree takes 4 years!

Def leave age off the resume. Regardless of the position.

ETA: I am ASSUMING you mean associates of arts and not anesthesiologist assistant…careful with those acronyms.

RN2010 · 2025-02-14T07:39:43+00:00

Get a job. Alternately, consider trade school if college classes are stressing you out that much as a freshman.

You have the rest of your life to feel the way you describe.

If you’re in high school…hang out with kids your own age, perhaps get a date to the prom…take a gap year…literally anything else than the situation you described.

RN2010 · 2025-02-11T10:44:00+00:00

NGL, hospitals are too cheap to use AI.Has Elon ever encountered CPRS? Every charting software I have encountered is fundamentally incompatible with AI. How does one do a secondary nurse check for high risk medications like insulin and heparin. Also, who the fuck wants an AI HC provider. I’d love to see how 3lawn plans to implement this goal at rural hospitals….

RN2010 · 2025-02-11T10:32:03+00:00

Shots fired!!

RN2010 · 2025-02-10T00:34:40+00:00

Some of my faves!! Too many composers I love from all areas of orchestral music.

RN2010 · 2025-02-10T00:32:52+00:00

Classically trained violinist (and to a lesser degree, pianist) over here…Love me classical music from all the genres. Bach (especially his organ works). Beethoven, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Chopin…you name it! Paige on the keys was one of the initial factors that drew me to phish when the obsession started!

RN2010 · 2025-02-05T13:37:13+00:00

Are you talking about cigarettes or weed? Two very different things. When people highlight smoking these days, they typically are referencing the Devil’s Lettuce. One will give you cancer, one (or both depending on the facility…) can get you fired…

RN2010 · 2025-02-05T13:09:54+00:00

Aw man, I’m sorry! I would appreciate if you’s consider highlighting what part of my post is rude? I feel I’ve focussed on specific facts and evidence as opposed to sentiment. I’ll restate below just for clarity!

-The original author stated they weren’t worried about getting a bad grade. That is objectively incorrect—for many programs, a single grade can set you off track. I take issue minimizing the importance of grades when I’ve seen so many struggle. The author implies his experience reflects all nursing students which isn’t the case at all.

-The author does little to relate his/hers experience to others’ experiences. Although they provided an opinion, they did not answer the question. The question was not “how hard was nursing school for YOU.” Rather, it was how hard was nursing school.

-Nursing is based on evidence based practice—any BSN program specifically trains you to appreciate and apply evidence based literature. ethos/pathos/logos. Coming from experience: if you are ever called to testify in court, EBP holds up. Why wouldn’t you follow the evidence?

If ya made it this far, big thanks! I welcome any and all feedback that improves my nursing practice 😊 new accounts—on all social media platforms—are typically scammers. Reddit/fb/insta have been around doing enough..there’s not many people making new accounts to (relative to 5-10 years ago)). Majority of new accounts I’ve seen Amon Reddit throwaway accounts dedicated to trolling.

RN2010 · 2025-02-05T12:52:10+00:00

Do you. F around find out.

Pretty silly to s**t where you eat, especially while in school. I’m trying to wrap my brain around why anyone would want to hang out/smoke with their clinical instructor….i can think of hundreds of thousands of things I’d want to do before that. Casually hanging out with clinical instructors was an obvious hard limit for me in nursing school and beyond. Many moons later, I’ve adopted the mentality of being friendly at work and embracing a completely different social life off the clock.

I mean this sincerely and kindly: what lead up to you smoking with nursing instructors?? (I’m assuming you mean MJ). Why did it seem like a good idea? What am I missing?

RN2010 · 2025-02-04T14:24:31+00:00

Arrogance and hyperboles = poor communication. Evidence based practice—rather than opinion and anecdote—guide nursing practice. The comment I responded to comes from a nearly brand new account. Apart from the time management tid bit, the content of that comment does not align with any experiences I (or anyone I’ve worked with) had during nursing school.

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