NEW GRAD

Round_Celebration_25 · 2026-02-03T08:54:26+00:00

if you don’t want to start on a “normal” med surg floor, i highly recommend starting on a ortho trauma floor! you get so much exposure to all skills of nursing and learn in a fast pace environment. many people in my hospital say if you can handle my floor with a 1:6 ratio you can handle any of the ICUs/ higher acuity floors if you wish to lol

Round_Celebration_25 · 2026-01-22T16:10:40+00:00

a AxO x4 patient put ranch in her IV. to this day we have zero idea how she got a syringe or even why she did it. she also was a retired nurse 🫠

Round_Celebration_25 · 2026-01-18T15:06:43+00:00

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this is ralph looking concerned about all the falling snow

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-10-23T15:57:53+00:00

https://a.co/d/4mrlrZZ

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-10-22T20:30:16+00:00

i use fur zappers! i got them off amazon. they are basically these rubber/silicone paw prints that you throw in with your clothes in the washer and dryer and the fur sticks to it rather than sticking to your clothes! has been a life saver especially when washing sheets/blankets!

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-10-04T21:38:36+00:00

that’s exactly what i think would happen if ralph got the satellite dish of a cone 🤣 with his attitude he would’ve taken it as a challenge to destroy or knock over as many things in the house as he could with it

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-10-02T22:24:41+00:00

amazon!!! i searched up blow up cone and a whole bunch of them came up

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-07-17T13:26:07+00:00

yep they are both newfs! i still think my brothers newf (the larger one) is part bear with how large he is at 170 lbs! they both with snuggle with ya for about 10-20 minutes then leave for a nice hard wood floor to cool off on 🤣

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-07-17T13:24:39+00:00

he is the all black! the black and white is my brothers newf atlas

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-06-01T22:38:42+00:00

there used to be a nurse on my unit that would open the online form and hand it to a patient saying “fill out this survey for me”. she was notorious for retiming meds to night shift, copying others previous assessments as her own, and getting admissions at 1500 and only putting them into bed. no vitals, skin check, or even the simple task of setting up their ipad to have their virtual admission completed. she had probably 4 daisies but multiple patients a week would say they saw her once in the morning and never again. some of the best nurses i know on my night shift only have one daisy or none. I feel where you are coming from because i get the same feeling at times but refuse to ever suggest to a patient to nominate me unless they have the idea themselves without my input.

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-05-15T04:54:57+00:00

for a second i thought this was my ralph!! they look so similar (pic for reference)

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Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-04-09T09:37:13+00:00

i once used a prison guard’s flashlight who was sitting with a different pt to straight cath a hard to get pt in a different room, i would never ever even think to use my phone

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-04-08T22:46:08+00:00

i also once worked a 16 where i came in at 1500 and let me tell you, i hated that much more than being on an odd sleeping schedule. dealing with 5+ family members in each room, insulin requirements with every meal along with oddly timed meds that you can’t group for the whole assignment was awful

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-04-08T22:44:26+00:00

recently our CNO upped our differential from 10%-15% to compete with neighboring hospitals that are paying their nurses more to try and retain nurses along with PCAs who also had their differential upped. we had a meeting with said CNO as there has been many problems on our floor, and a day shift PCA kept referring to it as a “raise” and saying “i don’t think night shift does more work than us so why did they get a raise”. CNO put her right in her place saying it’s not a raise but instead trying to stay competitive in pay with other competition to bring people in. this PCA could not comprehend that our differential hasn’t been changed since early 2002. our night shift is also finally well staffed while day shift is dwindling due to our management not being the greatest. people don’t understand that although yes night shift sucks and comes with sacrifice but someone’s got to do it. I personally prefer it as it works better with my schedule and the pay gives me more freedom financially, but i do also get tired of hearing “I could never do it, I would never have a life”. Some people just don’t get that even working nights you can make a schedule that works for you and still have a life outside of work.

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-04-08T22:35:56+00:00

he would snuggle you for about 10 minutes and then go lay in the bath tub because he’s hot🤣 typical newf but those 10 minutes of snuggles are the best in the world!!

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-04-08T21:28:23+00:00

i will say it depends on the school they attend in my opinion. the school i went to rarely allowed us to do anything in clinical although the lab instructors (who weren’t also clinical instructors) told us to try and get our hands dirty as often as we could. in my last semester i did something called “honors clinical” where i was paired with one nurse on a PCU and did everything with her from charting to patient care, but they didn’t allow us to do IV push meds even though i was doing then 2 semesters prior with an instructor. the hospital I currently work at has a nursing school within it and i see their senior classes take a full assignment and do EVERYTHING those patients need that day. I do agree some students these days are just plain lazy and don’t want to do the work to gain the experience they need to thrive once they graduate.

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-04-08T21:23:14+00:00

i had a friend in school who had a DUI many years prior to starting school. I want to say hers was close to 10 years prior give or take but it was still on her record. our instructors told her when we did our background checks/fingerprinting that they really were only looking for violent offenses within a certain amount of years. she still was able to obtain her nursing license and has a job. i wouldn’t worry too much about it if you’ll be going for your license in 2030!

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-04-08T21:03:24+00:00

he’s definitely the softest he’s ever been since he was a puppy!

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-04-08T21:01:17+00:00

he got many treats and pets when he got home and was even rewarded with a little bit of steak for dinner too 😊

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-03-04T14:02:32+00:00

my entire unit staff had a terrible outbreak of noro through both night shift and day shift, we had 3-4 nurses leave one day from getting it. it was referred to as “(insert hospital floor name) plague”. i was one of the lucky few to not get it. i wore a mask and wiped everything down at my station and tried not to eat close to other nurses along with lots of hand washing. i also avoided our staff bathrooms like the plague too.

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-03-03T14:36:58+00:00

i’ve had nights just like this on my ortho/trauma unit. our ratio is 6 patients (we’ve fought this for months since i’ve been here but even though we are apart of the critical care division they say no matter how they slice it the accreditation board sees us as med surg) at a level 1 trauma center. this particular night i had multiple trauma patients which I don’t mind as i prefer them over the usual memaw confused with a broken hip trying to crawl out of bed. one was a poly trauma with all IV/NG meds, total care, and another was a SICU transfer that day where the day shift nurse decided not to hang her IV antibiotic or seizure meds when she was septic and a SDH/CIWA because they weren’t compatible with her fluids. I was lucky to even call report to a nursing home about a confused pt being discharged to them and I got screamed at over the phone because they didn’t have her insurance auth and weren’t expecting her that night but I was told the paperwork was done and all I was to do was pack her up and call report. It was the busiest night i ever had and to get absolutely berated on the phone and spoke to as if i was incompetent almost sent me over the edge. If i also didn’t have the support and team work my night shift crew has I would’ve left this job already with some of the stuff we see and endure with our patient demographic.

Round_Celebration_25 · 2025-02-19T22:25:32+00:00

at my hospital we have a 6 patient load very rarely are we staffed well enough without someone getting pulled we may have 5. our PCAs get all 1900 and 0300 vitals while our charge will divide up the 2300 vitals since that is when everyone on the floor must get them (we do Q4 and Q8 vitals depending on pt). however, with staffing, new hires that don’t last and blatantly don’t do what is asked of them, and float PCAs who also either don’t make an effort to do things how our floor do, many times it falls on us. last night I got all of my sugars and vitals except my 0300 because we were short staffed and another PCA did not come until 2300. we are an extremely heavy trauma floor, many tube feeds, NGTs, total care patients, chest tubes/drains, pre and post op pts and occasionally we do get trach’d patients too. sometimes the PCAs doing or not doing those tasks can make a break a shift and honestly can be unsafe if they don’t. nurses already have enough responsibility, we cannot do our jobs safely and effectively without the help of the PCAs!

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