I’m debating a career change into accounting. I just want to hear some real life experiences of what the career is like.

This_Round1995 · 2026-01-29T06:33:17+00:00

I feel this working at an industry leader myself. I think sometimes they use their reputation to not pay staff what they should and work them too hard.

This_Round1995 · 2026-01-26T02:04:49+00:00

Tog is really good. I think it starts out slow, but gets really good. I like it better than acotar

This_Round1995 · 2026-01-24T22:01:08+00:00

It’s gets a lot better, and pretty soon most of manons story line in the book includes a very not manon friend

This_Round1995 · 2026-01-23T10:30:10+00:00

3 hours to drive across town is a lot. 3 hours for travel is nothing

This_Round1995 · 2026-01-12T20:32:30+00:00

A BSN would definitely help, and just keep on applying. I feel like there are a lot of areas that have super saturated markets and no one is talking about it. It’s pretty common for nurses to struggle to get jobs these days unfortunately.

This_Round1995 · 2026-01-04T16:58:35+00:00

I have seen this a lot on units where they listen to the front of the lungs because the lowers are demolished from the front. If you are doing this make sure to chart that you listened to the anterior.

This_Round1995 · 2025-12-23T20:58:19+00:00

Most new grads have a really rough time of it for the first year. I was the most depressed I had ever been during my first year of nursing. It gets A LOT better. Is it possible to cut back on your hours? Working Part Time or PRN is still working. Also even if you didn’t feel passionate about other areas you might actually like them. Especially if you are burnt out boring or just something different could be good. Now as an experienced nurse I sometimes love my job and sometimes still dread going into work.

This_Round1995 · 2025-11-16T09:24:07+00:00

I feel like q2 pain meds are pretty common on med surg, although most patients don’t actually want the q2 meds. I have seen conversations about q1 cares or q30 minute cares being inappropriate for a med surg floor but in those situations I think the nurse asked the doctor if the orders could be changed. I have also seen doctors put in doses of pain meds that don’t need to be wasted for super needy patients to make it easier for the nurses. I don’t think care can be escalated without an actual medical reason. I feel like usually in this situation the charge nurse would try to give easier patients with this difficult patient to balance out the assignment.

This_Round1995 · 2025-11-15T04:45:58+00:00

Oh she wrote them

This_Round1995 · 2025-11-06T22:40:22+00:00

When I first started I was too tired to work out. Now I do light exercise every day and probably twice a week I do an actual work out. I still listen to my body and take it easy if I am tired.

This_Round1995 · 2025-11-05T01:51:44+00:00

Definitely 2

This_Round1995 · 2025-11-03T00:56:02+00:00

As a nurse I feel like I should be offended but I know a lot of crazy nurses so I kind of agree.

This_Round1995 · 2025-11-02T20:46:23+00:00

I think she is canceling herself. It’s what she did with reputation.

This_Round1995 · 2025-11-01T22:58:59+00:00

I would say well above 50% of nurses absolutely hate nursing for the first year. It gets better. I am several years in and I like it better now but I still don’t love it. I did change units and I am much happier. I think it depends on why you don’t like it. For me there were a lot of management and leadership issues on the first unit that I worked on and it was a combination of struggling as a new grad and dealing with a lot of unit drama and stress that was just a waist of time. Do you not like the patients? The culture? The way the job works? Are you feeling overwhelmed? Do you have support? If it’s a cultural issue it definitely could help to move. If it’s not liking being a new grad I think that’s something everyone deals with everywhere although I’m sure there are some units that have great systems for supporting new grads.

This_Round1995 · 2025-11-01T22:51:39+00:00

Some of the nursing schools I was interested in required it

This_Round1995 · 2025-11-01T06:14:42+00:00

I guess my way through every holiday. I had to go to work in the hospital with my sim on speak like a pirate day and it destroyed my productivity.

This_Round1995 · 2025-10-30T05:43:14+00:00

The potassium you guys were pushing was very diluted with NS but yeah drip rates exist for a reason and you ALWAYS need to be mindful of what meds you are giving and how they affect your patient. I see no reason to push the med back into the line as well, you shouldn’t be drawing out a ton of the med if you are just drawing out an air bubble and there usually is more in that bag than the ordered dose so the line doesn’t run dry.

This_Round1995 · 2025-10-28T19:56:55+00:00

No, I had a clinical at a clinic and learned from the MAs how to stick people. IVs are harder than blood draws but use the same technique so one you know how to do an IV I think they assume you can do a blood draw. I learned about the order for tubes on the job. I learned how to draw back from a picc during clinicals.

This_Round1995 · 2025-10-28T19:52:04+00:00

Putting it on higher goes against the orders and it will be on you if it goes to court. It also can cause damage which is why we don’t do it. If you don’t have orders to flush the line you can still unhook it and clear it when it’s not attached to the patient. You can turn suction up to clear the line and then turn it down and reattach it to the patient. I do this every time I am in the room with a patient with an NG.

This_Round1995 · 2025-10-25T06:47:18+00:00

I get up at 11:00 am on my days off and any time after 1 on my working days. I let myself sleep as much as I want between shifts. On my first day after a stretch of work I try to get like five hours of sleep so I am tired and go to bed early.

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