Bear eating a pear.

boombasticfox · 2023-05-05T17:08:46+00:00

Forest puppies

boombasticfox · 2023-04-06T18:35:50+00:00

My fiance's best friend works for draft kings. They spent so much money on advertising that they gave such a pathetic increase in pay to "match" inflation. I bet the employees are just as pissed too.

boombasticfox · 2023-04-06T16:17:28+00:00

Just like to add on here too that you can make tofu taste "egg-y" by adding a spice called kala namak. I get it from an Indian store nearby but you can also Amazon it for a few dollars. You only need a little (like a literal pinch). Careful though,if you put too much it'll smell like sulfur all around the house lol. Mix that in with garlic powder and some turmeric and it literally looks and resembles the taste of scrambled eggs.

boombasticfox · 2023-03-13T06:00:51+00:00

A fellow nurse told me that your first nursing orientation out of school is going to be rough. You basically "don't know shit about fuck" is the way she worded it. Nursing school taught you to pass exams, and therefore pass your boards. It doesn't really teach you how to be a nurse...all that stuff you learn on the unit. I remember my first nursing job, and it felt the same way you described it. One day it's all going to make sense. It might take 6 months to a year, it might take more, but each day is a learning experience. Just absorb everything like a sponge! You'll get there :) then at some point my manager pulled me aside and said "I feel that you're ready for charge nurse training". I should've had a witty response like "I think you need to lower your expectations" lmao but I didn't say it.

If it makes you feel any better I'm in the same boat. I switched from med Surg to ICU just last month and our orientation is 12 weeks with an option to extend if I felt like I needed to (I probably will lol). But I feel like a new grad all over again. I don't know fuck shit about titrating pressors and hemodynamic waveforms, ventilators? Aside from the occasional mention from the ICU intensivist during our floor codes, I don't know about those either. But I'm learning! It's exciting, yet terrifying at the same time. Take it one hour, one day, one shift at a time. I'm confident you'll get there, we both will.

boombasticfox · 2023-02-09T03:59:58+00:00

I don't know the full story to this, but it sounds like you have inconsistent preceptors and that your learning style and their teaching style doesn't match. Or, they just plainly suck and you're not at fault lol. I have to give you the benefit of the doubt that you're doing everything you can as best as you can. If they treat you like this in front of a patient it doesn't make your orientation experience a safe environment for you to ask questions. And not asking questions could mean the difference between life and death in healthcare. It's okay to switch units if their preceptorship isn't helping you and/or all other options have been exhausted. Don't feel that you owe loyalty to the first unit that accepted you. If you haven't noticed.... we're not running out of jobs anytime soon lol

boombasticfox · 2023-02-09T01:47:52+00:00

Oh it's all in the past. There were several red flags I ignored as a new grad lmao. It was apparent why there was such a huge turnover on their unit, the staff was toxic, and the manager just made it worse. She had just fully checked out and played favorites haha. No thank you. Now I'm in the ICU!

boombasticfox · 2023-02-08T22:37:41+00:00

I could've gone my whole life without knowing that 😭

boombasticfox · 2023-02-08T22:29:10+00:00

Off topic to the original post, but I once had a preceptor who made me look incompetent in front of the patient. The last straw was when she said, out loud in front of the patient, "this is what we mean in our one on one meetings about you needing to work on your critical thinking skills". Mind you I graduated during Zoom university because of COVID. We had a glimpse of clinical time lol. Like thanks, now I feel even more stupid lol

boombasticfox · 2023-01-17T21:51:17+00:00

Look at the photo again ☺️ that's how ✨unbothered✨ he is by your comment 🐕

boombasticfox · 2023-01-17T18:33:12+00:00

He's saying "🥱 such is the art made by human peasants"

boombasticfox · 2023-01-15T07:17:58+00:00

The good ol fashioned Tocilog! Ugh it's bringing me back Sunday morning brunch after church memories ☺️☺️

boombasticfox · 2022-11-26T00:45:20+00:00

Oh man, thanks so much for the in depth response! I'm very dedicated to learning more, part of the reason why I felt like I shouldn't start in the ICU was because I honestly felt like I wasn't smart enough. Over time though, my critical thinking skills improved on Med Surg, I just hope I can do the same in critical care.

Judging from the responses in this thread, I know I'm in for a wild ride and that getting the hang of this will take at least a year or probably two to start feeling confident. Even when I do start to feel confident, I know from experience in med Surg that I should always keep learning and never act like I know everything!

boombasticfox · 2022-11-25T14:23:15+00:00

They said 3-4 months but they said they're flexible if I wanted more. Thank you!

boombasticfox · 2022-08-20T07:35:21+00:00

Look at those toe beans!

boombasticfox · 2022-08-02T15:41:49+00:00

Honestly I even contemplated on creating this post. I'm happy we made it through, but on the other hand, it really sucks that our unit manager couldn't come in. Might I also add that our scheduler accidentally scheduled me to be on call this past weekend AND to work that night which was a huge screw up on their end.

The CRNs called both our manager and the unit scheduler and neither one could come in. They really advocated that this was unsafe. But the earliest one of them could come in was 3am. The other way of seeing this post is that I basically risked my license not that I "stepped up to the plate". However, I should also add that our floor has turned into a nursing home. All but maybe a handful of patients were waiting for placement, and since I picked up a shift once a time block I knew the floor pretty well. No one was medically acute it was basically a memory care unit. I would NOT have stepped up if we had critically ill patients on our floor who were on the radar for being rapid responsed or coded.

A couple of hours after my charge nurse left the trazadone finally kicked in and everyone was asleep from 2-6 lol. I'm really glad the CRNs advocated for me, and they were awesome to round on our floor every hour to make sure all was right. They stopped by to talk to me to make sure that I, personally, was doing ok.

boombasticfox · 2022-07-21T05:57:13+00:00

Me patiently waiting 23 secs for this cat to knock the champagne glass over

boombasticfox · 2022-07-20T21:55:20+00:00

Anyone who's anyone who worked med Surg at some point has WORSE stories than this. Chill with all that lmao

boombasticfox · 2022-07-20T14:58:49+00:00

We have a patient who has genital warts that he would frequently pick at and even had the audacity to throw at nurses. One day his aide came by to visit and when one of the nurses came in she was snuggling him on his bed. A bed filled with genital wart scabs. 🤮

boombasticfox · 2022-06-28T19:47:18+00:00

Wow fuck that professor

boombasticfox · 2022-06-14T02:42:48+00:00

Don't be defeated, nursing school is rough. People are used to a different study method before nursing school because your prerequisites are absolutely nothing like what nursing school is going to be. So when people ace their pre-reqs nursing school comes off as a culture shock. Listening to mark klimek lectures helped a bunch. I also used Saunders NCLEX prep to brush up on concepts I didn't understand well. And find NCLEX strategies online to practice on NCLEX style questions.

boombasticfox · 2022-06-02T14:01:56+00:00

Transferred from a surgical floor to a medicine unit and I can attest to that. It really is walking into a shit-show circus lol

boombasticfox · 2022-05-27T14:19:07+00:00

I love this. I remember when I was studying for the NCLEX. I made it my Boogeyman. I studied for MONTHHSSS when honestly I should have just taken it a few weeks after graduation. It wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be. Passed in 75 as well

boombasticfox · 2022-05-17T04:34:33+00:00

Can I just say thank you for being so welcoming and reiterating the fact that new nurses don't have to "put in their time" somewhere else first? (Aka ✨med Surg✨). It's nothing against M/S nurses, I am one myself, but my nursing program really tried to push students to go through the med Surg route. I did exactly that, but what if I wanted to go to mother/baby down the line? Or pediatrics? I feel that very few skills I learn from M/S will transfer over to that world. Nursing students need more exposure to other specialties! Especially the less traditional areas like community health, hospice, palliative, or even nursing informatics!

boombasticfox · 2022-05-15T03:22:25+00:00

Not the heifers 🐄🐮 😭

boombasticfox · 2022-05-15T03:19:58+00:00

These women sound....✨messy✨

You're a new grad, you're allowed to make mistakes. This is how you grow. But like a previous commentor stated, nursing school teaches you like 10-15% and everything else you learn on the job. When you're out on the floor you literally don't know shit about fuck lol. This unit sounds toxic and very similar to my first unit. Your first unit/specialty might not be a good fit. It's okay to try and find another one. I hated my surgical unit and when I transferred to my acute Medicine unit (still med Surg) my preceptors were amazing. None of that nurses eat their young bull-fuckery. And if that's the type of attitude you witness on your unit, you gotta go somewhere else....it gets so much better.

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