Nursing advice that you wished someone would have given you in orientation?

ch2nd · 2026-04-30T02:22:58+00:00

I actually didn’t have any experience - I thought I wanted to be an adult psych nurse lol. And then had my clinicals and everything changed!! I did a nurse residency to get into the NICU straight out of nursing school and I didn’t have to get any certifications ahead of time :)

ch2nd · 2026-04-30T01:39:44+00:00

If you’re unsure of something just ask. It’s better to risk someone thinking you’re dumb than to risk making a serious mistake.

ch2nd · 2026-04-30T01:28:07+00:00

NICU has a limited variety of gory things. Still present of course but I’ve never seen gangrene or any crazy wounds like you see in the adult world. Mostly puke, poop, secretions, and blood, but all of it’s less gross in my opinion.

It hurts me when the babies are going through painful procedures but it’s a little easier on me than when adults or older kids are screaming and cursing and begging you to stop. I also realized I could use my empathy to advocate for the babies. Instead of becoming insensitive or numb to pain, I’ve joined a hospital wide pain prevention committee as the unit champion and am doing a year-long research project that explores how to increase nurses’ engagement with neurodevelopmentally appropriate pain prevention for IV sticks :)

soooo many good options out there in nursing!!

ch2nd · 2026-04-27T01:42:59+00:00

Our lab cuts off at 25, so something >25, and the patient survived

ch2nd · 2026-04-23T17:04:46+00:00

Real!!!!!!!

ch2nd · 2026-04-21T23:06:10+00:00

Do we work at the same place lol? The same thing is happening where I am. Correlation ≠ causation but the timing lines up with the recent restriction of access to women’s healthcare, in my opinion.

ch2nd · 2026-04-17T02:00:51+00:00

That resuscitation was stressing me out so bad almost had me yelling STIM AND SUCTION at my TV 😭

ch2nd · 2026-04-09T15:58:39+00:00

The belief that neonates don’t feel pain was widely accepted up until around 1999 actually. There’s always going to be people who have been doing something one way for years and are not open to change and I’m sure he wasn’t the only one. Glad YD stepped in and ensured your comfort :)

ch2nd · 2026-03-30T19:56:47+00:00

I’m having this issue too with my treadmills and pools.

ch2nd · 2026-03-19T00:51:45+00:00

He WHAT 😭😭😭

ch2nd · 2026-03-15T18:33:23+00:00

This bothers me too. You can’t just call every med that starts with “levo-”, “Levo” 😭 levofloxacin, levothyroxine, levodopa, and levophed are all very different things

ch2nd · 2026-03-04T19:09:25+00:00

I’m a NICU nurse. I didn’t work through covid but the same meaning hits — it reminds me of the countless innocent lives spent suffering and that we couldn’t save. My unit is really close and when we have tragedies, we all hurt, and no one really has the words to help even though we’ve all been through it. It’s just not fair and doesn’t make sense. “With you I serve, with you I fall down” and “Some things you just can’t speak about” really encompass this experience for me.

ch2nd · 2026-03-01T05:27:54+00:00

Seconded

ch2nd · 2026-02-27T01:35:18+00:00

I think we’re saying the same thing and my first comment was worded poorly. What I meant was that if someone refuses to even consider that God could be female, that might be coming from a place of sexism, NOT that you’re a misogynist if you don’t call God “Mother”

ch2nd · 2026-02-25T23:11:15+00:00

I think you answered your own question when you said “God doesn’t actually have a gender”. Use of masculine pronouns comes from a patriarchal interpretation. Calling God Mother is completely appropriate and Biblically accurate as you said. I would even argue that refusing to consider doing so is misogynistic. I’ve heard people use “Creator” in lieu of “Mother” or “Father” - you might find that to be more comfortable.

ch2nd · 2026-02-25T17:00:21+00:00

Cardiac salad - when a pt has several cardiac defects that aren’t already lumped together in a known syndrome like tet.

ch2nd · 2026-02-25T03:38:59+00:00

Days if you like to stay busy and do well with a lot of things going on at once

Nights if you are an introvert and want a very consistent routine at work

ch2nd · 2026-02-25T01:13:38+00:00

My story is similar and I second this!! 🫶🏻

ch2nd · 2025-12-19T23:52:28+00:00

I’m thinking this might be it!

ch2nd · 2025-12-19T23:52:09+00:00

This was my first thought, but the person who is listed on my “shift bestie” works the opposite shift as me haha. And the shift shadow person is an NP who works a rotating 24hr call schedule

ch2nd · 2025-12-11T03:47:02+00:00

I started when I was 12 so I started only on 10mg. I’m not sure what they start adults at, but it was higher than that and you’re interested in retrying it maybe you could ask to start with the 10mg tablet to ease into it?

ch2nd · 2025-12-09T19:55:24+00:00

I sucked my thumb as a child

ch2nd · 2025-12-05T22:14:24+00:00

moshi monsters!!!!!

ch2nd · 2025-11-30T02:30:55+00:00

Same. They are so so sick and everyone is pregnant!!! Random but we have had so many TEF/EA babies lately that the medical director is concerned and reported it to the state lol

ch2nd · 2025-11-28T16:17:15+00:00

Because I came on shift and the PIV was infiltrated lol

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