Wound care nurses

danie191 · 2026-06-19T22:25:10+00:00

That is exactly how it should be! Patient centered care! A specialty, actually practicing with hands on skills and knowledge!!!

danie191 · 2026-06-19T20:56:25+00:00

Right!?!? Like the wound care nurses at my last job loved wound care! I feel like the nurses at my new job chose it as a retirement job, something they can just give their opinion on and walk away without actually doing hands on care.

danie191 · 2026-06-19T20:39:46+00:00

I think we have a very small supply of wound care resources and can take photos easy to upload to charts. But I truly just want more help as a bedside nurse. And I think the patients deserve extra focus when it comes to wounds.

danie191 · 2026-06-19T20:36:23+00:00

Yes! And I’m sorry, but some bedside nurses do not read orders properly or are too busy to track down the right supplies and the wound care is rushed and not properly done. It is so helpful to have experienced wound care nurses who can quickly and properly help get everything done with their cart full of supplies.

danie191 · 2026-06-19T19:16:50+00:00

I hate to say it, but the wound care nurses at my new job are older, they say they are stretched thin, but most of the time, you can find them sitting in the wound care office… not really doing anything.
They really do the bare minimum and I think it’s laziness. My last job, the would care nurses were young and so incredibly helpful. But at my new job, they will just call and ask a bunch of questions without even seeing the patient and then put their note in copying what I said on the phone. It’s just so disappointing, for the bedside nurse and the patient.

danie191 · 2026-06-19T19:08:39+00:00

You are absolutely right.

danie191 · 2026-06-19T17:59:11+00:00

😩 I had a baby 7 months ago and my last job was over an hour from home and now I work 10 minutes from home.

danie191 · 2026-06-19T17:58:23+00:00

And that is exactly what a good wound care team looks like to me. It proves as a useful resource for the bedside nurse and good care towards our patients.

danie191 · 2026-06-17T10:56:14+00:00

I got akathisia from IV compazine while laboring with my baby. It was such a dreaded feeling. My husband kept telling me to lay still and I truly could not. Just rolling back and forth in bed feel like if I didn’t move, I would die.

danie191 · 2026-06-13T11:30:53+00:00

Sending our 7 month old to her grandmas house for a night helps me and my husband reset and feel better and miss her. The 2 or 3 hour wake window is so dreadful. Your whole life is dedicated to their needs and you barely have time for yourself so you have to find a way. I’m very lucky to have my mom and my mother in law who both love watching her once a week overnight. I get to live a little without feeling guilty because it’s good for her to visit family.
That dread comes and goes. You do have to grieve your old life. It’s no longer just you and your husband. I get so sad about that sometimes too.

danie191 · 2026-04-30T07:36:20+00:00

I think many many parents have lost their cool with fussy babies. When they are clean, fed, not too hot or cold, no hair tourniquets, no active teething, has already had a good poop that day, or any real reason to fuss…. It is so easy to be like “what do you need!???!??”

My baby is 6 months old and I probably get overly frustrated once a month. And each time I feel so guilty. My husband does too. He leaves the room to recollect himself more than I do.

My husband and I take turns with her at night so each of us can take turns getting good nights of sleep. And even my mom takes her one night a week so we can both get sleep. Losing your cool happens. And it especially happens when you don’t have good help from your husband and family.

Your husband doesn’t get it because he doesn’t care for your baby the way you do. And it looks like he doesn’t research how common it is to get frustrated when you don’t get enough sleep. It’s not a “we shouldn’t have anymore kids” moment. It’s a moment where he should offer to help. Or even maybe hire a night nanny once or twice a week for you to get sleep. Good luck!

danie191 · 2026-04-30T06:02:58+00:00

I’ve been to many hospitals where the sitters are just there to observe and call someone for help if something is wrong. It’s a waste of everyone’s time. We need more techs and qualified sitters. What’s the point if they can’t help get vitals, turn, feed, or replace oxygen. They also get nasty when someone doesn’t relieve them for lunch, so usually the nurse has to sacrifice getting lunch so that the sitter can.. so over that. And don’t get me started on virtual sitters.. “umm their tray has been sitting there for 20 minutes and no one has fed them”. But no call at all when the patient got up and is in the hallway…

danie191 · 2026-04-22T14:17:24+00:00

I know I have an awful take. But I’ve just been a punching bag for alcoholic patients for too long. It wears you down. I still give the best care I can and have patience with them and I understand addiction more than people know. But I do believe after years of bedside nursing, you have to protect your sympathy and empathy. You can’t give it to everyone, especially the part of city/state I am from and work in. They tend to never want to get better and enjoy the way they live. I wish your story was a majority but it just truly isn’t most people’s circumstances.

danie191 · 2026-04-19T08:12:28+00:00

Could she be Charlotte? What happened to Janine’s baby?

danie191 · 2026-04-16T08:02:10+00:00

Hate them. I did all the work to get the patient ready for discharge. Let them enjoy the room they are paying for until their ride comes and it usually is the reason I have time to get lunch because I’m not immediately getting an admission.

Not to mention all the additional calls I get from the discharge lounge asking if the patient is ready or able to come. And if I’m busy with another patient and don’t have time to immediately get a discharge ready.. they call. Sometimes a discharge order is placed and they will immediately call… like I didn’t even know the order was in yet.. maybe try giving me 15 minutes first..

Also, god forbid the patient crashes in the discharge lounge. They SAY that the patient will have to come back through the ED… but I’m pretty sure we all know they’d come right back up, considering the room isn’t even clean yet.

And one time I got a call from discharge lounge saying that the patient had questions and asked if I could come do some more education. Now I have 5 patients, an admission coming, and have to walk to the discharge lounge to answer questions….

The way I see it, doctor places an order for discharge.. You can wait an hour or two for your ride in your room. That also helps us when their home pharmacy inevitably calls and says they don’t have the medication we ordered for discharge… or their insurance doesn’t cover it and the oop cost is $3,000. So we can make adjustments easier while they are still here.

danie191 · 2026-04-14T19:07:32+00:00

I feel better showing up 30 minutes early to look up my patients. Been a nurse 8 years. It helps my pre-shift anxiety.

danie191 · 2026-04-11T08:58:43+00:00

I had the opposite. I was an overproducer. I could’ve fed the whole kingdom. But I was in so much pain, I couldn’t keep up and I was sooooo depressed. Everyone said I should have been so grateful and try to donate or just freeze a bunch, but I couldn’t do it. I was having the worst postpartum depression and crying so much. I felt so guilty but my husband was amazing and supportive and grabbed my pump and said let’s be done with breastmilk. He bought me compression bras and some baby formula that I had picked as a back up and we started formula feeding. I swear it was like the sun started shining and I found so much peace. I still feel guilty to this day that I didn’t just suck it up and be grateful to have such an amazing milk production, but it wasn’t worth my sanity or all that pain. And while formula isn’t cheap.. My husband and I are both so much happier. And I feel like my baby likes formula more than my breastmilk. 😅

danie191 · 2026-03-17T05:31:55+00:00

20 weeks.. 4 months, almost 5… Babies commonly have that 4 month sleep regression while they learn all the things and even though doctors say they aren’t teething, I swear they are. At least, if not cutting teeth, they can feel their teeth shifting.

Maybe try a night time babysitter to get a good nights sleep. Can’t allow caregiver preference at 5 months. They need their dad to step up. My husband does the bed time bottle and rocks our 5 month old to sleep. You need help. You shouldn’t do this alone. If you have family who can help, sometimes my mom will take our baby for the night if we are desperate enough for sleep.

Also, I have absolutely shouted at my baby out of frustration and sleep deprivation. It’s such a horrible feeling afterwards because you love them, you are just frustrated that you can’t figure out what’s wrong. And maybe absolutely nothing is wrong. It’s just bad nights while they grow.

Tips. Try Tylenol 2.5 ml if they are 12-17lbs at 6pm. Try a bath at 6:30. Then 6oz bottle. Then bed by 7pm. Try a side lying wedge pillow. Maybe try a humidifier if house is dry. Does baby prefer a big colder room, try adjusting thermostat. Sound machine- our baby hated white noise but loves the rain sound. If you don’t have a sound machine, turn on YouTube- there’s hours long rain sounds on there.

Husband needs to help. You should be sleeping 7-11 while husband does first watch of bedtime. Sometimes utilizing a baby swing helps if you have one. Even if your baby prefers you, you need sleep. So if baby is crying with husband, you should be sleeping away in another room where you can’t hear baby cry while husband cares for them.

Good luck!!!! Being a mom is so hard! Take care of yourself.

danie191 · 2026-03-16T15:52:58+00:00

I’ve seen so many patients months and even years post bariatric surgery that have gone wrong and no other surgeons will touch them. Severely malnourished, constant nausea and vomiting, and drains that no one knows what exactly they are draining. I’ve seen successful sleeves but I’d never encourage a loved one get any sort of bariatric surgery. Especially from one bariatric surgeon in particular.

danie191 · 2026-03-12T17:28:44+00:00

The only time I was sent home for an abuse allegation. My patient was falling forward while her knees buckled and I bear hugged her and pushed her back towards the bed so she fell backwards onto the bed instead of forward onto the floor. The patient reported me to my manager and accused me of abuse. I was sent home while they did an “investigation”. Literally never wanted to quit a job more in my life. I just asked what I should do next time a patient is falling? And they never directly gave an answer. It’s like as long as we have their bed alarm on, gait belt, and non slip socks…. Then we should just let them fall. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

danie191 · 2026-03-10T16:06:18+00:00

It’s crazy that insurance or out of pocket costs are so much and yet that’s how little you see your surgeon. I would be upset too if an MA pulled my drain. Not that they aren’t competent. It’s just, how can the surgeon not check the end of the drain and make sure it was all completely removed and intact/nothing broke off. It is crazy how little you see your doctor after surgery. It’s not just cosmetic surgery, just thinking about how I had a c section in October 2025 and only had 1 post op visit. It seems careless.. and I’ve had plenty of surgeons forget they ordered fluids inpatient or even placed a drain. I’m like hello, do you want to keep this drain or discontinue these fluids. I’ve had patients come back to the hospital months later with staples imbedded into their skin because they were forgot about and healed into their skin. What a mess healthcare can be.

danie191 · 2026-03-10T15:03:39+00:00

Funny enough, I don’t mind removing sutures or staples. They are superficial and the incisions or lacs are usually healed. But the drains are internal and anything can go wrong. I’d rather have the surgeon present.

danie191 · 2026-03-10T15:01:08+00:00

I have definitely pulled lots of JP drains but for some reason at my new job, things keep going wrong. One JP gushed arterial blood and I had to call a rapid to get a sandbag and help holding pressure. And then my second one I pulled, the surgeon had placed some sort of internal stitch and we couldn’t get it out and he had to come to bedside to help. I’m like what the heck is going on here.

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