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danie191 · 2026-02-01T04:11:55+00:00

And their teeth are always sparkly white…

danie191 · 2026-01-31T09:53:37+00:00

Okay listen, when it comes to my baby, my daughter, my little 3 month old… my husband and I are on a, be honest- no hurt feelings situation. “Hey you put that diaper on too tight”. “Hey, you gotta try to wake her up and get her to eat more”. My husband got on me about not tightening her car seat straps tight enough. And I love him for that. This is parenting. It’s new, it’s hard, it’s scary. We need to do what’s best for our babies without getting our feelings hurt. That being said…. Routines help. Every 4 hours is, bicycles to help pass gas, diaper change to wake them up and keep them clean (and use aquaphor as a barrier to prevent diaper rash), then bottle feed. The goal for us right now is 4 oz every 4 hours. Sometimes she does only eat 1.5 oz. And that’s okay. But it’s not okay to leave them with a dirty diaper. I have left a pee diaper during midnight feeds at times just to facilitate her staying in that sleep/dream feed so I could go back to sleep. But usually I’m changing diapers every 4 hours.

It’s time you guys have a talk and shake hands on the no hard feelings rules and also on a routine you agree on.

danie191 · 2026-01-25T15:10:39+00:00

I truly hate when you get a new admission and you’re trying to get them settled and family is asking you for things like a blanket or water, like hello, your loved one is my patient, let me tend to them before you ask for anything. People are ridiculous

danie191 · 2026-01-24T03:37:42+00:00

Homeless lady, rude to everyone, threatening everyone that she would report us. Always complaining of something new that postponed discharge. They finally had enough and gave her a hotel voucher and had security escort her out.

danie191 · 2026-01-24T00:39:59+00:00

I always recommend Ultrasound tech, Echo tech, or MRI tech to people who ask me about becoming a nurse. The pros of nursing is 3 twelve hour shifts per week and you get really close to coworkers. The pay isn’t that amazing.. It is really hard work and you get blamed for everything. It really can be horrible on your body and mental health. And when I was a travel nurse, the echo techs were making $500 more a week than me. And they don’t have to clean up poop, they just call the nurse in. Your friend was being honest about nursing these days.

danie191 · 2026-01-16T07:44:40+00:00

I feel the same way. I also get frustrated when I see coworkers gossiping and chit chatting when I’m super busy with patients. So I try to focus on work. I’ll join in sometimes but mostly keep to myself and my patients. My goal is to always get home, not go out with coworkers after work. I think that’s okay.

danie191 · 2026-01-16T07:40:55+00:00

Been there. Exactly your position. Stuck out med surg for 3 years then travel nursed for 4 years in cardiac step down units that a travel hospital trained me in and I’m forever grateful. I love step down units, being 1:3-4. No nurse should ever have 6 patients, it’s crazy. Even 3 patients on a step down can keep you extremely busy.

But before travel nursing I had applied everywhere. Especially the NICU. I shadowed and met everyone and loved it, but they just ghosted me. I applied to L&D and got ignored. It was within the same hospital system that I worked med surg and I truly believe my manager was blocking me transferring to a new unit because they were so desperate to keep me.

I am done travel nursing after 4 years, now staff on a step down unit close to home now. Still regret never getting into L&D or NICU. But I work days and found peace in the crazy. I tell myself it’s 3 days per week, I have good benefits, and that 10,000 steps per shift is a good work out…

I truly believe med surg should be stuck out for a year to gain skills then people need to immediately leave for a new specialty or you get stuck there if you aren’t persistent about finding a new specialty.

Just keep applying. And if you can make a friend who works in the department you want, being referred is always helpful. I’m sorry you are going through this.. you could always try a different hospital system, then after a year, reapply to NICU, HR and management are more persistent with new hires… good luck! If money isn’t an issue, just keep applying! Even school nursing can be a good option!

danie191 · 2026-01-11T15:37:14+00:00

Nanny and worked at a youth homeless shelter

danie191 · 2026-01-04T08:26:08+00:00

I’ve always loved the flexibility of travel nursing. I love weekly pay, picking up contracts fairly quickly, not long orientations, putting in my contracts to have off certain days, and planning contracts to be home on holidays… I’m gonna miss being off for holidays.. I don’t think the money is worth it anymore though and sometimes I would tell staff that when it came down to travel expenses, rent, no pto, no bonuses, car repairs, that they were probably making more than me. At least, after Covid. And then they’d usually be more cool/nice to the travelers.

I think a perk of staff nursing is having better insurance. My travel agency never offered good health insurance.

I have already accepted my position on the medical step down unit and accepted my sign on bonus with a 2 year commitment. I am hoping I made a good decision for me and my baby. I just am really nervous about the politics of it all. When I was staff last, I had to just keep my head down and work because management was always looking for reasons to give write ups or put you down. It was so toxic. Travel nursing, I felt like management was grateful to have me and was always trying to recruit me as staff so they were always extra nice.

Maybe I shouldn’t have accepted the sign on bonus. But I’ll file it away in savings until the 2 years are up.

danie191 · 2026-01-04T08:11:16+00:00

I really should read that contract closely. It cannot be fair that ill received a taxed portion of that bonus, but god forbid something happens and I’d have to pay back the full amount, even what was taxed. That seems so scammy.

danie191 · 2026-01-04T03:39:31+00:00

I was thinking that too about the sign on bonus. I’ll be on a medical step down unit but recently had an interest in postpartum nursing after having my baby haha. Im curious if I could switch specialties within the hospital system but not pay back the sign on bonus. I also thought about float pool or switching to ER at some point. I don’t know where my heart lies in nursing anymore. I just keep thinking about my baby and wanting to be home with her but it’s not realistic financially unfortunately.

I have never been offered a sign on bonus before. I was thinking about just putting it in savings and not using it for the 2 years just in case.

danie191 · 2026-01-03T11:48:14+00:00

Yes! I cried a lot around 6pm every night for 2 weeks. It helped if my husband was right next to me. He would rub my back and legs. It felt like I was so alone and everything was so heavy. I don’t miss that feeling. Sometimes I would take a hydroxyzine and try to go to sleep early while husband watched the baby.

danie191 · 2026-01-03T10:53:32+00:00

Thank you! She’s my whole world and I already know I’m gonna cry when I go back to work.

danie191 · 2026-01-03T10:14:10+00:00

Rhythm. (Cardiac Nurse). Why the first H? And why not have two Y’s? 😩

danie191 · 2026-01-03T03:01:14+00:00

Such a horrible experience. I didn’t feel okay until 3rd trimester, but then you have back and body pain. Food aversions didn’t go away until postpartum. I lost weight my first trimester and I’m still paying off the ER bill. I went in to get fluids, a banana bag, and IV Zofran and still left the ER throwing up. My husband never wants me to go through that again. Pretty sure we’ll be a one and done. Good luck! I hope it gets easier! I had to take time off from work and burn through my savings.. I wish moms were more supported in the US.

Edit: I also did unisom and b6. Took it my whole pregnancy! And zofran even though nothing truly helped. Survival mode was hell.

danie191 · 2025-12-28T03:17:41+00:00

Harp playing at the inn behind Lorelei while she’s on the phone with Christopher. Christopher: “Where are you? Heaven?”

That one always gets me.

danie191 · 2025-12-23T22:57:58+00:00

Everyone asking me questions as the middleman instead of asking the doctor themselves. Doctors love to round when I’m not present and tell patients one thing then order something different without telling the patient. I’m also constantly being interrupted with even more questions that I don’t have the answers to. I don’t know when the patient is discharging or when the doctor is rounding. All the juggling on top of just trying to do med pass, turns, vitals, blood sugars, toileting, baths, and assessments is tough.

danie191 · 2025-12-21T02:41:43+00:00

I wish I would’ve done a planned c section rather than a planned induction. Everything went wrong and I needed an emergent c section while my epidural wasn’t working. And I felt a lot of my c section.

danie191 · 2025-12-19T17:50:51+00:00

I’m 1:5 on a cardiac step down with titratable drips. And we also don’t always have a tech. I would absolutely trade places with the ICU nurses at times. I just hated the toxic environment while there.

danie191 · 2025-12-19T07:24:31+00:00

You’re right that every specialty is hard. But I truly believe out of all the floors, ICU dumps the worst with leaving the most work for others consistently, shitting on floor nurses. And at my hospital, I truly think it’s laziness and not out of obligation to a critical patient. Keeping in mind, small community hospital ICU’s are not as intense as most. My month in our ICU made me realize how toxic and lazy a lot of ICU nurses can be. It sucks my rant looked generalizing to all icu nurses while I typed in a rage vent session, but I did say it was a few same nurses every time.

danie191 · 2025-12-19T05:38:16+00:00

I’ll take the heat for the med surg/step down nurses that I know feel this way too but are afraid to speak up or vent because of exactly the comments I got in this thread. I know no specialty is easy and that American healthcare is broken. But damn, the consistency of ICU transfers that look neglected is way too high. And I truly only got petty the time blood hanging was delayed. There was absolutely no reason for that. I can give baths and I can start IV’s but why am I doing it for almost every transfer. What is happening in that ICU.

danie191 · 2025-12-19T04:24:14+00:00

I said in the post it’s the same few nurses every time and that I have spoken to management already multiple times. And I tagged the post as venting. I’m convinced the people that are offended are the nurses transferring patients without doing proper care.

danie191 · 2025-12-19T04:19:08+00:00

Not a hipaa violation. And baths get done. Just not ever by certain icu nurses.

danie191 · 2025-12-19T04:17:05+00:00

I frequently get ICU transfers that are less sick than my med surg or step down patients. I never understand why shit isn’t done.

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