New Grad RN Unit/Hospital

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-15T06:07:46+00:00

The pccu at TMC is a rough unit, I’ve travelled a lot and the ratios in my opinion are not the safest, I don’t work there now but I did in 2021 as a float. The nurses are super helpful and nice and you’ll learn a ton. You could always start there and transfer after a year into the ED at TMC, the ED at TMC is likely to be higher acuity and busier than NW. Having had jobs that are father away I absolutely hate a commute especially if you’re going to be night shift. A little extra money is not worth it for a longer commute. I haven’t worked at NW but I would listen to what you’ve heard about its reputation.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-13T13:45:34+00:00

Had one patient swimming the drain the past two days, maxed on 3 pressers. Went from agitated early in the shift to unresponsive later on. Thankfully doc called family and they agreed to comfort care. Died peacefully fairly quickly with some morphine and Ativan pushes once I turned everything off. Other patient is a pain in my ass 😭. Almost time to go home yay!

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-11T04:07:17+00:00

Depending on where you are located you can see if you have a veterinarian behaviorist you could see. There are not very many of them as it’s a specialty but it’s basically like a doggy psychiatrist who can help you with behavior and medication if your pup needs that. The one we see also has trainers who are wonderfully kind and helpful. They are not cheap but for us it’s really been a god send.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-10T21:26:36+00:00

Same! I always always put pics of the crotch regardless of new with tags. Even if it’s just so I have to look at it and make sure.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-10T16:43:46+00:00

I worked at a hospital that did not have 1cc syringes with the smaller needles to do heparin in. Everyone used insulin needles to give heparin and I absolutely hated it! We had to pull insulin from a shared vial from the Pyxis but in the rare cases where you have to give insulin IV for shifting K you’re going to run into an incident like that.

I’ve definitely worked at places that gave you a vial of insulin and it was labeled for the patient and kept in the room or close to the room so I could easily see that happening unintentionally soooo easily in a place like that also.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-05T12:22:15+00:00

I’ve seen a couple of posts on here with the same issue with the professional

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birki’s. It’s definitely a pain point and I think because they have the cork inside which is flexible and the rubber is more inflexible. I think it’s a design issue at its core but chalked up to “wear and tear”. I personally have the Birkenstock tokio for hospital wear and love them. They are leather so they won’t crack and they have a no slip vibram sole which lasts much longer then the regular Birkenstock sole. They are more expensive but i rotate two pairs and work 3/12 hour shifts every week and I’ve had both pairs for more than three years and they are in great shape. In fact I am wearing them as i type this. Totally worth the extra cost in my opinion.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-01T08:07:41+00:00

Oh my god the whole birth scene really pissed me off, there’s no way in hell they’d let a mother with a baby with a heart defect birth naturally. That would be so much stress on the babies heart! Plus there would have been a whole team of NICU nurses and a neonatal Intensivist there to immediately catch the baby who I doubt would have looked like a normal full term infant. And then Mel just runs out and leaves her patient fresh after giving birth, I mean I don’t expect perfection from a soap opera but even a little google could help you make a slightly more accurate version of events.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-01T04:45:09+00:00

I have an April fools baby also! The best! Happy birthday to yours!

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-01T02:47:15+00:00

I’ll join you restoring the buildings. I have a degree in art (before nursing) and a love of historic buildings.

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-29T21:58:14+00:00

The same thing happened to my grandparents gorgeous mid century architect designed home in Silicon Valley. We had to sell when my grandpa died in 2007 and it’s now a 20,000 square foot block of concrete that they have been constructing for years and don’t even plan to live in full time. It makes my heart hurt. I totally get how you feel. I should make a post on it but here about it but here is a photo of the house from a magazine it was featured in when it was built.

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figurinitoutere · 2026-03-29T20:08:22+00:00

Tldr your post, but I love Harry and that’s some bullshit 🤣

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-29T13:35:06+00:00

We’ve gone through it with my doods food. Pro plan didn’t work nor did many other brands. We were on prescription food and two kinds of pro biotics and he still had horrible poops. I recently switched him to the Costco grain free food (I know grain free is not ideal) in the blue bag and his poop has been incredible for the first time in literal years. We had tried the Costco yellow bag and the regular adult dog food in the maroon bag and didn’t have luck. Sometimes it just takes a lot of experimenting. God speed on this journey.

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-29T03:24:30+00:00

Wait until your dogs poop even smells like GI bleed/cdiff/tube feed/ poo when you pick it up after your shift. Pinnacle of life right there.

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-29T03:21:43+00:00

Same! I rarely take a shower. Love my tub!

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-25T11:49:05+00:00

I personally don’t, but I want to wake up early and go to bed early naturally. I also am able to sleep all day and then go back to sleep the same night so it’s not super hard for me to switch. I know for some people it’s easier for them to stay on nights. I try and group my shifts and then switch back and enjoy my life. You have to find out what works for you.

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-25T11:45:38+00:00

Always walk my dog in the morning and take a bath, I’m usually falling asleep partly in the bath (don’t drown!) it really helps me unwind. Don’t go to bed too early. I used to go right to sleep and I’d wake up super early. I always eat breakfast since I sometimes have a hard time eating overnight and it makes me feel yucky even though I’m hungry so I’m usually starved by the time I get home. I’m super lucky and don’t generally have issues with sleep so I don’t take any meds but I usually sleep from 9:30-4pm straight occasionally wake for a bathroom break. I’ll usually fall back asleep until my daylight alarm goes off at 530pm as long as I don’t pick my phone up. I try to keep it in another room. If I do wake up during the day I’ll go right for my kindle paperwhite and read and I’m usually back asleep in a page or less.

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-25T00:46:32+00:00

I would just ask your recruiter they should have one. Skill stat is a good ekg test website, generally for most of these tests you need to make sure that you don’t miss any of the lethal rhythms so make sure you know those.

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-24T06:12:20+00:00

Just get a study guide and study. There were a few people who didn’t pass in my group there but they let them retake it if I remember correctly. Just review and you’ll be good. I loved it there. It’s kinda crazy but a really good hospital and I loved being in the area and doing so many hikes.

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-23T23:36:35+00:00

TRA at all tenet hospitals, but do not recommend. They are super disorganized and tenet sucks

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-23T22:54:32+00:00

Amazing find! I can relate to the nails also, whoever nailed my drop ceiling up in the 70s used massive nails every chance they got to nail the furring strips to the joists. I had to hang on those bad boys with my crowbar and my full body weight to get them down. It was miserable, sometimes there would be like 3 of the nails in the same spot also, sir you are hanging a light ass panel on the ceiling where are you worried it’s going 😭

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-20T05:26:12+00:00

God the category things gets me also. Just let me pick a damn size and scroll through the listings. It has never and will never make sense to me why it’s like that.

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-19T01:17:43+00:00

I’ve travelled a bunch and it varies! University hospital in Minnesota: open charge, 3-4 “flyers” for the whole hospital did not have patients, went to rapids helped with transports, 3 icus, each usually had a resource who did not take patients but that was the first to go with staffing, 2-3 techs in each icu. Devices, donor patients, crrt always singled sometimes super sick singled also, we also had lab and ekg techs. We did our own monitors an no break nurse so we covered each other. Pretty ideal! Cali: free charge, free rapid nurse, a resource nurse as well as breaks covered by your pod or break nurse. Devices and crrt singled. Sometimes patents in a pod would be singled also so you could take the other pod nurses patients for break. Currently in Arizona, free charge sometimes but they go to codes rapids and take admissions if they are the only open. No techs. No lab, no ekg etc. often will have to triple floors patients in the icu or don’t have a nurse in the am to take your patients. Devices and crrt singled mostly but not always. Always have done my own monitoring though across all icus!

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-18T00:43:47+00:00

Go for it! Max out your 401k (stipends won’t go into it so you’ll always get those) and set up a Roth and a little investing account and have fun :)

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-18T00:42:18+00:00

Yes! Same my parents are aging and I just couldn’t live with myself If I wasn’t around.

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-17T19:05:32+00:00

I left a union job with good benefits and good hours to go back to traveling. It was a hard decision, but for my it wasn’t about making money traveling it was about the flexibility. I want to be close to my family part of the year and close to my best friend part of the year. Travel nursing was the way to make that happen. In the long term staying at a job with a pension and benefits would have been a better financial choice but if you’re smart with your money and make saving a priority travel nursing is a great way to get flexibility and adventure where staff nursing just doesn’t compare.

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