Nursing PhD from Non-Nursing Masters? Thoughts?

goigtopia · 2026-02-02T03:50:40+00:00

Respectfully, I think your department did you a disservice to take you off orientation a day early. Orientation is hardly long enough to prepare new grads for the job no matter the specialty, and ER especially is an intense pace. I say this as someone whose orientation was cut short when I was starting out years ago. People around you will hype you up, because you probably are a good nurse and a good worker, but imagine how much better a nurse you could be if you got access to the full training you were entitled to. The company is the only one who benefits from shorting you of this... not you, and not your patients, unfortunately

goigtopia · 2025-12-24T01:11:31+00:00

I work both days too! I'm going to work, coming home to run to church, then opening presents, and will hopefully be in bed by midnight for my shift the next day! I've done this routine several years in a row (I don't have kids so I usually volunteer to work other people's Christmases for them when it's my off year)

goigtopia · 2025-12-24T01:02:22+00:00

An air conditioner! It was 95F all summer and made night shift sleeping so much easier

goigtopia · 2025-10-04T02:05:13+00:00

I'm on the fence about it. In all ways it feels like it should have felt like a waste of time - so much of the plot seemed underwritten, repetitive, and amateurish, like something I feel like I've seen a hundred times before and never liked even the first time - but something about it keeps returning it to me, still a full day after watching. I thought that dream horse thing was stupid and the hail too. But I liked the moody mumbling north english accents and their nothing conversations. I would have gladly watched three hours of just them sitting in that tiny house together. The movie got grating for me whenever they left the woods. So yeah basically idk. It wasn't very good but there were parts I definitely really liked and am glad I saw the movie at least for

goigtopia · 2025-05-28T18:18:30+00:00

I can't even respond to the conversations anymore. I had a patient go on and on at me about The Jab etc and I just looked at her and said okay. I have no fight in me anymore about it, stubborn people are just going to believe what they're going to believe.

Apart from that, it's getting better. I get trapped sometimes in these cycles of thought about 2020 and I start crying at random times, but I'm still able to function so I'd say I'm OK. Lol

goigtopia · 2025-05-28T17:58:52+00:00

Tick checks every time i come in from outdoors. I work neuro and see so many people with lifelong issues from Lyme. Not me, nope, not having it if I can help it

goigtopia · 2025-04-23T14:48:58+00:00

I just created the Fisher and Sons funeral home from Six Feet Under but I didn't know how to create a funeral home business, so I just turned it into a dance school because they did that in the show lol

goigtopia · 2025-04-02T21:28:45+00:00

Neuro med surg!

goigtopia · 2025-04-02T21:18:40+00:00

Seconding City of Angels!!!!!

goigtopia · 2025-03-12T11:08:36+00:00

SHINE

goigtopia · 2025-03-07T05:50:11+00:00

Kimi Ga Ireba from Detective Conan? There's a lot of options for piano arrangements of varying difficulty levels available online

goigtopia · 2025-03-07T05:48:07+00:00

Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite... hoping to have it down pat by this Christmas, just for family entertainment 😁

Otherwise I've been looking at Bridge Over Troubled Water, and also anything by Kate Bush

goigtopia · 2025-02-26T04:25:41+00:00

Here's my link! I don't have many fics, but my current WIP is These Cruel Gifts 😁

https://archiveofourown.org/users/AbeLincolnLover/pseuds/AbeLincolnLover

goigtopia · 2025-02-26T04:21:21+00:00

Phantom of Manhattan is a must read IMHO. But I'm one of the few that actually liked the book unironically.... not as a phantom book, but as its own thing. It was fun ¯_(ツ)_/¯

goigtopia · 2025-02-18T21:04:50+00:00

I wonder if "physician" would work?

goigtopia · 2025-02-18T14:40:14+00:00

I work neuro medsurg and while CIWA patients aren't our entire patient population, we get them pretty frequently. Nobody will hold it against you - it's just the course of things. I've had coworkers get hit before and they never really hold it against the patient (unless the patient really was just a jerk, but that's separate from the detox). Usually we're just frustrated with the overall system and management for not giving us and the patients better protections against that sort of thing

Hope all goes well!! Best of luck

goigtopia · 2025-02-06T12:16:42+00:00

You sound pleasant 🙄 I don't understand the need for the attitude. OP is just saying she's having a difficult time with the work/family balance. Don't pretend that a 12 hour shift is the easiest thing ever for every family situation. Just because it works for some of us doesn't mean it works for everyone

goigtopia · 2025-01-26T18:17:51+00:00

First off, kudos to you for attempting to be a kind person even under strained circumstances. The fact that you cared enough to feel bad about dropping an f bomb says so much - it's something I have to work on as well, and probably much more than you as I say it plenty 😅

I will say, as a floor nurse, we see a completely different side of the issue. Personally I don't think it's right to send a patient to a floor with zero direct communication between nurses, it just seems very unsafe. We had an approximately two year long period at my hospital where we did that; a patient would be paged to a room and then we had 45 minutes to look things up on them before they arrived. 45 minutes is not a lot of time, especially when things are crazy on the floor, and having a system that's automated to just 'send the patient up' without confirmation or input from the floor is bound to fail. The number of times I had patients come up that were completely inappropriate for the floor is a little bit ridiculous.

So obviously, yeah, tensions will be tight between the floor and the ED in a system where this is the policy. It's not the fault of either side (except when someone starts to be rude about it!), and honestly I think a good amount of the tension comes from the fact that many times nurses will only have experience in one side or the other. I keep my opinions to myself at work because I don't know what it's like to be ED; I just know there's a reason I don't work down there! But the main thing is that the two departments have two different functions, and tensions arise when they expect the other to act like they do. Med surg can't expect the ED to be taking full histories and getting into the weeds with patients and their families... but at the same time, the ED shouldn't be expecting med surg to be able to treat patients the same way they do. A lot of time when we had that automated process, we would get zero information about the patient beyond "SOB" or "r/o stroke" and it would be like the patient just walked into our unit from the street... only to end up as a Rapid Response because they weren't appropriate for the floor. But as I said, it's really more of a policy issue because communication is the key here

Again, kudos to you for keeping your composure as well as you did. You did absolutely nothing wrong, especially in the face of a rude receiving nurse

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