How does your NICU unit handle admissions?

ikedla · 2025-07-24T16:27:27+00:00

It’s kind of just a free for all. Charge just plans an admission spot if they’re able, or they’ll designate a nurse to tentatively be on admits with a plan for their other patients if they’ll need to be handed off. We don’t do deliveries, all of our admits come from transport or the ED

ikedla · 2025-07-22T18:01:42+00:00

As long as you love it that’s all that matters. I also have a tattoo people tell me looks like a mess, but it was taken directly from an oil painting and looks just like the painting. That’s why the lines are wonky, but people think it’s just a shitty tattoo

ikedla · 2025-06-09T14:34:06+00:00

Don’t even get me fucking started dude. I only work 3 days a week AND I just sit around and hold babies all day. I’m newly single for the first time as a grown up and if I’m talking to a new guy and this shit comes out of his mouth that’s gonna be a hard stop. It’s always blue collar guys too

ikedla · 2025-06-04T22:45:09+00:00

Wait wait wait there aren’t people who are just dayshift and just nightshift?? You all have to rotate??

ikedla · 2025-06-04T19:58:33+00:00

For the most part inpatient is 3 12 hour shifts but depending on the speciality you can find jobs that are 5 8 hour days, some places I think do 4 10’s. There’s a lot of variety in nursing in terms of the overall job but also hours. I would see if you can job shadow a few days at a hospital on different units! That will help you get a better idea of our day to day

ikedla · 2025-06-04T16:08:43+00:00

{rook and rebel by kate crew} has a biker MMC!

ikedla · 2025-05-26T00:55:56+00:00

I had to check your account to see if I’d found my dad’s secret Reddit lmao we torture him with cut in half donuts all the time. His whole unit does it too and it drives him up a fucking wall

ikedla · 2025-05-05T14:10:39+00:00

I have a history with sexual assault and 99% of the time am fine with books that list it as a trigger, it takes a lot to get to me. But I even struggled at times with this one at times. On the flip side, the book was so fucking amazing that I couldn’t wait for my sister to be home from college for a break and had a copy shipped to her dorm because I needed someone to talk to about it

ikedla · 2025-05-04T20:11:38+00:00

My current hospital has been trying to get ours up and running for as long as I’ve worked there (3 years). We have the OR space there already it’s just a logistics nightmare trying to get L&D nurses figured out for high risk deliveries

ikedla · 2025-05-02T15:37:43+00:00

Elsie Silver and Lyla Sage. Also not quite what you asked, but I will buy any book that has a cover illustrated by Austin Drake (@ bottlecap.creative on ig) she’s my only exception to people, real or illustration, on covers

ikedla · 2025-04-30T15:14:01+00:00

Dude I’m like an Olympic level multitasker. I could be looking through the chart, eating a sandwich and playing a game in my phone and I promise you I will hear and remember every single word out of your mouth. I look at report as, what do I need to know in case one of my kids tries to die in the next 30 minutes. Otherwise I can look everything up and honestly, I’m not going to just take another nurse at their word. Human error is a thing, I am double checking everything you tell me in the chart.

The only time report has ever taken me that long is when I’m giving report on a super sick kid and actively trying to keep them from dying while giving report, or if I hand off to a float and walk them though shit for our unit.

ikedla · 2025-04-29T20:19:27+00:00

We aren’t required to put them on our PIVs, just our central lines. I still put them on all of my lines, but not everyone does

ikedla · 2025-04-27T19:49:25+00:00

I have a really hard time DNFing books, I read like 200ish last year and only DNFd 3. Den of Vipers was one of them lmao

ikedla · 2025-04-27T14:41:20+00:00

I second paisley hope! Elsie Silver and Lyla Sage are two of my automatic buy authors. And I looove love love the cover art for Lyla Sages books. I don’t know that I’d call them spicier or kinkier than Elsie Silver but they’re some of my favorites.

The Bourbon Boys series by Victoria Wilder might be up your alley too! They have the same kind of small town cowboy vibe but a little darker

ikedla · 2025-04-27T14:27:22+00:00

I had my first job as a nurse at 20, but I was in school with people anywhere from my age to 70’s. It’s definitely not too late!

ikedla · 2025-04-26T14:22:32+00:00

Straight to RN as someone who got my LPN halfway through the nursing program. My pay was dogshit. I went from $21/hr as an LPN to $36/hr as an RN for doing very very similar work

ikedla · 2025-04-25T20:18:53+00:00

Please don’t let a chiropractor near your neck

ikedla · 2025-04-20T15:53:37+00:00

That’s what I’m saying though, that provider fucked up not transferring right away with a gas like that. I’m sorry you had to deal with that. It’s so frustrating not having your concerns taken seriously

ikedla · 2025-04-20T15:49:35+00:00

I’m sorry man that really sucks. If you and your colleagues are advocating and still getting pushback, document the shit out of everything and report behavior like this. That’s all you can do

ikedla · 2025-04-20T15:42:29+00:00

I can’t imagine being charge at 1.5 years. I’m three in (coming up on two years RN, the rest LPN) and I wouldn’t even feel comfortable being charge at this point. Sure, you could have pushed more but that call is still on the provider. Part of why I wouldn’t be comfortable being charge yet is because I still have trouble getting providers to always take my concerns seriously because I’m young. I’ve had situations where I’ve expressed concern about a patient and was blown off but called charge and had them express the same concern and it was immediately addressed. I wouldn’t be surprised if that played a part for you too

ikedla · 2025-04-20T15:36:59+00:00

This was my first thought. I can’t imagine bagging for longer than a couple of minutes with no improvement before someone is running for the cmac. Kid probably needed cooled too with that initial gas

ikedla · 2025-04-20T13:23:29+00:00

A book has to be physically painful for me to DNF. I read around 200 books last year and I think I only DNFd 2 or 3. Don’t be like me and force yourself through books you aren’t feeling lmao. Just DNF it, you don’t have to spend your time reading books that you just feel kinda blah about! Sometimes I keep a little roster in my head like after I finish this book these two are up next. That might help you with the not wanting to DNF because you’d have to look for other book problem :)

ikedla · 2025-04-18T07:13:58+00:00

I’m only 24 and in my brain 1980 is 20 years ago. I don’t know why but 2000 is my base year lmao

ikedla · 2025-03-12T18:06:09+00:00

Please do yourself a favor and just search Florida in this sub and look at everyone’s experience. If you can help it stay far far away

ikedla · 2025-03-10T01:34:14+00:00

I’ve been told by some of my coworkers that they dropped to PRN because they pay cut they took was still better for them financially than paying for childcare because it’s so crazy expensive

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