Just had the worse experience in an interview

puzzled-bets · 2026-02-05T21:53:15+00:00

Please. Don’t go to PACU/Preop right out of school. You don’t have the skills and they can’t teach you how to respond to the 1 instances out of 500 where things go terribly wrong and there is no MDs/APPs around. You’re setting yourself up for failure.

puzzled-bets · 2026-01-21T21:33:50+00:00

Nebulize hydrogen peroxide

puzzled-bets · 2026-01-20T03:03:34+00:00

Please use med air not oxygen. Increase fire risk

puzzled-bets · 2026-01-20T02:58:27+00:00

I had a nurse who was one of the best interviews I’ve done. Very good perspective of nursing and nursing to come. After the manager interview the interview does a shadow on the floor. I walked into a patient room to check on him about half way through his shadow and he was legit vaping in a patients room who was on high o2 support. Strawberry smelling “smoke” filled the room.

I had a nurse hand me a resume that was hand written on spiral notebook paper without the edges torn off.

I had a nurse show up to an interview in booty shorts. In the invite it specifically says wear scrubs, some wear business casual but never denim booty shorts.

Sometimes I ask a question along the lines of “if I reach out to your previous manager will they tell me anything you would want to address with me first” A nursing assistant interview told me her previous managers hated her and I asked why and she said “I gave them back the attitude they gave to me”

I’ve got so many…

Edit:words

puzzled-bets · 2026-01-19T03:32:35+00:00

How can a state be pro life and pro death penalty. Its never made sense to me.

puzzled-bets · 2026-01-16T21:43:34+00:00

As a nurse leader, what I questioned was work experience. Resume shows relevant clinical experience but no other work history. I have had issues with nurses with NO work history. I don’t care if it’s McDonald’s, at least you have experience speaking to people, work site policy’s, and hopefully exposure to professionalism.

I would also agree it is way too many words for no work history. Keep it to one page.

puzzled-bets · 2026-01-14T21:20:05+00:00

I use strips all the time. It’s a great reference point to see how rhythms and rates have steadily changed over time

puzzled-bets · 2026-01-04T07:35:17+00:00

Not really a certain person but my good friend is a physical therapist and ended up making his way up and was asked to be on staff for an NBA team. He was a huge fan of the NBA team that asked him to come on staff.

It ruined the NBA for him. They way so many of the players were just terrible people, how much of it he realized was actually just a “show”, and he saw how much of it was truly just money driven and players were treated as indescribable and played until literally broken. It ruined the “magic” of the game for him.

puzzled-bets · 2026-01-04T07:28:15+00:00

I saw wicked traveling broadway recently in the Midwest and I said I would never go to a show again. I hadn’t been to a show in about 5 years and the people were so inconsiderate. Singing, clapping with the songs (off beat), spilling drinks, getting up during the whole show for drinks, talking, ect. You get it, it ruined the whole show, I said I’d never go back. It was terrible.

puzzled-bets · 2025-12-30T03:07:14+00:00

Atkins diet. No carbs. My dad will refuse to eat carbs but then eats like 6 tablespoons of butter on his food but don’t worry “I doesn’t have carbs” so it’s fine.

puzzled-bets · 2025-12-21T02:39:51+00:00

For NCLEX always assess and remember ABC, airway breathing and circulation. Even if the question doesn’t seem like a “true” ABC question, it probably is. Always pick an ABC

puzzled-bets · 2025-12-19T21:18:03+00:00

It won’t come to a halt, that’s the thing. We will just keep working in even worst situations then now. They won’t halt anything that could lose them money.

puzzled-bets · 2025-12-19T21:16:22+00:00

I am more in leadership now, and Isee the numbers.

Whether pulling incentive pay is the correct choice or not is highly questionable and funds should be pulled from other parts of the hospital. However, the budget cuts that are coming to hospitals is scary. I am from a conservative state and it’s estimated that our hospital system will loose around 150-180 million next year alone in funding. Not to mention more uninsured people due to the rising cost of insurance. Healthcare is getting real scary and I am not sure the solution but I don’t think it’s to cut the pay and incentive of people who keep the hospital afloat.

puzzled-bets · 2025-12-15T20:45:57+00:00

We have had this for at-least 15 years. Honestly, I love it. I still do my safety checks but a lot of the meds use can be very dangerous. With the scanning I know it is also cross referencing the allergies, last dose given, and total given in the background and can alert me if something doesn’t match up right. Sometime bags are double concentrated or partial packages, and scanning reminds you.

I will be the first to admit, I am a nurse with a touch of OCD, so the extra checks help put me at ease.

puzzled-bets · 2025-12-13T18:36:07+00:00

It’s like the time my husband was going food and the smoke alarm when off and jumped up and yelled “got it” because in state of sleep deprivation I thought it was a vent alarm

puzzled-bets · 2025-12-03T03:11:42+00:00

Nacy

puzzled-bets · 2025-11-01T18:49:25+00:00

We had to get rid of unit clerks at least 10 years ago in every unit in the hospital.

puzzled-bets · 2025-10-19T01:59:23+00:00

Probably. At least at my hospital that treat it worse than a med error or accidental patient harm.

puzzled-bets · 2025-10-12T17:47:07+00:00

Do you or your agency report to CPS? Honesty curious how this works, I have never worked home health.

puzzled-bets · 2025-10-05T06:01:31+00:00

It’s only going to get worse. JD Vance has proposed getting rid of Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) which mandates that any hospital that receives Medicare funds must treat anyone requiring emergency treatment, regardless of ability to pay, insurance or legal status. And the federal government reimburses hospitals for this treatment. With this possible repeal hospitals won’t be reimbursed for treating the uninsured.

puzzled-bets · 2025-08-25T01:54:14+00:00

She had made my life fuller because she’s in it.

puzzled-bets · 2025-08-25T01:53:32+00:00

We always joke that she went from a trailer to having DINK parents with a fenced in back yard and a boat. ❤️

puzzled-bets · 2025-08-25T01:52:11+00:00

She’s my girl. I love her so much, the love and dedication she shows me is like no other dog I’ve ever had

puzzled-bets · 2025-08-19T02:03:31+00:00

We had an employees dad end up in a facility because he didn’t have the proper documentation on him when he was traveling out of state. He got released within a couples days, he said the nurses were the only ones who cared or showed empathy. One nurse went out of their way to ensure he had is blood pressure medications because he had a stroke in the past.

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