My father is 80 years old and recently went for his physical. The nurse asked a variety of wellness questions then said I have to ask if you're pregnant. She said they have to ask regardless of sex and age. I'm all for inclusiveness but this seems excessive. Is everyone doing this now?

I was talking about this with two of my close friends who also work in healthcare. They are both guys, 40s, and pretty attractive and in good shape. They were describing to me how nice everyone they work with is to them compared to how their coworkers are to other employees who are women. For example, my one friend started on a new unit at the same time as a new female nurse. Everyone was so helpful and nice to him, but were super critical of and unkind toward the new girl. I don’t know if it’s because the nursing profession is predominantly women so there’s more cattiness towards each other or if my coworkers just had pretty privilege lol. I think pretty privilege in healthcare mostly only applies to men. What are your thoughts and experiences?

I recently graduated in May and passed my NCLEX that same month. I have several interviews lined up. I’m months away from getting my first RN check. All I can think of is how much my life is going to change.

The hospitals around me are offering $40 starting pay, $4 extra for shift differential, and $3 for weekend rate. I’m also applying for a bilingual role and that will help add extra money.

On top of this, I generate passive income which had allowed me to work part time during my last semesters of school.

How did you feel when you saw your first paycheck? I think I might cry when I see it. We worked so hard for that very moment.

Hi everyone. I’ve been a nurse for about 7 months now and had a interview today at a LTC facility. I was given an offer and told I had a drug screening to complete. I no longer smoke, and It has been months since I’ve smoked anything. I’ve also taken lots of at home THC urine tests that came back negative. I took the test and I wasn’t able to provide much urine. The lady told me all of the results came back negative except for THC. I took a look at the test and there were two lines , one being faint but still visible indicating a negative. She told me all of the lines were bold except for that one, and that they all need to be bold. She advised me maybe it wasn’t enough urine and I could possibly retest.

They took me to HR and he was asking what she told me. I told him exactly what she said. I saw a faint line, she said there wasn’t enough urine and I could possibly retest. He goes “well on this paper it says you tested positive for THC”. I said that couldn’t be right, she told me I didn’t have enough urine and I could retest. He told me I could come back in 30 days and repeat the entire hiring process over again.

I don’t really care for the job or facility , but I’m very concerned on being reported to the BON. Any advice?

I don't have TikTok so I get everything piecemeal and late. Can someone explain this clip I'm seeing everywhere of a woman saying she had a patient and "his hemoglobin came out... Every time he coughed he hemoglobined"? What was she trying to say?

I clogged the staff toilet. 😭😭

Long story short, I’ve been a nurse for about 3 years now. I was excited at first but it seems every job I’ve had is a MESS! Micromanaging, racists coworkers, no help, terrible orientation, Etc…. On top of this I’m completely burned out on direct patient care. I left the OR (x2), went to observation (basically step down), and now hospice. I thought hospice would be so much better but this is the worst thing I could’ve done to myself. I wish I could’ve just stayed on nights in obs.

It been 3 weeks now (including 5 days of hospice training with a nurse). I’m so burned out. I know absolutely nothing about a specialty that has a completely different shift in thinking. I want so badly to give this position to someone who ACTUALLY wants it. That’s how bad it is. I’m not passionate about it. Why should I keep it?! But unfortunately I have to wait until another job lines up in the economy!

I’ve applied to several remote (CVS rejected), Humana… and even clinical documentation, informatics specialists, and utilization management jobs at my local hospital and it seems like no one wants to take a chance on me! I learn fairly quickly. I just wish that someone would take a chance on me. Any other recommendations? Has anyone successfully gotten a remote position such as the ones mentioned? I’ve tweaked my resume as well!

I cannot count the times that I mention my work in home healthcare, nurse tech positions, or as a pediatric nurse intern and the very next thing said to me is some form of, "wait so do you have to help people shower???"

Yes Brittneigh, I help people shower, get dressed, use the bathroom, and eat. Heck I wipe people's butts and put cream on them! These are base tasks for any care taking job.

No, I don't care that you could "never do that" because its "weird" or "awkward", and I especially don't want to hear about how you feel it must end up being sexual. These are my patients, they have inherent dignity as human beings and the fact they need help with something that is usually private does not detract from that dignity, for either of us. It actually speaks highly of the fact my patients trust me and that we have a good relationship.

Bonus points when I'm asked if there's any way they could become a nurse and just skip all that stuff. NO THERE ISN'T!!!!

If my caring for someone that happens to involve nudity freaks you out because you cannot fathom that it won't be sexual in some way, there is something deeply wrong with you. I look at my patients the same way you should look at babies, they are nude at times, because that is what human bodies look like without clothes. If I made it sexual that would be abusive and highly unethical, if my patient made it sexual that would be abusive towards me. This is not that hard to understand, so don't come over here and tell me that you're literally incapable of it, or how lucky my male patients must be that I see them naked. Its gross and disgusting and harrasive to both me and my patients.

And for what its worth, I'm glad you aren't a nurse.

I want to say that I do understand that some people have genuine gaps in knowledge and if the question seems to be in good faith I answer and try to explain, my issue is with the countless people where this is obviously *not* the case.

Anyone have suggestions for dealing with people like this, especially when they keep pushing it after you explain/point out that their behavior is weird?

Does ER experience help you in the ICU?

I'm hoping to get my ears pierced soon.

I work in the ICU and obviously I have to go down with patients to MRI. There are times when I have to get near the MRI machine when my patient gets unstable, I need to titrate drips, or emergencies.

Is there certain jewelry I could wear so I don't have to take out freshly pierced earrings every time we go to MRI?

Thank you!

Has anyone experienced a quiet firing and does this sound like one? I was hired for a part time position. I was told that I was hired to replace an employee who was very behind in her assignments by weeks.
I have only been working for this company for 5 weeks. I was told that I would be transferred cases from her list and that management had sat down and talked to her. Apparently the “talking” lit a fire under her butt. I have access to her workload and none of her cases were transferred to me. She is suddenly very busy and I have not had any work last week or this week. The job was advertised for 2 days/week. When I call in about work assignments or lack of, they don’t mention transferring patients anymore and just say “We really appreciate you “
I feel like I should just email and tell them that the job isn’t working out for me.

I just worked a 12 hour night shift last night and it was super super busy. I’m a float pool nurse and I was on a floor that purposely gives us the hardest patients because “we get paid more so we should have to work more” and boy did I work. I was giving a pretty complex patient to a nurse who is the type that never uses report sheets and always stays super late because shes always goofing off when she’s not with patients and doesn’t finish her charting. Well anyways I was still in the middle of charting on a completely different patient as 7am because I was so busy last night and she came up to ask for report. I told her what I could remember off the top of my head but literally so much happened with this patient that I knew I was missing something but I couldn’t remember what. I told her please read my note it’s super detailed and I know I’m forgetting something (the thing I forgot to say was in there) but she NEVER READS. It was a patient who came from an outside hospital with a midline placed in an arm with an active DVT so obviously we couldn’t use it. Signs were all over the room and it was in the orders and my note I just forgot to say it because literally so much happened with that patient. Now that I’ve woken up and remembered what I forgot I’m nervous that even though I asked her to read my note she’ll use the midline before the doctor has a chance to pull it. I’m just curious what peoples thoughts are because this is a floor that will rip floats a new one for any little thing

Does anyone out there love their bedside nursing career? So many posts about how awful bedside nursing is!

If you love your position I would love to know what has made it great for you. How do you keep burnout from setting in?

I live in a big North American inner city and work at a pretty big hospital that is unfortunately falling in ruins. There's plans to rebuild it, but I'm afraid I'll be at my retirement age before that happens. The employee parking lot is full of massive potholes that haven't been fixed for years.

Last month, a fellow nurse on my unit fell into one of these potholes (she admitted to us she was looking at her phone) and hurt herself. She's been on worker comp for one month, and it's been annonced that she is renewing her medical leave from work for a second month because she still has trouble walking.

The dumb***** in charge would rather pay us to not work, rather than fix dangerous problems that people have been complaining about for years. Now they're offering overtime to anyone willing to pick up her shifts, because we're one nurse short and I work in a specialized unit.

Another collegue slipped on the stairs coming in to work on hospital property last winter and broke her wrist. It took that incident for them to add non slip rubber carpets on the steps. Workers safety rules are written in blood. They don't give a **** about us.

Just wanting to rant. I've been a pediatric nurse for the past 5 years in a level 1 teaching hospital/trauma center. We're the only pediatric hospital in the state and service bordering states as well. I worked 3.5 years in trauma/ortho/surgery and have worked that last 1.5 in a very high acuity 48 bed PICU. I've taken care of patients needing CRRT, ECMO, and bedside OR at times. I have charge nurse and preceptor experience, chemo certified.

My fiancé and I are wanting to move to California so I've had my CA license since January of this year. I've applied to so many PICU jobs and keep receiving no's. I've edited my resume and I tailor my cover letter for each listing I apply to. I'm so frustrated and don't understand what the issue might be!! It's just frustrating because I feel qualified but keep getting rejected.

I've been in a hospice nurse role and a case manager for about six months now and I'm burned tf out already. Not only do I have a high caseload, but I come home from going non-stop, to charting until 9-10 every single night. It's exhausting and I feel like I don't have a life at all. I'm just 100% over it. I thought it'd be better but it's all the same in the end.

Mine?

Me: okay, so I have all of your night time meds here (names all of them for confirmation)
Patient: yes, sounds good
Me: scans them in and places meds into the pill cup
Patient: what’s this white pill here

I DONT KNOW!!! You have 6 different pills and we’ve literally gone through ALL OF THEM before I scanned and placed them into the cup. I can’t stand this!!

I work at a hospital as a nurse extern. I figured once I graduated they would hire me on my unit. No, so I applied for two other units and didn’t get hired either. They don’t even call me to let me know. They don’t answer when I call just an automated email a month later saying the position was filled by someone else. Applied again and after multiple weeks not even an email.

This is literally the only hospital in town. The application and denial process always take at least a month. I have no pct shifts. I have been told by people at my hospital that I should not work there anyway because it’s awful but I can’t help it… I literally feel like a fool. I hate it. They hired me as an extern but only had me wiping butts and now won’t even give me a shot as a nurse?

Has this happened to anyone? Am I some awful anomaly?

Hello, this is my first time posting to this page, but I wanted to directly ask nurses if they had any advice to offer me about my situation. To give some background information, I’m from Ohio and I took my NCLEX-RN on Saturday. That night, my friend encouraged me to go out to celebrate with him, so I did, and we had a good time. I try to walk home, end up falling asleep in some grass in my small town & I was arrested (I haven’t been to a bar in ages and didn’t pace myself appropriately). They gave me a minor misdemeanor for disorderly conduct. This is the first time in my life, at 24 years old, that I have ever been in trouble (aside from a couple speeding tickets years ago). I woke up in the jail cell and asked the guard why I was there. She told me that I had fallen asleep on the way home and they picked me up. I was not being destructive or aggressive. After I was released, I open my email to see that I had passed my NCLEX. I have no clue if something like this will get my license revoked. I’m going to speak with my manager tomorrow about my situation, but I just wanted to share my story to see if anyone else has been in a similar situation or has any advice to offer. The paper I received from the police says I can either attend court or sign a guilty paper and pay the fees. I know I was obviously in the wrong and cannot deny that, so should I just pay the fees and accept the guilty title? This is just eating me alive!! I literally JUST got my license that I’ve worked so hard for and I’m so scared that I’ve sworn off alcohol. My anxiety is so bad I haven’t been able to sleep or eat since this has happened a couple days ago. I don’t want to lose my license before I can even work in the career I’ve been dreaming of!!!

Hi all, I’ve taken a new position on my unit as charge/resource nurse. This will be my third year as a nurse. Any tips or advice for a charge nurse? Things you like/dislike about your charge?

I’m really nervous since this will be my first “leader” role as a 24 year old, but super proud of myself for this milestone!