The Unwritten Rules of Nursing 

I like the idea of setting the pump to alert halfway. Seems like a huge time saver.

Don’t discount the person who signs up to bring the utensils, plates and napkins. It all costs $$ and this person may not be able to cook.

I’m returning to nursing after being gone since 2011. I’ll finish up my refresher course this week at LSU in New Orleans. I’m soooo happy to find this podcast! Y’all had me at Hoisin Sauce 😊

Listening to this episode makes me never want to ho back to the floor ever again hahaha! Cath lab for life!

as a new nurse. later in life career. this was very helpful. Thank You

A messy room is a huge huge pet peeve of mine!!

6 months in as a new grad 👋🏽& I’m so thankful for alll of you and this episode. I felt like I was right there with you all cracking jokes, laughing, knodding my head yes in agreement, just a whole experience. Love it and love you all. Thank you

The copy-paste documentation thing can get really bad in home care. I had a kiddo on a vent that the settings didn’t match the order for about four or five days (I was the per-diem nurse that night and hadn’t been there in a week), then the mom’s getting upset that I’m making calls to my supervisor and the respiratory company and it’s the kiddo’s bedtime (vent at HS) and it was a big uproar…

I really think people need to take breaks when they get a chance to. They can help you when they get back. Unless the patient is dying, people need to get breaks and if they don’t, this can lead to burn out.

Am brand brand new on neuro rehab ward, and loving these pods. Thanks so much ladies!

when I have a drip from pharm like bicarb I aways order a new one when I hang one. just because it goes in so fast. I always program it for way less then in the bag.

We all have worked with the napkin nurse, while many of us haul in crock pots that are full of food and heavy. I was the meatball nurse and a peppermint chocolate dessert, I was always ask to bring that in. I also make great country style ribs that I have been ask to bring in the summer. I was taught as a new grad to always have new bags to go or full backs up. Empty vasopressive drips empty used to just pass me off.

Have that next iv bag hanging there rocks!

One issue that I had to confront was frequent “being pulled” to a specialty unfamiliar to me. I felt like a burden to one of a regular unit nurses having to ask countless questions. One other thing. If the new nurse on the unit has a good Preceptor, it makes a difference in the long run so the newbie knows the acceptable behaviors for the staff members to melded rather than be confrontational.

Not a nurse at the moment, but this is great information to know. I wouldn't ever consider copying notes from other nurses that's a huge red flag, especially when VS can change and mental and physical can change as well. I look forward to more charting videos because I feel like most nursing instructors do not go in-depth on how to chart efficiently and That is the main ISSUE. they love to throw around "If you didn't chart you didn't do it" but won't explain the reasoning and some people like myself need more help with foreign concepts.

Thank you for these all star tips ladies!! 💪😊

Love you guys 😂 I work at a hospital in Maryland we aren’t allowed to have pot lucks anymore… house keeping ruined it for everyone in the building they had a pot luck during Christmas and apparently one of them had Covid and gave it to everyone that was at their pot luck 🤮jerks

Thank you so much for these podcasts!! I am starting nursing school (BSCN) in a few weeks and I am TERRIFIED!!

Never, ever leave work from your shift to the next shift nurse. Not cool.

I appreciate this so much! I'm 2.5 weeks off orientation in my first job (a med surg floor that does a lot of ENT, GI and urology post-op as well as cardiac) and am striving hard in all of these areas. It gets so hard to stay organized and get everything done, let alone with the level of precision I want to, and I find myself having days where perfectionism almost drowns me alternating with days where I'm not satisfied with my attention to detail. Luckily I work on a supportive unit where there's a strong culture of offering to help and that means the world. I did find my heparin drip almost dry the other day when I took report though ... 5 minutes remaining. Ugh. Question: what's the practice where you've worked in terms of nursing progress notes? Most documentation where I work is box-checking and many nurses don't actually type out any kind of note, or if they do, it's cursory. I don't want to practice that way, but am not sure how to format something that many nurses don't do.

I think it comes down to having good etiquette.

Thankyou Ladies .❤ just what I needed . 😅. Xxxxxx

I do understand the expectation of making sure the next shift is taken care of before you report off, but also assess the situation. Emergencies do not go according to shift change time tables and nursing is truly 24/7. Do not be that nurse that walks into a dumpster fire harping about IVFs and wrinkled sheets. You may have touched on this later on in your pod cast, but I am only at 13:47.

so helpful!

Thank you for sharing

Very good episode!

Love it. This goes for CNA'S too!

The documentation thing 🤦🏽‍♀️ I’m training as an lpn currently and the nurses that have been training me copy and paste all their documentation and rush through it just to sit on their phones. Also, they don’t chart pain accurately even though they are giving pain meds bc they don’t want to do a progress note that comes along with the pain assessment when it has a high score if that makes sense. I can’t wait to be off training so I can do things my own way.

I can't stand working with those who complain ALL the time!!

Keep going

These are like unwritten rules for a job in healthcare.

Is it a true statement that nurses eat their young?

To be honest, the worst thing is when you're at work and it's busy af and you have a stomach ache and you have to keep going to the bathroom😂 That is all I could think about when you talked about "disappearing" from the unit.

With regard to phones in the hospital. How are nurses able to carry their personal cell phone with them? I would have thought it was for break time only. I'm currently an electrician looking to study nursing next year at University in Sydney. Our rule at work is no phones during work time only on break as any distraction could be deadly. This is the same for nursing.

you know what I always find weird about texting at work/school? Who messages you while you are supposed to work/pay attention in class. Sure, some people might not know you are currently working or some people have urgent messages. At school, they most likely text each other or people outside school. I was always told not to call or message my parent while they were at work unless it was something important. I don't think you should be texting anyone while at any type of work, because you get payed for work and not for texting. Again, important messages and breaks excluded.

I brought Pringles 😅

Katie would ya speak up and get closer to the microphone

Not knowing this podcast, I thought this video was going to be very negative, talk about right of passage, how physicians look down on novice nurses, things you’ll be expected to do that you wouldn’t have known about. I’m glad that isn’t at all what this is.

Or find someone hiding in an empty room lounging in a chair on the phone!!!!!!

have the respect to call the patient by their name, not, honey, sweetie, doll patients have names give them at least the respect of calling them by their name, it’s right on their chart don’t get so lazy that you can’t look…

Talk about how rude nurses are especially to lvns

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Can you maybe shorten your video and get more to the point and of course elaborate on concepts where needed but don’t make it too long?