BurnUnitRN

Burn nurse. Wife to an amazing guy. Mom to a sweet little boy and 2 dogs. HP nerd. Bad puns are the best. Tweets are my own.

[BurnUnitRN @BurnUnitRN]

I have never been happier to be off during nurses week ✌🏼

[BurnUnitRN @BurnUnitRN]

My hospital basically said fuck nurses week and combined it with healthcare week. Our token of appreciation for working our asses off while super short staffed? A pair of fucking socks. But don’t worry, they have the institution’s branding on them to promote unity. 🖕🏼

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I would be so interested in learning what other burn centers around the country do as their go-to grafting for large percentage burns. Our staffing is absolutely shit so we couldn’t send any nurses to the ABA conference this year where one could ask other people. 🙃

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I literally haven’t been on Twitter in a year. I took a much needed break from a lot of social media. Burn unit is still a clusterfuck, but being able to see our patients make so much progress is worth it.

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It’s 1530 and I’m finally able to eat and drink. I’ve been laying on the couch all day, sleeping on and off between going to the bathroom to be sick. It’s been a fabulous day 😅

[BurnUnitRN @BurnUnitRN]

I haven’t been on Twitter in months. An update:I’ve been in a dark hole of depression for months and got started on an SSRI, which is finally starting to work. Work is much better. And my child gave me a stomach bug that made me pull over on the way to work this morning to puke.

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Got my 2nd dose of the vaccine on Friday. So far no bad reaction like I’ve been hearing. I actually feel better after this one versus the first.

[BurnUnitRN @BurnUnitRN]

Is there a term like “Sunday scaries” but for every single day before I have to go to work, no matter what day of the week it is?

[BurnUnitRN @BurnUnitRN]

Got dose #1 of the covid vaccine today. 💪🏼

[BurnUnitRN @BurnUnitRN]

So you could say we had a great Sunday. Thank God she’s ok for the most part. They still have no idea why her HR dropped so low, so hopefully cards can sort her out.

[BurnUnitRN @BurnUnitRN]

My sister-in-law kept passing out yesterday and wasn’t coming out of it. Had to sternal rub her while waiting for an ambulance. Her HR was in the 40s for some unknown reason, so she bought herself a one way ticket to a cardiologist for a holter monitor and work up.

[BurnUnitRN @BurnUnitRN]

Then I started hyperventilating a little and rambling about how I’m so glad I didn’t have to do CPR. And then I started crying and then he started crying hysterically because he’s got some major PTSD from when our mom had a massive hemorrhagic stroke 11 years ago.

[BurnUnitRN @BurnUnitRN]

I need to find a therapist, but it’s just so daunting to look for one. Are they covered by my insurance? Will I feel more comfortable talking to a man or a woman? Young or old? Are they accepting new patients? Will they have an opening on one of my days off? 🙃🙃🙃

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Because of course, we’re encouraged to not be there super late charting or whatever because then they have to pay us overtime. Idk man, I’m just feeling like I’m not doing the best for my patients and I am 100% not here for it. Straight up not having a good time. 🙃

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The fact that every day I’m at work, literally all of my coworkers don’t wanna be there either, says a lot about how the hospital is handling this surge plan. It feels like some random guy with a business degree mapped out how we should be like a legit ICU...

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We’re not practicing nursing in a safe or thorough way. We’re essentially all going by the “still alive at 705” method and that hurts my soul. I feel like we’re giving subpar care and there’s just not enough hours or staff to change it.

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All of the ICUs are so full and in need of beds that we made some of ours into ICU beds for overflow. We’re only an ICU when it’s convenient for the hospital, otherwise we get treated like the red headed stepchild of the division and they fuck us on staffing and resources 🙄🙄🙄