To learn more about becoming a medical-surgical nurse, visit here. Listen to this article. Author Recent Posts. Sherry Afshar. Sherry Afshar is a Registered Nurse with 25 years of experience in the field of Nursing. She began work in the Intensive Care Unit right out of school as a new graduate nurse and has worked within most areas of acute care, critical care, and inpatient nursing.
Latest posts by Sherry Afshar see all. Specializes in Cardiac Care. Has 10 years experience. First, I would suggest browsing around and seeing all of different forums available to you. And than, just start reading! I know it may seem that there are a lot of posts that make nursing sound unattractive, stressful and sometimes just plain ugly. Many people use this site as a venting ground, so please don't mistake those posts as representative of all nurses; you'll find lots of things that show the good, the bad and the ugly.
Jul 27, I love floor nursing, although it is very draining at times. But more often it's incredibly rewarding. Illness does often bring out the worst in people, but I find more often it brings out good things too.
Most families and patients are incredibly appreciative. Most doctors are respectful and know we know the patient best and coiunt on our opinions.
You will run your bottom off, that's guaranteed, but the shift will go by in what feels like two seconds. I happen to like evening shift best. Days are horrendously busy and nights just don't work for my sleep and family schedule. On evenings I feel I get a little more time to spend with my patients and still get to do a wide variety of things like admissions, discharges, fresh surgicals, etc As the others have stated it can be very draining at times.
On night shift, it seems you're always working short and when you have patients with sun downer's syndrome, alcohol dt's, a patient going critical, or several admissions throughout the night that all you're doing is trying to chase your tail in order to get caught up.
Luckily on the unit I work on we're very close knit and work as a team every night so you never really feel like you're "on your own". Good luck to you! Jul 30, I also like evening shift best! Days and 12 hour shifts were just too much for me. And I like floor nursing because I like the people I work with, the variety, and the pace if not too nuts , I worked ICU for a while, and besides the unfriendly and petty coworkers, I found it boring to only deal with 2 patients.
I like working in an environment with a good team who work well together. Now, it may take a while to find a med-surg floor like that, but they are out there.
Specializes in ICU. I started out on a surgical float pool. Did gen. It was a great learning experience, but it was chronically short staffed. Nurses also maintain and update patient medical records. Nurses are required to be on their feet for extended periods of time and perform a variety of jobs that require physical effort. These include lifting and stretching patients, walking throughout the hospital to attend to the needs of their patients and bending over to perform tasks. Floor nurses work a variety of shifts that can last for an extended period of time.
Work shifts can last for up to 12 hours. There can be little reliability in a consistent schedule.
0コメント