 Hello everyone, I was having a little technical difficulties with this, but hopefully it is working now Thank you guys for tuning in I just wanted to come on and do a little chit chat With everyone too. I don't know. We haven't done a live chat on YouTube in a long time And I've got some free time. So I figured what the heck So, yeah, if you guys have any questions or Comments or anything give this video a thumbs up if you are on right now because Why not give it a thumbs up? Hi Alma or Alma. Not sure how you say your name. I Just finished eating dinner. Usually I come on and I'm like eating dinner But this time I decided to eat and then come on. So You're waiting for the Atkins Bass video collaborations. I know it's coming up in July July We're gonna be together so the videos may come out beginning of August, but they'll be out Sorry, my husband rudely called me and interrupted me. So I'm back So let me go back up and I'm gonna look at all the questions. Oh my gosh, okay See you before our end. I actually have a video on this but I really think getting your CNA before your aren't is a great idea if you are able to and Are able to have the means or the program is in your area or whatnot, but I highly recommend CNA before our end Dang, there's so many things love all the bottles. I know it kind of makes me look like I'm an alcoholic with all these bottles But it's just the collection Sorry going through all the questions Are there any other specialties I like other than er or I see you I Really always have been interested in labor delivery lnd But er and I see were kind of like the ones that I've always really been interested in not to say that I don't like any of the other specialties, but those are just kind of the ones that I prefer So to speak Did I have a healthcare job before my aren't no I actually didn't but Not that I wish I would have done it differently, but I think it would have benefited me for sure The hardest part of nursing for me was uh really just the sheer amount of time commitment and organization and Amount of new content that you have no idea what it is And it was just a lot my husband keeps texting me saying give him a shout out and he's staying with our friends Brian Dillon in washington. So here is their shout out hi So he could stop texting me because every time he texts me it pops up my screen and I can't read all the questions um Sorry, okay getting back to it um You're planning to start your bsn program at 18. Is that okay? What do I think? I think that's wonderful I went right after high school. I went into my bsn program. I graduated at 21 and got my rn at 21 So I think if you know what it's what you want to do then just go ahead and do it um What did I do? I recommend to help prep for going into the icu um Really you just have to be open-minded To the fact that it's going to be a lot of information and you're going to have to study and be humble about knowing what you don't know Uh, but really it's just like going into any field. You just have to be open-minded and really work towards and learn and put forth the effort to whatever field you're going into What's the one thing I wish I knew before starting nursing school that you know now? Gosh, that's a good question. I don't really know. I actually thought about this the other day I was like I should make a video on this and then I kind of like Not that I pushed it to the side. I just couldn't think of anything right away. So I was like, um I didn't obviously do one yet, but I do want to do a video on that So stay tuned. I'm gonna have to think of an answer to that question What advice do I give for people who don't know if they want to go into nursing? My advice is to shadow a nurse If you can or volunteer In the nursing field so you can get an idea as far as what you like or don't like or and all that if that makes sense Your first live video with me Yay What I consider becoming a pediatric nurse um Yes, and no, I I really like adults don'ts are Adults make their own decisions. Peeds kids usually don't well No, I shouldn't say all adults make their own decisions But by the time you're an adult you've lived part of your life and usually the people are in the hospital It's because of the choices they have made in their life. Um, not all of them I'm not saying everyone there are some just really unfortunate circumstances But with that being said people make their own decisions and as kids I feel like they don't and their parents do and that would be hard for me to be around Opinions on male nurses, I think male nurses are great. Just like the male nurses. I really don't have a I don't have a negative opinion. I think I have a positive opinion of male nurses You love the wine Yes, I love wine too It's make you hard to work in I'm sure and any nursing field is going to be difficult to work in I've never worked in it. So I don't really have enough opinion But I work in the ICU and it is a challenging field But I also worked med search about those challenging and tele was challenging It's really all fields are challenging. It just depends on what you love and what you're interested in Did I do an internship? No, I did not Is it uncommon to use the calculator calculator day-to-day as a nurse? I only use the calculator for one thing at my job and that is that at the end of our shifts, we have to clear all of our like pumps as far as like if there is that controlled substance on like a fentanyl or versed drip we have to go on and clear the pump and You have to chart how many milliliters The patient received during your shift every time you or whenever you clear the pump you have to do that So fentanyl is a 20 micrograms per one milliliter and sometimes it'll say that they receive like 1,300 but it will be or it'll be a weird number 1,300 be a little easier to do But it'll be like they received 1,342 micrograms this shift And so I don't want to do that I just go on and do the calculator and divide it by 20 But I don't use the calculator for anything else Everything else is pretty much done for you in the computer You still need to know how to do it for sure Because sometimes there are emergent situations where you may Actually like mix a drip or something like that But for the most part everything is already in the computer for you Like if you're giving One milligram of ativan and the vial is uh two milligrams in one mill It'll literally say to give 0.5 mills like on your charting system. So you really don't have to do the math But it's important to know because there are times where I have used it. So don't get me wrong You go to high school with intro to pharmacology What other classes should you take that actually sounds like a lot of great classes I guess you anatomy physiology if you have that that would be a good one to take What do I think about the lpn to rn route? I think that's wonderful What makes an that is so difficult is it as difficult as everyone says compared to other nursing fields um I think what makes ice you difficult besides the fact that like It's a lot of information and a lot of equipment and a lot of things going on with the patient all at once So besides the fact of like having to have a good knowledge base and like knowing your resources and all that what makes the ice you difficult is because You see so many sick people and you see people dying and you see just terrible situations You see people who should die but their families won't let them go And they're just suffering you see people who should live who don't you see people who Just a ton of hard situations and uh, you see gruesome terrible things that happen to people. I've seen people Literally bleed out and die and those are just things that like the average person doesn't see But I think that's what makes the ice you So difficult is the emotional aspect behind it And learning how to separate your emotions and not take that home I mean, there's several shifts. I've gone home and I'm just like, oh my gosh like what happened today That's crazy. And you really have to have a good outlet a good community a good manager whoever you want to talk to about it because If you don't that stuff is just going to eat you alive Anyways, I digress. I think that's what makes the ice you so difficult my husband comes back in He'll be back in like two and a half weeks officially out of the military done so Am I planning on going to grad school? I don't know I I'm still wishy-washy Where's my polka dot lunchbox from that's funny because I actually haven't used it in like months But I still have it my mother-in-law got it from me And I want to say she got it from like ross or tj max one of those types of stores But she got it for me a long time ago. I've had it for like over two years So Nilo far nilo far. I'm not sure you say that it says that she's freaking out You just signed up for registry to work med surge. I'm just too scared at the same time You're saying I won't shine financially. Please help any advice with any new job. It's going to be overwhelming and my biggest piece of advice is to just go in open-minded and Have confidence in yourself and you're going to adjust. There's always an adjustment period when you first start off with the job You don't know anyone. It's difficult, but you're going to get into your routine quickly and you'll be okay uh When taking pre-ics it's better to take the harder classes first or all the Or all the classes hard every class is different It really depends on what you're good at and what your interests are So I don't really have any advice as far as how to take those classes Is the n-clex as hard as they say? Um, yes and no Then it clocks is difficult like if you had to get a hundred percent on it, absolutely That'd be totally difficult But really you there's a there's a passing bar line for the n-clex And if you get a question right you go above the bar line If you get a question wrong you go below and the more questions you get right the higher you build yourself above this bar line so really you're I don't know like what percentage you have to get but If you kind of know how to break down the questions and answer them. It isn't too difficult and uh Anyways, it is difficult. It's hard. Like I didn't know a lot of the stuff on the n-clex But you're not going to and that's the point is not to really test your knowledge as far as like I don't know. It's more of like how to be safe how to make good nursing judgment choices Um versus like having to know how to diagnose someone because that's not our job How many patients do I get nice to you one or two depends on if they're uh One nurse to two patients or one to one like one nurse to one patient You're in high school and Want to do nursing and take a lot of classes and volunteering for it But you're slowly losing interest. Should you continue or go all the way? That's a totally personal decision and up to you. Um I would never encourage someone to do something that they don't want to do Maybe there's something that you're more interested in or maybe not. I don't know but I think that's a personal decision Uh Everyone on here right now should go and like this video What do I think about grad school msn dnp? Um, I think they're great I don't know what I want to do, but I think it's great when people go back to school What is ICU? It's intensive care unit the sickest of the sick Um, what's the hardest part about being an icy nurse and how do you overcome deal with it? I think the hardest part for me at first was just How sick people really are or were you know and all the stuff involved in taking care of them All the charting involved all the people involved and as a nurse you are the center of that person's care Everyone comes I don't use the word through you, but pretty much everyone comes through you whether it's renal Cardiology social work physical therapy occupational therapy speech therapy Everyone comes to you To ask you about the patient and you have to know that information and that's like how it is with every nursing field But in the ICU you have to really know your stuff because then they come up to you and they ask you the questions You're like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. They're gonna be like, why are you here? What have you been doing? Half the joys math when working like statistics and calculus never Um, I do do math during the shifts though Like you do have to kind of calculate stuff But most of the time it's calculated for you But you still should know how to do it because in emergencies you will have to do calculations Um How can do you wear your hair to work? I always usually wear my hair in a ponytail or a bun or a braid. It's always back Um It's I want to put it back right now Sorry, I'm kind of like way behind on questions. Oh my gosh. I am like so behind. Okay Do I like I see you or a med surge? I like I see you better than med surge. This is my personal preference Um How to deal with nurses that don't like students in clinicals your first semester student is tough You know This is a hard situation because you usually don't get to choose who you're paired with when you go to clinicals and it's really unfortunate That nurses can be rude towards students I really really really try to be very positive and like let students do Pretty much everything because by the time they're in the ICU their last semester students and they're about to graduate but at the same time you have to like um I don't know how to say this in a nice way If a student is about to graduate you really want to make sure they're prepared for the graduation So if there's a big red flag, that's something that needs to be addressed because that students about to graduate But the best thing you can do honestly is to be a good nursing student is to come prepared take report I I can't tell you how I can't tell you how many times I'm paired with students who just don't take report Like even if you don't know 90 percent of what is being said write it down and we can talk about it. You can ask questions um Students who ask me questions. That's always a good thing But you know sometimes the nurse can get upset when you ask too many questions but like I'm not that way, but you know anyways and The other biggest thing that nurses Well, at least me but most nurses enjoy is when you're motivated to learn and you're willing to do things whether it's Putting in a suppository something that like no one really likes to do or whether it's putting in an ng-tube or foley or Something like that My husband keeps texting. We think stop texting during this because then it distracts me Whether you're doing something you you do or do not want to do it doesn't matter like show that you're motivated and willing to learn that Um and to do it because there's spend times where I've had students and I'm like, hey, do you want to help with the tube feeding? They're like, oh, no, I'll do the next one. It's like no as a nurse you need to be Doing this stuff if you're about to graduate in three weeks You should be doing I don't want to say doing everything But you should be trying to do the most that you possibly can for your abilities. Anyways, I'm on a little soap box I've had a few students I don't use not recently just in general. I've had a few students who just haven't really cared And weren't interested in ice you or weren't interested in What was going on and so it makes it difficult and challenging and as a student You should know when you're paired with a nurse your You can be used as an asset you totally can you can help with turns and all that stuff But most of the time it puts the nurse behind because they're explaining everything And they're letting you do things and all that which is totally fine And I don't mind being behind as long as it's someone who's interested in learning and what I'm talking about but If you're not interested and it's like why am I putting forth all this effort to try and teach someone and let you do all These things and I'm getting behind when you don't even care. You don't even want to do it anyways I'm done. I'm off my soap box How are the pups? The pups are good. They're tired. They went to the dog park today. So Dear's ugly girl. She's sleeping. I think blue's on the other side. Yeah He's sleeping on this Water bowl Any tips for getting your face as weak as my nurse bass? What's up? There's oh, I'm sorry Gotta put this up a little bit Okay, I'm grading questions. Sorry. I was like so behind on questions because I went on that little soap box tangent there Do I wear a uniform when I go to work? Yes, we have to wear navy blue scrubs Sorry, I'm going back reading questions. A lot of these are like duplicates. So I'm trying to kind of pick out Good good questions Do my co-workers tease me about my youtube channel? Um, yes and no everyone's really supportive, but sometimes they will tease me But I don't know how many of them actually Watch my videos or a lot of them just know about it, but a lot of them don't really go on and watch I mean, maybe they do. I don't know. Some people do I guess but A lot of people tease me, but then they realize like How many people follow me or that this has actually become like it's definitely a hobby But it's become kind of like a part-time Job part-time like income and then they're like, oh, that's cool. How do I do that? Uh Is everyone giving nurse pass tips on how to do his makeup? Sorry Sorry for the pause. I'm reading questions. There's so many. Do I work night shifts? No I work days, which I'm super happy and thankful for. I am definitely a day shift person Do I like jazz? I guess. I don't know. I don't just like jazz. I don't really listen to it, but It can be nice Ah You're scared because you don't know if you want to be a nurse or study medicine to be a surgeon You like both you could be a surgical nurse What do you do if you get stuck or forget how to do something you find in your sims you panic and often forget How to go about a certain situation the hardest the hardest part about simulations is They expect you to know what to do so you can kind of like it's almost like a video game You have to do this to get to the next step and if you don't get there then they're like It's just like this awkward time. You're like, I don't know what I'm supposed to do It's like you have to do one thing right to get to the next step to do that right to get to the next step And finally you're done with the simulation like that's how the simulations work So real life Is is kind of like that but not really like that like when you have your own patients like you do what you want In the order that's best for your patients slash you and you're not worried about all these people watching you and what you're doing and trying to like complete that first step to get to the next step so Um simulations, they're great and you should definitely Work really hard in them and take all the knowledge you learned from it and don't take that for granted But at the same time like that's real life is not like that I remember like some of the mannequins at my school like You'd be listening to their breath sounds and you wouldn't hear some of them Most of the mannequins you could hear things if something wasn't working that day or whatever you'd be listening and you'd be like I wonder what the breath sounds sound like and then the little person would come through and be like There's crackles and it's like this is just not realistic But you know you gotta you gotta do your best registry Nurses, do you have any med surge experience before you've gone registry? Because usually when you to become registry you have to have experience At least where I work That's how it works. Why am I so red? Look at that Just kidding Um, oh my gosh, there's so many questions on here Did I work night shifts after I graduated? I did not I worked a mid shift from 3 to 11 30 Any funny nursing stories? Um I have I have times. I'm just trying to think about like what I can actually say like on the uh, youtube Um, I had a patient the other day. This is kind of funny but kind of like not funny kind of inappropriate I guess but this patient was an elderly gentleman and was he was very uh Very stuck in his ways and kind of mean, uh, yeah, definitely mean but um This patient had not been up in like three or four days He's elderly He's very weak physical therapy could just barely get him to the edge of the bed And he said he needed to go to the bathroom and he wanted to walk through the bathroom and I said like Sir, I am not going to be able to get you up to the bathroom safely So since you have to go so bad, let me grab another person and we can either get you on the bed pan Or we could do the bedside commode And he's like, oh, I'll do the bedside commode So I go and like hunt one down and you know, if you're a nurse Those little suckers are so hard to find and you like hunt them down and you're like running around and by Ties bringing in the room you're like practically sweating So I'm like running around and get wanting to get a commode I find someone to help me and we're about to get this guy up to the commode and he's like who the F are you to be telling an 80 something year old man That he can't get that he can't go to the bathroom when you're like only 15 years old And what I wanted to say was sir, how long have you been a nurse? But I didn't say that I I don't remember I said I said something like I'm sorry that you feel this way I said, but I could not get you to the the bathroom without you falling. So this is just gonna have to be what we do Anyways, so that's one funny story. I guess it's kind of funny. Oh my gosh. So there's so many things. Oh my gosh There's Someone's on here trolling. It's fine. Just ignore them guys Uh, yeah, so grumpy old man. Um, I also had a patient who was having difficulty urinating and um Kept wanting to go on the bedpan kept wanting to go on the bedpan saying they had to go so bad so bad They like weren't going and so I was like Let me feel your bladder or I was kind of I kind of pushed on her bladder to see like If I could palpate it and feel if it was firm and she goes, oh that helps and she's like And she's laying in bed like with her legs up. She's like, oh that helps She's like keep pushing right there right there. She's like push and I'm like, ma'am Let me give you your hand so you can push on your bladder And she like literally wanted me to push and she was like making these like moaning noises. I was like, no We're not gonna do this All right, I'm trying to figure out. Oh, okay I figured out how to block that person guys. Sorry Let me see if I can remove them Oh I can put someone in time out I didn't know I could do that. That's kind of cool. It's kind of funny. Like, oh, you're going in time out Too many rude comments and nasty comments. You're going in time out Um, I'm 23 23 23 Uh, what other funny stories do I have? I like telling him I just want to make sure that I'm respecting Patience privacy and all that information Big eyes, everyone keeps saying I'm big eyes. I know Yeah, I don't think he should comment anymore. I I think he's in time out I don't think he can comment I can't believe I have 150 people on here. It's crazy. You thought I was like 30 It's because I've got wrinkles. I'm kind of getting wrinkles guys Like especially right here Like if it's sunny and I'm squinting and then my makeup creases and then it like looks worse Well, okay, there's more people More people going in time out Put user in time out That's so funny. Oh my gosh. There's a lot of people Saying mean things I don't know if you guys can put people in time out But you guys kind of got to help me out because it's hard to read all these comments and then um My husband comes home in two and a half weeks Two and a half people must be bored. I know like who gets on here and says those things Just like blows my mind Oh, you can only report them. Oh well nurse bass nurse bass you got my back Reporting everyone. What is a telly nurse a telly nurse is someone who It's like a step up from med surge. You can do a little bit more. Sometimes they have like drips um, but they don't usually titrate them unless it's like a heparin drip And um, they monitor telly like the telemetry strips, uh, yeah Did I work while in nursing school? Yes Or just, you know, going to travel when you find I guess all the military No, we need to save some money A telly nurse answers phones all day. Yeah, they're on a telephone My dogs you want to see my dogs, of course There she is So sleepy Look at her cute little face So cute and then Blue's over here sleeping Look at him. So cute. They're so cute huh When was I able to perform IVs in nursing school after we learned it? We were able to Actually just did an IV the other day We don't do them a lot in ICU because they've got central lines and all that stuff and um Yes, they are golden retrievers and oh my gosh, there's so many questions coming in. Sorry. Um, and this patient His um IV what was starting to go bad. It's just leaking everywhere. You know, like it I still could pull back Blood but it was Just leaking. So there's bassist texting it out and he knows better Okay And anyways, I digress. So I told the patient I'm gonna put in another IV because I This one's about to go bad and you need to have at least one working IV ideally two and he goes Oh, I only They only can get IVs in me with ultrasound. So I said, okay Well, let me just take a look if I don't see anything. I'm confident and I just I'll we'll get the ultrasound and we'll do it that way I'm not ultrasound certified yet, but I actually take the class on the 6th of june to become ultrasound certified So I will Shortly be ultrasound certified and won't be a big deal for me to go get one But I'm not now. So I have to have someone else do it and that's just kind of inconvenient for everyone um So anyways, I I found a spot for the IV and I got it right away and a win and he was like, oh my gosh He must be really good at these and I'm like not that good at IVs. I'm not terrible. I'm not the best I'm kind of like a little bit above average, I would say but But anyways, little nursing win. I kind of like patting myself in the back Wildcats are sun devils sun devils. Duh. I went to ASU Oh, there's so many questions on here My favorite nursing shoes a lot of people are asking this question I'm wearing sketches right now and I like them. They seem to work really well Mark jay, you're gonna go in time out Sorry, I don't think that's so funny. It's cracks. We have like a timeout Have I ever did you see you? Yes, I have What do you like to do the most during shifts? Oh, it kind of depends. I'm like a skill Person I like when we do like or procedure purse. I think it's fun when we do those things, but I don't like to chart Um, but I don't know. I don't really know what My favorite part is I have a lot of things I like and dislike My favorite part is going home at the end of the day When I don't have to come back for a couple days so I can sleep in Uh Are you friends with doctors? Yes, I am GCU is a school here in arizona So little sneak peek for all of you that are on here today I did a different type of video today and I'm actually super excited to edit it. Um, I'm seeing what time was and uh I did one on weird things nurses say slash do and it's gonna be really funny I think it's gonna be really funny. I haven't edited it yet, but just like with me doing it I was like, this is gonna be funny. So I think you guys will enjoy it and be able to relate Um, but anyways, I guess we'll end on that I am going to clean up and get ready and go to bed because I've got to get up early tomorrow for doing a bunch of things I'm not working, but um, I hope you guys have a great night and um Yeah, so I will talk to you guys all later and thanks for watching and make sure you give this video a thumbs up If you haven't already, okay