Hi Kendra! Thank you for providing excellent content. I am not a nurse and have never been in the medical field. I watch because I can relate to you as a professional woman who strives for excellence. I want to say thank you for that video where you spoke about people being sicker than 10-15 years ago and how some of it is totally avoidable if you take care of yourself and eat right. Well it stuck with me. I was diagnosed with diabetes, morbidly obese, and depressed. Your message stuck in my mind. It’s helped me to develop discipline to get my health together. In the past few months I’ve lost almost 25 pounds and reduced my A1c to a 6.1. I’m now drinking a minimum of 64 oz of water daily. I feel great! I’m just getting started on my lifelong wellness journey. I said all this to say, keep speaking truth. You are helping more people than you know. Be blessed!
Congratulations!! I know this can be challenging, I work in healthcare and so many of those in the community are just unaware. I'm glad that you were able to gain knowledge from Kendra, and was able to apply to your personal well being. Keep going, you're doing great!
Reading this gave me all the good feels. What a way to take matters into your own hands!!! I am proud of you and you should be extremely proud of yourself. Being disciplined about your health isn’t easy but you’re doing it. Continue to take care of yourself and your health. I love this for you my dear. Keep me posted.
Girl!!!! She commented on the wrong nurse page lol 😆!! I too know 😊nurses!!! Glad you educated her! Congratulations 🎊 on completing your NP program, you will make a great Np! The light is good!
@@KendraRN smh some ppl have nothing better to do… we are all so proud of u!! God’s richest blessings!!! Thx for sharing with us!! We are claiming a passing score on your NP boards in Jesus name!!!
@@KendraRN You are an encyclopedia of medical knowledge and don't waste your valuable time with idiots. Keep up your great attitude and excellent patient care. ❤ 👍
I worked 31 years on a cardiac/Neuro PCU it was rare when we didn't have at least 2 or 3 vent patients on the unit. If vent/trach patients were stable they were routinely transferred out to med Surg as long as they did not have cardiac or Neuro issues. Those that scream the loudest tend to know the least!!
THANK YOU for shouting US small town and/or rural nurses 👩🏽⚕️!!! Nursing is my second career & I’m over 40. I was shocked at the lack of respect from my colleagues.😅
They always tell people if u don't like ur job leave. Guess what? People r leaving & they can't replace all of them. It sounds good until it becomes a crisis, which n some facilities it is. That person is all bark with no teeth 2 bite. LTACs can b brutal. I did 1 n Cali last yr. 99% of those pts were vented fresh out of ICU. Many were unstable & overstayed their ICU stay due 2 insurance. LTAC gives them the extended care they need. Levindale has a HICU (high intensity care unit) where we would get ICU pts who were still n comas. We had a coma recovery program & would try 2 wean them off the vent, if possible. If not, they would go 2 a long-term vent facility once stabilized. I just worked @ a Trauma III hospital on LI where we got vents on the M/S tele unit. They were mostly chronic vents & acute vents placed n ED 4 whatever reason. Some hospitals don't get vents on M/S units, but many do, esp if they don't have a lot of PCU or Stepdown units. It's impossible 2 keep every vent n ICU. Trauma I, II, or III, the workload is insane. I'm currently working Tele Stepdown float & it's savage. 4 patients is too much. The comorbidities r insane. 20 yrs ago, it was HTN, GERD, DM. Now it's HTN, CVA, Parkinsons, DM, Lung CA, Multiple wounds, Sepsis, BPH, Lupus, A-fib, Hypothyroidism, CKD 4, CAD. I'm like sir, mam, what is not wrong with u?
"What is not wrong with you" I'm laughing but I'm crying too. Seriously, when you look at the patient's summary on EPIC and you keep scrolling...down...the PMHx & comorbidities. I never realized how sick our society was until I became a nurse. Even patients from other cultures that are usually associated with good health, they immigrate here and get all our modern diseases. It's not right.
@@ada5851 Some of them have poor health @ home as well. They get access 2 healthcare when they come 2 the states. Fast food has also made its way across the globe. A lot of people r not active & drive everywhere, even if it's up the street. Walking is frowned upon by too many. The government allows toxins n our food that r not 4 human consumption. Even Whole Foods isn't organics.
Whattttt that person needs to SIT DOWN. The state of nursing and health care is in SHAMBLES. She must work at some imaginary facility where you get breaks and a fair wage. The rest of us don't. Tell me why I took a desk job at my hospital but picked up an extra shift in the ICU today and I was assigned 3 patients. THREE. Its the regional medical center for a tri-state area, so very busy. Oh and this hospital doesn't staff CNAs in the ICU. Because, money. Fuck all the people who decide what is standard of care.
i agree-i work on a neuro epilepsy floor and we may not see vented patients but it’s entirely plausible that some institutions get them because we get patients wildly inappropriate for our nursing ratio and our expectations of our patient population just because what else is the hospital gonna do? turn them away? the icu is full! I’d say that 1/3 of my workdays im really in a stepdown floor and not a medsurg level floor. Like i have a patient who is suddenly coughing up blood and who is also a stroke care patient and another patient in acute respiratory distress at the same time who is swollen up and obtunded, then two more patients.
Remember now, no complaining, this is what you signed up for. Of course I’m being facetious. Working on the floor is wild these days. I can’t do it much longer.
Girl u damn right we’re tired!! Just because we enjoy taking care of people don’t mean we want to be abused and physically burned out everyday. She tripping, she must be in an office 😂😂😂
I just quit nursing job ! I was an LPN and. Currently in school to get ky ADN RN.... But lately i just have not been wanting to be a nurse at all . I started as a CNA my whole family pushed me onto the nursing industry! I love caring for people..... But I do not have a desire to do it anymore its very taxing on my mental and physical . People are so unappreciative sometimes and I am ready to try something else.
I currently work on a med-surg unit in one of bigger hospital in NYC. We take ventilated patients (chronic vents, new vents that take a long time to decannulated, trach collar). Ratio on good nights 1:6 but it can go up to 1:7 sometimes. So the nurse who said there are no vented patient on med-surg don’t know what she talking about. Lot of total care patients too.
Hi Kendra. About the ventilator issue. I see both your points. I can see that lack of resources (nursing staff) can sometimes cause patients on vents to be on the telemetry floor but ideally for patient safety I can see why we would not want to put a vent no matter the acuity on a telemetry floor where nurses have a 1:6 ratio. It is not about the fact that the RN is not capable but it is about the time that the RN can dedicate to that vent patient. Where I work (level 2 trauma hospital and community hospital) all vents are discharged from step down. They never go to the floor. And I still work at the bedside in leadership.Nurse for 29years. Please come back to ICU we need you ❤
Vents that need telemetry are not stable patients. They won’t be on a PCU, they would be on an IMC or step down ICU. Stable, chronic vents are appropriate for med surg and usually the ratio is lowered when we are assigned vents. 1 vent patient counts as 2 in the unit I work. My ICU days are over, I miss it but I don’t think I can do that kind of nursing anymore.
Me nodding to everything you said…. Keep up the amazing content! Ring light is great! External hard drive is a must as well as a good microphone. Love your videos! ❤thank you Kendra
Kendra you look amazing! I really liked your content and the way you handled the comment in your video. I learned about vented patients and about their care. Very knowledgeable and the expertise shows. Respect. ❤
That ring light is everything!!! You look like a bag of golden brown sugar 😁😁 I thought about taking a weekend only (Sat/Sun) RN position on a MS unit just so I could have M-F off! This weekend position is considered FT because of the weekend commitment! But I’ve been away from bedside since 2016 and ppl are sicker, the ratios are higher and I think my anxiety would be on 10000…. So for now I will just keep working my M-F patient as a RN Care Coordinator. **sigh** I pray to be financially stable to work very very part time in the next two years with benefits cause sis is tired!!
I’m a new grad respiratory therapist in the ICU and just subscribed to your channel! I feel like you have so much advice to offer not only nurses but other new professionals as well. Thank you for sharing 🫶
Hi! The lady in the comments is sooooo wrong! I've been a nurse for 20 years. 11 of those years I've been working at NIH (NATIONAL Institute of Health) on a medical surgical research floor, and we got ventilator patients all the time. My first 2 nursing jobs in 2004 were in a Long Island hospital and in New York Presbyterian in NY, and we took care of ventilator patients. So I wonder if she ever worked as a floor R.N.
@KendraRN I've been fine! I enjoy your vlog, and I am always looking forward to them. You always bring so much light ✨️ to the nursing community, and I thank you for that. You are going to rock the NP license test. 💪🏾. I will keep you in my prayers.
And at our major hospital which is a level 1 trauma center, have pts on ventilators in med surg. So she lost af. They probably shouldn’t be there but they are.
Kendra, don't second guess yourself on how you responded to that comment. If you were face to face with her, you would have and should say it the way it is. Trauma 1, that's like Magnet Status. It's a load of bull! At the end of the day, every nurse on any unit has to clean up poop. You can't tell me that in level 1 facilities patients poop smells like roses! Nice to see you back. I'll keep you in my thoughts as you continue your journey.
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@@KendraRN I was married to one🥴 I’ve really enjoyed your episodes. Is it possible to contact you by email? After 29 years I need to communicate with someone. Kathie Cash, RN
Hey Kendra, I work in med surg, we have 2 chronically ventilated patients in our units now. She is wrong for saying that, maybe back in her Mezozoic Era days, they don't admit vent patients on med surg but now they do. That's why I tell nurses to stop "super nurse BS " cos Nobody knows it all & times have changed
You are 100% right about the ventilator. I’ve worked in the NICU and a LTAC for peds and it’s exactly how you described. That other nurse is crazy. She may have years of experience but it shows that her experience is very limited when it comes to variations of care. Keep standing your ground!
Speak truth! The name and reputation of the facility does not make you a great nurse. She probably does not know patients can be managed at home on a vent!! Why is she trying so hard?! Always Wrong and Strong and are not introspective at all as she wants to be right. Great video. Get that review done and know you will ace the test!
chronic vent makes sense but can you imagine 4 acutely ill vented pts and they all start bucking the vent at the same time, low pressures from sedation, copious secretions, paralyzed, proned, desating, etc. i wouldnt be surprised if nursing comes to this lol
She’s dead wrong, my first job was at Harlem Hospital, I had tons of ventilator patients on the Med Surg unit, the patients now have a whole page of co-morbidities, more than likely she never worked on a med surg unit
❤Kendra❤ im tired to Kendra, i hear you girl. Its about creating new professional spaces where you can be dynamic❤ i so understand your reflecting on can you deal with that regimen in ICU....❤ you are a wonderful person and Nurse❤
Hi Kendra, She has no idea what's she's talking about my hospital has a unit call med-Surg/chronic vent We get pts from step down ICU, who are not get ready to be fully weaned off the vent or who will live on the vent and awaiting placement in an LTAC. Sometimes they are there longer than expected due to insurance issues, HD setup, wound care etc Sometimes these pts have no insurance and no documentation so they literally stay on the floor until they pass away unfortunately We are ventilator train medsurg nurses
Exactly!!! It goes back to me saying people are so much sicker today. She really was wrong for insisting vented patients are only in the ICU. Thank you for adding to the conversation dear 🩷
I had a vented patient for years in the home setting. He would at times have to go to the hospital. They put him on a med surg floor generally not icu because he was chronic ill and stable. Not the idea setting for him because he was used to 24hr one to one at home. He feared hospital in general because of not getting the attention and care he wants. He to this day rarely agrees to go for anything. But you find a lot of those patients in acute rehab when first injured but they do Like Kendra said in up on the medsurg floor if they are care chronic and stable.
I know you said you are tired, I think you should take advantage of your expertise and social media presence. You can be an acute care nurse consultant for new nurses, nurses returning back to the floor due to hcol, nurses struggling to manage high acuity patients. You can consult nurses with resumes, interviews, finding agency and hospital assignments. Lastly, write a book about your nursing work history, education, pros and cons, would love to read your journey. I am an RN and feel nurses need to shift into using knowledge they have as a source of income to move into other means to gain financial freedom. We Are the Business! I think utilizing this new digital world we live in will get us there faster. I would never imagine working remotely as a nurse but here I am. Good luck on the boards!
Hello Kendra! First I want to say that I absolutely love your videos and your personality. Congratulations on completing your NP program and you will pass your boards😃. I have been a medsurge nurse for the past 6 years. I have been doing travel for the last 3 years and just accepted a position in the MICU at the hospital I am currently doing a local contract with. I am so excited but do have some fear about the transition. Do you have any advice for transitioning from medsurg to critical care? Thank you so much ❤❤❤
Oh wow 🤩. Congrats, I am happy for you. I will discuss in an upcoming video. I love MICU and SICU. You will do well, I’m putting it out in the universe for you.
ICU ration varies, standard is 2:1. If the patient is on CRRT or Balloon Pump, should be 1:1. If there are patients that are downgraded you sometimes can have 3:1.
LTC /subacute nurse 🙋🏾♀️ I thought Apple computers last a bit longer that others🤔 however I’ve had mine for about 2 yrs and noticing battery not holding a charge for as long.
Gurl the new job anxiety is reeaaall!!! And don't talk to others about how nurses move between jobs gurl that's a disaster. I tried to talk to my sister about how we don't stay in one place too long and she started laughing at me. She don't get it.😂
Hey loud strong and wrong nurse that been a nurse x 25 yrs. I’m an RT and been taking care of vents on med-surge floors x 27 yrs so -go head and walk those foolish comments back.
Girl u damn right we’re tired!! Just because we enjoy taking care of people don’t mean we want to be abused and physically burned out everyday. She tripping, she must be in an office 😂😂😂
They ALWAYS be Loud, Strong, and WRONG‼️
The ring light was worth every dime. You’re glowing ❤
Hey T, thank you so much. I’ll get the info and link it.
@@KendraRN you need to get that on a T-shirt “Loud, Strong, and WRONG!!”❤🤣
@@KendraRN Thanks so much I definitely need to invest in one❤️
Idk why some nurses get so competitive with thinking they know more than others. It was pointless for her to go after you. Love your videos ❤
You should have asked that nurse if she’s really an RN! I’m glad you set her straight!
She was doing a lot.
Hi Kendra! Thank you for providing excellent content. I am not a nurse and have never been in the medical field. I watch because I can relate to you as a professional woman who strives for excellence. I want to say thank you for that video where you spoke about people being sicker than 10-15 years ago and how some of it is totally avoidable if you take care of yourself and eat right. Well it stuck with me. I was diagnosed with diabetes, morbidly obese, and depressed. Your message stuck in my mind. It’s helped me to develop discipline to get my health together. In the past few months I’ve lost almost 25 pounds and reduced my A1c to a 6.1. I’m now drinking a minimum of 64 oz of water daily. I feel great! I’m just getting started on my lifelong wellness journey. I said all this to say, keep speaking truth. You are helping more people than you know. Be blessed!
Congratulations!! I know this can be challenging, I work in healthcare and so many of those in the community are just unaware. I'm glad that you were able to gain knowledge from Kendra, and was able to apply to your personal well being. Keep going, you're doing great!
Reading this gave me all the good feels. What a way to take matters into your own hands!!! I am proud of you and you should be extremely proud of yourself. Being disciplined about your health isn’t easy but you’re doing it. Continue to take care of yourself and your health. I love this for you my dear. Keep me posted.
@@KendraRN Thank you and I will. Blessings to you!
Girl!!!! She commented on the wrong nurse page lol 😆!! I too know 😊nurses!!! Glad you educated her! Congratulations 🎊 on completing your NP program, you will make a great Np! The light is good!
Omg thank you so much. She was insisting on going back and forth too 😩😩😩.
@@KendraRN smh some ppl have nothing better to do… we are all so proud of u!! God’s richest blessings!!! Thx for sharing with us!! We are claiming a passing score on your NP boards in Jesus name!!!
@@KendraRN You are an encyclopedia of medical knowledge and don't waste your valuable time with idiots.
Keep up your great attitude and excellent patient care. ❤ 👍
I worked 31 years on a cardiac/Neuro PCU it was rare when we didn't have at least 2 or 3 vent patients on the unit. If vent/trach patients were stable they were routinely transferred out to med Surg as long as they did not have cardiac or Neuro issues. Those that scream the loudest tend to know the least!!
Correct, stable vents in med surg, if they need telemetry monitoring, they’re not that stable.
THANK YOU for shouting US small town and/or rural nurses 👩🏽⚕️!!! Nursing is my second career & I’m over 40. I was shocked at the lack of respect from my colleagues.😅
Of course, anytime. I love small hospitals and rural nursing 🩷🩷🩷🩷
I’m rooting for you with your Nurse Practitioner boards!! You’re passing the first time definitely!!🙏🏽🙏🏽🥰
Thank you so much Diva🩷🩷🩷
They always tell people if u don't like ur job leave. Guess what? People r leaving & they can't replace all of them. It sounds good until it becomes a crisis, which n some facilities it is. That person is all bark with no teeth 2 bite.
LTACs can b brutal. I did 1 n Cali last yr. 99% of those pts were vented fresh out of ICU. Many were unstable & overstayed their ICU stay due 2 insurance. LTAC gives them the extended care they need.
Levindale has a HICU (high intensity care unit) where we would get ICU pts who were still n comas. We had a coma recovery program & would try 2 wean them off the vent, if possible. If not, they would go 2 a long-term vent facility once stabilized.
I just worked @ a Trauma III hospital on LI where we got vents on the M/S tele unit. They were mostly chronic vents & acute vents placed n ED 4 whatever reason. Some hospitals don't get vents on M/S units, but many do, esp if they don't have a lot of PCU or Stepdown units. It's impossible 2 keep every vent n ICU.
Trauma I, II, or III, the workload is insane. I'm currently working Tele Stepdown float & it's savage. 4 patients is too much. The comorbidities r insane. 20 yrs ago, it was HTN, GERD, DM. Now it's HTN, CVA, Parkinsons, DM, Lung CA, Multiple wounds, Sepsis, BPH, Lupus, A-fib, Hypothyroidism, CKD 4, CAD. I'm like sir, mam, what is not wrong with u?
My elbows are doing great! 😅
@@paulasage3611 I hope so. We'll have 2 add that 2 the comorbidities.
"What is not wrong with you" I'm laughing but I'm crying too. Seriously, when you look at the patient's summary on EPIC and you keep scrolling...down...the PMHx & comorbidities. I never realized how sick our society was until I became a nurse. Even patients from other cultures that are usually associated with good health, they immigrate here and get all our modern diseases. It's not right.
@@ada5851 Some of them have poor health @ home as well. They get access 2 healthcare when they come 2 the states. Fast food has also made its way across the globe. A lot of people r not active & drive everywhere, even if it's up the street. Walking is frowned upon by too many. The government allows toxins n our food that r not 4 human consumption. Even Whole Foods isn't organics.
Whattttt that person needs to SIT DOWN. The state of nursing and health care is in SHAMBLES. She must work at some imaginary facility where you get breaks and a fair wage. The rest of us don't. Tell me why I took a desk job at my hospital but picked up an extra shift in the ICU today and I was assigned 3 patients. THREE. Its the regional medical center for a tri-state area, so very busy. Oh and this hospital doesn't staff CNAs in the ICU. Because, money. Fuck all the people who decide what is standard of care.
i agree-i work on a neuro epilepsy floor and we may not see vented patients but it’s entirely plausible that some institutions get them because we get patients wildly inappropriate for our nursing ratio and our expectations of our patient population just because what else is the hospital gonna do? turn them away? the icu is full! I’d say that 1/3 of my workdays im really in a stepdown floor and not a medsurg level floor. Like i have a patient who is suddenly coughing up blood and who is also a stroke care patient and another patient in acute respiratory distress at the same time who is swollen up and obtunded, then two more patients.
Remember now, no complaining, this is what you signed up for. Of course I’m being facetious. Working on the floor is wild these days. I can’t do it much longer.
I just started a new job too, and a preceptor micromanaged me, and I was soooooo annoyed! Had me wanting to quit 😂
That is the thing I fear. I don’t want to deal with thatz
Girl u damn right we’re tired!! Just because we enjoy taking care of people don’t mean we want to be abused and physically burned out everyday. She tripping, she must be in an office 😂😂😂
I just quit nursing job ! I was an LPN and. Currently in school to get ky ADN RN.... But lately i just have not been wanting to be a nurse at all . I started as a CNA my whole family pushed me onto the nursing industry! I love caring for people..... But I do not have a desire to do it anymore its very taxing on my mental and physical . People are so unappreciative sometimes and I am ready to try something else.
Remember you don’t have to be stuck at the bedside at a hospital or nursing home. Nursing has so many opportunities.
Get'em Kendra. Love your content. And love to see your growth. From a CHHA 2 LPN 2 RN 2 Future CRNA 🎉!!!
Thank you! I love that you have your goals mapped out.🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾
The light is giving glowing … now I’m going to enjoy the rest of the video ✨
Oh wow, 🤩 . Thank you so much
@@KendraRN You're welcome!
I haven't watched yet Ms. Kendra, but I'll answer ur opening question. The light is giving like a golden brown glow.
U look absolutely beautiful sis.
Thank you so much dear.
I am watching this not wanting to go to work. This just gave me the push to call out tonight.
Uh uh, you called out for real????😮
@@KendraRN I sure did! I refuse to make any job make me unhappy.
I currently work on a med-surg unit in one of bigger hospital in NYC. We take ventilated patients (chronic vents, new vents that take a long time to decannulated, trach collar). Ratio on good nights 1:6 but it can go up to 1:7 sometimes. So the nurse who said there are no vented patient on med-surg don’t know what she talking about. Lot of total care patients too.
Lighting is giving heaven sentttt
Thank you dear.
Hi Kendra. About the ventilator issue. I see both your points. I can see that lack of resources (nursing staff) can sometimes cause patients on vents to be on the telemetry floor but ideally for patient safety I can see why we would not want to put a vent no matter the acuity on a telemetry floor where nurses have a 1:6 ratio. It is not about the fact that the RN is not capable but it is about the time that the RN can dedicate to that vent patient. Where I work (level 2 trauma hospital and community hospital) all vents are discharged from step down. They never go to the floor. And I still work at the bedside in leadership.Nurse for 29years. Please come back to ICU we need you ❤
Vents that need telemetry are not stable patients. They won’t be on a PCU, they would be on an IMC or step down ICU. Stable, chronic vents are appropriate for med surg and usually the ratio is lowered when we are assigned vents. 1 vent patient counts as 2 in the unit I work. My ICU days are over, I miss it but I don’t think I can do that kind of nursing anymore.
Me nodding to everything you said…. Keep up the amazing content! Ring light is great! External hard drive is a must as well as a good microphone. Love your videos! ❤thank you Kendra
Kendra you look amazing! I really liked your content and the way you handled the comment in your video. I learned about vented patients and about their care. Very knowledgeable and the expertise shows. Respect. ❤
Thank you Francisca. I’ll have more educational content coming.
Whew ......I can't stand those that are loud, strong AND WRONG!!!!
She kept going on and on 🩷
That ring light is everything!!! You look like a bag of golden brown sugar 😁😁 I thought about taking a weekend only (Sat/Sun) RN position on a MS unit just so I could have M-F off! This weekend position is considered FT because of the weekend commitment! But I’ve been away from bedside since 2016 and ppl are sicker, the ratios are higher and I think my anxiety would be on 10000…. So for now I will just keep working my M-F patient as a RN Care Coordinator. **sigh** I pray to be financially stable to work very very part time in the next two years with benefits cause sis is tired!!
The bedside is nothing to play with but if you have some financial goals, I think you’ll survive.
@@KendraRN absolutely!!! I lowkey want to be done with healthcare…20 years and I burned! But what do we do?? I’m sure I have transferable skills 🤣🤣
hi kendra great vid you told ms no it all nurse just right ,like you said you work their thank you for always keeping it real.
Always! Thank you!
I’m a new grad respiratory therapist in the ICU and just subscribed to your channel! I feel like you have so much advice to offer not only nurses but other new professionals as well. Thank you for sharing 🫶
Hey Jennifer! Thank you for subscribing and congrats on starting your position.
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Yessss 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😂😂
Right, why do I need to evidence when I am the evidence that vents are on med surg.
Hi! The lady in the comments is sooooo wrong! I've been a nurse for 20 years. 11 of those years I've been working at NIH (NATIONAL Institute of Health) on a medical surgical research floor, and we got ventilator patients all the time. My first 2 nursing jobs in 2004 were in a Long Island hospital and in New York Presbyterian in NY, and we took care of ventilator patients. So I wonder if she ever worked as a floor R.N.
That is what I began to wonder. She was insisting that vent patients are never cared for on a med surg unit. How have you been?
@KendraRN I've been fine! I enjoy your vlog, and I am always looking forward to them. You always bring so much light ✨️ to the nursing community, and I thank you for that. You are going to rock the NP license test. 💪🏾. I will keep you in my prayers.
I am currently working in a major teaching hospital in NY and we just found out that we will start getting vent patients on the med surg floors.
Yes because patients are staying longer in the hospital and vented patients who aren’t critically ill cannot take up ICU beds.
I knew I picked up on a hint of a Grenadian accent here and there over the course of tuning in to a few of your videos❤
Lol, yes, it’s definitely there.
And at our major hospital which is a level 1 trauma center, have pts on ventilators in med surg. So she lost af. They probably shouldn’t be there but they are.
Kendra, don't second guess yourself on how you responded to that comment. If you were face to face with her, you would have and should say it the way it is. Trauma 1, that's like Magnet Status. It's a load of bull! At the end of the day, every nurse on any unit has to clean up poop. You can't tell me that in level 1 facilities patients poop smells like roses! Nice to see you back. I'll keep you in my thoughts as you continue your journey.
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Thank you so much for this information. I couldn’t remember the word paramedic. I appreciate you.
@@KendraRN I was married to one🥴
I’ve really enjoyed your episodes. Is it possible to contact you by email? After 29 years I need to communicate with someone. Kathie Cash, RN
@@KathieCash-s8z of course, kengenrn@gmail.com
Hey Kendra, I work in med surg, we have 2 chronically ventilated patients in our units now. She is wrong for saying that, maybe back in her Mezozoic Era days, they don't admit vent patients on med surg but now they do. That's why I tell nurses to stop "super nurse BS " cos Nobody knows it all & times have changed
Thank you for being a witness to what actually happens on med surg.
Glad you enjoyed Grenada 🇬🇩, no place better than the Caribbean. Yes focus on the NP exam sis🙏🏽
You are 100% right about the ventilator. I’ve worked in the NICU and a LTAC for peds and it’s exactly how you described. That other nurse is crazy. She may have years of experience but it shows that her experience is very limited when it comes to variations of care. Keep standing your ground!
Variations of care! Thank you for watching and commenting 🩷
You are GOLDEN.
The ring light is giving you SPARKLE.✨
Speak truth! The name and reputation of the facility does not make you a great nurse. She probably does not know patients can be managed at home on a vent!! Why is she trying so hard?! Always Wrong and Strong and are not introspective at all as she wants to be right. Great video. Get that review done and know you will ace the test!
Right! I was like maam, what are you saying? Thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Loud, strong, and ALL the way wrong😂
chronic vent makes sense but can you imagine 4 acutely ill vented pts and they all start bucking the vent at the same time, low pressures from sedation, copious secretions, paralyzed, proned, desating, etc. i wouldnt be surprised if nursing comes to this lol
No I can’t imagine. That is when I’ll retire completely from nursing.
Heeyyyyy!!! She's baaacckkk!!! Lol
And I’m here to stay, lol. How have you been Nala?
@@KendraRN🗣️ exactly!!!! 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽 Lol I'm good beautiful! I'm happy to see you and the READ was everything!! Lol 🤭
She’s dead wrong, my first job was at Harlem Hospital, I had tons of ventilator patients on the Med Surg unit, the patients now have a whole page of co-morbidities, more than likely she never worked on a med surg unit
Girl don't give they much energy too these folks in the comments that don't know
❤Kendra❤ im tired to Kendra, i hear you girl. Its about creating new professional spaces where you can be dynamic❤ i so understand your reflecting on can you deal with that regimen in ICU....❤ you are a wonderful person and Nurse❤
You will pass on the first try! I believe in you
I am grateful for this kind of positivity.
Hi Kendra,
She has no idea what's she's talking about my hospital has a unit call med-Surg/chronic vent
We get pts from step down ICU, who are not get ready to be fully weaned off the vent or who will live on the vent and awaiting placement in an LTAC. Sometimes they are there longer than expected due to insurance issues, HD setup, wound care etc
Sometimes these pts have no insurance and no documentation so they literally stay on the floor until they pass away unfortunately
We are ventilator train medsurg nurses
Exactly!!! It goes back to me saying people are so much sicker today. She really was wrong for insisting vented patients are only in the ICU. Thank you for adding to the conversation dear 🩷
Please can you do a video on Nurse Lucy Letby in the UK. PICU Nurse in the UK who "killed" babies.
Great commentary keep up the good work Ken!
Much appreciated
You are glowing and that hairstyle always make your complexion pop. What did you bring from grenada , sea moss or cinnamon sticks??
Both, how did you know?☺️☺️☺️
I had a vented patient for years in the home setting. He would at times have to go to the hospital. They put him on a med surg floor generally not icu because he was chronic ill and stable. Not the idea setting for him because he was used to 24hr one to one at home. He feared hospital in general because of not getting the attention and care he wants. He to this day rarely agrees to go for anything. But you find a lot of those patients in acute rehab when first injured but they do Like Kendra said in up on the medsurg floor if they are care chronic and stable.
The commenter was loud and wrong. Every med surg floor is different around the world 😂!
The ring light is nice! :)
I’ll have to link it
That's what I'm talking about! Don't mess with my girl young buck! lol!! Tell it how it is! 💪
Always 😁😁😁
Please share this article because I feel the same way about np school. Step down units sometimes keep long term vents.
I know you said you are tired, I think you should take advantage of your expertise and social media presence. You can be an acute care nurse consultant for new nurses, nurses returning back to the floor due to hcol, nurses struggling to manage high acuity patients. You can consult nurses with resumes, interviews, finding agency and hospital assignments. Lastly, write a book about your nursing work history, education, pros and cons, would love to read your journey. I am an RN and feel nurses need to shift into using knowledge they have as a source of income to move into other means to gain financial freedom. We Are the Business! I think utilizing this new digital world we live in will get us there faster. I would never imagine working remotely as a nurse but here I am. Good luck on the boards!
Hello Kendra! First I want to say that I absolutely love your videos and your personality. Congratulations on completing your NP program and you will pass your boards😃.
I have been a medsurge nurse for the past 6 years. I have been doing travel for the last 3 years and just accepted a position in the MICU at the hospital I am currently doing a local contract with. I am so excited but do have some fear about the transition. Do you have any advice for transitioning from medsurg to critical care? Thank you so much ❤❤❤
Oh wow 🤩. Congrats, I am happy for you. I will discuss in an upcoming video. I love MICU and SICU. You will do well, I’m putting it out in the universe for you.
Beautiful Light Sis❤ love your videos! Always Great Vibes🔥
Thank you so much 🤗
Love the sass 💁🏽♂️ shut them all the way DOWN. People need to know they place lol.
Your Make-up looks Beautiful on you!!
Thank you! You know I love a good makeup🤩🤩🤩
Your lighting makes the video look Hi-def !!!❤
Oh wow!!!! 🤩
17:17 that part. I wish more nurses understood that there is more than one way to provide care
Yes, some act like their way is the only way.
Nice video Kendra. Can i ask the patient ratio in the ICU for purely level 3 patients
ICU ration varies, standard is 2:1. If the patient is on CRRT or Balloon Pump, should be 1:1. If there are patients that are downgraded you sometimes can have 3:1.
Could you do a video on what it’s like working along side make nurses? I’m getting starting in my journey. Much respects ma’am🤝🏿
Anyone have a how to guide about how to get back on an acute floor after a long break
Like a return to floor nursing
I have something coming
LTC /subacute nurse 🙋🏾♀️
I thought Apple computers last a bit longer that others🤔 however I’ve had mine for about 2 yrs and noticing battery not holding a charge for as long.
The last for about 7 years 😬😬😬
Gurl the new job anxiety is reeaaall!!! And don't talk to others about how nurses move between jobs gurl that's a disaster. I tried to talk to my sister about how we don't stay in one place too long and she started laughing at me. She don't get it.😂
Because we don’t have time for the nonsense. 🤣🤣🤣. I don’t think I can survive another orientation, lol.
Get Her Kendra!!!!!!!
🤣🤣🤣 I did, a little bit.
You're not ready to deal with the new cattiness of a new ICU unit.
I don’t think I am, lol.
She just wanted APPEAR to be more intelligent🙄
Don't concern yourself with The Bird Brain.🌹
She really did! Lol. I still feel bad for calling her bird brain.
@@KendraRN yeah, it's not fair to all the birds out there😂
Periodt……
Did she not know that you’re an educator and very much experienced… I I I
Sometimes they can’t see me being knowledgeable. It’s their own limitation.
Yep she was loud & wrong… I have taken care of multiple ventilator patients on a med surg unit in a level 1 trauma hospital.
Girrrlll…loud, strong and all the way wrong 🤣
Child let her stew in her lack of knowledge,you have a test to go slay
Very true🫶🏾
Hey loud strong and wrong nurse that been a nurse x 25 yrs. I’m an RT and been taking care of vents on med-surge floors x 27 yrs so -go head and walk those foolish comments back.
Yes and it was the RTs that educated us in vents.
It baffles me that you have to explain this to an RN. 😂
Right!
One of the reasons I decided not to be a nurse.
What did you pursue instead?
She was loud and wrong lol 😅
Very
I've had my MacBook air since 2017 and when I get a new laptop it will have to be a fast and powerful PC. Im tired of apple.
Girl u damn right we’re tired!! Just because we enjoy taking care of people don’t mean we want to be abused and physically burned out everyday. She tripping, she must be in an office 😂😂😂
Girl, we are so tired. I wish I knew that it would come to this. My body can’t take it much longer.
Love the sass 💁🏽♂️ shut them all the way DOWN. People need to know they place lol.
Hahaha I was wondering if the sass was too much.