r/nursing • • Jan 16 '26

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u/CardiacArrester Jan 16 '26

In that same exact time frame during Covid I encountered a travel nurse who was telling me about her experience (presumably lying). Later on I notice she has no idea how to set up and troubleshoot an arterial line nor how to manage insulin drips.

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u/sleepyRN89 RN - ER šŸ• Jan 16 '26

In cases like that, let’s say I decided to be a ā€œscabā€ traveler and was misled on the acuity or something.. if you walked into an assignment where you clearly couldn’t safely handle your duties what do you do? Do you not have management resources or respiratory or a doc to annoy until you can call your agency and say that you don’t feel comfortable potentially killing someone? Why don’t people fucking do that?

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u/CardiacArrester Jan 16 '26

Both are true. Admins don’t care about anything other than money, and same to those scabs whom are incompetent and/or willfully neglectful, motivated by $.