[larae09]

Hi! I am a newly hired RN at a rural hospital in Kansas. I have been working there for the past month or so as a GN and just found out today that I FINALLY have my RN license. I passed my NCLEX-RN with 75 questions on the first try! I am so excited! But now I am nervous. An RN license is such a responsibility! I want to learn as much as I can about my new profession. I feel like I am so inexperienced. Any tips, help, ideas about where to look for good information would be greatly appreciated! I am still on orientation so I know I won't be left completely alone for awhile, but I want to make sure that my orientation time is used wisely and I am fully ready to be left alone when the time comes. I do work days so I know that if I have problems there are other RNs in the building but I will be working the hospital side completely alone, eventually. I feel like my weakness is documentation, so any help with that would be appreciated! My last year in nursing school we went to computer charting and now that I am working in a rural hospital I have had to go back to paper charting with nurses notes and flow sheets. Any tips would be a great help! Thank you so much.

[efiebke]

Congrats on the new job and for passing the exam!

:hatparty: :hatparty:

Paper charting. . . watch out for writer's cramp!

Just be very aquainted with your hospital's policies on what to chart. I guess that would be a good start. I tend to chart too much. But then again, if I should ever go to court for whatever reason, I want to remember what I saw and what I did. Maybe someone can give you a more balanced point of view on written charting.

Our happy little, teeny-tiny hospital plans on going towards computer-based charting in the not too distant future. That means within a year or two or three or four or. . . .

Good luck with your new job! Cheers!


Ted

[Tweety]

edited. Sorry.........but congrats on passing the boards.

[Destinystar]

Sounds like you are up and running. Congratulations

Originally Posted by larae09

Hi! I am a newly hired RN at a rural hospital in Kansas. I have been working there for the past month or so as a GN and just found out today that I FINALLY have my RN license. I passed my NCLEX-RN with 75 questions on the first try! I am so excited! But now I am nervous. An RN license is such a responsibility! I want to learn as much as I can about my new profession. I feel like I am so inexperienced. Any tips, help, ideas about where to look for good information would be greatly appreciated! I am still on orientation so I know I won't be left completely alone for awhile, but I want to make sure that my orientation time is used wisely and I am fully ready to be left alone when the time comes. I do work days so I know that if I have problems there are other RNs in the building but I will be working the hospital side completely alone, eventually. I feel like my weakness is documentation, so any help with that would be appreciated! My last year in nursing school we went to computer charting and now that I am working in a rural hospital I have had to go back to paper charting with nurses notes and flow sheets. Any tips would be a great help! Thank you so much.