rural-rn-15 ADN, BSN, RN

rural-rn-15 has 9 years experience as a ADN, BSN, RN.

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1. Have you ironically lost out on a donated perk because you were at work

   rural-rn-15 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

   Small-town hospital -- SNF, ED, med-surg, and clinic all on one campus. Local food place brings up lunch in the early days of the COVID buildup, and we in the clinic find out about it when the ED/med-surg manager posts pictures on the hospital distri...

2. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   rural-rn-15 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   If you read the report of the investigation (which was available online when this was in the news a while ago): 1) she admits she did not even look at the name of the medication on the vial. Zero checks. Zero. For what would have been a high-risk med...

3. How long do you stay at work after your 12 hour shift is over?

   rural-rn-15 replied to Eeramsey's topic in General Nursing

   I'm relatively new. I work in a small rural hospital where I am almost always the only nurse on the floor; I have to mix my own IVPB medications and do my own lab draws, do not have a computer in each room, and our EMR software is dreadful (it takes ...

4. I need a mentor

   rural-rn-15 replied to Ginger702's topic in General Students

   Haven't read the whole thread but when I was in school I would do the following: Make index cards from notes and the text. Record myself quizzing with the index cards. Play the recording during my commute to school. You say you are an auditory learne...

5. Will I be perceived as disloyal?

   rural-rn-15 replied to rural-rn-15's topic in Professionalism

   True. I had wondered how that would work. Thank you for the reply.

6. Will I be perceived as disloyal?

   rural-rn-15 posted a topic in Professionalism

   I'm a new grad (May 15, licensed August of '15, thank you slow state BON) who's almost done with a new-grad rural-health-RN residency at my beloved critical-access hospital. My grandmother worked there, I was born there, my other grandmother LIVES th...

7. Least stressful nursing specialty

   rural-rn-15 replied to Svkd's topic in General Nursing

   I am a new grad (last May), doing a rural-health residency that allows me to be trained in all of the departments of our health care district. I have found endoscopy and recovery to be the least stressful, followed closely by clinic nursing. But tha...

8. Should I leave this racist town?

   rural-rn-15 replied to ChutneyFries's topic in Relations

   I can't even begin to tell you what to do. Obviously your mental health needs to be a huge priority. But I will say this, as someone who grew up in a town just like the one you're describing. It was, in part, exposure to intelligent people of color t...

9. On probation for being too "anxious"

   rural-rn-15 replied to fskye's topic in New Nurse

   I am a lot like you: new grad, not as fast as I wish I was, tending toward flustered which makes me slower, not always super efficient in my movements out of an overabundance of caution due to a hx of clumsiness, tending to unravel when too much pil...

10. Why PVT is UNRELIABLE. Please read.

    rural-rn-15 replied to RNsRWe's topic in NCLEX

    Just thought for five more seconds about this and realized what a pickle I'll be in if I get a job with my IPN and then fail the exam. Oops! Bye job! I am almost afraid to say this out loud (eek, my superstitious grandmother would whack me over the h...

11. Why PVT is UNRELIABLE. Please read.

    rural-rn-15 replied to RNsRWe's topic in NCLEX

    Thank you! Yes, it's the NCLEX-RN. I just dug around in the CA-BRN FAQs and found that once I get my ATT I can check to see if the IP has been issued on their license-verification site. And then if I pass the exam, the license listed will change to a...

12. Why PVT is UNRELIABLE. Please read.

    rural-rn-15 replied to RNsRWe's topic in NCLEX

    I'm fully on board with not messing with the PVT. I live in CA, which is not a quick-results state. What options do I have other than waiting the four weeks? (Which is ridiculous, frankly, in this digital era.) I hear about people checking for their ...