bennyRN

bennyRN

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About bennyRN

bennyRN has 1 years experience and specializes in General Medicine.


I'm a Biologist turned RN

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  1. What a difference a year makes

    Ditto!! 1 year for me as of next week! I remember when I first started, seeing the other new nurses who were 6 months-1 year in and thinking to myself "there's no way I'll ever be that competent". Well guess what, we are them now!!! Unbelievable ho...
  2. Why am I now the enemy?

    as part of my orientation to a medicine floor, i got to spend a shadowing day in the ED and it was an extremely eye opening experience. its unbelievable what those nurses deal with and i have so much respect for them. however, please dont bring up a...
  3. The Worst Its Ever Been

    sounds exactly like my floor, and somehow we are unionized. understaffed every night, the short staffed nursing attendants are sitting with patients, totally unrealistic expectations of measures to increase patient satisfaction. as far as i can tell ...
  4. Time to read the chart, MD notes?

    I agree with the OP, you learn so much more about your patients from reading the MD notes, and by the end of 3 shifts with the same group of patients you feel like you know them iinside out. BUT, whether or not you have time to read the notes is a w...
  5. anyone else feel kinda lonely in this job?

    Thanks for the words of encouragement :) im still looking for someone to get an apt with but there are a few prospects now so we'll see what happens. online dating...thats an interesting idea, maybe ill give it a try. I've finally started to feel a ...
  6. Miserable on the job....

    Sounds just like my floor too - seems to be a trend haha. We have 6-7 med surg pts on nights depending on how many RNs decide to show up for the shift lol. 1-2 CNAs IF we are lucky, and when there's only 1 the CNA's refuse to take any vitals...does ...
  7. So I'm a new grad for just about 6 months on an insane med-surg floor in a huge nyc hospital. I am so incredibly grateful to have gotten a job where I did, and survived for this long, and surprisingly I kindof like it (even though I was one of those...
  8. Question for new nurses

    Unfortunately I think that its the nature of nursing not to feel prepared in your job after graduating from school. I feel that no matter how much you learn in school, you will never be prepared for the real deal of doing the job. The only way to g...