venousr3tuRN

venousr3tuRN has 3 years experience.

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1. Med Surg or Tele? How is it decided

   venousr3tuRN replied to venousr3tuRN's topic in Med-Surg

   I thought it was too short as well, but my hospital is a very small community hospital and doesn't even have a new grad program to offer. There's a second floor Med Surg that also takes Tele. They mostly have all the post-surgical and bariatrics pat...

2. Med Surg or Tele? How is it decided

   venousr3tuRN replied to venousr3tuRN's topic in Med-Surg

   I see. At my place they have standard ratios depending on Medical and Tele patients. So if you have all medical patients, you can have up to 5 patients. But if you have at least one Tele patient, you can only have 4. My unit always has at least 2 nur...

3. Med Surg or Tele? How is it decided

   venousr3tuRN posted a topic in Med-Surg

   Hello AN! It's been a long while since I've been on here. Anyways, I finally was able to make the switch to my first acute position in a Med Surg/Tele unit after working in LTC for the past 2 years. I only got 3 days of orientation but I hit the grou...

4. Interim DON Talks Behind My Back.

   venousr3tuRN posted a topic in Geriatric

   Be prepared for a long one... So I have been working at my first nursing job in a LTC facility for about 8 months now and generally like the job. It has its quirks but I have grown to care for all the residents in the facility now that I have ...

5. Progress Notes

   venousr3tuRN replied to ricksy's topic in Geriatric

6. Enjoying my day off. Are you?

   venousr3tuRN replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   I just started working at my very first nursing job a little under 2 months ago and I happen to be moving to another place this week. I wish I knew what an actual day off feels like right now.

7. I feel like such an idiot

   venousr3tuRN replied to NurseEricaB's topic in Geriatric

   I'm here to tell you that you aren't alone in that feeling. As a new grad myself, I have gotten chewed up and spit out by the other nurses and supervisors for some similar reasons. It's a learning experience and we are bound to make mistakes and it w...

8. Bombed my second shift on my own

   venousr3tuRN replied to venousr3tuRN's topic in Geriatric

   My position is as a charge nurse and we do our own medpasses, write our own orders, admissions, etc. We do have one supervisor on the floor to help with the admits and follow up labs. The treatment nurse takes care of all the residents with skin brea...

9. Bombed my second shift on my own

   venousr3tuRN replied to venousr3tuRN's topic in Geriatric

   I'm only about a month and a half into my job and I'm still trying to catch my bearings. I'll admit that it's gotten a little better since my second shift, but its still a challenge every day. People say that it takes at least 6 months to start feeli...

10. Overwhelmed

    venousr3tuRN replied to FaithMMA's topic in Rehabilitation

    Just take a deep breath and let it all out. I know exactly how you feel. I have been working off orientation now for about 5 days and still am struggling on every shift. I learn more each day even though I'm still getting used to all the residents an...

11. Bombed my second shift on my own

    venousr3tuRN replied to venousr3tuRN's topic in Geriatric

    Yeah I plan to apologize to her the next time I see her. I really want to take responsibility for it so I think Ill talk with the DON tomorrow. I have the day off so I can't do it as early as I wanted to. I'm nervous now because I work the next 6 day...

12. Bombed my second shift on my own

    venousr3tuRN posted a topic in Geriatric

    So I started my second day on my own after training for about 21 days. This morning when I woke up I told myself that today was gonna go smoothly. I guess I jinxed myself because as soon as I started my shift, the day started to not go my way. I work...

13. Got first nursing job but can't afford loan payments

    venousr3tuRN replied to venousr3tuRN's topic in New Nurse

    Elkpark, thank you for your suggestion. I'm looking into the United Way in my area and will definitely call their hotline for credit counseling. I actually haven't stopped looking for another job ever since getting this one. I'm only PT at my curren...

14. Got first nursing job but can't afford loan payments

    venousr3tuRN replied to venousr3tuRN's topic in New Nurse

    Thank you for all the advice. My parents unfortunately live in central California which is over 300 miles away from me. I live close to where I work and wouldn't be able to move back. I'm in the process of calling the lenders and seeing what I can do...

15. Got first nursing job but can't afford loan payments

    venousr3tuRN posted a topic in New Nurse

    Hello AN! Hope I'm posting this in the right section. So 6 months after graduating nursing school, I was finally able to land my first nursing job. It's in LTC and although not my ideal, after being there for almost a month I have grown to love all o...