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Any chance you can get more info related to onboarding/orientation/education provided for new grads in those positions you were offered? That would be a big factor for me. Ultimately, you have...

I really think, most times, it's not intentional. So and so (PA, NP, resident, attending - whatever) comes to your unit, needs to do their own assessment - and "borrow" from someone, but for...

Sorry to hear that! Nowhere is perfect, no job ever will be "ideal" always. I like my job most days, love it fairly often and the bad (truly bad) days are pretty rare (*knocks on wood* - some of...

Okay. So you are familiar with the system (to some extent) being a student at the affiliated school. Highlight that. Be prepared to speak about the units you had clinicals on (patient populations,...

Many of my patients are outpatients too, a lot go home the day of surgery after just a few hours. There is a component to state law to consider (laws vary between states), and working at this...

Yeah. Agreed. If you have to set something up yourself - maybe talk to whatever unit manager you are currently doing clinicals on to see if they can help you with who you need to speak to in...

My school gave us a list of suggested stethoscopes that all had good sound quality. I went with the Littmann Master Classic II - it was on the list for my school's recommendations. It was a bit of...

I'll be honest. I have had one inpatient hospital stay that I remember. I had to have emergency surgery. There was no way around it. What made me mad as a patient was not the gender, sexual...

Just curious - you were consenting patients for surgery? :wideyed: Or were you helping to get paperwork together, to fill out paperwork legibly and subsequently witnessing the consent? Consent is...

I worked neuro med/surg/stepdown/telemetry... So there are plenty that came to mind. One of my favorites was a little old lady that kept trying to get out of bed (hx of both dementia and...

I would agree with the others. I worked as a PCA/SNA (Patient Care Associate/Student Nurse Associate) at a large university hospital system when I was in nursing school. I worked in the float pool....

Wow. I feel for the original poster! You basically described me in my first term of clinicals (through all of clinicals really)! Well, kind of me, overall - still to this day (as a nurse now...

I agree with JustBeachy - it's got to be a personal decision. I think the negatives about nursing are articulated more commonly than the positives. The negatives often are the first things that...

I have to agree with others. What you think you might like going in - may not be your preference once you've experienced it. My 1st choice when I started - was one thing. After going through all...

I experienced this as a student nurse at a rural hospital in a procedure area. One of the doctors would not come do the H&P updates and site markings. When he did come down - he was beyond angry...

Have I performed CPR? Yeah. Multiple times. I feel like it's a mixed bag - you remember the bad outcomes more than the so/so outcomes. I have not personally had a code I've been in at work...

I get a rash too. I personally think it is the latex free nitrile gloves, for me at least. We use purell for our alcohol rub, and I use it at home with none of the problems I have at work. The...

I once made it halfway home with the set of PCA pump keys in my pockets. Totally forgot to return them to the pyxis. I'd verified PCA settings with a coworker on one of my patients PCA (new...

I work in a teaching hospital. Most of our residents (okay all that I work with) are referred to by their first name or a nickname of some sort. Most of our attendings are referred to with title...

I work in the OR, so there is no real way around chlorhexidine. Obviously, if the patient has an allergy that is one thing, but it's literally everywhere in our world. For OR staff, there is really...

I don't know. I knew what areas interest me, or what I thought interested me. Two of the areas that still interest me, I knew about before I started nursing school. The other one, and where I...

Check with the admissions office at the school and/or the nursing department at the school. Most schools have a list of criteria and requirements. They should be able to give a more detailed answer...

If it is something the facility allows to be delegated, and you are taught how to do it, with some assessment of competency - then it is something you can do.

I went to a conference recently. One of our speakers was a physician who went to law school. (S)He practices law primarily but also practices medicine some (it sounds like they work per diem). It...

I agree with the previous response regarding general assessment, it's fairly comprehensive. I'm particular, so I also checked any lines or tubing - if a patient had O2 ordered I checked that it was...