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Wow, this is great! I for one am horrible at interviews because I am so shy. On the positive side it keeps me in the same position for many years which looks good on my resume :)

It really doesn't matter what anyone else does. You are responsible for what you do and for holding yourself up to your own standards. You have to find a way to keep your full assessment and fit it...

Yes, it wasn't requests that they were calling me for, it was because they were critical and in addition...anxious about it so the thank you was for getting her through the anxiety...talking her down...

Had a really rough night at work...one patient in particular ran me ragged all night...so much so that I was begging the other nurse to just answer their call light once. Then, just as I'm about to...

Take away the "That's not MY patient/job" mentality. Everyone where I work answers call lights regardless of whose pt. it is including the ward clerk and DON. It only takes a second of your time to...

I'm lucky in that our hospital uses the disposable kind and we have an abundance of them. Our DON who is extremely budget conscious (tight with the money lol) Says they are actually cheaper than...

I started as an LPN on my floor then became an RN on the same floor...no one had a problem with it but me lol, I was the only one having to make the change from an LPN mentality to an RN mentality....

Thanks for posting this, everywhere it says that the cover letter is the most important part of the resume, but all I've ever been able to find are generic ones that never really fit me...yours has...

My :twocents: In addition to studying content, maybe try reading up on test taking skills. I think that a lot of times when a person has taken the same test over and over again, it has to be...

regardless of what the other nurses say, always assume your patient can hear you. I had a nursing instructor who developed sepsis and was coded 3 times, was in ICU for awhile unconscious, but she...

I think maybe there are different degrees and types of photographic memory, I too can "see the page", I can also remember every single word of conversations, picture exactly where everyone was...

I worked as a waitress after school and on weekends during pre-reqs and the first year of nursing school (lets you make the max amt of cash in the fewest hours and truthfully the skills will come in...

I don't understand.. the patient was holding a medicine cup and syringe when the first nurse arrived on scene... what was the student nurse doing in there? was the student nurse the one that called...

the character of the nurse is as important as the knowledge she possesses." ~Jarvis, 1996

My hospital is wanting to begin holding a skills fair yearly and since it will be new to us, I was wondering if you all could give me some ideas as to what your skills fairs are like? Things like...

PLEASE come to work at my hospital! We don't have sitters and on night shift we don't even have a CNA, so all those pt's that normally require a sitter are the responsibility of myself and one other...

Document, document, document! Is there someone above your manager that you can talk to? Like the DON? This girl obviously does not be on a step down unit, sounds like she has no common sense and...

I'm going to agree with everyone else about questions, questions, questions! Ask your classmates if you still keep in touch with them for their review books and do those questions. Search the...

my bad on the first one, it's been a long night shift! This is why when you are working and tired, you always have someone double check your calculations! :o but the object was to show how you get...

Maybe you are just over thinking these as is the case a lot of times with reconstitution problems. There are a lot of extra words there you don't need. For example number 1, the dose needed is...

Not sure if it's what you are looking for, but I use it all the time at work http://www.labtestsonline.org/

sent a pm :)

What's bothers me is when you hear a CNA that has been a CNA for more than 20 years, is not in school, does not ever have plans to go to school, tell your patient that they are almost through with...

First off, for the load and duties you are talking about, 3 days of orientation are not enough for a new grad. You have to remember that new grads have NO sense of time management, that comes with...

At our hospital, if a patient goes outside to smoke after being told not to, we can potentially consider it leaving AMA and tell the patient as such. For instance, I will tell the pt., "you are not a...