Hello from the Hills!
I have just accepted my first position as an ER nurse and am excited and terrified at the same time. I have minimal ER experience...I precepted 60 hours in the busiest ER in the state and loved it.
Anyone have any good advice to give a soon to be graduate nurse (May 10, 2003) that will help me transition from the student thinking to the emergency nurse thinking.
I have a minimum 16 week orientation in a smaller rural hospital than I precepted in but am terrified that I will be swallowed whole by the expereinced nurses.
Any advice you can give me will be of great help.
Thanks and wish me luck as I venture into the jungle of the truly sick, whacked out and those just seeking attention.