River&MountainRN ADN, RN

River&MountainRN has 9 years experience as a ADN, RN and specializes in Primary Care, LTC, Private Duty.

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1. You know what grinds my gears?

   River&MountainRN replied to Snatchedwig's topic in General Nursing

   When you try multiple times to reach a patient about their controlled medication that they're requesting EARLY, leave multiple voicemails, and then they call back to complain "no one called me and now I'm OUT!!!!"...on the weekend answering service, ...

2. Should I disclose my current job to interviewer?

   River&MountainRN replied to CA_new_grad's topic in Professionalism

   People talk and 2 hours away isn't that far away when it comes to the small community of nursing...heck, go 2 hours away here and you're still part of the same hospital network! See what I mean? So, folks from the community hospital could very easily...

3. Leaving a Position during Orientation

   River&MountainRN replied to RNnurse2019's topic in General Nursing

   Never have I ever had to work out a notice while still on orientation. It just doesn't make sense, since you're still training "under" someone and not on the schedule by yourself.

4. Can I Be a Nurse?

   River&MountainRN replied to Elllauxj's topic in Pre-Nursing

   If this isn't just a joke post from a "one and done" new member, then let me be blunt: You will need to work extremely hard and, yes, you do need to know basic math.

5. Year of Experience

   River&MountainRN replied to dhbrn's topic in General Nursing

   I count three ways, depending on the situation: x amount of years since I graduated nursing school, x amount of years since I passed the NCLEX, and x amount of years since I first started working as a nurse. It's only a difference of a couple of mont...

6. Your Favorite Nursing "Hack"

   River&MountainRN replied to canadianedmurse's topic in General Nursing

   Reminding myself that a. You can't care more than the patient, b. Patients are allowed to make stupid decisions, and c. You don't have to like all of your patients. It's saving me a lot of grief and I wish I could have developed those "mind hacks" to...

7. Rant: Feeling like the worst nurse ever

   River&MountainRN replied to 2018nurseandbeyond's topic in General Nursing

   Did it seem particularly worse this past week? Because everyone I talked to at work seemed to share in the same sentiment...for some reason, this past week was worse than most! Hang in there! You'll be surprised how quickly the first year passes when...

8. Miserable New Grad

   River&MountainRN replied to PippyM's topic in General Nursing

   You just need to find the right practice...some will be absolutely miserable, with the teams at each others' throats, the doctors throwing them under the bus, with no hope of lunch or leaving on time in sight... But then you have the good teams who w...

9. Miserable New Grad

   River&MountainRN replied to PippyM's topic in General Nursing

   8 hours is great (8.5 if they make you work to make up for your 1/2 hour unpaid lunch so that you get a full 8 hours' pay)...you get there, get busy with the start of the day, before you know it it's lunch, and then the day is already half over! Then...

10. Miserable New Grad

    River&MountainRN replied to PippyM's topic in General Nursing

    It's one of those "you love it or you hate it" areas...but it does allow for a more normal schedule, no heavy lifting, less acuity (therefore, in one way, less stress). The EMRs can be an absolute pain, but that's just about everywhere these days. Th...

11. Miserable New Grad

    River&MountainRN replied to PippyM's topic in General Nursing

    It depends on the clinic...I've worked in some where they average 30+ patients over 8-10 hours per provider, on top of also having to do nurse procedures, PAs, telephone triage, case management, medication refills...it's not the acuity but the massiv...

12. what do ambulatory nurses do?

    River&MountainRN replied to abu123's topic in General Nursing

    It depends on how hard up for help the facility is that you're applying to as far as ease of being hired. When I hear the term "Ambulatory Nursing", my thoughts range from Walk-In/Urgent Care (where your ER experience would come in handy) to Primary ...

13. Nurse as a Patient?

    River&MountainRN replied to beekindRN's topic in General Nursing

    YES, it is very scary! They exist and they walk among us as coworkers that subtly (or not-so-subtly in the OP's case) try to sabotage us in our day to day shifts together.

14. Exhausted; I want a way out.

    River&MountainRN replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Have you considered fostering (either just to foster or a foster-to-adopt situation)?

15. Please excuse the nature of this question: upcoming tests

    River&MountainRN replied to mathboy's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, but this website is not allowed to provide medical advice. This would best be a question for your PCP.