xrn

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1. my first day as RN

   xrn replied to vampyreg's topic in General Nursing

   *l* whatever happens, you probably can't do as badly as I did. My first shift as an RN was a pm shift, and in the country hospital in which I worked - there was only one RN on for a pm shift -> ME!! No orientation, no nuthin'! (and it wasn't TH...

2. Passing boards...any advice??

   xrn replied to TRN's topic in NCLEX

   I don't know how different it is from australia, but as long as you do the work all the way along, you should be pretty right. One of the things that got me through was thinking of the really stupid RNs I had worked with - I figured if they could do...

3. What they did not teach in nursing school.

   xrn replied to woldridge's topic in General Nursing

   I found a not-new rn (new to rehab nursing, though) placing an incontinence pad on a rather large, dysphasic, severely hemiplegic catheterized stroke victim ... and she had the catheter tube wrapped twice through the legs of the mash pants ... succee...