Wondergirl0905

Wondergirl0905 specializes in med-surg.

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1. Trouble with night shift since time change

   Wondergirl0905 replied to Wondergirl0905's topic in General Nursing

   Melatonin doesn't do a thing for me, unfortunately. My husband works rotating shifts and has a Rx for both Ambien and Lunesta (no, not for the same time!) I've tried his Ambien a few times but I feel like I have vertigo if I get up in the middle of t...

2. Trouble with night shift since time change

   Wondergirl0905 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I've been an RN for about two years now doing 12-hour shifts on a surgical floor. I started out rotating between days and nights but switched to just nights in March (the rotating was too disorienting for me). I had been doing fine on nights until th...

3. Med/ Surg Patient to Nurse Ratio

   Wondergirl0905 replied to pilpusher's topic in Med-Surg

   I'm on a surgical-tele floor at an academic medical center. Our patients have pretty high acuity at times. We also receive overflow of medicine, trauma and neuro patients. Our floor has 4 pods with 2 nurses on each pod and 1 LNA. Our ratio is 1:4-5 f...

4. CNA during nursing school, good idea?

   Wondergirl0905 replied to Ivanam's topic in New Nurse

   While I also wished I had been an LNA (they are licensed here in NH) during nursing school for the experience/exposure to the hospital setting, I was able to get a job last Feb just fine. Out of our class of 26, only 2 were LNAs/techs during school -...

5. Adjusting to being an RN

   Wondergirl0905 posted a topic in New Nurse

   I am coming up on my one-year anniversary of becoming a nurse; this was a career change for me. Prior to being an RN I basically worked M-F 9-5 jobs with occasional weekends or late nights, but no overnights. I worked most recently at a small non-pro...

6. "She's a drug-seeker!"

   Wondergirl0905 replied to tachybradyRN's topic in New Nurse

   Agreed! I always "default to the good" so to speak. I can't know for sure whether a particular patient is addicted to pain meds or has such chronic pain that they have become dependent on narcotics just to get through their days. I'd rather risk givi...

7. Common Bedside Emergencies

   Wondergirl0905 replied to bodz01's topic in New Nurse

   This is great. I have been working on an inpatient surgical unit the last 8 months and still worry that I'll miss something. We have a huge variety of patients (vascular, CT, transplant, bowel) that it makes my head spin to keep up with all of the po...

8. Starting to hate nursing...and only doing it for 3 months!!

   Wondergirl0905 replied to nursemissy8's topic in New Nurse

   congrats! sounds like you're in a good place - good luck!

9. Confused about the "nursing shortage"

   Wondergirl0905 replied to MHaffer's topic in New Nurse

   In my area - NH/MA, it is very difficult for new grads to get positions at acute care facilities. We just graduated in December so some of the problem is that hospitals here only hire new grads after May. Out of 26 of us that graduated, about 10 have...

10. Too many life changes at once...

    Wondergirl0905 posted a topic in New Nurse

    Hi all - I just need to vent. I graduated in December, passed my boards in January and started a new grad residency program with a surgical floor in February. It is an intense program at a Level 1 trauma center, with a three year contract. I was so e...

11. Starting to hate nursing...and only doing it for 3 months!!

    Wondergirl0905 replied to nursemissy8's topic in New Nurse

    nursemissy8 - is it going any better for you lately?

12. RN licensure tax write-off?

    Wondergirl0905 replied to Wondergirl0905's topic in General Nursing

    for me too!

13. RN licensure tax write-off?

    Wondergirl0905 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone know if you can write off the cost of a new RN license, including the fingerprint fee and NCLEX fee? Thanks! :)

14. cannot stop crying

    Wondergirl0905 replied to texasbsn's topic in NCLEX

    The online tutorial through NCSBN I thought was helpul - it has tons of practice questions and they are the ones that write the NCLEX. I thought it was helpful to see their rationales. http://www.learningext.com/students/ Don't give up! Give your min...

15. Passed with 265 questions

    Wondergirl0905 replied to Blackbuttafly's topic in NCLEX

    Congratulations!