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  1. Help!!! Failed 2nd Nursing Coures And Don't Know Where 2 Turn

    greatshakes replied to OLOLstudentnurse's topic in General Nursing

    OlOL student nurse I know where you're coming from and yes you do deserve to get there. Heck you've had a hell of a lot going on. I failed too a couple of times and the more they tried to get me out...

  2. Not giving up

    greatshakes replied to grentea's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am so glad you're not giving up. There's nothing as special as a former patient who comes over to see you because you were here last time she was a patient (even though just a student. I seemed to...

  3. Finding yourself as a nurse

    greatshakes replied to ladydame's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi We have a couple of post grad programs in private hospitals where graduates work a third of their rotations in med, surg and theatre. The hospitals I have been in have separate Medical and...

  4. Dreading work, feeling like a fake

    greatshakes replied to bjroberts's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't know if this help anyone but if it helps one person, it's not wasted right? As a student one of the things that really worried me was taking blood pressures, simple but I still worried and...

  5. I passed my boards today!

    greatshakes replied to alpine76's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Terrific, bet you can't wait to get going. Well

  6. Dreading work, feeling like a fake

    greatshakes replied to bjroberts's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I notice that when I've really had a bad day, I am still at work in my sleep. Consequently I don't sleep well when that has happened. I didn't understand what people meant when they said they were...

  7. Feeling like a failure (long)

    greatshakes replied to cygni519's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi, I agree with Jilly K rn, you were honest and owned up and we all make mistakes. I'm glad the people you worked with were supportive. You will get over it and at least your co-workers know you can...

  8. Getting hit!

    greatshakes replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    While working as an nurses assistant, I and many other nurses ended up with so many scratches, injuries and bites after having to hold one patients hands down. Everytime I got attacked I would write...

  9. Nurse dates doctor openly at work.

    greatshakes replied to castle's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think any nurse should get her meat where she gets her

  10. Rates of Pay in OZ

    greatshakes replied to Anaphylaxis's topic in International Nursing

    Hi As a new grad in a private hospital Qld, I was paid about $18.90 an hour and at a public hospital I think it ranges ferom $36,000 per year full time. Hope that helps. The graduate nursing programs...

  11. residential aged care LL whinges

    greatshakes replied to jilliejill's topic in International Nursing

    :angryfire I am annoyed. My husband who has MND, a neurological disorder, but is still with it and can still speak is in a long term facility and they have hired African nurses to help ease the...

  12. Please Help Me!! 50 pts med pass [New grad]

    greatshakes replied to medsurgcutie's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi Deanna RN I hope you really enjoy it and do well and to the new grad who originally posted. It is so scary. Like you I am a new grad, (last July) but have been nursing my husband who has MND. He...

  13. Are You A Type "a" Nurse Or Type "b"

    greatshakes replied to kellbell1's topic in General Nursing

    Years ago I was rostered on with a type A preceptor and things came adrift. I could never keep up with her. I was voicing my concerns to another nurse who'd been on the ward for ages also to discover...

  14. Beating myself up - anyone else?

    greatshakes replied to Scooby's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi all What is a MARS like? I am so used to seeing patients with individual medication charts by their beds that I can't imagine a sheet, if that's what it's like with everybody's medication on it....

  15. Opinions please--Did I do the right thing?

    greatshakes replied to RN-TO-BE's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I hope whenever I am placed in such a situation I can act as well as you have done. You have acted responsibly and being so new to it, you need to be commended and supported. As an earlier post said I...

  16. What to wear?

    greatshakes replied to IcantThinkofaName's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'd wear something that always makes you feel good. I'd tend to go with something similar to what the others suggest, dark slacks, smart blouse and heeled closed in shoes, maybe if you have something...

  17. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    greatshakes replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    It took ages to live this down. As a nursing student I was checking the recus trolley and said I needed another guadal canal, (guadal airway) I knew what I said as soon those words left my mouth and...

  18. Anyone else frustrated with being a new nurse?

    greatshakes replied to asilmk's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi Didi RN Thnk you for saying we need you. That is good, even thouigh I know you are in America and I in Queensland. I wrote in earlier saying I had resigned my job from a small hospital as I had a...

  19. when you are stressed about school, do you smoke cigarettes?

    greatshakes replied to sad's topic in General Students

    Hi, I started smoking again after 4 1/2 years of being smoke free once my hisband got his dx and I found I'd failed an assignment but what helped me then was St John's wort. Didn't want to have to...

  20. Help me help a new nurse

    greatshakes replied to ShayRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Okay I am going to ask you established nurses in Med -Surg a favour. Imagine I am coming on to your ward as a graduate RN. I want you to tell me what you expect of me and want me to do. At this...

  21. lab draws through central lines

    greatshakes replied to morrisonrn's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Hi Gail Anne and others As a student I was told by the phlebotemist that a specimen of blood was to be taken from a CVC and one of the nurses told me I needed to put in a n/s flush first. I went to...

  22. good student, bad nurse...

    greatshakes replied to sophiajoy's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Bryan, when you did your nursing pracs when at Uni? , where did you feel the most comfortable? For me it is Medical and ours went for 6 weeks (30 x 8 hour shifts) and by then I was having a bay of...

  23. good student, bad nurse...

    greatshakes replied to sophiajoy's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi I just resigned too and yes it is disappointing. I found the threads in help me help a new nurse excellent. We have to remember that we are human, we are new and we all want to do a good job. I am...

  24. Help me help a new nurse

    greatshakes replied to ShayRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi all Why weren't you around when I started my first stint as a new RN. You may have been but I have just noticed your theads and they are all fabulous. Sadly I resigned but at least I'll know where...

  25. I can't stop crying... need encouragement...

    greatshakes replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh Lori I feel so for you. I feel that the supervisor had probably had too much and maybe you needed to stand up and scream "enough is enough". One RN to so many patients is just an accident waiting...