mommy_love8626 replied to michigan94's topic in New Nurse
Hey! I'm a new grad, actually just graduated in May about to start work next month. I'll be working nights on the unit I did my capstone at which is our Med-Surg/ICU step down unit. I know I haven't been working yet, but in my opinion if you could sw...
mommy_love8626 replied to Brian S.'s topic in General Nursing
During my capstone I had a new admit psych patient and while we were doing the admission assessment we asked her if she was seeing things that weren't there, which she responds "No." and then we asked if she was hearing voices...but before we could f...
I hugely agree with everyone else that has commented. That was not considered a "major" mistake at all, you are putting entirely too much pressure on yourself, you would NOT be terminated for something like that. Maybe if you consistently showed poor...
mommy_love8626 replied to Brian S.'s topic in General Nursing
The wildest thing I've ever had a patient say was one day while I was giving my client a bed bath, she began having a coughing fit. I asked her if she was alright and I sat her up some and patted her back a bit and she says "Don't smoke cocaine, if y...