newnurse101

Have you tried UWorld app?

Hi! I have an upcoming critical care sponsorship interview. I’m very nervous about it as I have never worked in ICU. The only “experience” I have is from school, where I got to shadow an ICU nurse for 2 days ? but it’s a dream unit for me! I’m assuming they would ask entry level questions as it’s a sponsorship program but please please comment some tips! Thanks all!

You’re right, it was infected. They implanted a new pacemaker on the opposite side.

Hi all, I had a patient in the community who just went for pacemaker removal. I was about to do a dressing change but noticed that the site was open like a pocket, and had a packing. Is that normal? I wasn’t sure so I contacted my manager to send a wound care specialist.

Hi, I am a newly-licensed nurse who recently started working in a Rehab Unit. I am on my last day of orientation (only 6 unit orientations!!!!) and I'm feeling really stressed out. Just to give you a little background, I graduated 6 years ago, didn't practice nursing, and went back to school last year for a refresher, which included a 200-hr consolidation. I thought that was enough to get me back on my feet but boy was I wrong! I have forgotten so many concepts and theories. I have zero skills. I have zero self esteem. Yesterday I was orientating and my patient asked for a bed pan, and I did not even know it came with a liner (she ended up not having a BM, but still I feel so embarrassed because it is a very basic thing for most, but I have never used a lined bedpan before). Also the other day, I went to flush a saline lock but wasn't familiar with that particular saline lock (I used the blue-tipped before but my facility uses a different one that looked like a rubberized cap) so I asked my preceptor. I could tell she was kinda annoyed as after showing me how to do it, she asked me where I went to school and where I did my placement at. Moments like that just crush my self-esteem even more and make me doubt myself. And I'm having so many of those moments right now and I really feel bad about myself. I feel like my head is gonna burst from all the information I was taught over the last 2 weeks and I don't know if I will remember them. There's just a lot of pressure. It's very overwhelming. I'm really stressed out. I don't feel like a nurse at all. I'm doubting myself a lot of times. I'm very soft-spoken too so I don't even think my patients have confidence in me. Any tips? I know it should get better, but it just does not feel like it will at this moment. Changing careers have crossed my mind so many times, as I feel like it's not for me. I feel so small and powerless, how can my patients trust me!