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  1. New Grads - Rotten Shifts?

    hica19 replied to MililaniMom's topic in General Nursing

    I am a new grad and doing rotating shifts. It's usually 4 weeks per shift then we rotate. I don't mind it as long as I get a couple of days off in between to help me

  2. Feeling incompetent with this nurse role

    hica19 replied to AussieKylie's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Actually things have gotten better since I last posted. Two nights ago was my last night with a preceptor. I pretty much did everything on my own. My preceptor just sat around talking to people or...

  3. Thank you's - memorable ones you've received?

    hica19 replied to Liddle Noodnik's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Got another appreciation again last night at work. One of the patients I had was the same patient I had last week who kept thanking me for my support while she had a really painful dressing change....

  4. It's that time again! Working Christmas?

    hica19 replied to scrmblr's topic in General Nursing

    That's how I kind of feel too. I'm a really new nurse actually. Only worked for about a month. We had those holiday requests also. My first choice to get off was Thanksgiving and that was granted. I...

  5. It's that time again! Working Christmas?

    hica19 replied to scrmblr's topic in General Nursing

    I am working both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Don't mind

  6. Feeling incompetent with this nurse role

    hica19 replied to AussieKylie's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yikes! I realize I only have 2 more weeks of orientation! I feel like I'm not even close to being ready to take on my own

  7. Thank you's - memorable ones you've received?

    hica19 replied to Liddle Noodnik's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I recieved another genuine Thank You today. One of my patients had a radical mastectomy and it got infected and has a wound vac for drainage. At one point, doctors came in to change the wound vac...

  8. Feeling incompetent with this nurse role

    hica19 replied to AussieKylie's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I often feel the same way. However I gained a lot more confidence these past few days at work. First I got a lot of compliments from one of my patients even after he knew full well I was a new nurse....

  9. Thank you's - memorable ones you've received?

    hica19 replied to Liddle Noodnik's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I got a gracious thank you from a patient yesterday. He was a very pleasant patient to start with. Great sense of humor, and full of interesting stories to tell. He's the kind of patient you would...

  10. Let's Appreciate our CNA'S

    hica19 replied to RNKay31's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I would like to be another RN to jump in and thank the CNA's! Actually where I work, the CNA's are called Care Partners, which I like a lot better. It makes it sound more like they and the registered...

  11. Transfer came through!

    hica19 replied to wonderbee's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I did pretty much the same thing. Out of nursing school, I first accepted a job offer to work in acute pediatrics. I knew from the start the kids were really really sick (if they were to go to any...

  12. *do I even know what I'm doing?*

    hica19 replied to level1_traumaRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I feel the exact same way. I mean my preceptor is amazing and is always trying to find something to teach me. However, there's just WAY too many things to know. Not only on patient care procedures,...

  13. How will I get the hang of this

    hica19 replied to hica19's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Right now I feel that in some ways I am getting better. I am getting to the point in which I pretty much use my preceptor as a resource now. However today there were incidents where I felt I needed my...

  14. How will I get the hang of this

    hica19 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    So now, I am working on a med/surg type floor as a new grad. Just finished my first week of orientation. So far it seems to be working very well for me. My preceptor is really supportive and the staff...

  15. What's your Christmas party?

    hica19 replied to vrhodes's topic in General Nursing

    For the people who have worked on Christmas day, what is it like? I know there's always the regular nursing care to give each patient, but do you guys usually have parties

  16. How will I get the hang of this

    hica19 replied to hica19's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Also has anyone ever had days when the patient and/or family member knows more about the patient conditions and treatments than you do? That happened to me today. The patient himself had told me a few...

  17. How long is your orientation??

    hica19 replied to healer27's topic in First Year After Licensure

    6-8 weeks on a med/surg

  18. Funny/happy NICU moments needed

    hica19 replied to 2curlygirls's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    When I was still a student and doing my precpetorship in the NICU, I had one baby who was almost ready to go home and needed to run the car seat test first. Anyways while she was sitting in the...

  19. Favorite Discovery Health Channel Program

    hica19 replied to Markthemalenurse's topic in General Nursing

    I liked "Babies Special Delivery", "Birth Day", all those other shows related to babies. I've also liked "The Residents" back when it aired, etc. However I haven't seen that channel eversince I moved...

  20. infant loss- keeping baby in room

    hica19 replied to tinyscrafts's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Oh wow, these stories are so beautiful! I'm not in OB or NICU right now, but when I was still in college, I joined a nursing sorority. Our biggest event each year was our spring fashion show in which...

  21. How to relax within the job role rather than being stressed?

    hica19 replied to AussieKylie's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I believe stress and anxiety is a problem of mine also. I mean I can use critical thinking and I have quite a bit of nursing knowledge (if I hadn't, then I wouldn't have passed the Hesi first time...

  22. Thank you's - memorable ones you've received?

    hica19 replied to Liddle Noodnik's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    not really. Read my other post in "first year

  23. I feel rotton

    hica19 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Found out just today I got let go of my current position in pediatrics...just 4 weeks into starting on the floor (total of 8 weeks with preceptor). I am just so numb I can't even think. I was at my...

  24. Common incompatiable or compatiable drugs with fluids

    hica19 replied to willdgate's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    I usually have to look those up everytime. At the unit I had worked on, there's this chart that shows which medications are compatible with TPN. If they are compatible with TPN, then for sure, they...

  25. I feel rotton

    hica19 replied to hica19's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Actually the unit I got dismissed from is actually a great unit. Everyone is really nice and helpful. However they were looking out for my best interest and thought maybe the unit was too acute for...