RiverNurse

RiverNurse

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  1. "If I Only had a Brain......"

    RiverNurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    LOL... singing it loudly... Seriously, all, I've been at this a *whole* seven months now. Yesterday was busy, heparin drip - with the patient getting a TEE... then she had rt lower abd pain - dr...

  2. LONG - Incompetent, me? Nah - just inept

    RiverNurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi all, I need to vent - and hope that's okay. This is pretty much a brain dump of the past few days - my first few days out of orientation - and on my own. I feel totally incompetent. This is the...

  3. "If I Only had a Brain......"

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

    You know - as I re-read my post, I can actually "see" how much I've grown in the past few months. LOL... at least my fretting is about higher level things at this point... As a friend of mine said,...

  4. "If I Only had a Brain......"

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

    I am sure that everything will be alright. This first year is incredibly rough - right up there with nursing school... This list is an incredible resource for input and support. I am glad it is...

  5. How many times have you cried???

    RiverNurse replied to CareBayer's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I cried last week - in my mgr's office (she's VERY approachable) saying, "Won't I ever get this right??????" She assured me that the first year is the most difficult and that it would get easier. I'm...

  6. Goofy question

    RiverNurse posted a topic in Travel

    Hi all, I am still in my first year of nursing and am interested in traveling. I have heard that at a minimum one year's worth of experience is necessary, while other travelers say 3 to 5 is better....

  7. Endorsement info

    RiverNurse posted a topic in Tennessee Nursing

    Hi all, I currently live in Arkansas, have my Arkansas license and am thinking about moving to TN eventually and if so, will need to apply for endorsement in TN. I know that I will need to have a...

  8. Mortified

    RiverNurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Okay all... How many of you have read your schedules wrong - and failed to show up for work? Me, for one. Today - and I just totally read the schedule wrong... I've never done this in my life! When...

  9. Smoker's rights (patient rights)

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

    Thanks, NancyNurse08 and all those who have posted. Here is what I've learned - not all floors have a firm policy on this issue - if it had been clearly defined - I think the charge nurse and manager...

  10. Smoker's rights (patient rights)

    RiverNurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi all, I have something that happened so quickly the other day that it just happened before I could even think about it - or the ramifications. I had a patient that had an EGD in the morning and had...

  11. Smoker's rights (patient rights)

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

    Many thanks. In fact, he'd left the floor several times on the previous shift. Because he'd tested positive for THC and there was suspicious activity reported by the previous shift, I took the matter...

  12. Bad Rep for Med Surg

    RiverNurse replied to kellyskitties's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I agree with the above posed question - in fact - I've been wrestling with that since I began my job/career. We did have a role transition class - but it wasn't in depth and didn't present the reality...

  13. Bad Rep for Med Surg

    RiverNurse replied to kellyskitties's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I'm in an esoteric frame of mind today. I've been working in Tele/Med-Surg for six months now. I've encountered a lot - both from patients and staff (rudeness and disrespect). I don't want to leave...

  14. Starting Nursing At 40...am I Too Late???

    RiverNurse replied to SunnyBeach_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I started my career change back 2005 when I was 40. Some days I think this whole thing has backfired (more often than not) and on other days I think I did the right thing. I think in some respects I...

  15. Regretting becoming a nurse???

    RiverNurse replied to Marie-SC's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I was positively clueless. The only thing I had was the idealistic version that had been planted in my brain by commercials regarding "nursing" and the "caring touch" - the emotional, heart tugging...

  16. Complaints

    RiverNurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well all - I have had my first complaints registered against me by my co-workers. I retimed some medications (abx) b/c I had 6 patients, two admits at the same time and one discharge. The meds were...

  17. Complaints

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

    Thanks! Yes, obviously, I do have a problem with people "disliking" me. That - and an incredible lack of confidence at this jucture is going to really do me in if I do not change some deeply ingrained...

  18. Complaints

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

    In retrospect, I think that if I'd worked as a nurse tech before going back to school and getting my RN license would have been the best route. Of course, at the time, I had no clue and the program...

  19. Complaints

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

    Sigh... groan... Yes, I admit it - in response to Nursemike's post - my heart is in nursing. However, it is NOTHING like the idealistic theory I learned in school. It is also the nursing activities...

  20. Complaints

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

    Yes, I have tried all of the above - in fact - I even requested to "go back" into orientation several weeks ago, but that was denied. I do have people that are mentors, those I've asked for time...

  21. Complaints

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

    Yes, it is true that we all want to make our jobs easier. In fact, my typical routine was to simply finish my work before shift change. Well, that usually entailed me staying over by 1.5 hours - to...

  22. I just want to cry!!! I'm VERY overwhelmed!!

    RiverNurse replied to 2bTraumaRN2008's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am right where you are... same experience level and everything. Read my post entitled "Complaints". I made some mistakes over the past week - I'm exhausted and drained - and am so embarrassed that...

  23. I think I was a morning snack

    RiverNurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi all, I just got home from work (night shifter here - woo hoo!) and wanted to "process" something that happened at work this morning as I was on my way out the door. I'll tell the whole story from...

  24. I think I was a morning snack

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

    Thanks for the posts, everyone. I did get a copy of the MAR sent to the pharmacy. I will be following up with this. My heart is heavy at the thought of following up on this. Many thanks -

  25. How soon to specialize?

    RiverNurse posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Hello all, I am a "baby" nurse, have had 10 weeks of orientation and have been on my own for a month now in telemetry/med-surg. I would like to specialize in Hospice eventually and was wondering how...