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  1. Dealing with entrenched coworkers

    LogCabinMom posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi everybody - I've been at a SNF for almost 6 mths now, and just accepted a ft position there as a Primary Nurse on 3-11s. I really love the residents, and even tho the med passes are insane, I like...

  2. Dr anxiety...ridiculous!

    LogCabinMom replied to gericare2009's topic in First Year After Licensure

    gericare - I recently found an article about the SBAR communication tool, it helps organize my thoughts when I have to call a doc. It was in a Nursing2006 article on the airline industry, interesting...

  3. So What do you LIKE about nursing?

    LogCabinMom posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    With all the threads on here about what's going wrong with new grads' jobs, I'd like to start one about what people LIKE about their jobs. I love it when patients really, truly appreciate what I do...

  4. Undecided... and need moral support

    LogCabinMom replied to tj_Medic_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    As exciting as this may all be, especially for a paramedic such as yourself - GET OUT. You're putting your license on the line. Guaranteed if something happened the administration would not back you...

  5. Seriously? I don't think I want to do this anymore.

    LogCabinMom replied to ANH_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ANH RN - I know VERY MUCH how you feel. I have made a crappy cluster of med errors in the last 3 weeks. On narcotics, which I think is the worst it can get. Yesterday I just did another one, and I...

  6. When do you call the doc?

    LogCabinMom posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Okay, I know this this is basic, but I'm having a lot of trouble with it. My nurse mgr told me: "If you need to ask another nurse for advice about a pt, then you probably have to call the doc about...

  7. When do you call the doc?

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

    Thanks everybody - it's very nice to hear voices of experience and reason. evilolive, I sometimes work 11-7 so that really helps. I just dread the experience of calling a doc... I feel so dumb with...

  8. New nurse in LTC & Overwhelmed (long)

    LogCabinMom posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi all - I'm hoping someone can help me, and I'm sorry this is long, but I'm having a hard time putting stuff into words. I've been working at a LTC facility for 5 mths, grad in May08, and I have...

  9. New nurse in LTC & Overwhelmed (long)

    LogCabinMom replied to LogCabinMom's topic in General Nursing

    thank you all for sending me such nice kind thoughts. Travel50 - I AM an RN, and we are treated exactly the same as the LPNs; we do med passes, etc- I feel we are there so the facility can simply say,...

  10. Drug error

    LogCabinMom replied to badolepuddytat's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Moving is always a possibility... altho with the housing market the way it is .... thanks for your

  11. Drug error

    LogCabinMom replied to badolepuddytat's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Badole - I know exactly how you're feeling. I couldn't get a hospital job when I first started looking so I took a night-shift LTC position and it has since morphed into a mix of days/nights/on-call...

  12. May 2008 grads....how are things going?

    LogCabinMom replied to marilynmom's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Graduated in May and didn't take NCLEX until July... passed at 75 but really wished I had taken it right away ---could not get into a hospital and finally ended up in LTC. Love the residents, hate the...

  13. I hate nurses, what should I do?

    LogCabinMom replied to brentster_us's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Scary.

  14. Will I ever get this nursing thing? LONG

    LogCabinMom replied to emilysmom,RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Emilysmom, I hear what you are saying. I'm in a LTC facility and I feel as if there are times I have no idea what I'm doing. I hate going from a huge high when I think I am doing it all right to a...

  15. I hate nurses, what should I do?

    LogCabinMom replied to brentster_us's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think this is a great topic because I am also new to nursing (5 months) and I'm having problems with the people I work with too... I worked for 10 years in business and always seemed to get along...

  16. Let's vent, I am first!!!!

    LogCabinMom replied to sweetpeanurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm with you sweetpea - I'm at LTC/rehab (started 10/1) and the small minds there are unbelievable... report is CRAPPY, training is NOTHING. All the nurses do is the least amt possible to try to keep...

  17. I'm drowning

    LogCabinMom replied to bsngrad2be's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ok, everyone - I'm a little lost -- I'm a new RN also, but I have no clue what you mean when you say "brain" - do you mean a list of all your pts and the previous rpt and what you did w/them on your...

  18. Do you Pre-Pour? Is it legal?

    LogCabinMom posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello everyone - I'm a new grad, and just got my first nsg job in a LTC facility. I've been there 6 weeks; I'm working overnights. At this point, I still have a 'mentor' (I'm using the term loosely...

  19. Do you Pre-Pour? Is it legal?

    LogCabinMom replied to LogCabinMom's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone for all the tips - nurses at our place use straws and paper clips to mark their meds, and I have to say I'm not crazy about it b/c if you hit it the wrong way, one of them will fall...

  20. Do you Pre-Pour? Is it legal?

    LogCabinMom replied to LogCabinMom's topic in General Nursing

    wow, I didn't realize 22 pts was so great --- I guess when you're new it is all overwhelming. I'm going to get started on my cheat sheet... no other nurse there uses one b/c they've all been there...

  21. Do you Pre-Pour? Is it legal?

    LogCabinMom replied to LogCabinMom's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, so then - do any of you have any tips on how to do your med pass more quickly? I do realize I'll get faster with time, but I am also one of those who tries to be extremely thorough. I do the 5...

  22. Do you Pre-Pour? Is it legal?

    LogCabinMom replied to LogCabinMom's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, everybody. I've had my doubts about this place from the beginning, and this is just one more nail in the coffin. I'm applying for other

  23. Do you wear rings on your fingers to work?

    LogCabinMom replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

    I used to wear my wedding ring (a channel-set band with sapphires and diamonds) when I was an aide; after about 6 mths the skin under the band became badly macerated and infected because of all the...

  24. I have never had to work so hard for a job in my entire life?

    LogCabinMom replied to MelodyRNurse's topic in Nursing Career

    I am in the same boat - I'm in NH, got licensed in Ma and VT too just to be on the safe side, because I'm on the border, and have applied to every single hospital within 1.5 hrs. I am getting NOwhere....

  25. What exactly is "clinical experience"?

    LogCabinMom posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a new grad and trying to figure out how to get a job that gives me good experience and balance my young family in there somewhere along with a husband who works full-time at a good job that he...