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What I have seen in our local peds clinic is 2 Ns giving shots simultainiously. Seemed to make a little difference. - Melissa

First I would like to say - welcome to the medical profession. I am a new grad - I passed my RN boards Sept. 18. I decided to jump in head first - I am working in CCU. I am scared out of my mind every day. I think that is what helps keep me focused. We do daily rounds on all our patients with several different levels of the med. proffesion. The first time I had to talk about my patient in front of the doc, pharms, etc - I froze when our PCM asked "what about safety on this pt" I was blank - so she says "what can we do to harm this pt. today?" From that day on - I keep that in the back of my mind - how could I harm my pt.s? This makes me double check all my meds, ask all the silly questions that come into mind, and think before I start to chart. One thing I heard over and over in nursing school was how school is NOTHING like the real world. Boy is that true. You can not learn everything in school. Especially if you have a speciality in mind that you want to work in. Just asks questions - there is never a dumb question. And as far as acedemics - try to do all your gen.ed.s first - it allows you to focus on nursing as the semesters go on and get progressively harder. Good Luck!!! Melissa

I was wondering if anyone had any advice or pointers for a new nurse. I jumped right in - head first - to critical care. I have worked at my hospital for almost 5 years now. I was an aide on Oncology before/during school. So I am comfortable in a hospital setting. It is just the whole - "knowing what the doc might ask for" (I am not even sure WHO are docs are yet ), that gets me a little uptight. I think my ADHD will come in handy - trying to multi-task, but I am still a little slow. I am also very anal - I have to know WHY I am doing something, I can't just do something because you told me to and you have worked her for decades. (Has happened a few times....)I don't want to make enemies right off the bat, but I also don't want to hurt my patient either because I am not sure of what I am doing. Is this all newbie stuff that everyone goes through and will get better with time? I had great self-confiedence as an aide and the nurses would say I will be a great nurse, but not quite up to that level yet....