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  1. I feel excluded at work.

    SoundofMusic replied to abcotta's topic in General Nursing

    I'd also like to add, that on days where the clickyness is getting to me, I try to find a patient who really seems to need someone to talk to and I go talk to them. There is a lot of human need on...

  2. I feel excluded at work.

    SoundofMusic replied to abcotta's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, don't feel bad. I feel that way also, a lot of the time -- and then there are times I feel relatively included and get along with certain groups of people, but NEVER am the center of attention as...

  3. Should I really be a nurse?

    SoundofMusic replied to WantAccel.BSN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, you could work as a CNA, but in all honesty, what they do is not exactly what nurses do. Nurses have to know their pharmacology, and are basically the "managers" of the care of the patient while...

  4. VENT.....transferred out of icu 6 weeks into orientation.

    SoundofMusic replied to stanquim's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I will never understand why any new grad gets shuffled into ICU's. I feel this is a type of nursing that requires experience that can only come from time in nursing, time around patients, excellent...

  5. VENT.....transferred out of icu 6 weeks into orientation.

    SoundofMusic replied to stanquim's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Please don't beat yourself up for it. I also started in an ICU and after the first 3 months asked for the transfer myself!! They wanted me to stay, but I just knew I wasn't ready for it and just...

  6. more layoffs

    SoundofMusic replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    No layoffs, but no more hiring into new positions -- and our hospital, a large one on the east coast, is taking a hard line on travelers. I hope they all get jobs -- our unit will be less well off in...

  7. Night shift is depressing me!

    SoundofMusic replied to Eirene's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Can you go to your overall boss, PCD, master preceptor or whoever is in charge of new hires and tell them what is going on, how you feel? Seems like it was so positive on day shift and yet all these...

  8. Nursing is a terrible job!

    SoundofMusic replied to gentlegiver's topic in General Nursing

    I have heard that they often get mad at anyone leaving, or wanting to leave, so they will pull these sabotage stunts. Our unit supposedly does it and starts finding ways to 'write up" nurses who have...

  9. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    SoundofMusic replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh, little demented old lady -- how on EARTH did you get so DEMENTED? How do ANY of you get this way? Is this God's cruelest trick on humans or what? It is awful -- dementia -- just awful. You will...

  10. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    SoundofMusic replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No, you cannot have a shower now that it's 6 p.m. My tech and I have been into your room 10 times today offering to get you cleaned up, and every time you lazily refused and just went back to sleep....

  11. How do you handle difficult family members?

    SoundofMusic replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I also work night shift. Works like a charm . ..unless they insist on spending the night and being a PITA throught the night as well. Most are fine, but there are some who also insist on being taken...

  12. How do you handle difficult family members?

    SoundofMusic replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I try at least to arm myself with enough knowledge about their case, their problems, what the treatments plans are, etc, so that I can discuss with them the plans. If I go in "blind," I ask them for...

  13. Can you trust your co-workers??

    SoundofMusic replied to MA Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    It's not that I dislike them, or feel they're intentionally going to do anything wrong to me -- it's just that with the constant influx and deflux of travelers on our unit that I even know many of my...

  14. Stressed new nurse

    SoundofMusic replied to IamRN08's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It very much is time for me to try something new. I wished I'd just gone into meds or L&D to begin with, but I was afraid I'd lose my general nursing skills. I don't know -- I've just got to...

  15. "let go" after 8wks of orientation. :-(

    SoundofMusic replied to xEdgexRNx's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Here's what I would do. I'd try to honestly and objectively look at where you might have gone wrong in trying to provide that holistic care too soon. Managers of these units during preceptorship and...

  16. Stressed new nurse

    SoundofMusic replied to IamRN08's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Whew, I could have written the OP's post myself. As a turn the corner here on my first year in nursing, I find myself more burnt out now than I was even in my orientation time. I also have a family...

  17. Are you happy?

    SoundofMusic replied to SteveNNP's topic in General Nursing

    This is an interesting poll. I have many philosopies about happiness. What has proved true to me in life is that I choose to be happy, and how I look at a situation is EVERYTHING. Reality is...

  18. PLEASE HELP! Rude Co-workers...

    SoundofMusic replied to gemini81sg's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I know what you mean -- I'm also a "nice" person, always apologizing, always trying to be professional, always smiling -- and then some bulldozer comes in and usually bulldozes right over me. Then I...

  19. Hospital BROKE ME

    SoundofMusic replied to Jenn-eRN2008's topic in First Year After Licensure

    All good suggestions. Also, have you explored getting the BSN through a bridge program or something? That seems to be the only thing holding you back, and you are so young -- maybe the time invested...

  20. New nurse blues

    SoundofMusic replied to Pleaides's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Have no fear. When you're off orientation, it is now up to you to seek out those answers from your charge nurse and other resources -- I can't tell you how important now my "charge" nurse is to me. If...

  21. Struggling with orientation and nursing itself

    SoundofMusic replied to xEdgexRNx's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I would say this -- give it time and see what happens once you're off orientation and have your patients to yourself. Once this happened to me, it almost cut my stress level in half as I finally...

  22. First year almost over, yet somehow . . .

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I still don't feel like I "fit in" with my unit. I do ok workwise, am surviving the tough days and haven't made any massive errors. In fact, I think I'm developing quite well as a nurse. I've been...

  23. What do you do for a dying patient/family

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    This is something that has been getting closer to me lately and I need help. Exactlly what are the measures you take for a dying patient. The typical person is a DNR and doc has ordered "comfort...

  24. Wanna quit because of patients attitude?

    SoundofMusic replied to verper's topic in General Nursing

    Well, as a nurse working in a major city hospital, I totally agree. I am a military spouse and very seriously considering finding a job -- any job, in a military hospital so I can at least 'serve"...

  25. What do you do for a dying patient/family

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

    That is very helpful, Junebug. I guess you have the ativan or morphine on hand, make them comfortable, put on some 02 (if they'll let you) and that's about it. I like the suggestion of bringing the...