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  1. Third night of orienting...needed to vent

    SoundofMusic replied to rosstat2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Um, what sort of facility do you work at where you have to take (gulp) NINE patients? Is this LTC? I can't even imagine, unless you have superior techs or something that take care of it all and all...

  2. Nasty co-workers??

    SoundofMusic replied to CLJ1988's topic in General Nursing

    As a new grad nurse just off orientation, I definitely light up when I see certain nurses working on my shift, and some that I just tend to avoid. I can tell it's the same way with everyone else....

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

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

    Hey, that load you've got of 7-8 patients I feel is just unreal!!! I have four just off orientation and I feel as if I'm drowning for half the shift everyday. I just don't even understand that sort...

  4. One nurse where I work . . .

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

    As usual, NurseMike, you've delivered wonderful words of advice. Lots to think about, especially pertaining to her and maybe other nurses as well. They DO need to watch us, and I'm sure it's probably...

  5. One nurse where I work . . .

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Who is also one of the better preceptors on the floor, has only been a nurse really herself a little over a year. She's very good, is a great nurse, very smart, very assertive, etc. She precepted me a...

  6. my techs are STILL walking all over me! help!

    SoundofMusic replied to NPs4health's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Here I am posting advice, and yet yesterday I had one of my toughest days yet, much of it due to a tech who just was unavailable to me at every worst moment. I tried it all -- involving her,...

  7. Nursing: Dangerous Career???

    SoundofMusic replied to bigq2000's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure it can be described as "dangerous" as much as it is RISKY. For the most part, I feel protected, and know how to protect myself. Our facility now has security thingies we're supposed to...

  8. Should there be a 'White Nurses Association'?

    SoundofMusic replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I personaly don't see the need for it. Nurses have enough problems than to set up "ethnic" organizations which only seem to highlight problems. How about just an advocacy group for nurses as a whole...

  9. The difference between Med-Surg nurses and ICU nurses

    SoundofMusic replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

    I've done a short time in both environments, and I just have to say the assignments are just very different. In the ICU, it's more technical, less "people" work, and more thinking about the patho and...

  10. The worst part of nursing?

    SoundofMusic replied to SeattleKid09's topic in General Nursing

    Amen to this. Fecal matter, bodily eliminations -- I don't care. It's just natural and normal stuff and people can't help it. I'm glad to clear a trach if it increases someone's ability to breathe --...

  11. Why the Customer Service emphasis?

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am always told/hearing that we have to provide good customer service/service excellence to our patients/clients BECAUSE they have other choices as far as hospitals go. But honestly, if Hospital A...

  12. Things you'd like to say to your co-workers, but never would ....

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    i think i'd like to see this made into a t-shirt . . . that i could wear to

  13. When they're giving out assignments . . .

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Do you think they put us new grads with the more challenging assignments on purpose? The easier ones? The busier ones? I just can't figure out for the life of me why I am always running around like a...

  14. GN Orientation the good the bad the ugly

    SoundofMusic replied to PICURN74's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Oh, gosh -- just try to have a relaxed attitude and tone of voice while precepting. You can teach a 100 different ways, but it was the relaxed and casual preceptors that just allowed me to relax that...

  15. Precepting new BSN grad/having trouble

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

    Uh, she sounds a little like a nut job to me. I'd take her straight to the manager and let them set her straight. She sounds like she's got some hang-ups about the whole BSN thing. Doesn't sound like...

  16. my techs are STILL walking all over me! help!

    SoundofMusic replied to NPs4health's topic in First Year After Licensure

    One good hint my manager gave me is to provide the rationale for your request to the tech as much as time allows. "We need to get a 2nd set of vitals on room 255 BECAUSE he was just found tachycardic...

  17. Why the Customer Service emphasis?

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    I've just got to ask why. Whose kooky idea was it to do this to hospitals and to nurses/docs/healthcare workers? Who profits, if anyone, from it? Doesn't seem to me that anyone benefits in the long...

  18. Things you'd like to say to your co-workers, but never would ....

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    yikes. can you imagine all the clatter in the nursing station if this were to ever happen?? :heartbeat:redpinkhe:specs: rofl!!!! there is one in our area that is so gosh darned handsome - except...

  19. If you had to to do all over again...

    SoundofMusic replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    This is a tricky one. I have a degree in journalism and PR. I left this field because to be successful in it, I would have had a huge commute to work in an office far from home and would have never...

  20. VENT... beware- not a happy post

    SoundofMusic replied to Sue Damones's topic in General Nursing

    Ugh, the work of a nurse has got to be the MOST stressful and physical job on this planet. I mean -- just LOOK at the day of this nurse, and all others. I'm only 7-8 months into nursing and I can...

  21. Starting new position on June 16th and taking NCLEX on June 24th

    SoundofMusic replied to sasha10's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Oh, how I remember this time last year. I'd say don't be so nervous because you want a clear mind. Just get a good rest every night leading up to it, and try to study with a program that emphasizes...

  22. What are good specialities for traveling?

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in Travel

    I am starting off on a neuro/stroke/tele floor as a new grad. I'll be here 18 months, and then will probably move to a cardiac/tele floor or ICU. What are the most in demand and highest paid...

  23. HELP! Preceptor pb + time list.

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

    Ugh, having all that stuff as soon as you come onto your shift is just INSANE. I don't understand the powers that be that allow it to happen, knowing full well it's change of shift time for nurses. I...

  24. New Grad Overwhelmed

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

    Good for you, Chloe -- I'm glad your'e taking it elsewhere. I don't think 3 months is anywhere near long enough for an orientation -- my God. I think back to the job I left first, and I realize I...

  25. HELP! Preceptor pb + time list.

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

    Wanted to add -- here is an outline of a daily schedule one of my preceptrs gave me -- can be adapted to your unit and really keeps you organized. Just make it your own and tweak it to your day. Helps...