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  1. At dinner out, I am chastised for drinking before work by manager -- help?

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    We were absolutely not in scrubs. We were in business attire at a place that probably what was a 4-5 star

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

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

    Now this I could deal with -- if they were up front about it. I would even be grateful and would look at it as a learning experience. I think I just need to find out from my co-workers what the...

  3. At dinner out, I am chastised for drinking before work by manager -- help?

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Please don't close it. I think it's educational for all who are interested and I hope it helps someone in a similar situation someday. I'm enjoying the responses and it's given me a lot to chew on....

  4. At dinner out, I am chastised for drinking before work by manager -- help?

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know. I guess it's been a long time since I've been in the work force. I've been a stay at home mom for many years and just used to doing what I want. It's hard to know what to do around...

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

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

    I think I'm just going to ask my preceptor to clarify it. I just want to know the policy, if there is one. I also want to know what we can get written up for. Seems they don't seem to cover that in...

  6. Nursing Career Change - Is it worth it?

    SoundofMusic replied to love38's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, but, a new nurse has to pay his/her dues and it's not always work where you want and when you want for the first year or two. In my case, I owe a huge amount to the hospital I'm working at since...

  7. There is a passive aggressive nurse at work

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

    No, that would be refreshingly direct. Giving them the cold shoulder interspersed with curt impersonal remarks would be the more passive aggressive way to go.

  8. Nursing Career Change - Is it worth it?

    SoundofMusic replied to love38's topic in General Nursing

    I always caution everyone like yourself to seriously shadow as an aide/CNA for about three months. Just do it, even if it takes valuable time and you have to take a pay cut or whatever. You NEED to...

  9. Doing Without a P.O. Med Nurse - HELP!!!!

    SoundofMusic replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    LOL -- you are describing this to a T. I work on a stroke floor which can sometimes be more like a LTC facility and this is exactly how it is -- everyday. Except today I had one who did not want to...

  10. I just got written up for the first time...agh..

    SoundofMusic replied to november17's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sounds like an honest error, anyway. Thanks for sharing it here, so we can all be watchful of ourselves with our own stuff. I always appreciate that and I also try to share my mistakes with other new...

  11. How did it come to this?

    SoundofMusic replied to Southernurse's topic in General Nursing

    How about a total career change altogether? Nurses are so smart and work so hard, multi-task like the dickens -- I mean, you would be an asset to SO many professions - managerial, administrative, etc,...

  12. How do you balance work\family\school?

    SoundofMusic replied to denise0815's topic in General Nursing

    I had a friend whose spouse was deployed to Afghanistan for one year during her schooling, and then the NEXT year got sent away again overseas with the military. So, for the two years she was in...

  13. Abuse During my first few months as a new Graduate Nurse.

    SoundofMusic replied to muffin416's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, but stories like this make me sick, literally. Here we are in a so-called nursing shortage, and intelligent decent folks who have worked hard, gotten good grades and played by all the...

  14. sooooo, I think I actually like my job...

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

    Not sure yet if I like it. Many days I don't like it and I'm very worried about being off orientation. I think what will make it or break it for me will be to see how supportive the staff is when I do...

  15. Don't ever forget that you were once a new nurse!!

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

    I had one sort of like that when first started on our floor. As time went on, I realized she was taking students so she could lighten her own load for day. It went like this: you the student did...

  16. So frustrated.

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

    What gets me is admissions. If I, as an orientee, didnt finish my admission paperwork -- and I mean ALLLLLLL of it, before the next shift -- I will get my rear sufficiently kicked. Oh, but the travel...

  17. How do you balance work\family\school?

    SoundofMusic replied to denise0815's topic in General Nursing

    I truly second the person who said don't try to compare yourself with the younger folks in class without families. I would tend to do this, and just couldn't. Many of them got really good grades and...

  18. How do you balance work\family\school?

    SoundofMusic replied to denise0815's topic in General Nursing

    Lemme tell ya, I was also bored with cubicle life. But right now as a nurse with 6 months in, I'm missing my cubicle for its privacy and quiet! Ever been in a nursing station at shift change, or try...

  19. My Confidence Is Shot--need Help Overcoming Fear

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

    I've been in nursing now about six months, and I STILL feel on some days when I'm at home especially and away from it -- that I know NOTHING. But somehow, anytime I'm in and with my patients, things...

  20. So frustrated.

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

    I share in your frustration. I clean up the breakroom after them, clean up the supply rooms, the med room, AND, of course, their lousy charting and admission jobs which usually put me behind about an...

  21. I'm not afraid of the MDs but...

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

    It might help to really try to keep the focus off yourself and on the patient only. Know your patient, his/her values/labs etc. and do your SBAR communication piece when it's appropriate. Keep the...

  22. When your first job doesn't work out

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

    This is just so silly -- hearing how nursing takes on new grads who are honest, reliable, intelligent people, yet it spits them out like they are worthless -- only to keep hiring on and hiring on --...

  23. Have to go in tonight ....acckk.

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ugh. I just can't shake the anxiety tonight before my shift. I've been off for three days, just utterly enjoying life and now I have to go back in. I don't know why I'm so scared, but it's always...

  24. What to expect in Med/Surg I ???

    SoundofMusic replied to tavo_80816's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Lots and lots of studying. You're going to have to read and re-read and understand the mechanics of the diseases and pathophysiology of all the different problems people can have. I wouldn't really...

  25. 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

    Thanks, MNC -- last two posts are duly noted. Contemplating it all and letting it sink in . . . :stone Thanks to everyone here. You all "precept" me here as much as they do at work. I'm so glad I...