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  1. Nursing Misconceptions

    SoundofMusic replied to allanina03's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Not to sound ageist, but I find a lot of these attitudes from the older pt. crowd. I guess they get their misconceptions from the "old days" of nursing when things used to be a certain way. I don't...

  2. Learning IVs

    SoundofMusic replied to kt123's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I try to practice all I can on our night shift. That's when we do all our a.m. labs and I go around volunteering for any stick I can get. Now that I'm somewhat comfortable with my blood draws, I'm...

  3. I want to be anurse but...

    SoundofMusic replied to futurelpn09's topic in General Nursing

    Why don't you find work as a nursing assistant first. Doesn't pay THAT great, of course, but you'll get some experience on a hospital floor, you'll get to pick up valueable skills you'll need as a...

  4. Why no nursing love from Grey's?

    SoundofMusic replied to thisgirlsanurse's topic in General Nursing

    Accck -- this is what I've been saying/thinking all along!!! :yeah:We need a show -- and here's the name: Nurse. And it needs to be about nurses ONLY. Doctors can be woven in here and there -- but...

  5. How many times have you cried???

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

    I've had nights w/ a chronic pain person like this, although I just could not believe that she was in all that pain, as she switched personalities at the drop of a hat. First she was pleasant and...

  6. How many times have you cried???

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

    NurseMike, you are just talented. You can validate our feelings as new nurses, yet somehow make us realize what we need to do to survive -- wish you were my manager, or that you get to be one someday....

  7. How many times have you cried???

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

    I saw some of that when I did a rotation in nursing school on an OB floor. Here these poor moms were just need and in labor -- totally natural and normal -- and these nurses, many of whom didn't seem...

  8. need advice on getting big picture

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

    My preceptor last night had some good advice. She said that she does her best to know that patient "now" as he/she is, based on her assessment, and labs, and all the current things going on at the...

  9. How many times have you cried???

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

    So I want to ask ...what is so "bad" about crying?? It's a normal human emotion -- a normal release of sadness and stress - we NEED to cry once in a while. I don't see the big deal. So, let's hand...

  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

    MNC, thanks so much for your candor and insight. We could all use a lot of that around here, as well as at work. I think I'm at this point now, in a baby jr. nurse sort of way, and if I stay any...

  11. Have to go in tonight ....acckk.

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

    Meeee, too. Sometimes I walk in and I see the group that will be there, and I either breathe a sigh of relief or I have to think to myself -- uh oh, here we go -- Once I'm off, I hope to be able to...

  12. 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

    Let me clarify. And I did have a bad day with this woman. It was ridiculous -- and the worst was not being able to adequately take care of my other pts because this woman was so demanding every 5...

  13. 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

    To Ms. so-called "chronic pain" patient who demands her dilaudid right on time and undiluted, along with her methadone, her lyrica, her vicodin and her daily percosets for her 400 lb 5' 1" body -- YOU...

  14. Nurses Past Their Prime

    SoundofMusic replied to dialysis12041999's topic in General Nursing

    amen to that. i'm sort of right in the middle age wise, and i must say i feel a lot more comfortable around the older nurses than the young ones, generally speaking. young girls nowadays have to deal...

  15. keeping in touch?

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

    Yikes -- I always tell them, "Well, You know where you can find me" -- and they can visit me at the unit if they want to. But I don't give out any personal details. Often I'm touched if they come back...

  16. 12 months seems like forever!

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

    Thanks for the pep talk, MomtoMichael. Sometimes we need to hear it. I have already really started enjoying my days off. I just love them. No matter what, I am not at work and it just makes the days...

  17. 12 months seems like forever!

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

    I know what you mean. I'm in a real pickle with the contract thing -- I had the hospital pay for my schooling, and I did the ECCO course, plus orientation -- I think I would owe something like $12K if...

  18. help! i think i hate nursing!

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

    At times I have wondered why there isn't a full time person on staff who just does charts -- even on regular units. I mean -- what IF we had such a person -- and you could do your job without having...

  19. How many times have you cried???

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

    It's also about working in a setting that is often not set up to support you. You go to get supplies in the drawer they're supposed to be in -- and they're not there. You have to search 5 minutes to...

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

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I'm a new nurse. Yes, I know you said that "it shows" but I'm not sure what such a comment accomplishes. I mean, weren't you also new once? Or, were you born out of your mother's womb a nurse? I...

  21. Contemplating whether to become RN . . . .

    SoundofMusic replied to proudmomof3's topic in General Nursing

    My advice to anyone wanting to be a nurse -- take the time and work as a tech/cna for a while. Really get a good look at what it's like to work on a unit somewhere. There you will also see how...

  22. help! i think i hate nursing!

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

    I will undoubtedly get out of bedside nursing at least 2 years down the road. I just cannot handle it physically, emotionally, philosophically, or any other way. I don't regret getting the degree, but...

  23. How many times have you cried???

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

    i think this post explains it for me, why i also cry sometimes. it the feeling of feeling stupid, on top of incompetent, on top of just plain not feeling accepted where you work. it's a feeling i'ver...

  24. How many times have you cried???

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

    Sometimes I cry just to release the stress, not for any other reason. Not because I'm sad, or feel abused, or whatever -- it's just the high level of stress resulting from running and having so much...

  25. Charge nuse from HECK!!!!!LONG

    SoundofMusic replied to PiPhi2004's topic in First Year After Licensure

    People like this just sound mildly, or perhaps moderately psychotic. I mean, there is just no rhyme or reason for it. I'd shake it off and act like it didn't even happen. Don't let her see you sweat....