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  1. Didn't know I'd have to do additional jobs besides mine!

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

    Taking out pt. diet trays is not patient care. Entering in every single piddly order all night long may come close, but it's still not patient care. It is an administrative TASK. Emptying garbage cans...

  2. What I Love About Nursing Is....

    SoundofMusic replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    Gosh, there's a lot I don't like at the moment, but the one part I do enjoy is just being with the patients, in their rooms, helping them out and finally getting to the point where I've met their...

  3. How does one become assertive in the nursing field?

    SoundofMusic replied to nicnix's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a newer nurse, but an older mom, and boy, I NEVER let these docs intimidate me. They do NOT know everything. I have fought with enough pediatricians as a mom, that I just sort of transfer that to...

  4. Does home health ever take new grads?

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm sort of interested in that. I'm finding that working on a unit with 30 plus different nurses on staff is just not my cup of tea. There are cliques, clatches, gossip constantly -- I just cannot be...

  5. Didn't know I'd have to do additional jobs besides mine!

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

    No, don't feel those jobs are beneath me at all. But I don't see how that AMOUNT of work can be completed sometimes on one shift by one individual. I'm not just putting in STAT orders -- I'm putting...

  6. What was it like finally being off orientation?

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

    That's how it is for me also -- hit or miss. Sometimes I'm doing it ok, sometimes the preceptor just has to do too much for me, becuase I'm in such a fog. And sometimes they just plain can't teach,...

  7. What was it like finally being off orientation?

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

    Yep to that, including ALL KINDS of paperwork mistakes and yet no one bothers to say anything to them. meanwhile, one slip up on my part and it's all about a big pull-in to the old "manager's office."...

  8. Starting Nursing At 40...am I Too Late???

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

    I've had once instance at work where a manager who was also 40-ish, would came up and tell me how much she appreciated my "maturity" and was glad to have me as a new nurse to train. She said she felt...

  9. are they supposed to know this by now?

    SoundofMusic replied to labrador4122's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well, um, how hard would it be to show a new BSN nurse how to spike a bag? It's pretty darn easy. Pull off that cap, point the sharp thingy in that little hole, and SPIKE IT. May take 3, maybe 4...

  10. The Realities of Nursing

    SoundofMusic replied to helper T cell's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well, as one of my favorite professors used to say, "We aren't always running the show." This just could have been this pt's time to go. I believe we all have a day and time where it will be our time...

  11. Starting Nursing At 40...am I Too Late???

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

    I think also, most who start in their 40's are not going to leave due to pregnancy . . . at least I hope not. My kids are raised, basically. There's not much getting in my way for about 15-20 years...

  12. First arterial bleed

    SoundofMusic replied to jessi1106's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Gosh -- where was the pressure ulcer located? What stage

  13. Starting Nursing At 40...am I Too Late???

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

    Well, I'm glad it resonated with you, SunnyBeach!! But don't let me make it seem easy. It's definitely not with the family responsibilities. Some of the older folks who started with me (and I was...

  14. Do your nursing supervisors do anything?

    SoundofMusic replied to tirednursedude's topic in General Nursing

    Our supervisor came in to be a tech one night when we were short. I was new there, but you could tell the staff was really impressed with her decision to do that. On the other hand, she seems overly...

  15. Starting Nursing At 40...am I Too Late???

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

    Well, as one who graduated having just turned 44, I have to make a few comments. I don't feel it's the age that matters -- it's your place in life. I'm having a hard time, not because of my age, but...

  16. "Big Money"

    SoundofMusic replied to labrador4122's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think nursing is good money. I worked in the communications field and it was tough for me as a mom who had to move with my military husband, to ever break the 30K mark in a full-time job. Now, the...

  17. FUN thread! how many months are you into your first year?

    SoundofMusic replied to labrador4122's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Wow, I have to remember. I passed the boards around Oct 25 I think. That was about 3 weeks into my job on orientation in an ICU. I left that job (Ha ha -- no starting in the ICU for me as a new grad...

  18. Does this ever make you angry?--VENT

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

    Hey, I beg to disagree here. Degrees in history/English, etc. are great degrees to have. It depends what you do with them. English majors are very sought after and can start in about any area. With...

  19. Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

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

    Ok, LOL, so interestingly enough, I was sent an email yesterday by the NCSBN to fill out a new grad RN survey!! So, in the comments section, I provided the following. I hope I hit the nail on the...

  20. Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

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

    Well, a letter can't hurt. Best would be to have it backed up with signatures, I would suppose. I mean, one letter isn't something they're going to listen to. I could draft something and post it here...

  21. Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

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

    I agree, Brio -- your situation sounds incredibly awful. I would absolutely leave that hospital if you can. They dont' sound like they have much of an organized preceptorship program in place. Very,...

  22. Co-workers who think out loud at the nursing station

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in General Nursing

    What is it with co-workers who constantly chat and basically think out loud, with a constant stream of words coming out of their mouths in a tight, crowded nursing station with others all around them...

  23. Co-workers who think out loud at the nursing station

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    We also have a sub station, but it's also located in the hallway where pts, family members and just about anyone on their way to another part of the hospital will stop and bug us while we're trying to...

  24. Ugh, awful night

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    So, I felt like I've been doing so well lately with about 3 pts or so, keeping up with everything fine -- and then we had this awful night last night. I had a totally new and different preceptor,...

  25. Regretting becoming a nurse???

    SoundofMusic replied to Marie-SC's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm a new grad in orientation. I have mixed feelings all the time, everyday. I hate the moments where my head is spinning and I know I'm behind, and I feel inadequate, and all that stuff. Then there...