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  1. I just want to cry!!! I'm VERY overwhelmed!!

    SoundofMusic replied to 2bTraumaRN2008's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Right, BlueHeaven -- that was the consensus on our thread, that it's not the hospital's fault -- in fact, they are forced into providing us our additional "year" of education that the current BSN and...

  2. Doctors are Bullies

    SoundofMusic replied to madwife2002's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't know. As a new grad, I was afraid of these guys for about the first two months ... now, if they get rude, I get very rude and short right back. Usually they calm right down and apologize. I...

  3. the RN's appearance

    SoundofMusic replied to Olli's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I think it all starts with a good hot shower before work. I always make an effort to have my hair and makeup done as if I were a professional at any sort of corporate setting. No hoochie mamma...

  4. I just want to cry!!! I'm VERY overwhelmed!!

    SoundofMusic replied to 2bTraumaRN2008's topic in First Year After Licensure

    These posts are just heartbreaking and never ending. I wish the powers that be that enable this situation to keep perpetuating itself were listening. We as new graduates nowadays are NOT being...

  5. I send pt home with heplocks!!

    SoundofMusic replied to luce2008's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm not sure i'd lose sleep over it. I might be worried. I'd lose sleep if someone died, or perhaps if I'd gotten "called in" to the mangers office or something. I guess I go home and just forget...

  6. Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

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

    I think also, not only can we just do our best to get along and get through it, and NOT BLAME ourselves, but we could also probably communicate with our schools of nursing and let them know how...

  7. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    SoundofMusic replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    As a nurse only into it for 5 months, I am aghast at how awful and demanding about 75% of the patients are, and their idiot family members. What gets to me are the ones who want to GO HOME RIGHT NOW....

  8. First Med error

    SoundofMusic replied to emmie08's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I can see myself doing this someday . ..when in a huge hurry. I like snapping them and mixing them, though -- it's fun.

  9. Just need to vent a little about my preceptor

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

    That kind of stuff, especially the charting example -- I would simply not tolerate. As long as it stands up in a court of law -- and I believe that would, it is YOUR charting and you have the...

  10. Veteran nurses antagonistic

    SoundofMusic replied to dhammond3's topic in First Year After Licensure

    LOL, Dhammond, perhaps you ought to take a look at one of our threads: https://allnurses.com/forums/f224/hospitals-suck-orientation-289031.html I'm with you. They have complained, and complained...

  11. Young Nurses?

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

    Since WHEN did looking 20 something become a problem??? Try looking/being 45 and being a new grad -- everyone thinks I'm an experienced nurse -- boy, the joke is on them! Please enjoy being 20...

  12. I send pt home with heplocks!!

    SoundofMusic replied to luce2008's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well, IMO, as a new grad, it WAS your preceptor's ultimate responsibility to ensure the pt. was going home without the heplock, or any other device still engaged. These pts are still her ultimate...

  13. Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

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

    Wow, FB, I would have felt MUCH more prepared as a nurse with all that clinical time, as you described. No wonder you could walk in and do the job. You said it. Here we have a person with over 30...

  14. Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

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

    See, I take issue with the statement that many of us are in this for the money. Well, people are in a lot of other professions for the money also.I could do other jobs for money, but I chose nursing....

  15. why the cliques in nursing ?

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

    I found it ICU that some of the ones who had "made it" there in the unit 5 years or more were the worst. It was as if they had paid the price to survive there, and you as a newcomer just couldn't lay...

  16. Changing jobs the first year

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

    Yet another reason to leave this job . .

  17. Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

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

    LOl, glad you've enjoyed the thread, LLG and others. I hope somehow it rises up to where it needs to go -- any administrators listening? Any schools listening? I would have absolutely signed up for a...

  18. Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

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

    ITA -- all of the above. Hmmm, who exactly would we write to about this. I'm serious about this. The BON for my state? Who would be a start I wonder. I'll admit, I feel guilty about collecting this...

  19. Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

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

    Well, why the heck did it change and when did it change? I wonder what led to all these sort of changes in nursing education? Could it be .... the nursing shortage?? As far as I understand, schools...

  20. So overwhelmed! I can't do this

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

    I am with those that say to start out slow. I am a firm believer in this after being burnt out in ICU after a few short months. It was NOT for me as a new grad. I feel nurses need to get their nursing...

  21. Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

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

    LOl, No, Sound of Music will likely never be a CNO -- but I AM interested in this idea from a marketing standpoint: It's the marketing person in me to want to develop the...

  22. Panic is setting in...

    SoundofMusic replied to Becca608's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Try not to panic. I've been at it about 5 months now and have had some bad days, but over time you get so much repetition on certain tasks that you will cease to be all thumbs and will start to gain...

  23. Changing jobs the first year

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

    Yeah, I pulled away from a job in a CCU to go to a more med-surg type job. Turns out ICU was a bit too much for me as a new grad. My hospital was fine about it and I'm feeling a lot better about where...

  24. Time Manaagement Schedule

    SoundofMusic replied to untamable07's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes. We have one preceptor on our floor who took the time to sketch one out for me and it seems unrealistic, but if I at least attempt to follow it, I usually remain caught up throughout the day. 7:00...

  25. Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

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

    Well, I for one, like the idea of taking less of a salary if the expectations could be realistic and more humane that first year. If I could learn in an unfettered, unhostile, relatively unpressured...