Orenda

Just need a place to vent out all of this. The day shift nurse forgot to do an order and as a night shift nurse I picked up the mess. I called the doctor to verified the order and was written up for it. The next day my nurse manager wants me to ei...

Thanks everyone. I refused to write the letter and told her that the day shift is responsible for it not me. I don't know what she thinks about it. She said she will check with the day shift nurse and get back with me.

Don't be too nervous about the test. I found ATI predictor test very easy and not trustable. I know many friends in nursing school who didn't pass the ATI predictor but passed NCLEX. My advice to you is to do the unproctored test that the school p...

I got my result within a day by checking the website of my state board of nursing. I paid about $3 to get the result. I took my test through Pearson Vue so I can also check on their website by paying approximately $12.

I'm not sure if it's me or because of the nursing home. I had volunteer and work at several nursing home before going to nursing school; in nursing school, we did clinical in several nursing homes too. All of the nursing homes were so dirty, way..w...

NCLEX is a national test. I have a friend registered in Colorado and she moved to California, all she did was just registered with the California board of nursing and pay the money to be licensed in California. Good luck with school.

I heard of school holding transcript because you owed them money but never heard of holding transcript if you are not getting a passing score on ATI comprehensive. Unless the ATI comprehensive is part of the teaching plan required by the state board...

Last semester, my instructor shared with the students about her story of getting stuck by a HIV needle more than ten years ago. She followed all the procedure and report to the hospital health nurse. She had to take the HIV medications and went thr...

It was one of my clinical rotation at a hospital and the patient was a 60yr old male who got into the car accident three days ago. The doctors recommended the family to removed the life support because he is not going to recovered. The family final...

Thank you everyone for your comments. If I'm a nurse I would reacted differently because I believe I am more experienced in term of where I stand on certain sensitive issues. As for now, I'm still sorting out where my stand is on this issue.

I think the nurse was upset because I refused to help with the extubation and my clinical was upset about how I reacted to the situation.

I want to give you a big HUG!!!!

I have the same question as you too. I worked at Wal-mart and Home Depot while going to nursing school and my supervisors said you have to take a 15 minutes break for every four hours you are working. If the employee is not taking the break, the co...

I was doing clinical on this floor with my fellow students. The nurse managers came by and talked to us about wanting to hired us. We really want to work on this floor because it's a great floor to work. We learned a lot and enjoyed the experience...

I did my ATI predictor and got 93% but I am not sure how accurate it is. I know in my nursing class that we disliked ATI. We think it's a waste of time and money.

Some are married and have family so it's hard for them. To me, the hardest things about nursing school are too much information but you have too little time to study, the stress of family/friend/school and the critical thinking on the tests. But th...

It happened to me before too but I picked myself up because I know I really want to be a nurse. I hope you can do it too. There are a lot of people that are supporting you don't give up.

This morning I was in the middle of an argument between a hospice nurse and an administrator. I have a resident who is on hospice care. They have been giving her Roxinol and Ativan every two hours and prn. Her respiratory rate was 12 when I came i...

I make $16.25 an hour plus $1.00 on the weekend in Andover, Kansas

I know this thread probably posted before.....but i am new to this forum. I am a new nurse just graduating. I got a job as a nurse at a nursing home simply because I love working for the old people. Nursing to me is all about caring but not until ...

When I first graduated from high school, everyone ask what I want to be? and my answer was "to be a nurse". They laughed at my answer and...... I don't care. Now I got my licensed to be a nurse, my co-workers laugh at me when I made a mistake. Th...

Thank you for everyone's encouragement. I love my job and enjoy working with the old people. I am not into the "workplace political" so I am an outcast to them. I think I have to take it easy on those issues since I cannot do anything about it. Y...

Thanks for replying, my patient has a big wound on her leg. They stopped all her treatment two days ago and only give pain medicines. She never opened her eyes to look at the family. She looks like she is always sleeping. No s/s of pain even when...

I am going through what you been through 16 years ago. I did not have a good preceptor for orientation. They treated me like they want to kick me out of the workplace. The administration and co-workers are treating me like I am so stupid. I am ab...

Thank you for everyone advices. I hate to quit the first job of my nursing career but I don't see the point of staying where I have no respect.