Dakota28

I'm a new nurse, graduated in December of 2007. I currently work mother/baby and it's not at all what I was expecting. I wasn't expecting to come to work worrying about what emergency we'll have next. If we don't have a mom hemorrhaging in one room, there's a floppy baby that delivered in the next room. I don't feel compentent in emergency situations at all and i know that more i'm exposed to them the better I should get but honestly, i just want to leave bedside nursing and not deal with emergencies on what seems like a daily basis. I'd really like to get into case management or do something in nursing that allows you to work from home of in an office setting. I know that these types of jobs are out there but have no idea how to fin them. Does anyone know how to find desk jobs for nurses? I know that insurance companies hire nurses... if anyone has info one this type of nursing please let me know! Thanks!

I'm starting to fear that I don't like nursing! I've been working since January of this and I still feel like I make mistakes all the time and don't know anything... in fact, I did make a big mistake this week and now can't get it off my mind..... I don't want to go back to work. I'm tired of emergency situations happening all the time and want to go someplace else. I totally feel your pain and am searching for new jobs.

Thanks everyone for responding! I thought that a conceptual framework would be a long step-by-step way to do research!! I have asked the instructor about what this is before, but what she said just confused me even more and my classmates did too!! I'm doing a poster and my topic is high flow nasal cannulas for neonates. We currently use the oxyhood on my unit and I think the nasal cannula would be much easier to work with and better for bonding between the newborn and parents since the baby can still be held. With the oxyhood, the babies can't be held unless you take them out from under it. Any ideas on what theorist/conceptual framework would work best with this topic?

Hi Everyone!! I need some help with my homework!! I'm working on my BSN and have an assignment that wants me to base some research off of a conceptual framework! I have no idea how to do that! I'm supposed to choose a theorist and use their conceptual framework to help me with my research. Any ideas? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!!!

thank you, I appreciate your view on it.

I never gave any names but I've definitley learned my lesson to keep things to myself. It's just hard when you come home from work nearly in tears because you can't stop thinking about it and then your husband asks you what happened. Then you see your family a few days later and they ask you how you like being an RN and how it's going and all you have on your mind is what happened a few days ago. Unless people went searching through obituaries I don't think the identity could be figured out from what i've said... but I still feel like i've made a huge mistake in talking to anyone about this.... just have to figure out how not to take work home with me. Thanks

I'm so freaked that I'm going to get in trouble for it and lose my license... I'm just so freaked out by the situation I couldn't help but talk about it. Thank you for advice

I'm having a hard time with HIPAA violations... please tell if I'm making them. I'm in my first six months of nursing and the unit I work on had a death for the first time in 12 years just about 2 weeks ago. I'm completely haunted by it and can not get the situation out of my head at all. I have vented to friends about. I never gave any names but I'm pretty sure that this is still a HIPAA violation... right? So now I'm on top of not wanting to go to work anymore because i'm so freaked out by what happened, I'm beating myself up over making a HIPAA violation. Any suggestions on how not to vent to family and friends after having a really bad experience at work? Thanks

That's an exact description of me after I took that horrible thing. and now that I passed I'm too excited and happy to clean the house!!! Stop looking stuff up, I made that mistake too and it really did just make me more anxious. Hide the books somewhere and don't look at them, that's what I had to do. I know it sucks and nothing anybody says is going to make you feel better right now. I too started checking that pearson vue site as soon as I got home from the test and even got up every 1-2 hours during the night to check it as though it would give me results early... I drove myself completely crazy.... then I kept picturing myself having to go to work and tell them that I didn't pass and thought about how I'd feel like such a loser and a complete embarrassment. I really think it's BS that it makes you wait 48 hours when they know right away if you passed or failed. That needs to change. I remember having moments where I'd think that they couldn't have been 95% positive that I failed at 75 questions and that I must have passed... and if you've had that thought at least once just focus on that and if you haven't had that thought yet... here you go, I just put it in your head :) I felt like slapping people when they told me to "be positive" but just try... have warm cup of tea or whatever you like drinking and go eat some really good fattening food and try to find things to do with your time... my husband made me go outside and dig flowerbeds... it took up at least 3-4 hours and then I went back to freaking out until I had something else to do.... I'm thinking about you and feel your pain and know that you passed!! In a few hours you'll be able to change the GN to RN behind your name :)

75 is a good sign!!! remember that you just had to get more right than wrong and that the test is designed to help you pass!

Just got my results today... I know exactly how you feel and I know that trying to relax or not think about didn't work out at all for me. Just try to tell yourself that this is more than likely the last time you'll have to do this and if it stopped at 75 for you the odds are really in your favor. I had lots of med questions that I didn't know anything about and I somehow made it above passing... how, I'm not really sure yet but don't really care either! This site is great place to... many many supportive people here to help you get through it. I'm seriously considering trying to get my foot in the door with pearson vue at some point... they know if you passed or failed when you leave the test otherwise it wouldn't just shut off ... what is their theory behind making people get completley stressed out for 48 hours... the screen should just say PASS as you leave... Good Luck! I'm sure you did better than you think!!

Congrats!!! I don't know what i would have done without this site for the past 48 hours!!! I'm so happy for you and me and all of us that passed this weekend!!! My in-laws sent me flowers today too! I was impressed!!! and the husband took me out to and try and get me liquered up.... wasn't successful at all... I'm a working lady now!!

We both passed!!! Congrats!!!!

It's so funny that our tests were so similar! My friend from school took hers today and she had some of the exact same questions as me! What unit are you going to be working?

Hey lilmama! How'd it go today? I had my husband and Dad checking it continuously this morning... was so relieved when one of them finally called!