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  1. Help!! all you experienced nurses!! How to survive orientation??!!

    sparketteinok posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi yall, I'm hoping you experienced nurses out there can give me some advice... I graduated in May, and have been employed at a hospital for 3 weeks now, and on orientation. I was told that we are...

  2. Help!! all you experienced nurses!! How to survive orientation??!!

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

    I'm so sorry to hear about your quitting. It makes me sick that people quit because of behavior like this, and that this behavior is tolerated. Just like when I went to my NM about "Nancy", I didn't...

  3. Help!! all you experienced nurses!! How to survive orientation??!!

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

    Of course, I can't speak for everyone, as a lot of nurses have reassured me that there are places that orientation is actually a learning environment, but as the OP, I can tell you that is exactly...

  4. Help!! all you experienced nurses!! How to survive orientation??!!

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

    Thank you all for your input and advice....while it's not okay that other people are going through all of this, it does comfort me to know that I am not alone in this.... and hopefully, this is not...

  5. So angry right now. Warning: Extremely long

    sparketteinok replied to HappyPediRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Like everyone else, so sorry for what you've been through. Sounds like you're handling it the right way. No one should ever have to go through what you are just to get treated properly....

  6. Patient Abuse And Our Obligations

    sparketteinok replied to BOSSMAN71's topic in General Nursing

    So what's happened to you now,

  7. Help!! all you experienced nurses!! How to survive orientation??!!

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

    UPDATE: Things have been going smoothly, so far. I have been working with another nurse, took 3 patients today, went very well. She had her 3, I had mine, and away we went. I did my thing, she did...

  8. Help!! all you experienced nurses!! How to survive orientation??!!

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

    UPDATE AND ANOTHER QUESTION: Today I was put with a nurse that is the education coordinator, and she knew a little bit about what was going on,.... but dang me, I spilled a lot of beans, such as I've...

  9. Help!! all you experienced nurses!! How to survive orientation??!!

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

    Hah!! Trust me, I could NEVER be like her!!! I just don't have it in me. I have my days when I'm grouchy or on edge or PMSing, just like everyone else, but this beats all I've ever seen. It's...

  10. Help!! all you experienced nurses!! How to survive orientation??!!

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

    UPDATE:Hey guess what everybody- it's gonna work out!! Turns out a lot of other people had been noticing the way she has been treating me, and they also said that she has run off a lot of good...

  11. Help!! all you experienced nurses!! How to survive orientation??!!

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

    Not that it's good that there are more people out there going through this, but it does help to know I'm not alone. Can't say thank you enough!! I think you;re right, isotop235, being the nurse that...

  12. Help!! all you experienced nurses!! How to survive orientation??!!

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

    Thank you all for all of your advice, I'm not really sure yet what will work best; it seems every day is a new day for her. It means a lot to me just knowing that there are nurses out there who are...

  13. Help!! all you experienced nurses!! How to survive orientation??!!

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

    Thank you- to both of you for your replies and advice- Suanna, I wish I had you as my orienting nurse!! What you said-a desire for perfection, not the acheivement of, is exactly what I am about....By...

  14. HELP! Newbie nurse need your advice!

    sparketteinok replied to Dawn_M_74's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Good luck to you, Dawn....Just want you to know, unfortunately, you are not alone..... please see my Help!! post......Sounds like you have done the right things all along....I wish you luck- maybe now...

  15. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    sparketteinok replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hats off to those of you who work in the burn units....that must truly be a living hell for anyone with any sense of compassion....I applaud you

  16. AMAZED at what some students get away with!!!

    sparketteinok replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I think this is a reflection of young up-and-coming students in general today..."generation X"??? overall....Jeez, I am so OLD!! But I think it's very true....the parents of the twenty somethings...

  17. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    sparketteinok replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Lord have mercy I am crying I am laughing so

  18. Interviewer asked about my GPA

    sparketteinok replied to JessicaSN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If I'm a patient, and I get to pick between the A nurse or the C nurse, you bet I'm gonna pick the A nurse!! Wouldn't

  19. Why do people go into nursing? Is it just the money?

    sparketteinok replied to zoo*moon's topic in General Nursing

    IHATEMEDSURG, I agree with everything you said...even with passing NCLEX, some people just should NOT be nurses, and you bet, there is a lot of negativity out there....but I'm curious, with your...

  20. My bad attitude

    sparketteinok replied to jessiern's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In the previous job that I worked for seven years (in a completely different profession), there were many such meetings as this. What it amounted to was one person's agenda, which led to my eventual...

  21. AMAZED at what some students get away with!!!

    sparketteinok replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! How bout that!! Yes, like everyone, I had some students in my class do that as well, but they were usually chastised for it. On another note: it was expected of us that if we were all caught...

  22. Anyone can get into Nursing.

    sparketteinok replied to indiawhitaker's topic in General Nursing

    I agree wholeheartedly with statements above....my husband is the same way, and always will be. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with him (for now). The truth of the matter is, he will never see that you...