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NICU is where I also want to work when I graduate. I still have a while before that happens though (a year and a half)! I do however know the feeling...or at least a similar one. it's very uncomfortable. I have heard that the nurses who dont make it through the first year are the ones who don't have good mentors/a long enough orientation to go from "student nurse" to "registered nurse". maybe you can try asking your manager if you can have an extended orientation? explain that you are unsure of some things and just would be more comfortable if they could extend it for you? or maybe pair you up with another nicu nurse for another few weeks to get your feet a little more wet? if you got into nicu, im sure your a great nurse so try to relax and take a load off! :onbch: Good luck! Congrats on making it through nursing school/nclex and getting a job you love! :w00t:

Hi! I am an honors RN student at a local college. I am doing a paper on brain AVM's. I worked as a CNA doing homecare for a 13 year old boy who had an undiagnosed AVM rupture. So I know what the post-avm duties include. I was wondering if anyone could help me...I need to find out the nursing interventions, and nursing assessments that would be needed to care for a patient with an AVM rupture. I know there are varying degrees of ruptures as well. I think that is why I am having some trouble...also i am having trouble finding information, not about the AVM itself, but about nursing measures taken when caring for a patient with an AVM. A lot of the information I am finding is how to diagnose and treat an AVM....anything would be helpful! :redbeathe Thanks, Marissa