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I'm so glad that you had a great run the passed few shifts and that the patient's responded so well to your care. That is the greatest reward. Knowing that you have made a difference. How long have you been doing the 12 hr. shifts? I know that it m...

What you are saying is exactly what others have said to me in the area I live. There are a lot of new grads getting positions in various areas of nursing without having to go into an area that they do not desire to pursue. I was shocked two days ag...

Keep smiling - My response was made directly to a specific post by a specific user (who saw fit to psychoanalyze, criticize, and judge me without sufficient information and a medical degree in psych.) and not as a Genral Post ! It was both inappropr...

Thank you so much for your kind response. I wasn't going to open the allnurses site given the response to me by others. But, I know that I would lose out on guidance and information from others that have a kinder and less judgemental way of offerin...

:rotfl: I appreciate all that you shared and many of it is true; however most of it is judgement based on very little information. I hope that you don't do that with your patients. Second of all you are incorrect about having to go the way most nur...

My original desire was and is psych nursing but I am being told that they don't take new grads. So how does one get started in psych. Even if I did med-surge 1st they will tell me that I have no experience in psych. My heart is in psych all the wa...

I too graduated last May and held off on the boards until January because I was in no hurry to go through what you have. I did not realize how bad it was out there (10-12 pt's per RN) until I was already in the thick of nursing school. I went on my...

Could you please guide me accordingly. I am a new grad just beginning to look for a job. I didn't have to read this thread to know just how hard it is to do those 12 hr shifts. I went on my 1st interview a few days ago and found that there is no o...

No! The RN's were not the ones who were behaving that way; it was the nursing assistants. They were the ones doing the VS on the pt's not the RN's. The RN's didn't have the time nor the inclinatiion to behave that way. As well, I don't understand w...

I graduated in May 04, waited to sit for boards until Jan 05 because everyone kept telling me that I had to do med-surge first. I put everything off because I just couldn't bring myself to comit to something I really did not want to do. My interest...

For the students experiencing the game of "hidden BP equipment" check the bathrooms in unoccupied rooms, conference rooms perhaps at the end of the halls, and mostly those hidden behind the curtains at the pt's bedside. Also, if you approach the nur...

Please educate me on how it is you take a BP on a pt. without a BP cuff? Is everyone referring to an electronic BP machine vs. BP cuff (ausculate)?? I graduated last May and I must say after I experienced the game of "hiding BP cuffs & machines ...

When you were a new grad how long did it take you to complete your work ? Did an 8 hr turn into 10-11 hrs etc...or 12 hrs into 14-15 ? Also, in your opinion if you know would it be better to work those kind of hours all in a row or broken up. Does...

New Grad.......I believe that the NY laws permit maximum of 4 hrs madation onto a 12 hr. shift. If someone knows different pease let me know...

:chair: Please don't laugh but could you please tell me what TKR stands for ? Also, SVT = V-Tach ???

I'd like to know how you handled ICU as a new grad back when. I've been told that med-surg is the place to start as a new grad but I'm concerned that if I go there as a new grad it will be hard to get out. Also, as a student I found it challenging ...

New Grad is very confused now. As I remember during clinicals Heparin is calculated by Units per cc's..... As well, I've never drawn up Heparin during clinicals - it was always in a pre-filled syringe....someone help me out here...have I just lost it...

I just watched a local News Jobline program - a rep from the largest healthcare system here on Long Island was on seeking :rotfl: "nurse managers" and (RN's strictly for Cardiac & ED) in all locations within the system. Where is the shortage i...

Thanks for the vote of confidence; it helps ease the fears and gives back some courage that has been depleted by horror stories.....

:chair: I have not started out there yet because I'm having a courage problem. Even though I graduated among the top of the class; academics are one thing and reality is another. There is a marked difference between the two. During my ethics cour...

:rotfl: Salaries for both new grads and importing from other countries saves billions of dollars. I know cause I'm a new grad not even sure I want to get out there now. The pay they will offer me for the very same responsibilities and patient ra...

Everyone tells me I have to do 1-2 yrs. med-surge before I can even consider trying something like ICU. But I've been a new grad since May 04 and I simply won't kill myself in med-surge here in NY. They're always short staffed 10-14 pt's per nurse ...

:angryfire I went to the above sites just for the fun of it. YES the stats indicate a shortage of nurses but you are missing the point.....There are thousands of USA nurses ready willing and able to work if it were not for the unsafe environment ...

:angryfire What is the pay they're offering...... Again, this is not about a shortage. It is about the refusal to pay for skilled nurses. Please do some research so that you understand the problem. Write your senators and congress to see what they...