WORD OF ADVICE: When I first started my nursing career, I met another new nurse who was only one month into her nursing career. She told me and practically everyone else that she knew she was in the...
Once I had a pt who for three consecutive days at dinner time had BS between 60 and 70 and had and order for both scheduled and sliding scale Humulin. The first two days I called the MD she said hold...
I never before thought that this could be an issue. The facility that I work at doesn't have the policy of checking placement of patches, and there have been several times when I have had an order to...
Not sure of your situation, but my first week of four days of orientation was in a class room no where close to my unit and half of my 5th day was spent touring the facility and my assigned unit and...
I agree. so far 98% of the time when I ask more experienced nurses to start IVs on "hard stick" patients, they can't do it either, plus there are times when they ask me for help with their IV starts -...
Try hanging in there a little longer maybe say an additional month and see how you feel. When I first started (ortho/neuro and general medical) I felt unsure of a lot of things and documentation took...
When i mentioned "taking on slack" I didn't say "always take on slack", slack was probably not the right word choice for me, what I was trying to say is when it comes to team work - and lets look...
i smiled when i read the op's above statement because it reminded me of a quote from the literature book in high school written by author george orwell's titled: animal farm which says "all animals...
I already have a bachelors and masters in Biology and most people expected me to either attend medical school or pursue a PHD. I was told by family and friends that doing nursing was like going...
barlowjb replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing
:smackingf OMG, Sorry for the long post above, I am working on being shorter and to the point in the things I want to say, but sometimes when I am writing in the moment I don't realize how long the...