nygirl1986

omg it's 100% normal....but it shouldn't be!! i'm in the same boat (kinda)....i have been working on a neuro floor since september but just got off my orientation about a month ago. when i first started i would constantly go home and be in bed worr...

well....i'm not sure if this is going to come off sounding mean (it's not supposed to) but a lot of people at my college had a similar experience with the majority of my classes. the professor brought up a point that, at the time, sounded a little u...

switch to night shift!! i used to work 7am-7pm for my training (i also work on a neuro floor) and there would be days i would go 12 hours without going to the bathroom, eating, or even thinking!! and i know exactly what you mean about the commode/b...

can i just say that the best part of this post was the very first line, that the color of your font looked like squash lol i guess i just was not expecting that when i went to read it. so it kinda made my night haha thank you

I think it would be hilarious, plus something different that I'm sure most of them have never done before. I say go for it. A lot of older people are a little more open minded than we give um credit for!

If I was making almost $30 an hour to do aide duties, I'd be happy as a clam LOL RN pay with no chance of having the drs, families, charge nurses, and whoever else blaming you (the RN) for everything that goes wrong?? Sign me up for that I wish my h...

sooo glad to hear things are going better!! and i totally agree with the frost quote....even though it may not always feel like it, we gotta keep reminding ourselves!!!

I'm in New York (not city) and I still see openings all the time....I didn't even know they WEREN'T hiring in some states.

uggh isn't it awful what us nurses have to go through sometimes?? i have never been through a situation like that....but when i was in nursing school i'll never forget, i was taking microbiology over the summer. i worked my butt off for months and ...

yeah i agree with the last post! you know you didn't steal the meds or do anything wrong, so don't stress over it! someone obviously is guilty and in the end the truth always comes out! you didn't do anything wrong by having a prn prescription of ...

funny you should ask that, a few weeks ago i had a resident who was discharging a patient and he forgot to write one of her scripts, so i had him paged and let him know he needed to come back up the floor and write it out and sign it so she could go ...

Nope, it's not snotty at all!! I was thinking the same thing....a girl who started at the same time as me has it on her badge...I just havn't been motivated enough to go down to HR and ask them to change mine yet haha

uggh i'm so sorry to hear you are having such a difficult time after this first negative job experience! first of all, like many of the other posts have probably already stated, take a deep breath and stop blaming yourself. you are a human, and we ...

ohh i'm sorry to hear that there may be some medical reasoning behind it!! honestly, it might just be a matter of you having to get used to it?? maybe you will love it then! i'd say most people are not used to working 12 hours straight, esp in a h...

i love 12 hour shifts!!! to be honest, the day totally flies by for me, if you get tired throughout the day go to the cafeteria and grab a cup of coffee or something maybe?? i can't see how someone would possibly be less tired having to work 5 days...

yeah getting written up for one missed bath definitely seems a little extreme. if the patient refused the bath, the cna should probably have let the patient know she would give him time to rest and watch tv and would try to come back later. if he r...

Honestly, I would ask your instructor or another nurse on the floor and write them down. There are a ton of abbreviations and the only way to really remember them is from seeing them over and over, I just started in September and half of the things ...

lol i had to laugh when i read that some people put years of experience because i did just graduate in may of 2009 and only have been working on my unit since september. my orientation is ending this week, and i definitely don't want to go into a ro...

Orange Tree I was thinking the exact same thing! There is really no way to know if you "barely" passed, and if it's true that this new grad really did "barely pass" nursing school as well, I highly doubt she is going around her unit advertising that...

I have to say that in this situation, it doesn't really seem fair to throw the new grad under the bus. I graduated in May of 2009 and started working in the hospital in September. Orientation for us was 16 weeks long, and I had never had a job in t...

Honestly, the truth always comes out in some way and you're going to look a lot worse if you get caught in a lie. Saying it was a bad fit isn't exactly a lie, but in the future, use this as a lesson. I don't want to sound mean but your babysitting ...

First of all, I'm very sorry to hear about your mothers passing My mom is still living so I won't even say I know what you're going through, but you will get through it!! Second of all, I'm sooo sorry to hear about your past. You have had to endu...

hmm yeah honestly, i'd say wait!! i graduated in may and took the boards in june and thankfully passed the first time!! i ended up getting hired in august and have been working at my hospital since september. my biggest fear was taking the boards ...

i'm a new grad as well!! i started in mid-september and i work on a step down unit (which really is more like an icu, a lot of our pts really are too sick even for our floor) but i'm going through a similar situation! i think that no matter what, w...

i'm a new grad too, and i am totally with you on this time management thing!! it feels like it's impossible to find time to get everything done (much less find time for "breaks"...whatever those are, or even time to pee!! lol)....but honestly, the a...