caryrey02

Hello, I am new to the world of oncology nursing and in my unit I see nurses with The tittles OCN (Oncology Certified Nurse) and BMTCN (Bone and Marrow Transplant Certified Nurse). Can anyone explain what the differences are, if one is more basic than the other? Try to find the answer online but have not been successful. Thank you.

I just received a call, I have been accepted to start august 26th.... see you all there!

Are you sure you have the right number to call? On my fist call I got a rapid response from an admission advisor and spent about half an hour on the phone with her. Then she sent me an e mail will all the info she had just given me on the fone and did a follow up call 4 days later. So far so good.

I also applied to start fall 2013, hopefully all goes well. Greetings from Miami

we do not pace DNR patients in my unit, it is part of the DNR form "No external pacer", "no transvenous pacer".

Chocolate labs are beautiful :yeah:

I strongly disagree with you since this nurse has no obligation to do someone else's job. It is the management's responsability to fill in those gat that they allowed in the first place to occur. There are plenty of nurses out there that would be more than happy to cover some of these spots. If we nurses don't stand for ourselves we will continue to be stepped on and our job taken for granted. You should re-evaluate your standards and ideas of nursing

their way of saying you didn't get is to simply disappear... If I were you I'd give them a friendly follow up call, worked for me ;-) Good luck

well it is doable and you can learn quickly. Hopefully they place you might start working at has a wound care team and you can learn from them. I really like wound care, you can see some tough cases but it is rewarding to see the patients get better when done well and around the clock ;-) Good luck

in Miami

as a new grad I received 4 weeks of orientation then on my own witout letting me know, it it was good to eliminate the stress of knowing "today is my first night on my own" since 8 am in the morning lol

That happened to me too when they called to offer a job, it is probably three days general orientation plus the 2-3 weeks clinical orientation

:yeah::yeah:Best post around...way to go!!! Kudos, Kudos, Kudos:up::up:

yes, way off topic but OMGGG!!! what were they thinking?? no justice for that kid ? only guilty for lying to a police officer? what about not reporting that kid missing for 31 days while she was seen dancing and celebrating during those days ? that is not justice, but she will get her Judgement Day, and she better be prepared for real justice

If you belong to the Academy of Med surg Nusing (AMSN.com) they have awesome articles from journals that you ready and they give you CEUs

IMHO you could try any new area to see which one will hit that excitment button... don't go to home health, there are better options out there for you

it is totally normal when u first start to not even do well report, you are not expected to do well period...it is a period of adjust,emt and you will be on your own doing everything a nurse does in no time. Your preceptor seems to be happy with you so tha means you are learning. Just give yourself sometime, I have been on my own for three months only and I have seen a new nurse emerging, I have no complaints. Good luck!!

my facility in south florida pays 25.29 to new grads plus 5 dollars differential for nights and 6.50 differential for weekends

I agree with this poster...not everything is black and white. Sometimes, given the special situation you have to adjust the way things are done to make sure you inject the medication into the muscle.

Like almost everyone else have said you are not alone in this. I am fairly new nurse and I remember how embarrasing it was so spend almost 5 minutes to try to pop a pill out of the package only for it to fly across the room and land in the floor. It is OK, it gets better, you will do this every single day of your nursing life plus you will not have the eyes of your instructor watching over your shoulder. As far as the incident with the lancet just let every patient know you are sorry whenever some type of discomfort has been caused but remember sometimes you can't help it. What is uncomfortable will be uncomfortable regardless of how much we try to make our best. Good luck and welcome to nursing. Enjoy nursing school, it is a great phase of your life and in no time you will realize it is over.

I wouldnt say it's OK to go to human resources. This is a person that graduated and has a lot to learn, probably needs the money and the benefits from a jod too. I understand patient safety is the main priority but there must be a way for this person to start getting the hand of being a nurse little by little. Fear to commit mistakes might be her first barrier to learning...talk to her but more like a co-worker than like a preceptor, it worked wondefully with me, in three weeks I was doing all of my preceptor's work, including documentation. Good luck

sometimes the best option just doesnt exist, hopefully pharmacy can change the rout or the preparation of the medication but if not, I open it and mix it with apple sauce, I rather do that that have my 90+ year old patients not being able to swallow the pill or aspirate/asfixiate on me

Id say if you can afford ACLS it is much better. With the job market as bad as it is these days it makes you a better prepare candidate, also there are places that will give you both cartifications for almost the same price of ACLS alone, thats how I did it... check nursing unlimited and good luck!!

At my facility we do it everyday, specially Abx.... we have plenty of infections so for sure everyday I go to work I know i will be hanging some type of abx ... IVF not that much... NSS and 1/2 NS are the most common

Just try to learn the good thing this preceptor might be able to teach you and once you are on your own you can make sure you wash ur hands every time you have patient contact, make sure you educate patients and family members, etc etc... in no time you will be taking your own decisions and you wont feel frustrated =) Congrats on the new job