nursemike ASN, RN

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    "Big Money"

    nursemike replied to labrador4122's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Particularly when you're using that 7-9 dollar an hour part-time job to pay your way through school! I carpooled with a couple of very dedicated students with very deep religious beliefs (I take my...
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    Gay labeling, is it just plain mean? Or sexual harrassment?

    nursemike replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in Men in Nursing

    I don't want to be coy and suggest I don't know what someone means about dressing, speaking, acting, and carrying oneself as if one is gay. I have known a few gay men I believe could be described as...
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    Complaints

    nursemike replied to RiverNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    {{{Duh!}}} That which does not kill me makes me stronger, and that which does not kill my patients can probably be
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    Complaints

    nursemike replied to RiverNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Only you can decide whether this position, or even this career, is right for you, and if what you decide is valid for you, it's valid. I don't know many nurses--even very good ones--who'd argue with...
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    I just want to cry!!! I'm VERY overwhelmed!!

    nursemike replied to 2bTraumaRN2008's topic in First Year After Licensure

    When I was still in school, a friend in the CT lab advised me to go into critical care, because I'd be wasting my talents on a med-surg unit. It was a nice ego boost at a time I really needed one,...
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    I just want to cry!!! I'm VERY overwhelmed!!

    nursemike replied to 2bTraumaRN2008's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hey, Homegirl! (Just noticed your location.) I don't think either way would be wrong. Would your manager and educator be amicable to letting you try a couple more weeks, then transfer if you still...
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    I just want to cry!!! I'm VERY overwhelmed!!

    nursemike replied to 2bTraumaRN2008's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I work on a med-surg (neuro/neurosurg) unit. Slightly more specialized than the true medicine or gen. surgery floors, but same general principle. It isn't easy. Orientation was tough, and I'd worked...
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    "Eating Young"

    nursemike replied to TangoLima's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You said a mouthful, there. There is a stickie under General Nursing Discussion entitled: Do nurses really eat their young? That thread is 97 pages long. The demon in the box on my desk won't let me...
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    2 Classes down and on the Waiting List!

    nursemike replied to leonidasrex2's topic in Men in Nursing

    One of my professors said that education was the only product he knew of that you pay for in advance and are happy when you don't get it. True--but less true when you've had some experience with...
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    Veteran nurses antagonistic

    nursemike replied to dhammond3's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I do think my slightly grim portrayal of our situation is all the more reason to extend a hand toward those poor fools who are willingly climbing into the same boat. Feeling like everyone is out to...
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    are they supposed to know this by now?

    nursemike replied to labrador4122's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Bravo! What's the point of being a nurse, anyway, if you can't laugh about
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    Do men have priority when considered for Nursing School?

    nursemike replied to playbanjogood's topic in Men in Nursing

    Speaking from hard experience, getting flamed on allnurses is a lot less painful than getting hit over the head with a clipboard. There might be something to be said for letting this be a sounding...
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    Roll Call

    nursemike replied to Tweety's topic in Men in Nursing

    There something about your username that just tells me you'll be a great nurse. Can't quite put my finger on it... Anyway, welcome (and a slightly belated welcome to our other new
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    New RN and panicked/struggling

    nursemike replied to redwood's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Just want to say ditto to what Angie said. If the IV was good when placed and had a good blood return, watching it for a couple minutes when the vanc started and checking every hour as it ran was due...
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    Veteran nurses antagonistic

    nursemike replied to dhammond3's topic in First Year After Licensure

    On the other side of the coin, nurses are responsible for pretty much everything that happens with a patient. Lab misses a draw: nurse should have caught it and drawn it himself/herself. Pharmacy...
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    Scared Of Poop!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

    nursemike replied to nursingstudent424's topic in First Year After Licensure

    While this does seem to be generally true, I've seen occassions where patients have been offended by the odor of their own BM. (They weren't alone!) Actually, at the risk of TMI, there have been...
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    are they supposed to know this by now?

    nursemike replied to labrador4122's topic in First Year After Licensure

    There's a pretty lively discussion of the inadequacies of nursing education and ideas to improve it on the thread entitled "Hospital orientation SUCKS" in the first year forum. I'd provide a link, but...
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    Methodical Nurse/please advise

    nursemike replied to MoriahRoseRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    A. Please don't feel bad for coming to allnurses for whatever support you need. As nice as it will be, someday, when you're posting about some recent triumph or how great things are, as you say,...
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    Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

    nursemike replied to SoundofMusic's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm not sure how much "nice" has to do with it. Some, probably, in some cases. Judging by some posts on these boards, the "nursing shortage" is not so severe in some markets that new nurses can easily...
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    Six Months

    nursemike replied to paxpax's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Another "retread" nurse, here. Glad to hear it's going well. Isn't it nice that those grey hairs teach you some things that no amount of school could? Plus, people (patients, families, doctors,...
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    Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

    nursemike replied to SoundofMusic's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Good luck. It is scary, but despite the overall trend of this thread, may I beg to remind you that you don't "know nothing." That is to say, you are a nurse, and you do know a lot. For all the...
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    Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

    nursemike replied to SoundofMusic's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In my Sociology class (which, like Psych, I count as marginally nursing-related, unlike English or Pol Sci, which pretty much had nothing to do with nursing), we discussed the growing reliance on...
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    OK I now have RN behind my name and now over night am I suppsed to know everything?

    nursemike replied to racing-mom4's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I know what you mean, but on the other hand, graduating and passing NCLEX are meaningful milestones. You may not be an experienced nurse, but you really and truly are a nurse, and that's nothing to...
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    Easter..Who works..who is cooking?

    nursemike replied to barefootlady's topic in General Nursing

    Same as every weekend: sleep, work, sleep, work...sometimes wonder whether 3-12's is such a great idea. Eh, well. My cats seem to be heathens, anyway. If they saw a bunny hiding eggs, they'd kill...
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    Hospitals SUCK at orientation!!

    nursemike replied to SoundofMusic's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've thought for awhile that a trade model (apprentice/journeyman/master) makes more sense for nursing than a professional model. Carpentry is a science--proper joinery (even with nails) and...