Adam D. RN2005

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1. A three ambulance wedding...

   Adam D. RN2005 replied to Adam D. RN2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Thank you for the compliment. I will say that I am humbled by what you have said because I don't think of myself as a rolemodel. I am just trying to be the best nurse that I can be. Again thank you...

2. One Year In...

   Adam D. RN2005 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   I kept on meaning to sit down and write this post over the past couple of weeks, but life just kept on interfering. And the fact that I have been so busy that I haven't had time to really sit down and...

3. A three ambulance wedding...

   Adam D. RN2005 replied to Adam D. RN2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

   To answer some questions: Type of nursing tha I do is Med/Surg Nursing. I work on a TOUGH, and I do mean TOUGH MED/Surg Unit. I was planning this month to start the transition to ICU nursing, but...

4. A three ambulance wedding...

   Adam D. RN2005 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   I had attended my cousins wedding last week, it is now a three ambulance wedding. And it wasn't even an irish one. (My cousin use to be an EMT, so there were quite a few medics, a couple of nurses, a...

5. ACLS Certified!!

   Adam D. RN2005 replied to Adam D. RN2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

   It really wasn't that tough. There is a lot that you have to know, but they teach it to you. But they teach you how to run a code, and it really helps you anticepate what the MD is going to order...

6. Death of a favorite Patient...

   Adam D. RN2005 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   :bluecry1:I guess stunned, shocked and grief stricken is the best way to describe my feelings right now. That also is the best way to describe my unit feelings. The patient was a favorite of the...

7. ACLS Certified!!

   Adam D. RN2005 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   Past two days, I have been taking an ACLS class, today took the certification exam and can now start adding the proverbial alphabet soup after my name. The new way for BLS CPR is completely...

8. The tale of a pacemaker...

   Adam D. RN2005 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   My life has been a blur over the past two months. Now that I am catching my breath, back from vacation, and slowing down slightly from the overtime, I now have more freetime. From a nursing perpective...

9. When it rains, it pours...

   Adam D. RN2005 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   Yesterday, two of my patients expired. In the same room 9 hours apart from each other. I felt honored when the first family saw me walk in yesterday morning and asked me to be the patients nurse. The...

10. Eight months in and loving it...

    Adam D. RN2005 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have been a practicing nurse now nearly eight months. What I can't believe is how well I am doing. I love getting up (okay I don't enjoy the getting up part) in the mornings to go to work. The...

11. You know the family is nuts when...

    Adam D. RN2005 posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    Your charting reflects more of the antics of the family then the patient. As the family is going balistic, you sit there smiling to yourself knowing that you are going to chart

12. Fun Day...

    Adam D. RN2005 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    You know you have a problem family member when your charting reflects more about the antects and harassement of the family member then the actual condition of the patient. Add that in to two RN's...

13. Were you scared of needles or blood?

    Adam D. RN2005 replied to justrose79's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My thing was BM and Vomit. Early on, when I was a student, I got over my vomit issue very quickly. How you ask, had a patient declare to me that she was nauseaous, and stuck a kidney basin in front of...

14. When do you start feeling like a RN

    Adam D. RN2005 replied to HyperRNRachel's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hey Rachel, I been praticing 6.5 months now, and I still feel like a student at times. I started feeling like an RN when I came off of orientation. I stopped feeling like a student after a few weeks...

15. I had my first patient in active chest pain during my shift!

    Adam D. RN2005 replied to christvs's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Christine, First, Happy Birthday. Second, good job. You did all of the right things. Sometimes you need to keep on top of what is going on. Chest pain can be anything. And there is such a thing as a...