bennyRN

bennyRN has 1 years experience and specializes in General Medicine.

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1. What a difference a year makes

   bennyRN replied to Do-over's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Ditto!! 1 year for me as of next week! I remember when I first started, seeing the other new nurses who were 6 months-1 year in and thinking to myself "there's no way I'll ever be that competent"....

2. Why am I now the enemy?

   bennyRN replied to FancypantsRN's topic in General Nursing

   as part of my orientation to a medicine floor, i got to spend a shadowing day in the ED and it was an extremely eye opening experience. its unbelievable what those nurses deal with and i have so much...

3. The Worst Its Ever Been

   bennyRN replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

   sounds exactly like my floor, and somehow we are unionized. understaffed every night, the short staffed nursing attendants are sitting with patients, totally unrealistic expectations of measures to...

4. Time to read the chart, MD notes?

   bennyRN replied to stellaRN1983's topic in General Nursing

   I agree with the OP, you learn so much more about your patients from reading the MD notes, and by the end of 3 shifts with the same group of patients you feel like you know them iinside out. BUT,...

5. anyone else feel kinda lonely in this job?

   bennyRN replied to bennyRN's topic in Health, Stress Management

   Thanks for the words of encouragement :) im still looking for someone to get an apt with but there are a few prospects now so we'll see what happens. online dating...thats an interesting idea, maybe...

6. Miserable on the job....

   bennyRN replied to ALH2004's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Sounds just like my floor too - seems to be a trend haha. We have 6-7 med surg pts on nights depending on how many RNs decide to show up for the shift lol. 1-2 CNAs IF we are lucky, and when there's...

7. anyone else feel kinda lonely in this job?

   bennyRN posted a topic in Health, Stress Management

   So I'm a new grad for just about 6 months on an insane med-surg floor in a huge nyc hospital. I am so incredibly grateful to have gotten a job where I did, and survived for this long, and...

8. Question for new nurses

   bennyRN replied to long26's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Unfortunately I think that its the nature of nursing not to feel prepared in your job after graduating from school. I feel that no matter how much you learn in school, you will never be prepared for...