RKRobbins

Your good Er nurses become expert at a lot of conditions, in the Er you must know a lot about a lot of different things

Hahahaha do we work together????? These things happen allllllllll the time and I just laugh! My last good one was 15yo boy no previous med hex, mother swears he stopped breathing and had to give him mouth to mouth in the car, boy presents with no s/s, completely a/ox4 , and TEXTING, after I confiscated his phone . I am think ok ok don't be the mean nurse try and take them serious and give BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT that SOMETHING happened so get a line get him on the monitors, check his fsbs........mom says oh my god you know he had his braces tightened last week!!!!! That's got to be why this happened, get the dr NOW and lets take his braces off!!!! I LOVE my job, I just smiled and giggled as I walked away( under my mask of course)

Good luck! You should be nervous, and that's why your going to have an orientation. Just stay calm and think your way through things and youll be ok :)

Unfortunately, my ED will sometimes hold ICU, TICU patients. And I hate it! It sounds like you tried to do your best and that y'all were slammed, the only good thing that my ed does is that when we have to hold the criticil pts we can close part of the ed that is set up as a major room and use those rooms to hold but we group all those pts together BUT its usually still only 1:4-5 and if your lucky you may have a tech. BUT the bad part of that is that you then occupy those major beds and the major assignments can then be quickly over filled and then you have the dreaded "hallway patients". :)Again, sounds like you were doing good trying to hang in there, and your going to make difficult decisions about what needs to be done first. Don't sweat the "telling of the charge/boss". You did what you could and your only one nurse

Ill say it like most of the ED nurses here will....Im sorry but if you really want this opportunity than your going to have to suck it up, pay your dues on nights and then maybe go to daytime when you have been there longer.May I also point out your a new grad, level 1 trauma center and you got an interview I'd LOVE to have.....if you cant make the interview....I can :)

Hi all! As a few of y'all know I recently graduated from my ADN program and have started my nursing career in the ED at a local hospital. My question is,since I know alot of you have taken advantage of the online programs and know more about them than I do at this point is this: I live in NC, I would like a RN-BSN ONLINE ONLY program that is accreddited but oh my goodness at all the mess google brings up, it's overwhelming! B/c of the work load I have now, I wouldn't have time to do any type of clinicals like I did in my ADN program. PLEASE help, any advice or school information is going to be GREATLY appreciated!!!

I am so glad to see this forum support nurses who love God! I have had a lot to endure the meger 27 years I have been.on this earth and sometimes I feel like I'm three times my age! I bounced around from a mom and dad who hated the sight of me, endured abuse that would make most people sick. But I made it and it wasn't until the last year or so that I realized the whole adult life I spent looking for a parent to love me.....I had it in Jesus Christ, throughout everything he was there. Loving me during times I wished I was dead, pushing me when I thought I couldn't make it. He was the one and the only one who has never forsaken me,never once. He lead me to my great husband blessed me with a daughter and blessed me with the will and determination to do anything in this life I want to, and all the glory be to him. I don't have a scripture off the top of my head because I'm really now studying the kjv, but I wanted to.say what I had on my mind.

WhAt!!!!!! There are always going to be haters....my husband always says (from a movie, ofcourse) "haters gonna hate, gators gonna gate" lol! I guess what Im saying is, try to have a sense of humor about what they said, I know it hurts to have someone you look up to put you down especially when you feel your doing fine. I had and Im sure we have all had "that" teacher who seems to hate your guts for some unknown reason or no matter what you do they act like you suck, I finally just decided that I would take whatever constructive criticism they had for me and use it, if they had something to say, I would always ask...ok what can I do better, I want to learn but I need to be guided by constructive criticism. BUT i agree, mean people suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats!!!!!!!!! Pearson Vue trick worked for me aswell as my class mates! Welcome to nursing!!

HAHA, anything with my name and RN sounds great to me, PM me and ill give you the info you need to use my q-bank. I only did the first 40 on number 7, and to be honest my scores aren't great at all with kaplan, but I in turn I used every wrong question as the opportunity to learn something new from the rationales. I don't know how to answer when your ready tho, bc if I would have waited until I THOUGHT I was ready, I would have never taken the test. :)

I am a "new" younger nurse and I am ashamed that they're are those who act that way and seem to give the "young'ins" bad names. While I don't *like* everyone I work with enough to be besties with them, I WILL be professional because that's what is expected as a PROFESSIONAL nurse. As for your current situation, while I worked as a non nurse in a very driven health care career before now, I constantly had new people coming in and "reporting" me b/c I didn't do things like the orientation packet says, well I found after a while that those people tend to weed them selves out, so hard as it may be just smile and give a good ole southern blessing and say....bless your heart..lets get you some help with that....hehehehhe

Thanks yall! to Suziecute: I used Kaplan question bank and learning modules on demand. My BIGGEST henderance was my self! I let my nerves get to me alot that day, I finally felt like I was being overwhelmed, so I stopped what I was answering, closed my eyes and asked for some clarity and calming, took a deep breath, and I know to some it might sound crazy but it worked for me. I also went in expecting to take all the questions, so to finish without doing that was a bonus, I have also figured out that I can only keep my attention for about 50 questions and after that my scores started to decline so regardless of if I needed a break or not, at every 50 I stopped and went to the bathroom (nervous bladder :) ) and came back and continued again. I also found I was trying to analyze more of what kind of question it was like application or analysis and wasn't really paying attention to the actual question!!!!!!!!!!! PS...what ever study guide your doing focus on the rationales of the ones you miss, I got a TON of very useful information from that.

Seems like you have alot to decide, while no it may not be ideal for your career plan BUT you have to take into consideration it's a child your thinking of having not a puppy, its a huge gift from God and try as we may we can not plan every part of our life. Think of your pros and cons, yes if you get pregnant you may throw your career plan off by a year or two but in the long term scheme of things its only a year or two and you get a beautiful child out of the deal. Whatever you do decide best of luck Side note....if you decide the baby path, couldn't you use the time after graduation to take some specialty small training peds core courses to help land that dream job :)

I absolutely don't think your being un-compassionate, like a few have said sometimes you have to work with what you got and the "not most pleasant" way is the best most effective way. I find in my experience ( I'm still a "baby" in the nursing profession) which I will say has led me to see some "traumatic" procedures, but I get it, you do what needs to be done. I have never been the most gushy goo nurse either, I show my compassion by doing a job well done and keeping my patients safe at the end of the day, whether they like it or not.

Agreed!!!