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1. New Nurse, what did I get myself into...

   ColorfulStethoscope replied to ColorfulStethoscope's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Thank you so much, reading your reply made me feel like I actually had a right to feel lost and overwhelmed... I was beginning to think that maybe I was just being a baby and needed to suck it up and...

2. New Nurse, what did I get myself into...

   ColorfulStethoscope replied to ColorfulStethoscope's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I don't mean to sound like a cry baby, or like I am whining because that is not what I am doing, I guess I am just feeling like I am at a disadvantage and like I was thrown to the wolves without...

3. New Nurse, what did I get myself into...

   ColorfulStethoscope replied to ColorfulStethoscope's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Thanks so much for your kind words, and encouragement. I knew it wasn't going to be easy, and I was prepared for that. But I do think the hospital should have had a few classes teaching us correct...

4. New Nurse, what did I get myself into...

   ColorfulStethoscope replied to ColorfulStethoscope's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Very true, I should start using other resources besides just my preceptor. So thank you for that. There isn't much down time on the floor that I am on, so unless I stay after my shift to look up...

5. New Nurse, what did I get myself into...

   ColorfulStethoscope replied to ColorfulStethoscope's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Thanks for the advice. This is my first career and I would fit into the first category you explained. So other than having bad clinical instructors or Nurses I have had to deal with in school, this is...

6. New Nurse, what did I get myself into...

   ColorfulStethoscope replied to ColorfulStethoscope's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I was in the OR for my final clinical rotation, and the OR is VERY different from bust floor nursing. In my last semester of nursing I had taken on two pts by myself, but we weren't able to do all of...

7. New Nurse, what did I get myself into...

   ColorfulStethoscope posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   Hello all, I am a new grad RN who landed my first job in a small hospital. I really wanted to work at this hospital because it is small and it is also a teaching hospital, so I figured I was going to...

8. New Hire RN - PCU (Cardiac Floor)

   ColorfulStethoscope replied to ColorfulStethoscope's topic in Critical Care

   Thanks so much icurnmaggie! I have been trying to relax a bit, but I'm so nervous that I don't know anything and am going make a fool of myself. Everyone tells me this is a common feeling so I...

9. New Grads: how long did it take you to find a job, or how long have you been ...

   ColorfulStethoscope replied to kieran07's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Graduated in May 2014, Went to Kent State in Ohio NCLEX-RN on July 29th Licensed for MI on July 31st. First Job interview August 27th Offered the position and accepted Aug 29th (on my BDAY, such a...

10. New Hire RN - PCU (Cardiac Floor)

    ColorfulStethoscope posted a topic in Critical Care

    Hello All, I recently graduate from Nursing school in May of this year. I took my NCLEX-RN on July 29th and was licensed on July 31st. I went on my first interview last week and was offered the...

11. Helpful books for Med Calculations

    ColorfulStethoscope replied to ColorfulStethoscope's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone! I will look into the books and website you have mentioned!!!

12. Helpful books for Med Calculations

    ColorfulStethoscope posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello, I have applied to 3 nursing programs and once accepted, we have to take a math med. calculation test every semester, and you have to get 100% on it, in order to pass. I was curious if there was...

13. Would this hurt me getting a job?

    ColorfulStethoscope replied to umharhar's topic in General Nursing

    Be Honest! Yes, tell them you volunteered at the hospital before, and if they ask why you quit, simply say while I was in nursing school it was too hard for my to volunteer and go to school, so I...

14. Paramedic vs Nurse! Decisions!

    ColorfulStethoscope replied to ConureDelSol's topic in Nursing Career

    I agree, I should have spoke up. I was young and it was my first "big girl" job. Since I was so young and the 2 EMT-B's training me had been there so long, I though speaking up would not have changed...

15. my not so lovely night

    ColorfulStethoscope replied to purple10's topic in General Nursing

    I am so sorry that you had a terrible night, just reading that made me feel so bad for you! I swear when it rains, it pours! I hope the rest of your week goes much more smoothly! :hug: