ChinupBSNRN

A lot of great answers have been given here. I just graduated last May, and in my experience, GPA mattered a LOT. GPA determined where we got to do our capstone. Less than a 3.5 and you were not able to capstone anywhere except med/surg. Not so f...

A classmate and friend of mine just found out she failed NCLEX for the 2nd time. :-( We all graduated in May, and she did not sit for NCLEX until the middle of September. She just wasn't ready and was struggling with the practice questions. Failed...

I totally understand where you are coming from with this. I am kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place to be honest. I would like to offer my assistance......I just do not know how to do it. I am not a NCLEX guru by any means but I guess I am...

I can definitely take that lesson with me too. No matter how hard the day has been, I always slap a smile on and treat others with respect. I know that not everyone is like that, and I can appreciate that. But I would never treat anyone the way sh...

Hey everyone! I had an experience at work yesterday, and I have mulled it over in my head a million times so I need a fresh perspective and thoughts on what could have been done differently. I am a new ICU nurse, off orientation for a month now. I w...

All of the comments and feedback here are so great! Since I am so new to the profession, everyday is a big learning experience and I constantly find new things to learn and remember. Ironically, this was the first pt I have ever had on a heparin dri...

Thank you so much! Yep, heparin and alteplase. The PRN was to be Q6 after initiation of the heparin. What didn't red flag me was there were no titrate orders on the MAR plus no scheduled lab draws Thank you for the kind words. It is so intimidati...

Well my bad, here in the states "Oz" can also mean Kansas. Australia was the last thought in my mind when I replied to your post. My apologies. I guess I took a little offense at the insinuation about people with no experience getting a job and tha...

Several of my classmates are new grads there. They have had a large RN turnover this summer and fall. They passed on that info to others in my class that had not found a job yet. They always start internal and then open it up to the public. I did a l...

Hmmm......I got a job 6 months ago as a May 2011 new grad with ZERO experience. Applied to well over 20 tech positions, never even got an interview. I got a new grad ICU position in a hospital I had never stepped foot into for clinical, capstone, o...

Wanted to give everyone a little update! Some of you may remember a few months ago when I was in a very sad place as a new nurse. Horrible preceptor, completely emotionally and physically spent, and gave my job my resignation. I was called by my 2 ...

Several of my classmates from May are still job hunting as well. I keep my eye on the different hospitals and heads up them when I see stuff. Yep, Truman is new grad hiring. Deadline is Oct. 7th though. KU has some nurse entry jobs on their websi...

WOW!!!! The highest I have seen is 13.2 on a Tylenol OD. Bled from every oriface of his body. AST/ALT were in the 12,000. Poor thing died less than 48 hours later. His OD was accidental. He didn't follow label directions. I hate acetaminophen ...

I really like how my unit schedules. We self schedule, and 98% of the time you get the schedule you sign up for. There may be an occasional day where we are experience weak and newbie heavy so they have to make a couple of adjustments. As for holida...

Wow. I, too, find it maddening what she did. Patient care is compromised by her actions. If you were relying on that data before giving dig or metoprolol you could severely brady a patient if their HR was already low. What she did was dangerous a...

Hey everyone-- Kind of in a predicament here. I am a new nurse and have been working nights for the past 3 months. I was hired for full time nights, have oriented on nights, and am due to come off orientation in 2 weeks. YAY! Today, I found out t...

Ponywow, you are 100% correct. When I interviewed I was told it was a night position. When I accepted the job it was night position. I signed a 6 month contract in which I can not request a move to days until the contract is over. Yet they can "pend...

I really really appreciate everyones input and advice!! I agree that this is a unique situation in that most people want day shift. My unit has zero people that want to go to days. And it is based on senority of course. We had 4 day shifters that wen...

I agree with a lot of what has been posted here. I am definitely a new nurse, only been an RN for 5 months now. I do think that we need to be careful about how we define the eating of young though. I don't think it just pertains to age, as some po...

Ooh Ooh Ooh this is an actual statement I overheard a co-worker say the other night: "I don't understand why we have to give this Lactulose. I mean, seriously, this patient just keeps crapping and crapping and crapping. And it is so freakin' yellow...

I absolutely think this law is fair. Laws such as these are put into place to protect the patient. These laws are why as an incoming nursing student I had to pass a federal background check to matriculate into the nursing program. My university kn...

Just a couple of thoughts..... I work in a Magnet hospital. They definitely hire ADN's. Just not as new grads. If you want to do the residency program, you need a BSN to do it. If you have 1 year experience and wanna work on a unit, ADN or BSN, a...

Ahhhhh big hug to you! I am a new grad as well. And I have had more than my share of issues as a new grad as well. It is so tough!!! Don't diminish your ADN education in all of this. I finished BSN just a few months ago and trust me, we are just...

The title doesn't even begin to say how horrible I feel. :-( I just graduated in May with my BSN. I did very well in school, graduated with honors. I am in my later 30's and this is a second career for me. I was one of the fortunate ones to get a...

I could not WAIT to tell all of you about my night last night! My shift, and my new preceptor, were AMAZING! For the first time, I left work feeling like a human being, not a piece of chewed up meat. My new preceptor is so nice, so smart, and is a ...