katielam616

Hey all! Have a pediatric interview today! I have wanted to be a pediatric nurse since I was 13 years old, so to say I am a little nervous is an understatement. I spent a good 15 years as a pediatric patient myself with a lot of time spent inpatient....

Thanks for all the good luck wishes! Unfortunately, I did not get the job. I am disappointed but ok with it all at once. The unit was not what I was expecting. It helped give me some good interview experience! Thanks again for the good luck! I will k...

i started my first nursing job in may 2011. graduated in december, took the boards in march, then started my job in may. i am sure plenty of people have written about this before, but i had to get this out. the first year of nursing has been by far ...

Hey all! I am a relatively new nurse (16 months experience) so not so new but still have days where i feel as if i dont know anything lol. I have been working in med surg for the last year and some months. I love med surg, but I desperately want to d...

thank you for your comment. I have been working in an acute care setting for over a year. When I applied to this hospital after graduation they told me "Get some experience and re-apply" I know school nursing is different than inpatient. I am just ho...

Thank you everyone for the kind words! I am sure it won't ever get easier (and if it does I will need an extremely long vacation :) ) I hope I was able to help the daughter. She was, understandably, very upset. It happened much sooner than I think sh...

Tonight I had a patient who I admitted last week for change in mental status. Unfortunately, this patient had been declining steadily since admitted. The family was unsure of what to do, so Full code remained. Today I have this patient again (4th tim...

I have worked med surg for over a year now and absolutely love it. Sure the patient load can get crazy at times but I have found many patients to be pleasant and enjoyable. Every unit will have different ways of doing things a different "vibe". My un...

thanks for all the messages guys! wish you all the best!

Hello again, I am new here as i am new to nursing. I just wanted to vent just a little. The last several weeks at work have been so nuts. I am becoming frustrated because the doctors are coming in to see the patients at 1:30 or 2:00 then discharging ...

i was a CNA for 5 years during nursing school. i know how hard it is for that poor aide to be the only one on the floor with all of these patients and a nurse who will and does assume all of the "dirty" work falls on them. it can be very frustrating....

so i am a relatively new nurse. 7 months in. sometimes i feel as if i will never know all the things the nurses on my floor know! is it natural to feel this way? i am in that stage where im still new but not brandy new like i was 7 months ago. im mak...

how HOH are you? i myself an 70% deaf in one ear and 10% on the other. i use a stethoscope with volume control that can go from the heart sounds to the lung sounds. i used to wear a hearing aide and got rid of it as a kid so i wouldnt become dependen...

hey guys, this was going around and i thought i would share it with all of you here! You're a nurse?? That's cool, I wanted to do that when I was a kid. What do you make?" "WHAT DO I MAKE??" I make holding your hand seem like the most important thing...

haha i loved it to. im really new to nursing but i love it and am very proud to be a nurse!

just read your post. im new too and had my first rapid response a month off orientation. it was really scary but like others have posted you are never alone. all the nurses on your unit know you are new and will help and teach you just what to do. ra...

hey! so i am a new grad just started my first rn job in may lol. posted on here a couple times. im starting to think about getting my masters degree. i have my bachelors now but i dont know where to even begin to figure out the masters programs? what...

thanks guys thats great advice!!! i do eventually want to get into a specialty so i think ill just stick with figuring out how to be a nurse and working in my specialty of choice. plenty of time to do the things i want to do! thanks again :)

no i want to learn how to be a nurse i love my job its just im looking into options for later on lol. i figured id start researching sooner rather than later. and by general nursing i meant do masters programs do a med surg component or do they do mo...

Hey! so i have now been off orientation for about 4.5 weeks. tonight was my first rapid response ever. it was really scary and i kinda cant believe it. basically the short story is i have report on a pt and she is late 70's who broke a few ribs on th...

when they looked at the xray her xray was worse from the day before so this had all been building up from the night before. basically with the hernia on the diaphragm the pts stomach and intestines were up in her chest so the new doctor didnt want to...

the doctor originally thought that the reason she was not responding as well was because of the xanax and morphine seeing as she did improve with the non rebreather. in all fairness to him she did look ok with the numbers but i thought she looked bad...

itll get easier right?

it was all very stressful. but i feel like i advocated for her as my pt and went with my instincts. i know everything will come with time.

hey guys! i posted a month ago or so about it being my first day off orientation. i must say it has been as busy and scary as i expected and didnt expect. on my first day i had 3 post ops (busy busy). im finding there is always something that happens...