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beeker

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  1. Wish me luck!

    well confucious, i will hope for the best and plan for the worst. all kidding aside, my plan is to do my best. that is really all i can do at this
  2. Wish me luck!

    Thank you all for the support! I survived my first shift! I was so busy I felt like I was running in circles. It got really hairy at one point when 2 patients were calling for meds(one for pain med...
  3. Wow guys really? Do you remember your FIRST DAY as a new grad? Yes I wanted my preceptor to supervise me pushing meds on DAY 1!! I do not think that is unreasonable, you are a huge bundle of nerves...
  4. Is this a diaylisis job? If it is there was a long thread about one company doing this often to new
  5. Relatively new nurse: dialysis or school nursing??

    These days things are a lot different than they used to be new grads take what they can get. That whole year of med surg is nice if you can get it, most of us take what is available. OP- I worked as a...
  6. Which do you prefer?

    I currently work three 12's a week, 7p-7a, they schedule me totally sporadically with no sense of normal. Sometimes 3 back to back, sometimes all spread out. My previous job was 16 hour shifts, that...
  7. Why I became a nurse

    I spent a good portion of last night charting in one of my confused elderly patients room for the same reason. She kept crying and asking for Emily ( a family member I assumed) and she thought I was...
  8. New Grad

    HR moves slower than every other aspect of life on planet earth. From my job hunting experience as a new grad (beating down doors and looking for jobs) I learned a few things. Nothing happens in HR on...
  9. Alternative CNA Jobs? San Diego, CA

    Before becoming an RN I worked as a dialysis PCT. It is hard work, but you learn so much and you really get to know your patients. Now that I am an RN I miss getting to know your patients. I feel like...
  10. Time For Another Days vs. Nights Debate!

    We have more patients. We have few resources. Methinks this thread is obviously started to cause some drama. Save the drama for your
  11. Time For Another Days vs. Nights Debate!

    I wish the patients were sleeping! Confused patients don't know it is night time. Ortho patients have pain all night. PCAs aren't all that useful at night because if you fall asleep you wake up...
  12. Anyone familiar with Kindred (LTAC)

    The Kindred near me has terrible reputation of understaffing and huge patient loads. They hire almost exclusively new grads (in an area where new grad jobs are hard to come by) and burn through them...
  13. Rather frustrated with work management

    I'd probably bide your time until the baby comes, then split to a position elsewhere in the hospital. It might also be worth setting up a meeting with the new manager when they get there and express...
  14. Umass boston RN-BSN online program

    How long did it take you to complete the program? I think I saw that it would take 2 years, is that
  15. Xarelto

    We give it regularly on my
  16. Ortho Docs and pain meds

    I've cared for patients POST hip replacement with nothing but tylenol, but that was because they were confused and the Dr was a jerk. I would have to ask what else is going on with your patient? What...
  17. Sad state of affairs!

    Now that I am working as an RN I can't believe how bad my health insurance is. With my former job, as a grocery store clerk, I paid $5 dollars for 2 of my scripts and $35 for the most expensive. Those...
  18. Sad state of affairs!

    I can't go part time or per diem I am a new grad with no experience. Same for home health, I need to get some experience first. My orientation is up in 2 weeks and then I need to suck it up and try...
  19. Sad state of affairs!

    It is a unionized grocery store, and I worked in the bakery. I enjoyed my job, but did work every
  20. On my floor it seems to depend on who you are working with. There is a good group of people that pitch in and help each other when someone falls behind or gets sicker, but some nights it is the every...
  21. New grad, charge nurse. Doable?

    Is it doable- probably but it will be a hard road is it advisable?
  22. Night shift nursing

    I try to stay up til about 2 or so before my first night shift, then I sleep from 2-6ish, then I shower get my clothes ready etc run errands, then go back to sleep from like 10-2. During the day my...
  23. Terrified! Advice.

    I am about to be off orientation and on my own! I am literally sick to my stomach thinking about it. They cut my orientation 2 weeks short, as 2 nurses have quit in the last month and night shift is...
  24. Terrified! Advice.

    Thanks for the advice and kind words! I wish I could just get it together! So
  25. Surprise In My Pocket - this ever happen to you?

    In nursing school a very wise nurse preceptor told me to ALWAYS empty your pockets out before going home. You never know what you ahve accumulating in there all