ER(notso)n00b ASN, RN

Meth, alcohol, and MJ. 99% test positive for MJ and I've seen several accidental peds overdoses in the past few years thanks to edibles. We had a lot of spice coming through last year, but I haven't seen many recently. Heroin is on the upswing but ...

In our dept, OT goes home first, followed by registry. Then volunteers, and if that doesn't get us there they force based on lowest seniority. I've only seen that happen a couple of times. Usually people are more than happy to leave a couple of ho...

108.9 rectal. She was frying on some rave drug cocktail. Lowest was 89.3. Septic SNF pt.

I just got a brand new Cardiology III after my Master Classic II and back-up Lightweight both walked away in the span of 3 weeks. The new one is engraved in 2 places and has a dog tag hanging off of it as well. I am guarding this sucker with my lif...

Usually the primary RN documents, since they are ultimately responsible for the patient. In a pinch anybody can do it, although when I'm the primary I prefer to document on my own patient.

I started as new grad in a very busy inner city Emergency Department in July. It's a 24 bed ER with a daily census of over 200, if that gives you any clue. Large homeless and impoverished population. Total madness. Ratio is 4:1, and they can be 4...

Awesome! isn't it a great feeling? Glad to hear things are going well for others too. :)

Sounds normal. Give it time, you will learn a lot of new things and start to feel more competent after a few more months. I'm on month 7 in a high volume ER and I felt the way you are describing for quite a while. Things are starting to get better...

Thanks for the replies! That's what I love about this forum, that we all understand what it's like starting out and can support one another. Best of luck to you both, scaredsilly (awesome name btw!) and wayfinder! Here's to many more years of imp...

1) Southern California 2) $38.60/hr with 10-15% night diff and an amazing benefit package (free medical! pension!) 3) New Grad 4) ER

I work mids (3-3:30) in a high volume ER. I am switching to nights in a few weeks because I hate this shift. Me and the other mid-shifters discuss this a lot - we usually end up with the worst assignments, and we run our butts off for the entire sh...

It was hard, but doable. I was in a 2 year ADN program. When I started, my kids were 2, 4, and 6. My husband is a nurse who was working 4-5 twelve-hour shifts each week. Honestly, sometimes I don't know how we made it through. I was just super d...

I got hired into an ER as a new grad after doing my preceptorship there. I discovered ER during second semester and I was hooked. I worked my tail off in nursing school and requested to precept in the ED, and was lucky enough to be the only student...

Just a fyi, it took mine almost 2 weeks to post on BreEZe. But that seems to be on the long (and frustrating) side. Congrats!

I'm working on my care plan and I need 5 nursing diagnoses. I have 3 actual and 2 risk-for diagnoses already and I'm wondering if I should prioritze them the same or put the risk-for as lower priorities. Thank you for any advice.

That's the same pop up I got, and I found out today I passed! Congrats!!!

Update: The PVT worked, my license was posted on BreEZe today!

I waited over 4 months for my ATT due to the BRN delay in California. When it finally came Wednesday night (4/16), I went to schedule my NCLEX and the only dates available were 2 days later and 2 months later. So I went with the soonest appointment ...

I would do it as early as possible. I was part of that December grad group that was delayed by months. It took 4 months to get my ATT. The guy in my class who sent in his app early got his ATT a month before any of the rest of us. He's been worki...

I am so glad I found this thread. I took NCLEX on April 18th and am still waiting - BreEZe says status pending, I got the good pop up, but no proof of a license is anywhere to be found. Meanwhile, 6 people from my class who took it after I did alre...

Who voted "got the good pop up and failed?" Did this really happen to 4 people?

I just saw that you got your results, congrats!!! I'm still waiting and it's killing me. To top it off, 3 of my classmates who took it after me got their results today. I really really hope the good pop up wasn't some kind of cruel joke.

13grad - check your email.

Whoatemyburger - congrats! Wasn't it nice to just get it over with? I think it saved me a lot of stress doing it that way. I sort of think the longer you wait, the more you forget too. I had already waited 4 months for my ATT and was feeling like...

jesskateer, I've heard that from a lot of my classmates as well. There were literally words on there that I had never heard before! Congrats to you!