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Hello, thank you for asking. I work night shift, I'm a new grad in my 2nd year on a BUSY medicine tele floor. Luckily, and gratefully, my coworkers are great. I have a 16 year old son and I am a single mother, we live in an apartment together with our puppy. He doesn't drive yet so he's not too independent and still depends on me to drive him to practice and school, etc. My biggest challenge is finding the time to exercise in between shifts and/or on days off (i'm either too tired or am too busy doing errands or cooking). The MOST difficulty I'm having is eating. I feel like my metabolism completely shuts down overnight but I'm not able to NOT eat overnight. So I end up eating a meal at midnight and snacking overnight, all of which I feel is still in my stomach when I'm lying down for sleep at 0900.

Expecting others to do their jobs. Still gets me everytime. From expecting pharmacy to have delivered a scheduled med that is NOT new, expecting social work/case management to have everything done for a discharge (Home O2, transportation, Dialysis, transportation from their new SNF to their new HD clinic, etc), to expecting CNAs to chart the in&outs, expecting the monitor tech to call when a patient desats or has frequent PVCs, expecting RT to show up after you call in a PRN treatment... the list goes on an on. For the most part, this all gets done. But it's those times that I don't double check when it bites me and my patient in the toosh. I'm just under a year new grad, been on an acute tele floor for 9 months now. Still learning a lot and still making mistakes, but the expectation that others will carry out their tasks, tasks which fall under MY LICENSE, are by far the biggest pain.

I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS Assess my patients! It may not happen in the first hour, but it ALWAYS happens. Focused assessments may happen first, but my Head to toe always happens prior to actually CHARTING my head to toe. Basic nursing skills.

I took statistics at my local cc (pierce) and CSUDH accepted it, but I think they changed the policy and will no longer accept statistics from them. I can't be 100% sure but I think I recall an email from them stating that... I would check with your contact, just run the question by them... If not, you can take it with them. I think they may have changed the policy because it was causing too many students to come up short on units prior to graduation. Hope this helps :)

Where do you buy your coffee?

I want what she's having!

I first joined AllNurses.com because I heard it was a great networking tool, especially for a student nurse (which I was when I joined). Then I discovered all of the new grad threads and the tremendous amount of information and support to be found there. Now, as a new grad still seeking work, I check in on the new grad threads as well as exploring other discussions on various topics. I try to lend support in the form of replies with info or my 2 cents. I think allnurses.com is such a great social media/networking tool for nurses. It is such a small world of nursing and allnurses.com links all of us across the nation!

I was told the same thing, to expect a welcome email and a phone call from OHS to set up an appointment for the physical exam and new hire paperwork... I accepted my offer on 1/31 and have not received either... Let me know if you find anything out about this. Thanks.

Hi Luckystar13, I searched the group but only find one titled with the year 2013, not 2014... I received an offer from 7East as well!! Thanks :)

@Bobb-o Someone on facebook posted yesterday that their friend went on an informal second interview/unit tour on the Liver Transplant/SICU the day before (so on Wed 1/29)...

Good Luck!! My thoughts are with all of you waiting for your ATT!

to every single one of the comments above.....

I'm not sure what every nursing school teaches, but mine most certainly did not sugar coat a thing. The difference, I think (as I'm not yet working), will be the feelings experienced when the brutality of reality hits... Make or break / sink or swim... I was born to nurse!!!

WELL PUT.

@ceccia ... We're all in this together, and I can only imagine that as a seasoned nurse @Ruby Vee is thinking about all the new grads that have come into her unit and up and quit because they couldn't handle it... It just isn't a good look.