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  1. First rotation hell!

    grentea replied to older_grad_nurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You deserve a better and more detailed evaluation other than "lacking insight". That's not too much of a helpful evaluation if you're supposed to be making some sort of an improvement. You don't...

  2. Nursing Residencies?

    grentea replied to APP's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I kind of did one, but other than meeting for a class one day a month, and having some meetings at the beginning of my orientation with other GNs, I don't understand what made it a "residency". IMHO...

  3. cleaning poop

    grentea replied to tprashad's topic in General Nursing

    poop happens. at this point, i'm over it. mouthwash helps a lot in cutting down on odor while cleaning up surfaces and sometimes even bottoms. oh yeah and that peri-spray helps a whole lot too....

  4. Colorado Board of Nursing Puts On Line All Nurses Home Addresses

    grentea replied to Teachingnurrse's topic in General Nursing

    Wow...in my opinion that's pretty messed up. I mean I've worked at other establishiments aside from healthcare in which the company has had to get people's permission before posting addresses and...

  5. First year = depression?

    grentea replied to Serenyd's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've been having a really hard time lately too. I made two mistakes at work (no one was hurt) and was told that if I make one more, I'm out. Now I'm a nervous wreck at work, and I'm coming off of...

  6. I need your help with recruting ideas.

    grentea replied to HarryPotter's topic in First Year After Licensure

    A good work environment and a facility that treats it nurses well is what would really draw me in. My happiness and job satisfaction matters a lot to me. I pretty much turned down a big sign on...

  7. What De-Stress technique works for you?

    grentea replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Health, Stress Management

    yoga is awesome. i did it a lot in nursing school and kind of got out of practice once i started working about five months ago. then i realized how miserable i've been feeling lately and i decided...

  8. The weekend that blew up

    grentea replied to newnurse51's topic in First Year After Licensure

    As a new nurse, I made two med errors too. I don't really want to get into what they were, but my patients were ok. I was told that one more, and I'll be asked to leave. I am feeling so ashamed of...

  9. Nursing is 24hrs is just an expression

    grentea replied to angelique777's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen some of this at my hospital. Sometimes it seems like people just want to pick apart my work because I'm a new grad. It's like a shift against shift thing a lot of times. I don't even have...

  10. Besides nursing...

    grentea replied to guest27716's topic in Nursing Career

    I second phlebotomy. I've also considered getting into psychological counselling of some sort or becoming a case

  11. Leaving work at work

    grentea replied to FLoridarnl's topic in Emergency

    i'm a new grad (on a med surg floor) so i'm not too good at leaving work at work. i try to stop myself from going over what happened during the day in my head. the other night i thought i might have...

  12. Anyone else hating morning shift?

    grentea replied to Rudegal2020's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yeah...I'm not a fan of day shift either, mostly because I'm seriously not a morning person. I was hired for evening shift, but for the last month and a half, I've been on day shift because they...

  13. Info: Where can I go to get health care regardless of my ability to pay?

    grentea replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Tinynurse-I'm in the same boat. Just crossing my fingers and hoping nothing happens. I did get pretty sick last week, but it was just a nasty GI flu thing that was going around, and there's nothing...

  14. Looking for second hospital...what to put on resume?

    grentea replied to Padicake's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think the best thing to do is to be honest and say where you were before. I was in a very similar situation. I had been at my first hospital for about two months when I realized things really,...

  15. scope of practice for new grads

    grentea replied to octopus's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I really haven't found myself in very many of those situations. Usually, I'll think through whatever a situation involves and if I realize that I might not know what I'm doing, I will always, always...

  16. tough time giving report.

    grentea replied to janetrette's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have to agree with JMBM. In terms of how RNs take report there are two kinds of nurses: the ones who are truly interested in knowing what they need to know to take care of the patient, and the ones...

  17. huge juggling act with time as the enemy

    grentea replied to joli's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I hear you Joli. Yesterday, one of the evening shift RNs thought I was working with her because I was still around after my shift was over. It was kind of funny. Almost every day when I come home,...

  18. do you feel like the CNA's run the floor?

    grentea replied to babynurse223's topic in General Nursing

    I really work well with the nurse aides on my floor. We help each other out a lot. Occasionally, I'll meet a nurse aide floated to my floor who might give some attitude but it's not something I get...

  19. Were you scared of needles or blood?

    grentea replied to justrose79's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I did an accelerated degree program and my original degree is in Political Science. For a long time I thought that I couldn't ever be a nurse because I had a blood/needle problem. Once I passed out...

  20. 12 hour shifts

    grentea replied to Caligirlrn2b's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    i guess i'm in the minority here, but i just started working eight hour shifts five days a week and i think it's great. i love the fact that that i can have a life when i'm done work. working a few...

  21. Um, more than I wanted to know...

    grentea replied to thumperRN's topic in General Nursing

    If I'm ever doing something right after work, I always bring a change of clothes. Besides the fact that I don't like walking around in my germy work clothes, I'm not too fond of the random...

  22. Need some support

    grentea replied to ladydame's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ladydame- I started out on a rough unit in a city hospital when I first graduated from nursing school all of six months ago. I was there for about two months before I was aware of the fact that I...

  23. A nurse health?

    grentea replied to babyphat's topic in General Nursing

    I think I've probably gotten sick less often. I had a pretty sedentary job/lifestyle before nursing and I guess just being a nurse forces me to be more active and as a result a little healthier...or...

  24. Preceptor Problems

    grentea replied to CountryGirl1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You could always talk to your preceptor directly about the fact that you don't like the way she has been talking to you and you feel like you need some real goals....that is if you really think she'll...

  25. Grey's Anatomy thoughts

    grentea replied to baby_gurl0604's topic in General Nursing

    Carolinapooh, you rock! For a while, my favorite work-out mix was Britney and Cher. I have to confess that I love this show, but really, if the creator of this show thinks it's any more than a...