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  1. Nurses, where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?

    grentea replied to learning08's topic in General Nursing

    I plan to be a mommy, a good caretaker of my fiance who has a spinal cord injury, and I would love to counsel and help families who are learning to care for a loved one with a spinal cord...

  2. Not giving up

    grentea posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've been having a rough time lately. I'm pretty much a new grad and I just started out at a new hospital after being at my first one for about two months. I didn't leave my first hospital for any...

  3. Heartbroken

    grentea replied to HisHands's topic in General Nursing

    Tell your DON that you will have go to another hospital soon (give a specific time period) if she can't put you on the shift you need to be on. Remind of your problem and tell her how much you enjoy...

  4. Trach capping and suctioning

    grentea posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I changed units and I'm orienting on a new unit where there are a lot of trachs. I've been a nurse for a year and some change and I've had a trach patient here and there not one for a long term...

  5. Drexel ACE STUDENTS or GRADUATES

    grentea replied to Ling07's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I'm ACE grad from 2005. I wouldn't worry too much about being a "C" biology student. Any college Biology class is probably way more complicated than the kind of science we had to grasp for our...

  6. Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia

    grentea replied to BigL97's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Good luck to you, my friend. I'm an RN/BSN and I couldn't get so much as a single call back from anyone in HR after I submitted applications for a few different positions online. I have good...

  7. Trach capping and suctioning

    grentea replied to grentea's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you everyone for your responses! Morte, the docs actually are trying to wean him off the trach so I think I can see where the RT was coming from. Although I suppose I wasn't completely in the...

  8. Unit secretaries a must

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

    Usually, my floor has to go begging for a unit secretary on my shift. If we have a gaggle of admissions, we'll get one for an hour or two from a another floor to help us with admissions. Every once...

  9. bottoming out... on dialysis

    grentea replied to timdmb's topic in General Nursing

    This had happened to me a few times with a patient of mine who was on dialysis. Then my health system came out with a warning about patients on peritoneal dialysis and false high accuchecks. With my...

  10. Nurses Eat Their Young

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

    This week on my unit, a new RN who had been orienting on day shift started on my evening shift, which will be her pemanent position. Her usual day shift preceptor did a double and I don't usually...

  11. Tired of my workplace

    grentea replied to New2ER's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sounds like you did not get $11,000 worth of an orientation. It's also pretty darn inappropriate to ask an orientee three weeks into orientation to take her own patients and risk being in an unsafe...

  12. I am a nurse, but I dream of....

    grentea replied to Elisheva's topic in General Nursing

    In my fantasy life I dream of being: 1. A video editor. It was my job in college and was so much fun. 2. A college campus minister 3. An airline stewardess 4. A musician And when my standards are...

  13. pacify or orientate? Alzheimers...

    grentea replied to Lfransis's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    When I was in nursing school I met a resident who was rather pleasantly confused. When I would ask her the standard orientation questions, she said that she was on a cruise ship with some friends....

  14. Need some encouragement..

    grentea replied to healer27's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If you realize that things really aren't working out with your preceptor at some point, don't be afraid to ask for a change. I did when I was on my orientation and it really helped. My first...

  15. Never understood nursing

    grentea replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

    OP, I'm sorry you've had such bad experiences but we're not all bad. I would say that a vast majority of us are very good at what we do and we're professional. I personally would never dream of...

  16. If you could go back would you still choose nursing?

    grentea replied to aspentree13's topic in General Nursing

    This won't come out as very convincing.....but yeah, I'd probably do it again. There are things that I like about nursing and things that I don't like, but the good definitely outweighs the bad. As...

  17. Does staffing call YOU every night???

    grentea replied to Fairlythere's topic in General Nursing

    I get a call from my staffing many nights that I have off. A few weeks ago our census was very high and I was getting calls almost every day I had off. I went on vacation and I had a call from the...

  18. Are You Happy ?

    grentea replied to buildingmyfaith57's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not happy. Work has been getting to me lately. After about six weeks straight of my usually calm and pleasant floor being turned upside down by poor staffing and an influx of heavy care...

  19. Drexel' s ACE program

    grentea replied to Ann262's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    RowerPSU and anyone else planning vacation- Call up the ACE people and ask them when the orientation is. I had planned a vacation six months before orientation in 2005 (I think it was going to be from...

  20. My co-workers are dropping like flies!

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

    Thanks Daytonite and Tweety. Things have been rough lately also from a numbers perspective in that we're short one person. Our ratio was 7:1 tonight and it was rough because some of our patients are...

  21. My co-workers are dropping like flies!

    grentea posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I love my floor, honestly I do, but lately I've been really stressed out. It started about three weeks ago when our secretary took a leave of absence. I'm not sure why and I'm actually worried about...

  22. Thank you's - memorable ones you've received?

    grentea replied to Liddle Noodnik's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    One of the best thank you's I had ever received was from a patient I had who was also a nurse. Before she was discharged she said, "Thank you for your kindness and for caring about me." The fact...

  23. "do" or "sit"

    grentea replied to weirdRN's topic in General Nursing

    If you know your job isn't what you wanted this soon, consider yourself lucky for being that insightful. Don't be afraid to give your two weeks if that's what you need to do and find a job you want....

  24. What's In Your Pocket?

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

    Black pen, red pen, yellow highlighter, my PDA, a penlight, flushes, alcohol swabs, my notes, and $3 for dinner. Seriously I can get an awesome dinner for $3 at my hospital. I'm not lying to my...

  25. Hospitals/5 star amenities--what do you think?

    grentea replied to EDGRADNURSE's topic in General Nursing

    Darn I had enough problems this weekend with the hokey little $5 dollar phones we have in our patient's rooms. I couldn't imagine trying to care for my patients in addition to the expensive TVs and...