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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 injury....and much like Barbyann, I don't want to be anywhere ...

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 really, terrible reason other than I knew the unit ...

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 working there and that you don't really want to lo...

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 period of time. I had a pt last night who recently ...

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 nursing classes. Besides that, I knew quite a few peop...

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 references too. I guess the nursing shortage doesn't app...

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 wrong here. I just didn't want to see him suffoca...

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 in a while, we get lucky and have one for half of ...

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 patient her blood sugar seemed to drop for no goo...

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 work with her. I felt so terrible for her when I saw...

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 situation for which you have not been trained, espe...

My hospital as well is applying for magnet status and as someone on my floor explained to me, LPNs aren't included in magnet status which I think is totally absurd. On just my floor alone there are four LPNs working on different shifts and they're a...

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 a little low, I day dream about when I used to wo...

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. She even remarked about how wonderful the food was ...

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 preceptor was really hard on me and I was really not lear...

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 treating ANYONE like that where I work. In my short c...

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 many people have said, I wish I would have done it...

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 staffing office asking if I would come back early f...

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 patients, I've realized that I'm burning out fast. I've c...

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 September 7-15), only to have it cut short when I...

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 pretty darn sick. Although I've realized that if...

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 her because I really like her. Then this week on...

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 that she was a very experienced nurse saying this rea...

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. I started out at a job right out of nursing schoo...

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 paitents when I say, "Mmmm..that food looks good!" St...