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  1. When do you follow your heart?

    CoffeePVCs replied to FreckledCoffeeRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Cassie, I hear what you are thinking! Being a new nurse on a busy floor is like hell on wheels sometimes, but almost all of us on this new grad forum are on the same boat together. I also have a big...

  2. How do you learn to manage it all?

    CoffeePVCs posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm on day shift and most of the time it goes something like this... Just finished getting report and am trying to set up my binder for the day, map out med times (look for early meds and 730 glucose...

  3. Chart checks

    CoffeePVCs replied to maelstrom143's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yikes! That is scary. It's also scary when an order gets taken off under one impression but another nurse reads the order differently. My last nursing clinical in school was with a facility that...

  4. Is this still normal or do I need professional help?

    CoffeePVCs replied to iamgabrielle's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'd recommend looking at similar posts to yours. This place is a wealth of information and words of

  5. is it me??? I need help

    CoffeePVCs replied to iamgabrielle's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm nearly 1 month post boards and just out of orientation. I just made a post about my stress too! I'm usually still charting to 8-9pm and sometimes still doing tasks after shift change. It is so...

  6. Job NOT via new grad program?

    CoffeePVCs replied to Calinurse4's topic in First Year After Licensure

    There is only one hospital by me that does it, they pay very low for the area and the NGRs aren't promised a position. Sounds scary to

  7. The New Grad & Charting

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

    DanaNP, I use the patient safety check on the flow sheet. If there is a particular issue, like a known DVT I'll document the extremity q1-2h "+2 pedal pulse, cap refill I went to the bookstore today...

  8. The New Grad & Charting

    CoffeePVCs posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    i'm a two week old new grad! in clinical, i was only exposed to "click click" "scan scan" computer charting, and making "clinical notes" as needed. the tele floor i work on is a whole different way...

  9. Why was it hard for you?

    CoffeePVCs replied to angeltech's topic in General Students

    Being an RN now, everything in school that was "hard" has made me a critical thinker. All those late nights looking up meds, dilutions, push rates, careplans, interventions... it sticks with me today...

  10. I'm freaking out here.. I could fail clinical and i dont know why!

    CoffeePVCs replied to ashleyisawesome's topic in General Students

    Hold your head up high! Even if you do have to repeat a clinical, keep your eye on the prize, your

  11. The New Grad & Charting

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

    Sorry, it didn't look like that when I was typing it up, it won't let me edit it now but I'll make make sure to adjust it in future posts!

  12. The New Grad & Charting

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

    The nursing student inside me is over thinking. Bstewart40, your opinion matters in such that if you encountered a problem in the past, I'd like to know your opinion on what happened and what you...

  13. The New Grad & Charting

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

    Thanks for responding. I looked at that book and a few others. Good information, I am hoping for some personal insight/experience with charting

  14. ULL online RN to BSN program or LSU?

    CoffeePVCs replied to su9032's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    I'm considering both too. Online is important to me. What are you looking to use your BSN for? I want to get it for advancement. I know both are great schools but I am kind of leaning towards LSU...

  15. Need Advice on Metoprolol

    CoffeePVCs replied to Stormy8's topic in Cardiac

    Want to bump this thread, see a lot of beta blockers without parameters and it makes me nervous. Anytime we are considering hold a drug, we have to call MD. I would have called given hx of...