KimburlyB

Olive_Juice have you sought counseling? I cannot imagine what you are going through! Nursing can be stressful enough on its own; but paired with anxiety disorder I am not sure I could make it! I commend you for sticking it out for the semester and wish you the best in whatever direction life takes you.

Did you actually complain about your ratios or just inquire what others were? I'm sorry that you work in such a stressful environment! I hope good things come for you in the future.

Questions will arise as you start to orient; you'll see something or be told something you don't really understand. Ask those questions; don't be afraid that your preceptor will think its a dumb question; as a preceptor i'd rather have my orientee ask me questions than find out later that they don't understand what they are doing. I'm more afraid of the orientee who never asks because none of us know everything; especially in your first position!! Congratulations on your first nursing job!

At the start of every shift we look back through all of our orders to verify that they match the MAR and that no labs/ tests ordered were not completed. I have found discrepancies more than once that are days old ( yes, this means some people are skimping on the chart check). If you are signing an order off with the current time and date then it is not illegal. You are not saying you did it when it was written. You are saying I see it now and it was implemented as written.