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  1. LA Gov declares state of Public Health Emergency

    grinnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    For all those with the ability to contribute your services, I just saw on Fox News on the ticker at the bottom of the television this: The Gov of LA has declared a state of Public Health Emergency...

  2. Night from #@**

    grinnurse replied to wanda06211's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You are definately not alone. I have been working now for 3 mos as RN and have had 2 days when I was in this type of situation. I handled it by crying all the way home and reading posts on here b/c...

  3. Hurricane Katrina Relief

    grinnurse replied to Adam D. RN2005's topic in General Nursing

    Adam- I feel the same. Just got my license in June and really would like to go and help as an RN but just don't feel qualified even though I have been working on my own now for almost 1 1/2 mos I...

  4. LA Gov declares state of Public Health Emergency

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in General Nursing

    UPDATE Need to register with the Dept of Health and Human Services and you must be in good standing with in your state in order to go to work. It will be a non-paid temporary federal job but...

  5. LA Gov declares state of Public Health Emergency

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Cheer-I am gonna go to the site and see if it is as volunteer or if they will be paid somehow.

  6. refugees hit home

    grinnurse replied to mandrews's topic in General Nursing

    OP- I live in the Dallas Ft. Worth area and we will be getting appox. 50,000 of the evacuees and now we have surrounding towns in which the churches are taking in families too. We have been...

  7. Family Witnessing Code Activities

    grinnurse replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in General Nursing

    About 10 yrs ago I watched them do a code on my sister, (inadvertently) and can honestly say that I would never want to witness that again on a family member. I had nightmares from that experience...

  8. For those working 12 hour shifts, what is your schedule like?

    grinnurse replied to JCRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto on my schedule. I would like to know where the one's are working that said the weekends are more laid back. Are they still hiring new grads :wink2: I just did my 3 and it was crazy all 3...

  9. This was a first: a nursing student approached me about my patient

    grinnurse replied to christvs's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It is cool isn't it seeing how far you have come. I have been blessed to have students while I was doing orientation and it really did bring things full circle to see that I had made it. I took a...

  10. Am I only one who got 3hrs sleep night before starting new RN job?

    grinnurse replied to Larry77's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Glad that you had an excellent first day. You should sleep like a rock tonight esp after hot tub.

  11. Sudden Panic

    grinnurse replied to GJH-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi GJH- What you are feeling is natural and that is good to some extent b/c you will really be aware of what's going on with your pts. I just grad in May 05 and in January when I started that final...

  12. Am I only one who got 3hrs sleep night before starting new RN job?

    grinnurse replied to Larry77's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi Larry- Congrats on the RN. I was awake pretty much the whole night b/f my first day as working as an RN. I too returned to a facility that I had worked in as a tech/ward clerk and I kind of...

  13. First interview--scared stiff

    grinnurse replied to sav's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi congrats on grad and the interview. On the student nurse forum there is a sticky called "Interview Questions" that you might want to take a look at. Helped me when I went for my first interview...

  14. Need to vent about my crazy day at work..

    grinnurse replied to christvs's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Christine- Sorry you had such a trying day. Hopefully today will be better for you. I hate days like that when all you can do is put out fires. Glad that we have allnurses.com to vent on though!!...

  15. Critical thinking help

    grinnurse replied to punkrockgirl's topic in General Students

    Hi- Those critical thinking questions can be so frustrating. I discovered a book by Kaplan that showed you step by step how to read the questions and choose the best answers especially when...

  16. my first year was awful .....now what?

    grinnurse replied to opesgirl6's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Opes- I think that before you give up totally on nursing you should look at all the other avenues that nursing has to offer that might be less stressful like Dan said. There are so many other avenues...

  17. Day 8 and I'm expected to take 4 patients?

    grinnurse replied to calirn05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    CALIRN- The way my orientation/preceptorship went was I had it for 6 weeks. The 1st and 2nd shift, I shadowed the RN and assisted where I could. The 3rd day I took one pt, and with each shift I...

  18. need advice PLEASE

    grinnurse replied to cajam6's topic in First Year After Licensure

    This has got to be a common problem amongst us "young uns" cause I could have written this myself. Today I was right in the middle of starting an IV the aid comes in and tells me pt X is feeling...

  19. Day 8 and I'm expected to take 4 patients?

    grinnurse replied to calirn05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    And I thought my orientation time was not enough :uhoh21: Five days, are they crazy? Where you an LVN in a previous life before becoming an RN? Was that all the orientation that you were scheduled...

  20. Questioning "gut instincts"

    grinnurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Had an incident yest. and wanted to know how I could have handled it better. Had an endstage Alzheimer pt being d/c back to nursing home who had a surgically repaired hip fx. Called report and found...

  21. Questioning "gut instincts"

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

    Thanks Bird2 and you have a great day as

  22. What's so great about the day shift?

    grinnurse replied to lizzieB05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    [quote= The statement that new students and grads want less to do with patient care and only work days doesn't make sense to me. A lot of patient care happens during the day. Seems like she/he is...

  23. Questioning "gut instincts"

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

    Hi Bird2-that makes perfect sense. What if something went wrong in between the hosp and the NH (pulled out when inflated etc.,) whose responsibility would it be then? Once my pt is released to...

  24. Having more than one preceptor...

    grinnurse replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Happy I agree with you. I had 3 and each one did things differently and frowned on how the others did it. So, I kind of used this to my advantage. What I liked that one did I kept and so on and so...

  25. Questioning "gut instincts"

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

    Thanks Angie, RNwriter and Mulan for responding. Before d/c F/C I usually do it where there will be plenty of time to make sure voiding is good but the EMTs were slow that day and as it happened,...