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grinnurse RN

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  1. reality shock

    grinnurse replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The first thing I need to say is that it can work to your advantage to have more than one preceptor b/c it can give you different perspectives on things such as time organization and styles of doing...

  2. help w/ organizing time

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

    Sounds like you've got a good system down and the only advice that I have to offer is when the patients are requesting things if it is something that the aid can get them or help them with don't be...

  3. What's the best one??

    grinnurse replied to nursing4me23's topic in General Nursing

    Me too!! Love my ultrascope and get more comments on it that I would have ever imagined. I have a yellow smiley face one. Wouldn't trade it for the world. As far as the cuff, I spent about 35$ on...

  4. Any bedside nurses making over 100K ?

    grinnurse replied to EveMJRN's topic in General Nursing

    A nurse that I worked with at my previous hospital made 80k during 2005. She was contract PRN making $30.00/hr + shif/dif of $2.25 3-7 and $3.25 on weekends and this was what she earned being being...

  5. Work 2 12-hour shift and get paid 40 hours???

    grinnurse replied to FreshRN05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have 3 friends from my previous hospital that just started at a large hospital in Dallas working these kinds of rotation and so far they are happy with

  6. Good News......................so glad that I made the change

    grinnurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Wow..........just had to share my excitement. I recently changed hospitals and am just elated!!:balloons: :balloons: I have been with them now for a month and working on the floor for 3 weeks and...

  7. Do you have a favorite allnurses post?

    grinnurse replied to mom and nurse's topic in General Nursing

    My favorite post was from last year in the student nurse forum and was titled "No He/She did not just do that". I was laughing so hard I bout wet my

  8. Good News......................so glad that I made the change

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

    Well, the way that I found this job was it was one of the Hospitals where I had done my 3rd semester clinicals at but I didn't consider it right after graduation b/c of the distance. I also have a...

  9. What's In Your Pocket?

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

    Front right pocket: scissors, tape, pen light, black ball point pens, black "write on/wipe off" marker. Left front pocket: alcohol swabs, iPag PDA. Right pant pocket: change and $ money for lunch....

  10. What ended your honeymoon?

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

    I will agree with this statement but it doesn't have to be that way at all I am finding out. Definately have to watch out for you and your

  11. Afraid to resign!

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

    I agree with everyone here-GET OUT FAST!! I can understand that you are frightened about resigning b/c I was recently in your shoes. I am still a "new" nurse and deciding to make the change is scary...

  12. teamwork and job satisfaction

    grinnurse replied to mak2's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, for me, very much so. It affects me b/c usually if you don't have teamwork you have alot of "backbiting" going on and you lose focus of the goal that you are trying to attain which as a nurse is...

  13. Spouse adjustment problems?

    grinnurse replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I could have written this post a year ago myself. I do think that he felt his "manhood" was threatened not only by the fact that I would be earning as much as him, but, I would also have the means to...

  14. Beating myself up

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

    Bravo for listening to your "gut". Alot of us newer nurses find that hard to do b/c we don't want to be a "bother" to any of the other nurses or we don't want to feel like we are "over reacting"....

  15. Need advice on 2 floors......help!

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

    I chose Med/Surge right out of school though I really wanted to go into the ER. So glad that I made that choice now. All of our instructors advised us to go into MS just for the experience, to hone...

  16. What ended your honeymoon?

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

    My hooneymoon ended when the 2nd of the 2 hurricanes hit back last summer, Rita!! We received news about noon the day that it was supposed to make landfall that we were to get patients from a NH in...

  17. Finding Conferences and Seminars

    grinnurse replied to WOLFE's topic in General Nursing

    You might also want to try local hospitals (larger ones that is) under education. I live/work in the Dallas/Ft. Worth TX area and the larger hospitals do seminars and such that people from outside...

  18. UGH! I get so upset with myself...

    grinnurse replied to newtelenurse's topic in General Nursing

    I am just off my first year of nursing and still ask tons of questions and like stated by others have found it some times difficult to go with my judgement on my own. But it is getting somewhat...

  19. Hospital student loan repayment

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

    Very well said. I know I just saw in our local newspaper that the State of Texas is offering loan repayment for nurses in some of the State Hospitals (psychiatric facilities). What it entails I do...

  20. 20 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity

    grinnurse replied to luvmy2angels's topic in Nursing Humor

    2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice. 3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that 10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat - with...

  21. Hospice or Hospital When Your Time Comes?

    grinnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Definately Hospice and preferably at home. I so wish we could have done this for my sister but we were all in denial when the end came for her. The Hospice nurses that I have met through the...

  22. This poll is directed to the Med/Surg staff nurse.

    grinnurse replied to Cheyenne RN,BSHS's topic in General Nursing

    I have just started at a new hospital and from what I have seen so far is that the nurses only start with 6 and so far, have only ever had 6 even with d/cs and admits. Up until 3 weeks ago, I was at...

  23. Staffing requirements/rules?????

    grinnurse replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    I know in the hospital that I just left, it is not uncommon at all to have 1 nurse in ICU with a vented pt. As far as breaks, etc. they would have some one that was familiar with these types of pts...

  24. Monkey off my Back!! Vent

    grinnurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    So, I am nearing the end of my first official year of being a nurse and have been at a hospital (small, rural) the entire time. In the past 3 months, since we have aquired a new DON, things have gone...

  25. Monkey off my Back!! Vent

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

    Thanks. I started at my new hospital earlier this week and am so excited to go back tomorrow I can hardly