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New nurse here on a busy med surg floor. What medications would you not give together?? Such as sleeping meds, anxiety meds, pain meds...etc. also, what nursing parameters do you rountinely follow when it comes to blood pressure and holding a no medication? Or holding other meds? Thanks in advance. Everyone is always so willing to give novice nurses advice, I love this site!!

Thank you Ruby Vee!!!

I started my new job this weekend. Night shift on a med surg floor.First two nights were a breeze. First night I was helping the cna. Second I had one patient that I was in charge of with supervision of my preceptor of coorifice. He had 5 PO meds and slept the rest of the night. The third night my patient was more complicated. Lots of IV meds amount other things. The meds had me feeling a little overwhelmed and while I was doing her admission charting the docs come in and start asking me all kinds of questions. Needless to say I directed all this to my preceptor. But I felt so dumb. I went to the bathroom and cried and thought to myself I just don't know if I am smart enough to be a nurse. Am I going to be able to pick up on things that change with my patients condition and things I need to report to the doctor? After so much school and clinicals and the nclex, am I really cut out to be a nurse? I know it's only been a few days and everyone feels like this. Anyone have any advice?

Great advice, thank you!

Graduated in May, took some time off with my new baby, took my nclex last month, start my orientation in a few weeks for a rn position on a med surg floor. The problem is is that I'm feeling very anxious which I know al new nurses feel. I am afraid I've forgotten stuff I learned in nursing school. I know that I will not be expected to necessarily know everything but I am afraid I won't know the basic things that I should know. Any advice for a new nurse? What are some things I should freshen up on before starting? I don't want to be that nurse that is asked a question by another nurse or patient and doesn't have an answer! I know experience will be the best teacher, but I don't want to be incompetent.

I have an interview next week! It is for a rn position on a medical surgical floor at a small hospital. Night shift. Does anyone have any advice for the interview?? And if I get the job, any advice for a new nurse just starting out? Any advice for night shift? Thanks!!

I have heard of the pvt being wrong for those that have gotten the bad pop up but I have never heard of anyone getting the good pop up and then failing. It worked for me, I tested about a week ago and done the pvt with good pop up and found out I passed about 4 days later. Congrats!

Yes that is the good pop up!! Congrats!!

Yes that is the good pop up. Congrats!!

thats the good pop up! You passed! Congrats!!

That is a lot of money! I think you should look into other options. NRSNG.com has a wonderful program with a lot of good content review videos. It was less than $50 a month. Taking my own notes while watching the videos really helped me. Good luck!!!

Also, don't be discouraged about getting lower scores than you would like. I've heard from many that Nclex is designed for people to pass/fail at 50%. They don't expect us to know everything, just enough to be considered a safe nurse.

My average was 52%. 50's-60's on all the tests. I passed nclex first attempt with 75 questions. Nclex mastery app really helped me. The questions are similar to the nclex questions and they really made me think. Good luck on your test!!

Thank you!! It is is the best feeling!

Thank you!!!