I appreciate your thoughts on my post. But, I just wanted to add one more thing. The same nurse that was irate when I missed a blood sugar (which I should have made more clear, I got it before change of shift, but it was high). himself left 3 blood...
I am currently working as a new RN in a small hospital. After being there just a few weeks my preceptor would talk about people to her "clique" about people being dumb, stupid, annoying, etc. Of course, the clique was doing the same thing. As I ha...
I am so sorry that you are going through this right now. I too went through feelings similar to this during my final semester of college. They weren't as bad as yours sound, but, they went away the closer I got to graduation. However, I had the ad...
osamejrn replied to loveSBK's topic in Pre-Nursing
Nursing school is grueling and I can't even think of anything to equate it to. The instructors are supposed to be "rude" because if you can't cut it in school, you are definitely not going to cut it as a nurse. My advice is to study, make note car...
osamejrn replied to lovescapeRN's topic in Job Hunt
Well, I sympathize with this nurse and am very sad to hear this! I had a similar requirement prior to beginning a job. I had to do 20 toe touches, lift weights that were made progressively heavier, push and then pull a cart stacked full of weights,...
I was an LPN for 9 years when I graduated with my RN degree. It took 4 months to find a job that is 4 days per 2 week pay period and in LTC. I have been trying to land a hospital job for 10 months. Also, I have been trying to find a job to fill in...
osamejrn replied to tenjuna's topic in Pre-Nursing
During my final year of my ADN program I studied wildly and for hours at a time. I made note cards, read over and over, referenced other books, and emailed questions to instructors when totally at my wits end! My closest friend studied occasionally...
I took it a few times until I finally had enough! After a few years of nursing under my belt I had an on-call physician call my unit one afternoon and ask for a nurse that didn't work on my floor. I explained this to him and he insisted that I was w...
wanderlustgirl-This is worrisome to say the least. I would much rather have a nurse caring for me that knows from experience how a DVT or transfusion reaction presents than someone who read about it in a textbook. Granted we all need to start somew...
I am a recent ADN RN grad and a former LPN for almost 10 years. With the economy the way it is, I am having a difficult time finding "my dream job" which is in a hospital on a med/surg floor. As I apply over and over (going on a year now) to hospit...