krisiepoo

The school mispelled her name and it's her fault that how the school spelled it doesn't match the legal documents? My name is commonly mispelled, should I go change all my legal documents to reflect that? I guess your "truth" is different than mine

She just got accepted into a program and she's waited too long to fix it right away? Good lord why can't people be nice here. OP - I'd give it a couple days and follow up with the school and see if they've been able to get a hold of anyone and what...

Make yourself invaluable to the nurses and nurses aides. Answer every call light, bust your butt, do your assignments away from the nurses station (ie, DO NOT sit at their computers). Don't hover, spend time with the patients as they can be lonely ...

When I was in school, I had the same issue. I wrote out a 4 week menu and rotated. I did shopping every 2 weeks (I had clinicals on weekends) and made/prepped meals for the week ahead. AS a previous poster noted, weight control is 80/20, with 80 be...

Nurses with 2 years experience are starting at $27 in CO Springs... I'm sure denver is close to that... Supply and demand

There are a ton of threads on this topic, do a search for maybe some more info. Unfortunately, there is no nursing shortage so new grads finding jobs is difficult. I graduated almost 2 years ago and moved out of the area to get my job experience.....

Here's mine: 42 days until graduation 33 days until the pinning ceremony 6 more clinicals 4 more papers 2 more exams 1 NCLEX-RN (because I have to be confident, right!?)

You and your supervisor contacted the MD, what else did the DON want you to do? I would possibly ask that if he mentions the watching you comment again. Get more clarification and don't sign anything until you have that clarification Noone can tell...

I worked 40+ hours/week at a desk job... saved up PTO and used it for clinicals

You're very likely going to get hit on and you're going to have to find a way, your own way, to deal with it. You're young so you will probably get A LOT of practice, LOL... learn to keep good boundaries, learn how to act like a professional, don't...

This is odd for me coming from a psych background, but I just can't deal with borderline patients or patients with borderline traits. Not enough nurses/aides know how to deal with the "splitting" that they do with staff and it drives me batty. I tr...

I didn't deal well with vomit before becoming a nurse. In 4 months of nursing, I'm starting to become less bothered by it. Last night a patient vomited in the sink and I had the distinct pleasure of cleaning the chunks out to drain the sink. In th...

they didn't so much look at my previous *degree* but how I used that, ie my experience. I was a social work case manager and worked in the medical field helping disabled individuals be successful in the least restrictive environment. My new directo...

4:1 except we have 2 non-tele pods and those can be 6:1 at night if the population isn't too heavy I should add that this is only our unit... we have 3 floors on the hospital and I don't know how other units operate

You make an awful lot of sweeping generalities about new grad nurses... Perhaps you need to look within your self and your own biases before writing a post like this. Just because you couldn't start in a hospital doesn't mean the entire new grad popu...

We do bedside reporting but I always give a brief synopsis prior to going in. At the bedside I can introduce their new nurse and point out IV's, dressings, settings on machines, how much O2, etc. Sometimes things all run together after a 12 hour sh...

Although the title is a little deceiving, because I wasn't actually working when she died. I had the cutest old lady come in and I did her intake. Her family was very supportive, very nice and loved her very much. She had been walkie/talkie before c...

I use it not only for their current state, but how they were previous to how they came in. I had a lady who had come in walkie/talkie for a back surgery, stroked twice and now could barely talk, couldn't stand and had a feeding tube. She was walkie...

I'm a new grad new nurse as well... 1) Have someone look over your orders if you're miswriting them. This could be a huge issue. Have someone double check before you finalize them. I did this the first handful of times until I became comfortable. ...

I have to be working as part of my RN-BSN program. Personally I would take the job,, they're much harder to come by. you will NOT be doing more work outside your work hours to perfect your craft because you're going to be exhausted. If you can, do...

Graduated in Dec '13, NCLEX Jan '14, applied to jobs in undersaturated areas and was hired in Feb '14, moved and started working March 10th.

I'm in my 4th month on a meg/surg floor. I moved quite a distance to take this job since my location was oversaturated with new grads and I'm so happy to say that I LOVE the people I work with. Nursing is really hard and there are days I only sit t...

Oh man... My last 3/4 shifts were non-stop for a solid 12 hours but I'm so grateful I have a supportive charge nurse and UAP who are very helpful. I've come to realize I've found a fantastic place to work

to be honest, it sounds like you just had a bad start at nights... Of course there is a little bit different of a rhythm, but for me it's usually a little bit less hectic because I don't have to deal with families, doctors, administration, etc...

My first day off orientation my dad called me (my step-mom is a nurse) and asked if I killed anyone yet, LOL I'm NOT an experienced nurse, actually coming up on my 90 day review but what I've found is you're gonna have days from hell and you're gonna...