RNAnna

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1. Hasten end so wife won't doubt DNR decision????

   RNAnna replied to markm739's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Let's hear it for being a "do gooder"! I would rather be labled as a "do-gooder" than go against my pricipals, beliefs, and the law where people's lives are concerned. I know and understand the need...

2. Did I take too long to job hunt?

   RNAnna replied to Billy5949's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Hi I actually took a year and a half after I graduated to get my first job. It was a year after I was licensed that I started. Everyone wanted to know what I was doing during that time. Actually,...

3. Afraid of giving report, need adivse please!

   RNAnna replied to ImShelly31's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Hello. We don't tape our reports. We do them live, which has it's own set of anxiety provoking symptoms. I'm always afraid that I'm going to leave something out, or that someone is going to ask me...

4. med/surg with hospice rooms in rural Ia

   RNAnna posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   Hi. I've been having a hard time lately. Not only because I am working way more hours than I am scheduled for and we are really busy at the moment, but also because at our rural hospital (25 beds) we...

5. Nursing Misconceptions

   RNAnna replied to allanina03's topic in First Year After Licensure

   My favorite is that nurses are able to give medical advice in the grocery store. I live in Rural Iowa and in small towns everyone thinks that they can "get that looked at" by the nurse next door. Or...

6. Help! Need Time Management Tips

   RNAnna replied to Serenyd's topic in First Year After Licensure

   It is really difficult to have that chatty pt and have to leave because you have other pts to care for. I just got off orientation and admit that was one of my problems too. I'm just tooo nice for...

7. If I can only get organized !

   RNAnna replied to mzkede's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I had to grin at Haunted's post. I'm just off of orientation, but I am an "older new nurse" so I can understand the humor and smile with her. We all go throught the time management crisis. The...

8. Thanks !Where R U from?

   RNAnna replied to is this heaven's topic in General Nursing

   Hi - It sounds like a lot of you are from central and southern Iowa. I feel like the lone person from the beautiful Northeast Iowa bluff country - where nursing is not bluffing. It's Decorah for me....

9. First year nurse having problems with the new "know it all"

   RNAnna posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   I just got off orientation. Things are going great. I love my job. I love what I do. I just am really frustrated giving report to the next shift and the new "know it all" who is just orienting....

10. Anyone wearing support hose?

    RNAnna replied to jenrninmi's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Gradiated compression knee hi's. I broke my ankle in three places in November and I have to wear them to keep the ankle stable and to keep the swelling under control. I've tried lot's of brands. In...

11. Nursing Documentation

    RNAnna replied to redred's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi Redred, The Nursing made Incredibly Easy series of books has one specifically on charting. I've never looked at it myself, but I've heard good things about it. There are also quite a few books...

12. hyper and hypotension question @ client.

    RNAnna replied to alliecat's topic in First Year After Licensure

    At our facility we always ask the pt on admission what meds they take and when they take them. So, if the pt isn't taking X,Y, and Z together at home, they aren't taking them together in the...

13. piggybacked to death

    RNAnna posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    Ok, so here is the delema. I have several charge nurses that are telling me different things about piggybacking meds. I'm a new nurse and trying to do everything right which is impossible since we...

14. Not excited to go to work as a new nurse...am I the only one?

    RNAnna replied to doxieraiser's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It seems that there are quite a few of us that look at ourselves as the "old new nurse". I'm 41 and in my first nursing job. Sometimes I wonder why. I remember in school when we all were excited...

15. In a lot of pain!

    RNAnna replied to SherBearRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Believe me I understand how you feel both physically and emotionally right about now - or at least I have a bit of understanding. I'm 41 yrs. Three days after I was hired for my current position, I...