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1. Need some interviewing advice

   kimmcgill posted a topic in Nursing Career

   Greetings to all. I have an interview with a nurse manager of one of the Med/Surg units at my local community hospital on Tuesday afternoon. This nurse manager is known to me because I did clinicals...

2. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   kimmcgill replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   :chuckle :rotfl: :roll :chuckle :yelclap: :lol_hitti OOHHHH......I think I just peed my

3. What Did You Think Of Nursing School?

   kimmcgill replied to rayofsunshine's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I just graduated from a 2 year diploma program. I wished I had completed all of my prereq classes before beginning nursing school, but that would have put me back an entire year. I finished he few...

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

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

   Just keep giving the report...talk over them if you have to....just keep going until you are done. When you are done, if they ask about information you already gave them, tell them you covered that...

5. New nurse blues

   kimmcgill replied to Pleaides's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Lets back it up just a bit here. I never said that I (or my husband) felt that older, more experienced nurses were old hags. You read that into it completely on your own. The only point I was...

6. What is your least favorite kind of med-surg patient?

   kimmcgill replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

   For me, the worst kind of patient is the one who insists on directing his or her own medical treatment. These are the patients who want to change the scheduled times of when they take their...

7. Still Not Sure If I Can Cut It

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

   This is indeed good advice. When I asked to be put back on orientation, I did it in writing and copied the chief nursing officer of the hospital. That was when I was put back on orientation for 7...

8. My first shift tomorrow as an RN...

   kimmcgill replied to Adam D. RN2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Congratulations! Go get em'

9. New nurse blues

   kimmcgill replied to Pleaides's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I had to stop and think if I had written any of the replies in this thread because so many of them are almost identical to what I am going through right now. I am fortunate that I have not had the...

10. Still Not Sure If I Can Cut It

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

    Thanks for all of the replies. The insight is very helpful. Here is an update. The pt who was getting GOLytely and the blood transfusion at the same time....ended up in the ICU with fluid overload...

11. Still Not Sure If I Can Cut It

    kimmcgill posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I started my first job as a nurse on June 6th on a Med-Surg/Remote Tele unit. I was being pressured to agree to pulled off of orientation after about 6 weeks. From what I understand, it costs the...

12. Tips for nurses in their first year of nursing

    kimmcgill replied to Brian's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I started my first nursing job as a GN the first week in June on a 40-bed Med/Surg unit in a small community hospital. I passed my boards about 3 weeks ago and am now an RN. A week after passing my...

13. Nursing diagnosis for baby with jaundice?

    kimmcgill replied to megamoo1979's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Risk for disproportionate Growth: infant r/t disinterest in feeding because of jaundice-related