kimmcgill

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1. Need some interviewing advice

   kimmcgill posted a topic in Career Support

   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 in school on her unit, so I think I will feel ver...

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 pants

3. What Did You Think Of Nursing School?

   kimmcgill replied to rayofsunshine's topic in New Nurse

   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 classes I still needed while attending nursing scho...

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

   kimmcgill replied to RNAnna's topic in New Nurse

   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 already and that they were not paying attention. G...

5. New nurse blues

   kimmcgill replied to Pleaides's topic in New Nurse

   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 making is that he had to deal with mean, nasty nurses w...

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

   kimmcgill replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Med-Surg

   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 medications (after you have already taken off the doctor's ...

7. Still Not Sure If I Can Cut It

   kimmcgill replied to kimmcgill's topic in New Nurse

   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 more nights, then taken off again. I have bee off of...

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

   kimmcgill replied to Adam D. RN2005's topic in New Nurse

   Congratulations! Go get em' tiger!!!!!!!!!!

9. New nurse blues

   kimmcgill replied to Pleaides's topic in New Nurse

   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 displeasure of a fellow nurse smart off to me about ...

10. Still Not Sure If I Can Cut It

    kimmcgill replied to kimmcgill's topic in New Nurse

    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 at the end of the shift that followed mine. She w...

11. Still Not Sure If I Can Cut It

    kimmcgill posted a topic in New Nurse

    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 hospital a lot of money to have a new nurse on orien...

12. Tips for nurses in their first year of nursing

    kimmcgill replied to Brian's topic in New Nurse

    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 boards, my nurse manager said she wanted to take m...

13. Introductions:"New" and "Old" Students.

    kimmcgill replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Students

    Greetings to all. My name is Kim. I am a 42-year-old wife and mother of two wonderful children, ages 9 and 6. I have been in an RN diploma program since August of 2003 and will be graduating in 20 days!!! It has been a long, hard road but very ...

14. Nursing diagnosis for baby with jaundice?

    kimmcgill replied to megamoo1979's topic in Student Assist

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