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Or at least in a similar profession. Firefighters, paramedics, cops, all crazy hours, everyone understands that your tired, and no one celebrates things on the actual day because sometimes your shifts just fall on those days.

My husband came up with this one years ago: Frequent User of Critical Resources. We never use the acronym, we just say the whole phrase.

On the topic of words for "dead". I learned early in EMS to say "Dead". Because in the confusing flurry of activity and people's belief that CPR always results in a person sitting up and looking around the room, if we said anything unclear at all, it would be taken wrong.

I use that one. I also use EKG. Because I'm old.

LOLFDGB: Lil old lady fall down go boom. That's a GLF, male patients are LOMFDGB. Hyperlacrimation Status Dramaticus

11 am to 11 pm is awesome! Time in the morning, not home too late. My hospital has a 10-10 that's not bad at all.

After my NCLEX I didn't try the magic pop up thing, I just went to the state BON and licensing website and put in my name. The day after NCLEX my name was listed with a RN number after it.

Wow. You need to meditate, chill out, chillax, settle down, and so much more. Have you always been this anxious? If you've done that well in all your predictive programs and your classes, you've got this. And if, IF, you fail it the first time...so what? You'll be joining many people. It is not the end of the world.

Very helpful and a reminder to watch your back and take care of your back. I would love to see a PT or such post here about recommended exercises for people on their feet all day, pushing, pulling, etc.

It wasn't a work badge, but I did overnight with required signature my electronic apartment key back to the building manager once. They received it, I had the signature that said they did. Try that.

Thank you for the great information. I'm an ER nurse but a family member is impacted by T1D with obesity. This person eats quite healthy and works out regularly but continues to gain weight. This is interesting research and I look forward to more coming forward.

No worries, I used it to get into acute care and wanted to see if it was a fit. It was not and I managed to take another opening elsewhere in the same hospital, one that was an "internal" posting. You can do it for a year or so, or maybe your Med-Surg unit will be one of the sane ones. It doesn't hurt to try.

That was my sink or swim first job. And what a rough swim that was at first. Thank goodness we had a med-tech so I didn't have to do standard daily meds, just tube-feed, injected or inhaled, etc. But I was fighting for air every day to try to keep up. I made it 8 months before I found a different position. My advice to you is after two months, start putting out resumes. Also, stop for just a minute every hour somewhere out of site, close your eyes, take a deep breath and try to relax a moment. Then hit the floor running again. I know what you're going through.

A recent change I found disgusting? (Mind you, I left the "floor" because of these types of changes among other reasons.) We added "hourly rounding", a nifty video showed how happy and helpful we would all be by doing this. In the training they admitted out loud that it was a simple way to raise Press-Ganey scores. No functional or medical reason, just P-G scores. And they said in the video that it would benefit the nurses more than the patients. I'm not sure how that was supposed to work out.