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1. Help with confidence

   nursesandra replied to JentheRN05's topic in New Nurse

   I think all of us new nurses feel this way too. There are some days when you finish working where you just worry yourself sick thinking, Did i forget to do something with my pt? I try not to worry about it because I'll just end up having a burnout!...

2. My crazy day at work!

   nursesandra replied to christvs's topic in New Nurse

   Wow! Good job on how you handled your hectic day! You should be proud of yourself. I often have days like that too, you can be having a few quiet days in a row than all of a sudden BANG everything goes wrong!!! I guess you guys in the US have the sa...

3. Pt. with a panic attack

   nursesandra replied to nursesandra's topic in New Nurse

   The insertion was done the day before (1 day old). After I left Dr. ended up ordering antibiotics anyways (prophylactic) and the pt. had a pleural effusion (as seen on the chest xray) that had already been there for about 2 months . A couple of days...

4. Pt. with a panic attack

   nursesandra posted a topic in New Nurse

   Hi guys, I just wanted to post a situation that happened to me so that I could get some feedback. The other day I had a pt. who was quite young and was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer, he had only a few months to live. The pt's new wife was a...

5. Overbearing pt family

   nursesandra replied to nursestacy73's topic in Safety

   It sounds like these family members are reacting to their loved one's illness by being...well...way too involved. I've encountered some "bizarre" family members before, and it seems that by overdoing their involvement it gives them some sort of solac...

6. Help! I feel incompetent!!!

   nursesandra posted a topic in New Nurse

   Hi everyone, I'm a new nurse who graduated last year from nursing school, but who is going back to school to get my university degree in nursing, so I pretty much only work during the summer and on holidays. I'm young, I work on a very busy, and hect...