Chloe'sinNYNow

Chloe'sinNYNow

Did the job hop, now in MS. Not Bad!!!!!

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  1. I can't wait to "lose my loser" preceptor

    Anfe, you and I are having the same exact experience. Hands down. I admire you for sticking it out. I have straight up told the educators and NM that I want to quit b/c I cannot handle being told...
  2. Pressure Ulcers and Nursing Diagnosis

    Backatcha!!!
  3. Pressure Ulcers and Nursing Diagnosis

    Hiya Day2nite, HUGEly helpful answer you have provided. Again I find myself so appreciative of your excellence in this profession and willingness to pass it on to us newbies. I am soooooooooooo...
  4. When did you join a Nursing Organization?

    JMgrn, my NS faculty would be so outraged. LOL. :lol2:They practically :deadhorse beat it into us, had us write time consuming papers on it (when they should have taught us real life skills and...
  5. Normal Pt Ratios - ack!

    That's really sweet Susquatch. Thanks. Sometimes a new grad just really needs to hear that. And the hug too!! I sent an email to my nurse mgr late last nite. Haven't slept a wink. Gotta hit the...
  6. Normal Pt Ratios - ack!

    Oh NYNurse, you and I could be twins. I am feeling your same pain right now. As a matter of fact I saw your other post from https://allnurses.com/forums/f224/new-med-surg-nurse-255329.html I am in...
  7. *NEW* Med/Surg Nurse

    Heya Lorbun, would you mind telling my own facility this?!?!?! They threw me into my first day w/ 3 pts! And I'm a new grad. I'm so overwhelmed and feeling ill at ease that after my first week I...
  8. Preceptorship In Atlanta

    Just out of curiosity 2008, what school are you attending? Mine told us that we'd only learn very basic technical skills in our clinicals and to focus on the critical thinking since we'd learn the...
  9. Tips for new nurses to protect license

    Ortess, I'm new at my facility. And to nursing. The hosp swears they will cover us, but I feel I need my own malpractice. What can you recommend for a carrier as well as an amt? Thanks!
  10. Orientation attire?

    I'm still in orientation. My hospital had one day of General Hosp Orientation then 3 days of clinical and next week will be 3 days of Nursing Orientation. The only stipulation was that we could not...
  11. Are you a nurse from a dysfunctional family?

    Kim, go to the tab for Home and a drop down box will give you a way to view personal messages. You've got mail!!
  12. Incompetent nurses

    If that's how you feel, why point out how I wrote my thoughts? Read what I am trying to say. I think I wrote it pretty
  13. Incompetent nurses

    A lot of "counseling" is determinant in not only what is said, but how it is said. Until this trait is learned, many should refrain altogether from speaking. Engage the brain before opening the...
  14. 2007 grads: where did you get hired?

    Hi! I'm in a suburb of metro Atlanta. I graduated in May '07, passed boards on 1st attempt in Aug., and had my first day of general hospital orientation yesterday. I start on the Oncology/Renal unit...
  15. Incompetent nurses

    Surely you don't mean the OP should be the one giving the counseling? This just might be the push off the ledge for some! I'm shivering at the thought. Chloe, RN-BSN,
  16. Now now Rae, I also didn't do many baths in clinicals. But this is b/c I was put in the RN student role of passing meds, assessments, and charting. It was all also location-dependent. I had to...
  17. Questions about preceptorship

    FutureMtnNurse, this sounds sooooooooo much like my own preceptorship in NS. I am so sorry to hear you are having this prob. Def speak about getting a new preceptor b/c no matter how many times you...
  18. Forgetful (help)

    Thanks Meghan, you're a doll for getting all that written up. I thought you would have already had a template on your computer that you could have attached. What a lot of work you went to to write...
  19. Are you a nurse from a dysfunctional family?

    HeavenNurse, PM me. We have much in common!
  20. Forgetful (help)

    Meghan I am also afraid of my aging forgetfulness as a new grad. I start my orientation tomorrow! Would you be willing to share via attachment what this organizational chart of yours looks like?...
  21. New grads....where do you work?

    I got accepted to a wonderful hospital on a Oncology/Renal floor. I start my orientation Monday! Excited, scared, hopeful!!
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  23. Ok, this thread is starting to feel like a good olE boys club. There were some terrific points made, but it's starting to get pretty ugly towards the OP. Hopefully she managed to see some of the...
  24. I hate bedmaking

    OMG, this totally had me cracking up. Our NS spent so much wasted time teaching us the art of bedmaking!! We could have spent that time learning so many other valuable skills, it made me crazy!...
  25. Harley that was a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing.