rural-rn-15

rural-rn-15 ADN, BSN, RN

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About rural-rn-15

rural-rn-15 has 10 years experience as a ADN, BSN, RN.


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  1. Small-town hospital -- SNF, ED, med-surg, and clinic all on one campus. Local food place brings up lunch in the early days of the COVID buildup, and we in the clinic find out about it when the...
  2. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    If you read the report of the investigation (which was available online when this was in the news a while ago): 1) she admits she did not even look at the name of the medication on the vial. Zero...
  3. I'm relatively new. I work in a small rural hospital where I am almost always the only nurse on the floor; I have to mix my own IVPB medications and do my own lab draws, do not have a computer in each...
  4. I need a mentor

    Haven't read the whole thread but when I was in school I would do the following: Make index cards from notes and the text. Record myself quizzing with the index cards. Play the recording during my...
  5. Will I be perceived as disloyal?

    True. I had wondered how that would work. Thank you for the
  6. I'm a new grad (May 15, licensed August of '15, thank you slow state BON) who's almost done with a new-grad rural-health-RN residency at my beloved critical-access hospital. My grandmother worked...
  7. Least stressful nursing specialty

    I am a new grad (last May), doing a rural-health residency that allows me to be trained in all of the departments of our health care district. I have found endoscopy and recovery to be the least...
  8. Should I leave this racist town?

    I can't even begin to tell you what to do. Obviously your mental health needs to be a huge priority. But I will say this, as someone who grew up in a town just like the one you're describing. It was,...
  9. On probation for being too "anxious"

    I am a lot like you: new grad, not as fast as I wish I was, tending toward flustered which makes me slower, not always super efficient in my movements out of an overabundance of caution due to a hx...
  10. Why PVT is UNRELIABLE. Please read.

    Just thought for five more seconds about this and realized what a pickle I'll be in if I get a job with my IPN and then fail the exam. Oops! Bye job! I am almost afraid to say this out loud (eek, my...
  11. Why PVT is UNRELIABLE. Please read.

    Thank you! Yes, it's the NCLEX-RN. I just dug around in the CA-BRN FAQs and found that once I get my ATT I can check to see if the IP has been issued on their license-verification site. And then if I...
  12. Why PVT is UNRELIABLE. Please read.

    I'm fully on board with not messing with the PVT. I live in CA, which is not a quick-results state. What options do I have other than waiting the four weeks? (Which is ridiculous, frankly, in this...