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Aloe_sky

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  1. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sooooo I finish my shift and guess what? I'm giving report to another new hire and her preceptor. While I'm giving report to the new hire, my preceptor is talking about me with the other nurse ...I...

  2. No more fingersticks in ICU?

    Aloe_sky replied to ccer99's topic in Critical Care

    Old post but any research found??? I was following a nurse that told me I have to draw blood from the A-line when a patient is on vasopressors or hypothermia treatment. It isn't a large amount, we...

  3. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    No I did not sign a contract. I think once my chains are free from my preceptor I can breathe easy! If not, I will definitely move

  4. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Unfortunately true, then they will sit down and talk about me being the stupidest nurse ever lol. I will see what my manager thinks this coming

  5. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I love this! This is a lesson, as ugly as it is right now it truly is. I will never forget this traumatic time, I can't see myself ever treating a nurse this

  6. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes! Most of what I'm doing I did not learn in school. It is a steep learning curve. My preceptor is VERY lazy-ish, I think she is smart but her main thing is SEDATE SEDATE SEDATE!!!! That way we...

  7. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes, funny thing is my preceptor has 3 years experience and considers a nurse on our unit that has worked in the ER for 17 years "dumb". I'm starting to see that it's nurses that don't value her...

  8. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I hope it works out, I love nursing and I love the ICU. I still smile going into work. Crazy thing is they tell me I'm new but my smile won't last long. We are always told theres no such thing as a...

  9. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    There are very few nurses that have been there for more than a year on the unit but there are 2 that have been on the unit for more than 20 years. They SEEM very nice but they do not want to precept,...

  10. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree, my preceptor has only been a nurse for 3 years also and considers herself "an old nurse" " veteran of the unit"

  11. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Lol she I think she is one!! I have never used the word dumb so much in my life till I met her, now I even use the word to describe myself, this is just crazy. It's good when you have other...

  12. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes, I agree

  13. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It is scare tactics because she does mention she doesn't know if she can pass me to work in ICU. But it works, i stay up all night worrying that ill be out of a job, it is sickening. I go in everyday...

  14. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks you!!! I will tough it out, my worry is that they won't keep me in the ICU, she has said that many times to me. I feel threatened. Its nice to hear from people that understand what I'm going...

  15. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks you, I feel that I need extra time and I honestly hope I get it. It isn't easy to ask for a new preceptor and I am trying to hold on and get thru these next couple weeks (if I get them) with...

  16. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    She does deserve to know and I think giving her my feedback may help but at the same time I will admit she makes it hard to tell her anything!!!! I feel so belittled the thought of saying anything to...

  17. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes, the manager and clinic coordinators were new grad ICU nurses and they do not believe you have to have worked on another unit for a certain amount of years to work in ICU. they say some nurses...

  18. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    She does intimidate me, I think that's why I'm so nervous around her. One night she was telling me that I shouldn't be afraid to over sedate my patients, she said it's to prevent the patients from...

  19. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks, I really do need to have a talk with my manager and preceptor. I think 6 weeks is short also but that's the time line all new hires are given. My preceptor said she will tell the manager I'm...

  20. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks.

  21. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I like that you said she knows what to teach and not how to teach to a novice nurse, I agree 100%. She does expect me to think at her level and I can't. A patient will have many IV fluids/drips and...

  22. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am already hired but orientation I guess is whether or not I'm able to handle the unit. She said she doesn't think I can handle it. I don't know the "why's" behind the tasks eg. A patient dx with...

  23. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't think it's right either especially since she did it standing in the doorway of a patients room with another nurse that I don't even know, I was standing near the med cart which is past the...

  24. Is this normal orientation for ICU??

    Aloe_sky replied to Aloe_sky's topic in Critical Care

    Thanks for the responses. The unit has a VERY high turnover rate, the preceptor has only been on the unit ONE YEAR!!!!! and the ICU was the preceptors 1st job out of nursing school. I went with my...

  25. Any Canadian/U.S cross border nurses?

    Aloe_sky posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hey all, I have commuted to the U.S for some time now since I work in the U.S. While I was going to work one of the U.S officers stopped me and said that I needed to have documentation to prove I was...