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anyone ever have a position, and feel like your doing great, and things are moving along smoothly, and then you hit a glitch, and all of a sudden your managers start bringing up things that you were lead to believe were not problems, but now all of a...

1. track what you eat for a week. AND DRINK 2. Write down if its a meal at meal time, or snack, or if its something you are eating for no reason - or a reason you don't realize - like stress, anger, boredom. "why am I eating this right now" -every t...

we just say the patient in not "alert and oriented" or can not answer the required questions. Or you refer to their scale score -0-15.

IF she is a nursing "student" who has not graduated yet - she has been told, and ALL the hospital staff were told up front that she can not legally do anything outside the scope of what her school allows her. PERIOD. In this case - if this IS the c...

Document EVERYTHING. Write down things you need to remember for later (without HIPPA info of course) - so if anything comes up - you'll have a reference for memory. Always know who said what to whom and when. ALWAYS check vitals that a CNA does ...

Yep, normal. But as far as being a new nurse on your first job - real life - you're right = we know nothing. unfortunately employers want to charge you with the responsibility of knowing everything. Not many preceptors actually prepare you well. ...

I'd agree with you for the most part. However, how did she get to this. Often times what I see is that there is something else going on that she is aware of that is making her feel inadequate, uneasy, and has her questioning her abilities, and lowe...

What does she say when you talk to her about her disappearances, and not talking in front of the patient about it, and doing the tasks on her own? That makes a difference in my mind. 6 weeks isn't that long - especially if its 3 days a week or less...

it all depends also on what you learn with your preceptor. I had 3 weeks with a good preceptor, 1 week with a great preceptor, and then 13 weeks with the worst preceptor ever. I guess in her defense -it was the first time she had precepted, but it w...

BE careful! My preceptor told me I was doing great, and I felt the same way you do. She gave me glowing remarks on the records I had to turn in. Then I found out later she was secretly telling management that she didn't think I was a good fit beca...

sounds like something they are okay with her doing because they have provided proper training and she is covered under the physicians license. do you not think she is good at her job for some reason?

wow - yeah - they know how to work it. They tried to set me up every week after that. Fortunately/unfortunately I got sick right after - and was out for a couple days, and I tried to return too soon, and ended up leaving again - but I noticed that s...

I really liked Uworld - mainly because of the rationales! Great rationales, and its inexpensive compared to a lot of sites. There are TONS of free groups on facebook that you can get NCLEX style questions and great review. Try "NCLEX RN study grou...

leaving a long term care facility - unless your going to another one - due to lack of training, and recognizing the need for proper training - will NOT look bad to your next employer. This is a common story they hear when dealing with facilities - t...

I had a similar experience. All they wanted to do was make sure I knew how to chart so that Medicaid/medicare would pay. They don't train on patient care at all. Too many facilities and hospitals assume you learned all that in nursing school. Uh,...

several medical organizations utilize documentation programs that figure acuity based on charting. Problem is that many nurses can't sit down and chart until mid-later in shift. Biggest problem is that the acuity numbers the programs come up with do...

I got accused of something like that - the problem was that a staff member wrote down "I" personally said something to the patient, when it was the patient who actually made the statement - it was her interpretation of it - NOT what I had said to her...

we had that quite a few times, but it was because the patient just came in close to shift change or at shift change, and or after shift change and the oncoming nurse was calling report.

The bean counters didn't seem to notice the 90+ trainees they spent money on last year that are already no longer there.

Gossip - perpetuating false stories about new nurses. Like recently two managers rolling their eyes after they got a report from a nurse known to make others look bad in effort to make themselves look better - reported that a new nurse needed a mana...

YES - exactly - "ongoing" problems - consisting a vast array all different issues which precludes it being one "ongoing" problem, that are inaccurately reported to make you look bad. Ugh!

What do you think about undocumented patients who abuse the hospital system? Anyone have undocumented patients who basically live at the hospital because their families can't take care of them, and they can't go to a facility because of their undocu...

I don't understand how someone who is "undocumented" meaning they do not have any type of government issued number/permit/ID/social security or ID numbers in order to pay any kind of taxes with - how these people are paying taxes? I know that DOCUMEN...

Please do not misunderstand. As nurses we take care of anyone who needs help. The situations I'm speaking of is when families leave them at the hospital because they don't want to deal with it, and the hospital has no where to send them because of t...

that's just it - they do have a progressive discipline - however, they are using these two items that weren't really problems, or anything I got in trouble for - I just happened to be involved - but not "problems" of any kind - the one manager is usi...