Roll Call - Who's Been Around the Longest and Your Accomplishments

[traumaRUs]

Our staff was discussing you, our members. While we all like to remain anonymous, we are all proud of our accomplishments. We'd like to do a roll call of honor. Who has been on AN the longest? Who has been a nurse the longest? What is your greatest nursing accomplishment? Tell us, come on, brag a little! You deserve this recognition.

[PeakRN]

What is your greatest nursing accomplishment

Being part of ED, critical care, and prehospital teams that have successfully resuscitated children and their parents, helped to bring life into the world, helped out kids to beat cancer, kept gun shot victims from dying, got fathers up to the cath lab, and treated eclamptic mothers who later got to walk home with their newborn. Being able to talk kids though their treatments so they aren't scared, helping teens to realize that suicide isn't the best option, helping the victims of domestic violence to find resources so that they can build a new life and thrive, and helped those who were victimized to find legal justice. Being the shoulder to cry on when we do diagnose cancer, can't save a patient, or tell a family member that their loved one will be forever debilitated.

I started out in healthcare to help people, and I've been privileged enough to be able to do that in environments that I can thrive in.

[Davey Do]

Whats the best piece of info you have gotten from AN?

Well, it's kind of personal, but...

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Actually, I've learned scads of medical tidbits from this General Nursing Discussion forum. But on the Psychiatric Nursing forum, I learned that lorazepam is useful in treating catatonia. It wasn't two weeks after I learned this that a psychiatrist had good results with treating a catatonic patient on geriatric pysch with lorazepam!

[Farawyn]

Well, it's kind of personal, but...

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Actually, I've learned scads of medical tidbits from this General Nursing Discussion forum. But on the Psychiatric Nursing forum, I learned that lorazepam is useful in treating catatonia. It wasn't two weeks after I learned this that a psychiatrist had good results with treating a catatonic patient on geriatric pysch with lorazepam!

I HATE you.

[Farawyn]

Going further with this:

Whats the best piece of info you have gotten from AN?

Thanks.

You don't know what you don't know.

Don't walk on college campuses at night or the deers might attack!

And from me to all those jealous BFs and hubbies whose ladies in their lives are becoming nurses : There is Recreational member and Work member. I think we know the difference!

[Davey Do]

Thank you, OldDude. I feel a certain amount of closeness and acceptance to both you and several other members on this site.

I HATE you.

Oh gee.

I guess I should change my quote to say "I feel a certain amount of closeness and acceptance to both you and a few other members on this site"!

Oh well. "It is better to loved and lost..."

[Hoosier_RN, MSN]

Going further with this:

Whats the best piece of info you have gotten from AN?

Thanks.

I've learned that someone has gone through whatever I'm going through, learn from the experience. The best piece of info came earlier this year when I started dialysis and learned quickly that it has the hugest learning curve I've ever experienced, I read through the old posts in the dialysis section. I learned "they all go on the machine, they all come off of the machine". It made me relax and realize that it wasn't a race to get them done. My speed has improved much in 6 months when I work as a tech. But most of all, I've learned, don't be a hateful biter nurse:wacky:

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

I've only been here 7-ish years. But in that seven years I've done my RN-to-BSN, MSN and DNP programs, transitioned from 38 years at the bedside to a faculty role to a program directorship. Incredible, considering I started as an LPN in 1977!

I think my proudest accomplishment was getting my original research project published and presented. It's about shiftwork and fatigue- and while night shift people anecdotally 'know' things about shift work- until it gets in the literature, there's no evidence to drive change. I like to think I am contributing to that evidence base. I turned that work into two webinars on nurse.com that have been viewed by almost 18,000 nurses.

[Davey Do]

There is Recreational member and Work member.

[Farawyn]

I've also learned more about lice and hamsters than I ever thought I would. Thanks, School Nurse Forum!

[Davey Do]

deers might attack!

Speaking of deers, I try to help members when I can, but when I can't, I try to show them that there are people out there who care.

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[Farawyn]

I've also learned that I love the "COB biter" nurses, and I have joined their ranks.

[Davey Do]

I love the "COB biter" nurses, and I have joined their ranks.

Why, yes you have!

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