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I’m a new nurse and took a job on a busy medsurg floor and started in early June. After almost four months of constant anxiety, seeing therapists and having some medication prescribed, I still feel so anxious that I never stop thinking about work and...

Hello, I'm a new grad nurse of 3 months and my handoff reports I feel suck. I work Night Shift so you would think I have plenty of time to relax and look up more info on my patients. Something always happens to where my plans to sit down and loo...

If you're preparing to start a career in nursing or are looking for a new specialty to expand your skill set, shadowing a nurse is a great idea. Even a few hours of shadowing gives you an idea of whether you'd like the job you're planning to apply fo...

A New Nurse's Perspective Rose just graduated as an RN and passed her boards. For almost two weeks, she has been orientating to a position on a medical-surgical floor, and Rose has started taking a full load today. She just got a report on f...

Dear Nurse Beth, I am currently a new nurse of 9 months in Postpartum unit and looking for a change in jobs. I need some help and suggestions!

Being a new nurse can be both exciting and terrifying. You've spent years learning how to become a nurse, but how do you put that into practice? Questions like "what if I make a mistake?” or "what if I'm not really cut out to do this 'nursing' thing?...

"Oh my God, I'm a nurse now!" is what I was thinking when I walked onto my unit for the first year of my nursing career. I wondered if the other nurses and even the patients could smell my fear. As a new nurse, despite my calm demeanor, I was secretl...

Starting a new job is exciting but oftentimes causes anxiety. Whether you are a new grad nurse starting your first nursing job or a seasoned nurse switching facilities, the first days can be hard. It is normal to have butterflies in your stomach, swe...

I have been a nurse since August 2021. I graduated in May 2021. I landed my first job on a Med Surg/COVID unit and have been there about 5 months now. However, I seriously cannot take it any longer. The whole floor is COVID (we no longer get med surg...

With the abundance of nursing opportunities, it may seem overwhelming to begin the job search. Nurses can work in numerous settings, from outpatient clinics, schools, physician offices, camps, home healthcare, and nursing homes; however, this article...

In May of 2022, I, along with numerous nursing students, walked across a graduation stage, signifying the end of being a nursing student and the beginning of (finally) being a nurse. Then, when I saw the RN license status go from pending to active si...

Finally, you graduated from nursing school and have passed your NCLEX. All those years of study are finally over, not to mention dealing with all that stress and anxiety when it came to the NCLEX. So now what? it's time to get working. Find that firs...

Nurses have ups and downs during their shifts, many times feeling the downs outweigh the ups. Isn't it great to be recognized for our successes - no matter how small? Share your feel good (or bad) moments...

Warning this rant is long and likely something you hear too much about but here it goes... I am a displaced automotive engineer, passed my state boards 03/2013 and started last April on a step down cardiac unit. I was let go after being told rep...

I've been a nurse for about 2 years now, I was working in hospital ambulatory care (spent a lot of time doing vaccines) but now I do allergy. I had taken some 6 months off in between just because the pandemic was getting to me. I started learnin...

I started as a new grad nurse on an orthopedic floor this September, a floor that I have worked on as a CNA for about a year. I got three weeks of orientation and I felt comfortable in my position, especially since the majority of our patients are me...

New grad two weeks into orientation desperate for any advice or encouragement. Please be gentle. I've started orientation in a level one trauma center ER. I'm the newest of my unit's new grads, and I just finished the last day of a six day stret...

Hello all, I am a new nurse who had two months of orientation at a hospital, and I have been off for about a month now. Someone mentioned to me the other day that I ask a lot of questions. I am curious if I am asking too many questions to other nur...

Hi Nurse Beth, I got my nursing license in June and I have worked in a skilled nursing/rehab facility for the past 2 months. Up until 2 weeks ago I was on orientation. The past two weeks, in which I have been on my own, things have been rough. I have...

I got an order to give insulin IV. Dextrose and calcium Gluconate due to a critical K . This order was so odd to me. I never heard anything like it. I asked the charge and I said insulin and dextrose are apposite is this order correct? She sai...

I recently chatted with a soon-to-be nursing school graduate. She asked many questions about my nursing journey. She was interested in the type of unit that provides the best experience for a nurse grad, and she even wanted to hear about the differen...

I am a relatively new nurse. I have a patient who is in the process of dying and is experiencing a low grade fever. I was getting a tylenol suppository for the patient and someone stated to me that the fever was just part of the process of dying and ...

When you became a Nurse, it was indeed a monumental day, wasn't it? All the years in school, then passing your licensing boards ... it doesn't matter how long ago it was, you still remember the profound feeling of accomplishment. Do you remember that...

I've only been a nurse for a little over a year and I have hated it since day 1. People told me it would get better. It did get better once I got used to things, but I still genuinely hate this job. I don't think acute care is for me. The thing ...

New nurses will appreciate these methods to help minimize the eye-rolling and engender trust in veteran colleagues who have forgotten what it was like to be new, clueless, and sometimes downright terrified. I learned to swim at a local city pool...