What I learned this week (6/27)...

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1. Don't go to the hospital code blue during shift change.

2. Not all shaky benzo-wanting 36-year olds are actually benzo-abusers. (Still, pee in the damn cup.)

3. No all drunk chest pains are alcoholics. (Still, WAS scale.)

4. For now on, if a family member has my extension, I will turn it off and get a new one.

5. I have family members who think HIPAA doesn't count if they ask. (It's okay. I don't need a job.)

6. My coworkers value me!!! (Yearly review this week - not one person said a single negative thing!)

7. Apparently cocaine just isn't that interesting this week.

8. Hi, Davey Do!!!!

9. This place needs Esme.

10. If your vitamin D level is 13, you will be tired.

11. I'm still tired and my "what I learned" list sucks this week.

How about you?

Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

I learned that after nearly 20 years of marriage, I'm still in love. That is all I needed to learn this week.

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Note to OP - I really like these threads. It makes me give an effort to learn something new each week :)

1. Nursing homes are just as challenging as hospitals for new grads.

2. If you make an effort to learn something new each week, there is ALWAYS something new you can learn.

3. A pocket size bottle of hand sanitizer is an excellent idea to put in your nursing supply list.

4. Find your BS check patients first, no matter what order the other nurses go in.

5. Highlighters are a new nurse's secret weapon.

6. Look at your narcotic count when you pull the med so you don't have to go back and look at it a second time to put in the narcotic count sheet. I did this 3 times before I got that straight - pulled the med, charted I gave it, went to chart it in the narcotic book and realized I didn't look at the count. By the 3rd time I remembered to do it all at the same time. (I know stupid thing to learn, but hey working on my time management and organization).

7. Along with the above - Look at the patient first before looking at treatment orders. If you have to do a dressing change it's easier to just look over the patient first and then look at the order for it all to make sense.

8. If you have good coworkers it makes all the difference in how your day goes :)

9. Along with above - money isn't everything. I'd rather make a little less money and be in a non-toxic work environment any day of the week :)

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Specializes in LTC.

I learned that I am considered Ms. cool, calm, and collected in emergencies so when I had a mini melt down at work, I scared the crap out of some people. In my defense, in a 2 hour window, I had an admission, 2 falls, and a run in with a not so nice family member who had a boatload of complaints about how we were caring for her mother. I locked myself in the med room and had a good cry. It was cathartic.

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That, when leaving a toxic environment of any kind, starting over somewhere new can be extremely refreshing.

That I'm more capable and a lot smarter than I thought I was.

That my level of patience at work is much greater than my level of patience outside of work.

I'd like to double like this one! Realized I posted close to the same thing before I read through the other posts.

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-Don't wait until 12 hours before your flight to Cancun to make sure your passport is still valid.

Nothing else I learned this week beats the above lesson.

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Specializes in Oncology/StemCell Transplant; Psychiatry.

This week, I learned that all you really need in order to be an "awesome nurse" is compassion and the passion to help people.

Never mind that you graduated from nursing school 8 years ago and still don't have a license. You're ready to take that test now. And you're gonna rock it, even though you couldn't pass it right years ago when you were fresh out of nursing school. You are compassionate. And that's all you need.

The rest of us are just haters who are in nursing for the big fat paycheck a you know we all make.

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Specializes in Corrections, Psych, Public Health.
There's another one in the NCLEX forum I can't find right now that "scientifically " analyzed pass/fail based upon test center, date & time and how its predetermined whether a candidate will get 75 or 265 questions. Apparently CAT is not real

Who has that much time to determine all that??

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Specializes in Corrections, Psych, Public Health.

Well let's see:

1. Some moms and daughters will never be best friends and that is ok

2. Bridezillas and I don't get along too well

3. How to make homemade pesto

4. If you urinate on scabies it will go away...(daily tips from inmates)

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Code blues go much smoother without egos getting in the way (not something I learned, but something I experienced this week).

Death is not always the worst thing that can happen (again not something I learned, but something I experienced this week).

I am much "meaner" with this pregnancy.

I'm losing many of my good coworkers (people are just sick of the crap here) and ending up with slackers so my work life is about to get awful.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

I wonder with the hundreds of hopeful candidates posting their personal email addresses in the NCLEX forum hoping to receive the magic study guide to passing, how many address are attacked by spam bots especially with the huge influx of spammers attacking the forums in recent days.

I learned not to post my personal email address in ANY public forum a long time ago.

Sometimes even when you keep your mouth shut others will insist you didn't and throw you under the bus to save their own rear.

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Specializes in kids.

Oh my......

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Trying to do 2 weeks worth of reading and tests in 3 days is impossible.

I want a magical study guide to passing nursing school. Oh wait, I guess I'm not supposed to call it that.

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