loha to all you nurses out there the world over.<br>As we know this is the start of Nurse's Week. Wishing everyone of you a happy and enjoyable Nurse's Week,...
hanks for the good wishes from beautiful Hawaii. I was born at Tripler, when Hawaii was still a territory!! I am a Labor and Delivery RN. Best to you, too...
ou bet!<br> I may gripe and complain alot - but I praise God and thank him always for this profession. Even though we give and give and give of ourselves, it...
helped deliver a patient of her 19 week fetal demise one time. She wrote a beautiful letter to my manager that she believed I was an angel sent to help her ...
agree with you rnmom, its those small rewards that mean the most and keep us going when everything else goes nuts around you. Its amazing how sometimes just a...
ome of us help it to leave... As long as I can remember, I ahve wanted to be a nurse. I know when I 1st joined here, I was very unhappy with my profession. I ...
have been a nurse in oncology for a year now and the first thing someone says to me is "I could never do that, it must be hard." Yeah! It is hard! When I first...
irst started oncology, it was against my will. My cousin worked there and wanted me to come. My comment was; 'I will work there for 6 months and then I'll ...
i, like I have stated before, I am not an RN yet, and it will be a few years before I get my license. But you all don't realize how much more I want to be one...
ou sound like you will be a good nurse wherever you end up. You do not have to decide yet what department would be best for you. As I have said before, I have...
ou have plenty of time to make up your mind about which field you would like to enter. For me, as I have said, the choice of oncology, was not my 1st choice....
have worked in a large variety of nursing fields. When I first graduated - I wanted so badly to work in Psychiatric Nursing - and I did, for my first three...
fell into oncology too. My cousin worked in oncology and I wanted to see if nursing was for me, so she got me a job as a nursing asst. Then in school I ended...
OW! your post was so touching I love to hear from nurses with such compassion, theres so much more to nursing than just acquiring "skills". I use to work on...
guess I believe that no one should have to die alone if it can be helped. My skills may not be as polished as some of the older nurses but I do show compassion...
would love to share ideas for inservices, CNA training or Quality Assurance. I am an RN and work in Long Term Care. My love for the elderly has led me to a ...
ust wanted to drop in here and say hi!! ... have any ideas or thoughts on how to better handle a group of staff who all of a sudden become stressed out when...
ell, it may sound silly, but we adults love being kids, right? The other day I went out and bought a bunch of bouncey balls, and chinese jump ropes...we took...
i all!<br>I am new to the club and was reading up on some of the older posts and this one about "new grads" by ghalba really struck a chord with me. I have...
t really sounds like you've had a bad experience there. And what kind of experience are you gaining by not being able to ask questions or learn by example. It...
eading your post makes me sad, cause I have collegues who treat new grads as "YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT, or LOOK IT UP". In my opinion, and this is only my opinion...
'm with you maddie, I'm still in the process of working my up the nursing ladder, from nurse aide, to LVN, now going back for RN. I started working in nursing...
rauma,<br> Not wanting you to look up meds? Hey I still look up meds! I was lucky I had a great head nurse. Any time I said to her I was unfamiliar with a...
