New Nurse for a Long Time

I’ve been thinking about my nursing skill, ability, multi-tasking-ness, prioritization and organization skills lately. I keep coming back to the following quote from a blog called Strong Medicine regarding being a new nurse. I know I quoted it before, but here it is again… 
It’s OK to forget, it’s OK to make a mistake, and it’s [...]

Strong Medicine

What an impressive site. I visited My Strong Medicine, a blog of a nursing professional, among other things. I love his post titled, “Hi, I’m the nurse. We’ve never met.” Read it. I applaud his style and enthusiasm. Thank you for posting this.
He mentioned something in another post. Here’s the quote:
It’s OK to forget, it’s [...]

Righteous

Nursing is such an awesome profession. It comes with some heavy responsibility, heavy people and heavy attitudes. Now add being an emergency nurse into the mix. Not only is everything heavy – it’s crusty, too. Add in a smell (like under something that rarely gets lifted, or be it someone’s coming who you know will [...]

Battle

A nurse had the a t-shirt on today…here’s what it said:
“I fight the angel of death 36 hours a week…what do you do for a living?”
I like it. What do YOU do for a living?
I fought the angel tonight. My 2 year old was choking on a taco shell. I could still hear air movement. [...]

Saco Bay Criterium

Nursing has its privileges. For instance, Steve asked me to be the nurse for the Saco Bay Criterium. It’s a bicycle race. See you there!

Wishes

It’s been a while since I’ve written. Lots has happened since I’ve been away. Work and Savannah’s death to name a few. I have had a lot to do and so little time to do it. It seems like whenever I had time off, I was off to somewhere else to do something. Sheesh.
Lundi went [...]

Day 4 Nursing

This was my fourth day on the job. I spent from 7a until 3p with Rescue 1. Brian was my preceptor. We talked about what EMS does with the patient before they come into the ED. They don’t use squat for aseptic technique and there are certain protocols that each kind of patient would get [...]

Day one of Nursing

Today was my first day of working at HAPPY Hospital. I was excited and it was nice to get paid for working. All I did today was tour, meet, read and take care of logistics. More of that is planned for tomorrow. They will be scheduling me for different departments in the hospital, including riding [...]

Back to Back

NEWS from my home front. I just got a phone call from HAPPY Hospital. They have been batting around my health issues for the last week. As you may remember, my back isn’t in the best condition. In the pre-employment health screening, they found this information. They requested more information from my physician. Then, my [...]

NCLEX-PASSED!

I found out this morning at 5:15 am that I passed the NCLEX-RN and that I am now a licensed Registered Nurse. I called and told my mother at 5:45. I am elated and ready to work!