Mar 20 - Mar 26 Hottest New Topics

• Reclaiming our Profession
• Dear Nurse
• Passing the Torch
• Mild Psychological Distress Associated With Disability
• A real nurse
• So do you actually take your breaks?
• I finally PASSED my NCLEX-RN exam!!!
• Doing real CPR as a student.
• Questions about Children's National Medical Center

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Reclaiming our Profession

As a new nurse, I embraced the idea of being "an angel in white". Advocated the idea that nursing was a "calling" that only special people could answer. When I wasn't able to get a break or even a lunch period, I chalked it up to the idea of my calling. I was sacrificing for my patients, they deserved all I had to give even at my own expense. I looked at older nurses that I worked with, ones who didn't seem to "care" (as I so naively assumed), didn't deserve to be called nurses. Only I, as a young, fresh new nurse-so full of myself, could TRULY care...TRULY understood what it meant to be a nurse.

Dear Nurse

I hope you get the time to read this one because its written just for you. I know you can never have enough time to do all you have to do, let alone to read this letter but I hope you can sit awhile and ponder on these words. You are tired. You are frustrated of all that is going on in your life. You feel that you are not appreciated let alone noticed for what you are doing. You are wrong.

Passing the Torch

What do you know?

No, he didn't come right out and ask me that. But after years of reading facial expressions I can read sarcasm just as easily as if it were on a pain scale.

I can't argue that as a newly licensed Nurse you may have had access to material that I may not have been exposed to. Or even that your clinical experience was more high tech than mine...

Mild Psychological Distress Associated With Disability

Even mild psychological distress can result in long-term disability, according to a population-based study published online March 21 in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

A real nurse

To me, a nurse comes in so many forms; different but equal, all with an important role. Why does nursing only respect the value of ONE type of nursing? It's like Pinocchio, worried about being a "real" boy. I wish more time was spent recognizing our peers unique skills and less spent trying to tear each other down.

So do you actually take your breaks?

At my job, we work 8 1/2 hr shifts.. so were suppose to get 2 15 min and a 30 min lunch. The 2 15 min are paid, but the 30 minute isnt.. none of my other coworkers take breaks at all... And when i ask to take my 30 miunte unpaid lunch they make me feel guitly about it! Why would I work when Im not getting paid!!?? Is this unreasonable??

I finally PASSED my NCLEX-RN exam!!!

I am so excited to finally be able to say that I am an RN!!! It's been a long journey and I would like to share it with all of you. I come from a long family of nurses; three aunts, my mother, three cousins, my brother and his girlfriend, it is in my blood! Not many people know this but I made it through nursing school with a reading disability and Epilepsy.

Doing real CPR as a student.

Take out the human side of CPR, as a student, would you be excited to get to jump in on a code and do compressions? Like the first time or two you saw it, do you think you would hope to get to jump in and help or do you think you would be the one off to the side praying no one sees you and asks you to do anything?

Questions about Children's National Medical Center

I live/work in Boston but I recently applied to Children's National Medical Center. I really want to work in pediatrics and have always wanted to get out of New England so I figured this was my chance! I am concerned though because I only have 6 months of experience in pediatric private duty nursing and still considered a new grad. I applied to a position (RN I/II) that did not require experience but I know they have a new grad program that I think already started (?) so I guess my questions are...