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If you are a new nurse or have been a nurse for the last 20 years, this may tickle your nurse funny bone/humerus so much you fall down on your coccyx. Congratulations, you’re now a fall risk!

A Day in the Life of a New Nurse

If you are a new nurse or have been a nurse for the last 20 years, you can relate to a day in the life of a new nurse on some level.

Wake up from a night of stress sleep

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Frantically getting ready

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Remembering that your drive to work will be the longest you’ll sit down today

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Seeing your patient assignment and dying a little inside

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7 seconds after report, you’re already 4 hours behind

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Your patient asks you to do something simple that you haven’t learned how to do yet

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You get an email that you have 17 online learning modules due

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Whenever you try to do anything without your preceptor

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When you get a really nice patient who is okay with you being new and taking 2 hours to do everything

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Awkwardly trying to figure out how to ask people about their bowels when there are 17 visitors who never leave

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When you are finally almost caught up and they tell you you’re getting an admission

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Trying to figure out empathy and sharing too much

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When people keep coming up to you every 14 seconds with something else one of your patients need

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When the family points out you forgot to reconnect the SCD pumps

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When your admission goes to another unit

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Getting corrected every 2 sentences while trying to give report

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Clocked. Out.

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2 minutes after you get home

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… and then

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Resources for new nurses

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