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A Day in the Life of a New Nurse

February 21, 2017 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 9 Comments

A Day in the Life of a New Nurse

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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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You're a Great Nurse!

Join a community of nurses who will make you feel like the rock start care giver you are!

Take Me to My People!

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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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Filed Under: Nurse Humor Tagged With: a day in the life of a new nurse, humor, new nurse, nurse, nurse humor

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Comments

  1. Jocelyn says

    February 21, 2017 at 8:12 pm

    “Getting corrected every 2 sentences while trying to give report” or giving report to the know-it-all who asks you multiple questions that aren’t always relevant, or they try to challenge you to see if you did your assessments properly. Or who try to tell you stories while you’re trying to give a quick report so you can get home after a night shift!

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    • Stephanie says

      February 22, 2017 at 8:06 pm

      You are my hero. Yes, all of those!!!

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  2. SusanDizzleMyNizzle says

    February 22, 2017 at 3:30 am

    Learning modules are satins spawn

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  3. Chloe says

    February 22, 2017 at 5:04 am

    This (hey, it’s clean AND funny yay!) made me smile! Thanks for the humor! I’ll need it for those awesome clinical hours tomorrow 🙂 #livinglife #nursingschool #laughtermedicine

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  4. Jem says

    February 22, 2017 at 9:03 am

    When you are finally almost caught up and they tell you you’re getting an admission “Oh by the way, you have 2!”

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  5. Sarah Mott says

    February 23, 2017 at 1:55 am

    Waking up from a stress sleep cracks me up – I think that is exactly how I looked 16 years ago when I was a new nurse and how I still look when I wake up in the morning! You never get over worrying about your patients or whether or not your forgot to do something…

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  6. Lara Tregillies says

    March 2, 2017 at 12:09 am

    It’s been 27 years since I’ve been a new grad and the trauma I experienced so long ago is what makes me EXTRA sensitive to the new grads I work with…..they were all good!

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  7. Sally says

    March 2, 2017 at 11:47 pm

    Something to look forward to and if I can remember this on my first day then maybe I will smile ????

    Reply

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