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Trial by Fire: New Nurse Stories | First Shift
"Eight weeks of orientation. A wonderful preceptor. And then... her first day... on her own. Six patients. Three on heparin drips. And the minute she got report... all heck broke loose."
Her first day by herself on step-down: six patients, three on heparin drips, one on a Cardizem drip, four diabetics, two on contact precautions. A patient got up when he'd been told not to, fell, and fractured his ankle — on a heparin drip. Another started bleeding heavily and needed blood STAT. A third was signing himself out AMA. A fourth waited on dialysis. With one tech on the unit, she ran to the…
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