harleyridingirl

harleyridingirl

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About harleyridingirl

Mother of 2, grandmother

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  1. Are There Jobs for Inexperienced RNs Besides Floor Nursing?

    Look for a small endoscopy clinic. I did pre-op, post-op and loved it. You learn to start iv's, consents, put monitoring and charting. It can be fast paced but smaller clinics are more manageable.
  2. Interview issues

    Google interview questions and answers for nurses and then practice, practice, practice so you don't have to think about it and it just flows. I found some great answers to those questions like where do you see yourself in 5 years, etc. I have been o...
  3. Which Master's Degree?

    My tuition for a Masters in Nursing Leadership and Management is $3300 a semester but all reading material is included. You might think about that since you only get that much a year in reimbursement. Check prices first.
  4. Feeling like you're complicit in the addiction problem...

    I have had 14 surgeries, 3 of which were back surgeries where the pain was so bad beforehand that I wanted to die. I find right after surgery I require a lot of pain meds but after about 3 days I can almost completely stop them with no issues. I was ...
  5. What a Tobacco Treatment Course Taught Me About Opioid Abuse

    I agree this is a physiological and a genetic issue. I have been on opioids for months at a time due to 3 back surgeries (all before becoming a nurse) and I have no trouble getting right off the meds. My husband was on opioids for 8 weeks after havin...
  6. What a Tobacco Treatment Course Taught Me About Opioid Abuse

    I agree completely. We gave these people the medications knowing they were addictive and now we are just stopping them? What do we do with the people who are still seriously in pain? When I had herniated discs in my lumbar spine, the pain was so bad ...
  7. RN For 2 Years: Can't Find My Place

    I am in the same boat. I got my ADN 6 years ago. Went in to home health. Got my BSN. Then did adolescent psyche. Then changed to Endoscopy at a small clinic. I am just not very good at IVs. Then I started my MSN in leadership & Mgt. we moved to a...
  8. Required By Work to Get BSN - Don't Want to Write Endless Papers

    I am doing my MSN at WGU in Nsg leadership & Mgt right now. I am over half way thru. It is mostly papers. A few classes have tests and some have field assignments. You get a student mentor that follows you through school and each class assigns yo...
  9. As a home health nurse you are in the client's home and become family some times. The relationship can become strong, especially when you care for them for months. I have called to say hello after the patient left my care on 2 occasions and went to p...
  10. working nurses that started late in life

    I became a RN at 51. I am not in great shape as some have said we need to be. I'm doing just fine. I started with an ADN in 2009, my BSN in 2013 and am now halfway thru my MSN. It's doable but you have to sacrifice a lot to get through school.
  11. The film: Vaxxed.

    I wish they had had the chicken pox vaccine when I was a child. They are miserable. I can still remember it. Plus, now after seeing friends with Shingles, I paid for my own Shingles vaccine before the recommended age because I dang sure do not want t...
  12. The film: Vaxxed.

    I have a friend that had Polio as a child and her leg has never been right. The older she gets, the worse it gets. It causes her pain every day and she has had multiple surgeries to correct the malformation, not to mention the teasing she got as a ch...
  13. Required By Work to Get BSN - Don't Want to Write Endless Papers

    I could have written this exact post. Going to UTA was great but hard and I agree about the group projects. I quickly learned to take the lead because the one project I didn't was mediocre at best. Not being ugly but one woman turned in her plagerize...
  14. Required By Work to Get BSN - Don't Want to Write Endless Papers

    I am an older student and got my BSN from University of Texas at Arlington. It was all online. It was not just papers. I already had my ADN so I had to take English, Algebra, Fine Art (Humanities), History, Statistics, etc. along with nursing classes...
  15. How to NOT interview for your RN/LPN job!

    Evidently you are not a professional and have never interviewed anyone for a position. As professionals, we need to look and act the part. In an interview you are up against many other applicants and need to present your best self even if it's a lie....