shmoofins

shmoofins has 1 years experience.

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1. Things you'd like to say to your co-workers, but never would ....

   shmoofins replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

   Don't be such a jerk all the time. You don't know everything and you don't know all the things I have to do as part of my job while you just sit there surfing the internet or talking. Hey, I know, maybe you could get up and actually help me. Stop bei...

2. How many times have you cried???

   shmoofins replied to CareBayer's topic in New Nurse

   I have cried more times than I can count both at work and at home after work. I've always been a bit of a crier, though. The stress of it all gets to me.

3. does anyone regret becoming a nurse?

   shmoofins replied to CC999's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, I regret it. I didn't like it when I was in school and I still don't like it. Not that I hate every aspect of it, and I hate it less now than when I was doing floor nursing but I still wish I'd changed my major when I was in school. I want to go...

4. Call-in days

   shmoofins posted a topic in Safety

   I would like to know how many call-in days nurses at other facilities get. At my facility we get 1 call-in per 6 months. This seems outrageous to me and it's unsafe. We work in a place where people are already sick and when the nurses are sick too it...

5. What would you do if you were to quit nursing?

   shmoofins replied to linda2097's topic in General Nursing

   Yes! That's one of the things I'm interested in :nuke:

6. What would you do if you were to quit nursing?

   shmoofins replied to linda2097's topic in General Nursing

   I am actually thinking very seriously about quitting nursing and going back to school. I want to work with computers. I wouldn't mind doing something that incorporated my nursing degree/knowledge but I don't want to be a nurse.

7. What do you regret not asking on your job interview???

   shmoofins replied to natnurse23's topic in General Nursing

   I should have asked "Why is this interview so easy?" When your interviewer doesn't ask you hardly any questions and you feel like you're practically hired already, this could be a BAD SIGN. (Especially if you don't have much experience and most jobs ...

8. Doctors Yelling

   shmoofins replied to potatomasher's topic in New Nurse

   We have several at work who are bad but one in particular. He yells and gets upset over nothing. He treats the staff horribly and of course nothing is ever done about it. He's gotten irritated with me before but never yelled. I'm sure it's coming tho...

9. Thinking about a career change to nursing, MSN-CNL or accelerated BSN program?

   shmoofins replied to newnurse?'s topic in Career Support

   What did you do to pay for school and for money in general while you took your pre-reqs? If you don't mind me asking...

10. If not Nursing, then what????

    shmoofins replied to my3kids's topic in New Nurse

    I would like to work with computers. I'm sick of nursing and I don't really like it. I have much more of an affinity for learning computers than nursing, which I still feel like I don't really get. Also I think I would like it better, working with co...

11. Discharge teaching post cath

    shmoofins replied to jordangregory's topic in Cardiac

    Stress that if they smoke, they should definitely quit! Also like others said reinforce Plavix big time if they've gotten stents.

12. How are those doctors treating you?

    shmoofins replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    A lot of our doctors are rude and just expect to get their way all the time. Of course the management just encourages that because they're too scared of losing them to a competing hospital. We have one doc that's really awful to the staff but nothing...

13. How opposite are you and your mate?

    shmoofins replied to wooosp's topic in General Nursing

    My boyfriend and I are actually pretty similar. We like a lot of the same things and we're both fairly nerdy. We both like videogames and nerdy movies and such. We have similar tastes in music (although we both like some stuff that the other doesn't)...

14. How did you pay for nursing school?

    shmoofins replied to CyndieRN2007's topic in General Nursing

    Loans out the wazoo, about $23,000...although I'm told as long as I work as a nurse I can have about $3,000 of that forgiven. I also got some scholarships and worked various jobs. I still never had very much money though, so it was nice once I finall...

15. 8 months until graduation and I want to drop out!!

    shmoofins replied to KSU-SN's topic in Career Support

    I felt the same way in school. It wasn't because school was too hard but because I felt that I didn't like nursing. I was really jealous of other people who changed their majors. I wish now that I'd done that too, but I went ahead and finished the pr...