Xxentrick

Xxentrick specializes in med/surg.

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1. Am I too old to just be starting?

   Xxentrick replied to Roxy0628's topic in General Students

   You will never be too old to go for what you want. I just graduated last May and I was 37 years old. Acutally I think out of 52 people that graduated about 15 were under 30 and the rest were definitely over. The oldest person in my class (who passed ...

2. For Fun - Things You Want to Buy Once You're a Nurse

   Xxentrick replied to Multicollinearity's topic in General Students

   Hmmm... I graduated last May, working full time since the first of this month, trying really hard to get my finances back on track and the only thing that I am grateful for is being able to finally take my Kiddo out to the movies & dinner once a ...

3. Who's Hiring New Grads?

   Xxentrick replied to chocolateskye's topic in Arizona

   YRMC is a very good one to apply to. I am in Colorado and they even offered to cover my relocation costs. So def. look into that one. Also, if you are a NSNA member, try to go to the conference in the spring...they always have a very good job fair! A...

4. Inpatient dialysis new grad

   Xxentrick replied to Wolfe24's topic in Urology

   I graduated this year myself and started in October on a Renal/Dialysis floor. I am not sure if your floor is going to be like mine, but I hope you like stress. I work nights and we get a lot of admits. We are the step-down unit for the ICU & the...

5. You cant be fashionable for nursing.

   Xxentrick replied to lovehospital's topic in General Nursing

   Not only do you get icky things in your hair, but you end up taking the icky stuff home with you. And if you have kids that come running up & hugging you when you finally get home (they never can remember the rule - wait till mom/dad gets out of ...

6. End of the Nursing Shortage

   Xxentrick replied to Flightline's topic in General Nursing

   Here where I live we never really had a shortage, because we are a big military town. There are always nurses that need jobs. We have two major hospitals that have just built two more major facilities and the starting base pay for new grads have been...

7. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   Xxentrick replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   Wish I could have seen the maggots dancing.... thanks for sharing this one :)

8. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   Xxentrick replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   LOL....funnily enough, that is exactly what my instructor said!!!

9. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   Xxentrick replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   No, actually it was a 22 year-old female!!!! Her luck was that I was assigned to the ER and that I am also a glass-artist, who knows how to drill holes into glass without making the glass shatter!!!! (Never thought my hobby might come in handy with ...

10. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Xxentrick replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

    LOL.... I have so much more to learn! I am only a student, but I have learned a valuable lesson during my clinicals: never, Never masturbate with an opened glass coke bottle...it may get stuck due to the vacuum one has created!!! And that could prove...