goody986

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1. Know any good resource materials on hospice nursing?

   goody986 replied to LPN30's topic in Education

   I graduated LPN school in December and passed AR boards in February, I also fell in love with Hospice during clinicals, but the local hospice does not hire LPNs. My biggest thing is...I work in a nursing home and have 8 hospice residents that i provi...

2. Let's introduce ourselves...

   goody986 replied to pedi-RN's topic in New Nurse

   I have already posted an introduction, but I have a question.....I have worked in three different areas of nursing since graduating in December of 2007...Cardiology, Nursing home, and Med surg....I am now looking into a position in dialysis....will i...

3. Let's introduce ourselves...

   goody986 replied to pedi-RN's topic in New Nurse

   hey everyone...i'm karrie...i graduated in december, went to work for a cardiologist, and passed nclex on february 8th....and boy was i sweating it...took all 205 questions while noone else in my class took over 120:yeah::yeah:

4. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

   goody986 replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   I totally agree, and in the situations I have seen.... the male nurses are more than willing to help teach...almost as though they are taking advantage of having more knowledge....JUST KIDDING!!!!!!..... I do feel that male nurses are more secure wit...

5. Hello-Spankin' new to Cardiology Nursing

   goody986 replied to blackIrish's topic in Cardiac

   :redpinkhe:redpinkhei am also new to a cardiology clinic, but we are starting to do heart caths within the next couple of weeks, and i am horrified....i am a baby lpn and did not have to learn alot about strips and heart rythms in school, so all of t...

6. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

   goody986 replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   :pumpiron:there may be books and such to help you learn to cope with the newbie hungry experienced nurse, but in my recent experience, if you make it known upfront that you are obviously qualified for the position, as are they and you expect to be sp...

7. Any Positive Nursing School Experiences

   goody986 replied to Mommycakers's topic in General Students

   i am graduated in december and i have had alot of wonderful experiences while in nursing school, but there is alot of stress involved in nursing school....i am 31 so i am not as fresh as some that are in school, you do spend alot of time studying, an...

8. How much experience must you have?

   goody986 posted a topic in Agency

   i am about to graduate from nursing school and was curious as to how much experience and is there any special training i need to do agency work?:monkeydance:

9. OMG.Do Nursing students really practice on eachother??

   goody986 replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

   Just a bit of info....I am a senior in LPN school and we do practice some things on each other, but it is our decision as to whether we want to be practiced on. Another way I have to look at it is "do you want me sticking you if I haven't practiced f...

10. concept map of diabetes mellitus

    goody986 posted a topic in Student Assist

    :uhoh3:please help!!!! i have to do a concept map on diabetes mellitus and have no idea of where to begin. checked out a few websites, but didn't find much that would help me. please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

    goody986 replied to Brian's topic in Relations

    I am in LPN school currently and I agree with the above comment that not all nurses eat their young....unfortunately I have worked with very few that didn't. :chair:I have worked mostly with RN's, some new and some old, most of them are set in their ...

12. Introductions:"New" and "Old" Students.

    goody986 replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Students

    My name is Karrie, I am a mother of three very active children, with 40 days left in LPN school. This is a really great page.

13. Needing words of encouragement

    goody986 replied to richwv's topic in Male Students

    :balloons:hang in there, we have one guy and twenty-four females in our nursing class, i would really hate to be him, or you for that matter. don't let anyone discourage you, some of the best nurses i have worked with are male, be proud of what you h...