cowgrrlRN

cowgrrlRN has 12 years experience and specializes in Geriatric and Psychiatric.

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1. How about your favorite Old Wives Tales related to health?

   cowgrrlRN replied to NurseyTonyaLPN's topic in Humor

   Got one that hasn't been posted yet. Several of my LTC patients swore by WD-40 for arthritis. Yep, you spray it right on the affected joint!! Apparently the thinking was that it would lubricate joints the same as it will hinges...Had to confiscate mo...

2. Strangest thing you've heard a co-worker or patient say?

   cowgrrlRN replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in Humor

   while i was in nursing school i also worked as a cna. i had always heard rumors that a certain pt had been a local madam when she was younger. i never quite believed the tale until one fateful sunday morning as the other cna i was working with and i ...

3. Smoking And Nurses

   cowgrrlRN replied to ABC054's topic in General Nursing

   :innerconfDuh, we all know how harmful smoking is to our health, however we also are allowed the freedom to choose what we want to do. If you really think about anything in excess can be harmful to health. I'm not saying it is a positive choice to sm...

4. i need some helppp

   cowgrrlRN replied to phillykixx17's topic in ADN/BSN

   Both BSN and ADN programs are excellent. The main thing I had to consider is how I was going to pay for college. Initially I was involved in a scholarship program with the hospital I worked in during high school and planned to get my BSN but the prog...

5. Does anyone else like working night shift besides me?

   cowgrrlRN replied to Joyfullme's topic in General Nursing

   I LOVE working night shift. Mostly because I am a natural night owl anyway. Even when I had to work day shift I had an excruciating time getting enough sleep. Nocturnal insomnia but sleep like a baby all day. I've worked day shift before and sometim...

6. Do I have to be an A student to be a nurse? ...there's no hope for me.

   cowgrrlRN replied to BunnyJ's topic in General Nursing

   Keep trying!! You will make to being a nurse if that is really what you want. In the meantime you might want to consider a job as a CNA. I worked as a CNA before and during college and it was invaluable to my education. I was able to learn alot of th...

7. Surely somebody else has been through this!

   cowgrrlRN replied to cowgrrlRN's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you to everyone for the great support and encouragement. As it turns out a misdemeanor DUI does have to be reported to the AZ BON. We'll see what kind of penalties I face in addition to those from the court. Yes, this has definitely been filed ...

8. Surely somebody else has been through this!

   cowgrrlRN replied to cowgrrlRN's topic in General Nursing

   Mostly I am looking for some hope that I will get through this and might even make it with my career intact. Thanks for your input.

9. Am I, as a nursing student, part of the problem?

   cowgrrlRN replied to marie-francoise's topic in General Nursing

   I resent even the implication that ADN nurses are any less than any higher degree nurse. Guess what!! We ALL have to take the same NCLEX to be licensed regardless of what the letters after our names are. I graduated from a small community college but...

10. Surely somebody else has been through this!

    cowgrrlRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    To make a long story short, I was recently convicted of misdemeanor DUI. I have contacted my BON and am awaiting a reply as to what consequences I face if it is necessary to report this offense. I'm more afriad than I have ever been in my life. I see...

11. Do I have to be an A student to be a nurse? ...there's no hope for me.

    cowgrrlRN replied to BunnyJ's topic in General Nursing

    Whether a course is easy or difficult is a very subjective matter. For A&P memorization is a key skill as well as the ability to visualize structures. Microbiology also requires memorization but also the ability to applied learned material to dif...

12. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

    cowgrrlRN replied to Brian's topic in Relations

    I agree that nurses tend to eat their young, however, I don't feel that it is being done intentionally in most cases. Many older nurses have forgotten what it is like to be a new nurse as well as how much is not taught in school but can only be learn...