elliejayRN

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1. Anyone who was a secretary now a nurse?

   elliejayRN replied to LovesGreyhounds's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, I have an associate degree in legal secretarial science, many of my credits from this degree actually transferred to prereqs to help with my nursing degree. I've meet other nurses with degress, and they just did one year for a BSN. I made the ...

2. SHould I just go straight to the RN program????

   elliejayRN replied to confused0101's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Sweetheart, excuse me, that's thick skin...Grin smile a lot and never tell anyone what you really think, if they don't have a suggestion box, mums the word!

3. SHould I just go straight to the RN program????

   elliejayRN replied to confused0101's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   If you asked before starting LVN school, I would have told you to go for RN!!! I remember taking the NCLEX with as a GN sitting in the room with GVN thinking how fortuante, I will never have to sit through this again and they will have to do it agai...

4. A few well-timed vacations...

   elliejayRN replied to RuRnurse?'s topic in General Nursing

   Medication for pain good, pain bad!!!-perhaps you could write this somewhere. Get the families involved and let them complain to management, customer service is key!!

5. Stressing out!! Need some answers!! PLEASE HELP

   elliejayRN replied to Hopeful8626's topic in General Nursing

   I passed in 75 questions under two hours, I still had anxiety, because I thought I failed and the computer just got frustrated and kicked me out. Trust me though, nothing compares to anxiety you feel after you've passed the test and the tremendous r...

6. Change has hit... and it ain't good.....

   elliejayRN replied to jschut's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, that sounds like your organization, as mine we all get a pretty heavy load. What gets me is certain nurses routinely get all there work done. They're surfing the net, reading the newspaper and I don't know how in the world they get it all done...

7. Glen Beck's hospital experience

   elliejayRN replied to emmycRN's topic in Headlines

   StacieRN, you certainly put him in his place! With all that knowledge though, offering assistance if pt. is struggling or comforting anxiety perhaps could have squashed this incident all together! Caring profession?..... Anyway, what do I know, I'...

8. 4 Years for A ADN?!

   elliejayRN replied to pumpkin1984's topic in ADN/BSN

   I just finished in May with my ASN/ADN and I'm still kicking myself. It's taken me a longtime too (2003-2007) and I had a previous degree. My suggesstion, do all you prereqs. on the com. college level and transfer over to the BSN. My BSN bound friend...

9. What are the worst reasons to get into nursing?

   elliejayRN replied to mayana's topic in General Nursing

   caring for people is a big part you didn't mention? what do you think? go for it if its in your heart to do. Depending on where you work, you might not sit down for 8-12 hours, except for breaks-that you must make yourself take! :thnkg:

10. Mulitcultural Nursing- pts and nurses views wanted

    elliejayRN replied to kukukajoo's topic in General Nursing

    My experience has been the more educated the quicker the stereotype where you're banished without a hope and prayer for being seen as a person. Institutional racism insure that utopia of multicultural society never exists. Unlike the small town poste...

11. Glen Beck's hospital experience

    elliejayRN replied to emmycRN's topic in Headlines

    Beck really seemed to be most unhappy with the 250-300 male nurse. I'm frankly as surprised as he that he was treated in that manner. He expressed concern about breathing and was anxious; he was ignored. He was angry about his mistreatment and u...

12. Nurses with disabilities

    elliejayRN replied to bestblondRN's topic in Disabilities

    cool, what kind of nursing did you want to do?:icon_hug:

13. Mulitcultural Nursing- pts and nurses views wanted

    elliejayRN replied to kukukajoo's topic in General Nursing

    It's just that it pretty much lumped all black people as being poor as Koolaid is a matter of economics, not really actually being a preference over more nutrional drinks. Understand, basically a negative racial stereotype. Simply, the statement is...

14. Mulitcultural Nursing- pts and nurses views wanted

    elliejayRN replied to kukukajoo's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, that same chart is hanging prominently in the nutrition office in one of the major hospitals in northern va area. When I saw it for the first time, I just dismissed the entire chart. I figured if they couldn't get that right about a people who ha...

15. Mulitcultural Nursing- pts and nurses views wanted

    elliejayRN replied to kukukajoo's topic in General Nursing

    . multiculturalism-(http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=multiculturalism) there are countless people from different cultures arriving in this country all the time. my gosh, the many languages and then dialects of those languages. ...