Waht do I wish for in my break room? Natalie Portman. Though in a more semi-realistic way, I'd like to have a cocktail bar... that'd be nice. It's 5 o'clock somewhere.
Absolutely not. Depression is a clinically diagnosed syndrome. Unless it affects the safety and well-being of others, you should not be impeded. If it does, appeal it. Depression is a syndrome. They wouldn't exclude you if you had ACS would they?...
Apollorn replied to UnclearFuture's topic in General Nursing
I'm an RN student that challenged, and successfuly, passed my LPN exam. We have the opportunity to challenge the LPN exam after our second year of the BSN, which is kind of nice to gain some experience and much needed money. I find myself using all ...
Wow! Thank you for the overwhelming response. One of the main reasons I love this community. Thank you to everyone that shared their stories - they are definintely not easy to talk about. It was interesting to hear some stories from nurses talking...
I'm still in school and I work as an LPN on the weekends. So I work roughly 24 hours per week while taking four classes and a practicum this semester. I can't say it's too stressful considering I'm posting here right now, can I? :)
Apollorn replied to januarykid's topic in International
I work as an LPN now whilst I finish my RN degree (we can challenge the LPN exam in our 2nd year of the BSN). It's tough to really see the difference between scopes of LPN and RN besides the IV and critical care stuff. Although, RNs do get a lot of...
This is a rant. [rant: on]So a 20 year old girl was admitted to my ward yesterday with a fractured tibia sustained in an MVA. She was t-boned by a drunk driver. She had emergency surgery to fix it (forgot the name of the surgery). Anyway, she deve...
Thank you for replying. I am in my third year. It seems to becoming progressively worse. Today, in our mental health seminar, she referred to schizophrenic patients as "those crazy people with wild visions." My jaw dropped. A classmate piped up ...
I have a fellow student who is ....interesting. She is shockingly rude, insensitive, and generally disrespectful. I don't mind it as much to the rest of the class, but she is disgusting to placements and patients. Here's a truncated list: 1) We have...
Group projects are awful when other members don't pull their share. I'm going through it now and was fortunate to have a good group. My previous 3 were absolutely atrocious. Grit your teeth and perservere!