Koyaanisqatsi-RN

Koyaanisqatsi-RN

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  1. Nurses, it's time to harden up

    I'm a realist too! I believe that no matter how crappy my life has gotten (and trust me, it's never exactly been a free ride) I could always have it much, much worse. That's realism, to me. Me and some of my friends have a phrase we always use with ...
  2. Nurses, it's time to harden up

    I would never argue that anyone should be blindly optimistic. Just as you said, blind pessimism is certainly every bit as damaging. You are 100% right that conditions like this are unacceptable, unsafe and must be dealt with. I am not the kind of p...
  3. Nurses, it's time to harden up

    I've read it. :) Freud gave us a much more lucid look at society and it's need for delusion / optimism in Civilization and its Discontents, but I digress! Care to tell us how this is true? What is dramatically different about nursing school today t...
  4. Nurses, it's time to harden up

    Don't get me wrong, like I said in the post itself I need this reminder as well, quite often. It's just part of life, but even particularly so when you do something as stressful as nursing. Nursing and healthcare run in my family, so I know that many...
  5. Nurses, it's time to harden up

    I've been reading a lot of posts here lately about people complaining about nursing schools "churning out nurses", (if I hear that phrase one more time I might throw up in my mouth!) about bad staffing ratios, bad management, bad patients, bad famili...
  6. Help me to understand something about diabetes

    I'm not sure what you mean. Dehydration doesn't raise BP, it lowers it with regard to the loss of volume. As far as blood sugar, it elevates during prolonged periods of stress as a result of cortisol. Given its anti-inflammatory properties, this is ...
  7. Time of the month in light colored scrubs

    Hello ladies! ...just your average every day guy checking in to see what's hap *stops dead in tracks* *backs out of room very slowly*
  8. Would it be worth it to take an EKG cert class while in nursing school?

    How is it not a leg up on the competition if i've already learned those types of things? The school I go to is a pretty good one, and I've never run into any weird money grabs like what you mentioned. And yes, I would specifically like to go into th...
  9. My school is offering a summer course to get certified as an EKG tech, while I'm in the RN program. I realize that I won't be working as a tech, but would this experience and certification help me in my job search? I've heard that it would, but I wa...
  10. Prayer as a Nursing Intervention

    Prayer is as worthless an intervention as "disturbed energy field" treatments. It's an embarrassment to the field of nursing, and any medical profession to include stuff like this as part of official nursing practice, and i'm hoping you do not assoc...
  11. Please use some common sense on Facebook.

    Heh, this is all correct. The problem with facebook is people get too dumb and friend literally everyone who asks. People laugh at my list because it has a smaller number of people on it, but I know them all in real life and consider them friends! I...
  12. I killed it today!!!!

    I wouldn't worry about it, honestly. I've definitely seen what you experienced, but I just blow it off. As long as someone isn't being smug and rubbing in someone else's face, I don't see the problem with at least being excited about what you earned....
  13. I killed it today!!!!

    As long as you wouldn't mind an A student gloating and proclaiming how well they're doing, since you're only a B student. Just saying. :) I don't mind people discussing their grades at all, but most are pretty hypocritical when it comes to people do...
  14. Fellow student is....a little stinky

    Hey as long as you're willing to go without deodorant when you go to a country where the people don't use it, then I agree with you. :)
  15. Fellow student is....a little stinky

    Oh come on. Really? I read your post the same way, but I doubt anyone assumed you were some kind of ignorant racist. The world is full of a lot of ignorant people, however, so it isn't much of a stretch to assume someone who calls odor a 'cultural t...