ellymay

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1. Not prepared for clinical!

   ellymay replied to beatrice1's topic in General Nursing

   I wish I would have had that problem when I was in school. Except very rarely, we had to go the day before to choose our patients. Then there was a mountain of paperwork to complete before morning, which meant I always arrived at clinical after ver...

2. Does anyone else find nursing school... easy?

   ellymay replied to Guerilla04's topic in General Students

   no worries....you did not offend me at all. i only wish i had gone to nursing school before i had so many responsibilities. i envy your situation really. in my situation, it was all i could do to keep up with the assignments and things that absol...

3. advice for highschool student

   ellymay replied to future_nurse_parent's topic in General Students

   i don't know exactly what advice to offer. he is only 15 after all. if he thinks he may want to be a nurse, however, starting as a cna would give him an opportunity to see what nurses do. rn's are ultimately responsible for everything a cna does i...

4. Does anyone else find nursing school... easy?

   ellymay replied to Guerilla04's topic in General Students

   i have already graduated and i thought the first semester was ok but it only got harder from there. most of the difficulty i had was just that it was so extremely time consuming. i spent many nights before a clinical day getting anywhere from a few...

5. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   ellymay replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   :hpygrp::hpygrp::hpygrp::hpygrp::hpygrp::hpygrp:

6. You know that you are dating/married to a nurse

   ellymay replied to mydee's topic in Humor

   i do that to my husband to.....i can't tell if he thinks it's funny or just tolerates me doing it.

7. Memorial Hermann GN Internship

   ellymay replied to CPhT2RNstudent's topic in Texas

   i also applyed for the nicu at woman's and would be more than happy to be your classmate:d. i have tried calling but always get voice mail. hermann is my first choice but i would be more than happy to work at woman's. i just want to be in nicu.

8. Memorial Hermann GN Internship

   ellymay replied to CPhT2RNstudent's topic in Texas

   congratulations on your new job!! i guess now instead of worrying about whether my packet was received, i can start worrying about the fact that they haven't called me yet.:chuckle is your new job at woman's in the nicu? i think i remember seeing ...

9. Memorial Hermann GN Internship

   ellymay replied to CPhT2RNstudent's topic in Texas

   after the application deadline passed, they later opened it again until sept 25. i am assuming they did not have enough applicants or at least not enough of the kind of applicants they were looking for. the number accepted will vary according to th...

10. Memorial Hermann GN Internship

    ellymay replied to CPhT2RNstudent's topic in Texas

    i have called a few times in the last couple of weeks but always have to leave a message. i then called human resources and was told that if i leave a message that they should return my call within the week. it's just frustrating. i want to work a...

11. Graduated tonight!

    ellymay replied to Bortaz's topic in General Students

    Congratulations to you!!!! Now that it's over, don't you feel like you have NO idea how you ever made it through?

12. Do you practice your skills on dummies/mannequins

    ellymay replied to AusNurse2B's topic in General Students

    We practiced on mannequins. I guess it was not good to not go out and torture real people until we had some clue what we were doing but the mannequins are way different than the real thing.

13. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    ellymay replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

    Embarrassing maybe but she has probably repeated that story and gotten many laughs..:chuckle

14. they see dead people

    ellymay replied to tatara's topic in General Nursing

    I am a firm believer that you can see someone who has passed on. When I was a teenager I saw my great grandmother who had been dead for several years. It scared me to death but I know what I saw.

15. What would make you say "I could never do that"

    ellymay replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    I hate the sound of suctioning but I can do it. But I know I could never work with an eye surgeon who does surgeries while the patient is awake....gives me chills just thinking about it.