mickey_RN

mickey_RN

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About mickey_RN

student, mother, in CNA training

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  1. Love my professors!

    All of my teachers and clinical instructors have been amazing! I feel like Ive taken something away from each class or clinical....:redbeathe
  2. I am going into my 4th semester of nursing school (ADN), and it is very hard to work and go to school. What I have done is to get a Part-time job in a nursing home (I work every Friday and every other Saturday and Sunday) I take out extra student loa...
  3. I Will Fear No Evil For You Are With Me

    I am an atheist and I applaud your kindness when helping this woman. Prayer is about more than just a higher power. Its optimism, acceptance, and is personal to all who use it. I hope if I ever have to serious surgery like that, I have a nurse like y...
  4. Difficult showers

    I have many of the same problems as the OP, you just described my night!!! lol Had a bad night at work and found this thread, just feeling a little discouraged, and this does help....:) I am going to try some of these suggestions. I have also found t...
  5. I have a friend who decided that she wanted to be a nurse because she wanted to make good money. Wanted to be an LPN because she didnt want to be a "real" nurse. Wanted out of her factory job because she didnt like to work the occasional weekend. All...
  6. A REAL Nurse

    Ruby Vee, your stories make me laugh AND cry. Sorry for the loss of your father....
  7. Not sure if I can handle it....

    thank you so much, that makes me feel a lot better about what to expect. :) Let me just say too, I have even more respect for the CNAs that do this everyday, quickly, efficiently, yet still with compassion.
  8. Not sure if I can handle it....

    Hello, this is my first thread on allnurses, and I just wanted some feedback. I just finished my clinicals for CNA certification. I am a nursing stufdent, and I want to get my hands dirty, so to speak, before I do my nursing clinicals. My clinical ...
  9. CNA only...

    Same here! "Old People" scared the crap out of me, but I actually am looking forward to working in a nursing home. Not because of the work, but because of the residents...
  10. Terrible visitors - Unsafe situation

    Maybe the charge nurse felt that you thought she couldnt handle the situation? I also have a tendency to be very sensitive about handling my own problems, even when I am drowning and I need a flotation device...
  11. Not The Best Way To Improve Nursing's Rep!

    You have a point...what I should have said was that in the publics eye, it can seem worse because she is a nurse I just wish that she hadnt been a nurse I guess... Or that when she adopted a child, she would have been smart enough to realize that it ...
  12. Not The Best Way To Improve Nursing's Rep!

    This woman makes nurses, adoptive parents and Americans look bad...There are many adoptive families who have invested themselves emotionally and financially to adopt Russian children that cant do it now.. From what I understand, it was the grandmothe...
  13. Sounds like its just a job to you...But I have a grandmother who was a nurse for 35 years and an aunt who is a DON of a cardiac transplant unit both tell me you shouldnt be a nurse if it is just a job to you
  14. Brown Mackie College KANSAS CITY MO

    Here in Ohio, Brown Mackie only offers LPN certificates and NOTHING transfers, There are websites that you can go to to see if your credits will transfer...cant remeber the name of any right now but if you do a google search on college credit transf...
  15. Those that prefer to work with men

    Let me tell you...Dont have experience in the nursing feild yet, from factory experience, I would take a man to work with over a woman any day of the week! Men are either open about what their reactions and/or thoughts are and most of the time they a...