rndenise1959

rndenise1959 specializes in PHN, NSG Supervisor.

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1. Nurses: Do the patients often try to talk to you about politics?

   rndenise1959 replied to Samian Q's topic in General Nursing

   I have a policy that I never discuss politics or religion. You are not going to change anyone's mind and are probably going to make someone mad!

2. Am I over-thinking, or are these just bad test questions?

   rndenise1959 replied to chicken1's topic in General Students

   I think you are overthinking the questions. You need to start picking the most right answers. I know that sounds stupid this early in your nursing education but that is how I remember the "Boards" to be when I took them. On my tests in school, a l...

3. Life as a Nurse

   rndenise1959 replied to mushymash's topic in General Nursing

   I can identify with this heartfelt post. It is this way on, I would think, a lot of floors that have critical patients. I worked on a telemetry floor my first year out of nursing school and it was the way this nurse described a lot of the time. So...

4. Mom thinking about going back to nursing school... NEEDS ENCOURAGEMENT!!!

   rndenise1959 replied to JenInSchool's topic in Pre-Nursing

   TO: ittibittinurse Boy, do you have a lot to learn. After I graduated from my night nursing program which was an associates degree program of all older (no 18 or 19 year olds)people and most of us worked during the day full time and went to school ...

5. What do you call your "greatest" compliment?

   rndenise1959 replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

   The best compliment I ever received was the first year out of nursing school when I was working on a telemetry floor and had this really sweet lady probably about 70ish. She had her daughter with her and she was going for cardiac testing that day. ...

6. Which Nursing Jobs are the Least Stressful?

   rndenise1959 replied to LeLeeFNP's topic in Career Support

   I worked in Public Health and loved it! It is nurse driven for the most part. No life or death situations for the most part. Also, you can do so much client education like we are taught in nursing school and see a lot of times the same patients over ...

7. Mom thinking about going back to nursing school... NEEDS ENCOURAGEMENT!!!

   rndenise1959 replied to JenInSchool's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I returned to nursing school with a 7 year old daughter, a 12 year old step son, was married and worked full time. We had a night nursing program at our community college. The first year, I took prereqs along with others who were around my age. I ...