ruthybaby720

ruthybaby720

orto/neuro; LTC, rehab-inpt. med/surg

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About ruthybaby720

ruthybaby720 specializes in orto/neuro; LTC, rehab-inpt. med/surg.


RN since 1994, was LPN before that ans NA before that. all experience helps!!!

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  1. Name on Maryland BON but license status says pending....did I pass?

    I took the NCLEX the very first year they had it on computer!! We still had to wait several weeks to get the results!! When I took it for my LPN it was a month or 2 before we found out in the mail!! Can you imagine?!? lol!
  2. Funny things lay-people say...

    I accepted a written application from a CNA trying to get a job in LTC. She had answered the question:" Do you have any other special skills you would like us to know about?" with this: "I can do Ranger Motion"! I have LOL at that for years! Yes! We ...
  3. The best nursing advice you've ever received

    well, if you are just starting nursing school: you WILL say to yourself, "self--what the @$#&%^*%*(& were you thinking?!?!?!" 2:don't look at the whole semester: look at each day and ask yourself-what do I have to do right now?? 3. you ca...
  4. What to do with CNAs that sleep during the night shift?

    After waking them up for the 2nd or 3rd time in a night, I politely ask them to clock out and GO HOME to bed!!! It will be awhile before they do that again when it hits them in the paycheck. And I would do that for anyone, nurse, cma,etc...... IF ...
  5. "Why don't you just be a doctor?"

    Hi all! Just remembering back when I was in my first year as an Rn on a busy ortho-neuro med-surg floor, where I learned almost everything I ever needed to know!) I called a doc once in the middle of the night and told him this lady "just didn't loo...
  6. A different perspective

    Wow, reading these comments has been heartwrenching...I don't know if this will get read or not, but i have to say it. I took care of my mom, along with hospice for the last 3 months. She was a nurse and took care of people all her life. I, one ou...
  7. Debt! I'm making the right choice, right?

    Yes, where there's a will there IS a way!! when i started nursing school, we were accepted into the program even tho we had done no prereqs, it was all included in the 2 yr.ie for me it was 3 and a half yrs, parttime. I had no idea where i was gon...