soushee

soushee has 3 years experience.

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1. Poll: Nurse and law enforcement couples

   soushee replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   I've been a nurse for 3 years; my boyfriend is an LEO. His ex who he has a child with is a nurse, too. Maybe he has a type, ha!

2. Nursing and the supernatural

   soushee replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

   Working night shift, it's easy to get spooked sometimes. My unit uses tracker devices, all RNs and CNAs wear them. Several nights one week about 6 extra unidentified "people" would appear on the tracker board, and would move from a specific room to...

3. Craziest vitals on a person who lived?

   soushee replied to Ayvah's topic in General Nursing

   I'm a competitive cyclist, and have seen low 40s on myself when resting quietly with a tele monitor on (I was letting a new grad practice putting the leads on me). I have an ID bracelet that I wear when I bike, and I have "Low Pulse Rate" on there j...

4. Why don't you just read the chart?

   soushee replied to Guest219794's topic in Relations

   The I think the worse was one time I was getting a hip fracture patient and the ER nurse could not tell me which hip it was, and if it was broken. I was told "Um, they have a hurt hip." Seriously? I get we're all busy, but that blew my mind when I ...

5. Is it like this at every school or is it just mine?

   soushee replied to prime11214's topic in General Students

   In my program there is only one theory section, and we all attend at the same time. For clinical we are broken down into groups and different rotations, either morning or evening shifts (which they allow people to choose which shift they want, kind ...

6. What's your nursing school diet?

   soushee replied to Despareux's topic in General Students

   See Food Diet Lots of hospital cafeteria food (which is actually yummy...), meal replacement shakes, and PB&J

7. Drug Testing for NS

   soushee replied to PhiladelphiaLove's topic in General Students

   My school requires a drug screen and background check (it's rather intensive, I requested the results of mine out of curiosity, they even pull driving records) prior to starting any classes, and also does random monthly drug screens where if you're s...

8. Does the program get harder as the semesters go on?

   soushee replied to cobee's topic in General Students

   2nd semester is considered the hardest semester in my program. 1st is stupidly easy, then BAM! 2nd semester hits and it's hell. Then it eases off again in 3rd and 4th.

9. Giving Thank you gifts

   soushee replied to Hopeful3's topic in General Students

   A girl in my class was passing out xmas cards to our instructors last week... thought it was odd, especially since it was taking up office time for all of us with questions about our grades/finals (we don't take our final until tomorrow). Reminded m...

10. nursing pins - yay or nay?

    soushee replied to turnforthenurse's topic in General Students

    Luckily, my school buys ours. I don't plan on wearing it after the ceremony, though. But that's a cool idea about putting it in a shadow frame!

11. Bachelors in Biology. Now what?

    soushee replied to cookiefairy's topic in Pre-Nursing

    If it's something he is interested in, I say go for it! I have a BS in microbiology and am in an ADN program right now, and will start my BSN concurrently next fall. What I've found is that all my courses and stuff I learned with my BS really makes...

12. Help with books

    soushee replied to Ninja Nurse's topic in General Students

    Same with me... just gotta buy a maternity book for next semester and a few cheapy case study books. Then I think after that I just need a psychiatric book for 3rd or 4th semester.

13. Good time to be finished with nursing school

    soushee replied to AddisonLawrence03's topic in General Students

    I'm going to be 28 when I get my ADN... *shrug* I'm actually one of the younger students in my class, so I don't feel bad. Sure, I wish I did nursing the first time around I was in college, or at least double majored in it and what I got my BS in, ...

14. Final Exams

    soushee replied to epijunky's topic in General Students

    I'm working through studying for my comprehensive final as well... Did you teacher(s) give any sort of review? Most of mine have given us lists of topics that we should focus on, so it helps narrow down the content a bit. Though, I'm kind of parano...

15. Help with books

    soushee replied to Ninja Nurse's topic in General Students

    I plan on keeping all of my books, at least until I graduate (and I figure by then they'll be too old to get rid of anyway... that's how it goes with textbooks, last semester's stuff is old news). With how my program works, we use the same books ove...