Thunda

Thunda has 1 years experience and specializes in Med/Surg.

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1. Judge says Affinity Medical Center must reinstate nurse, recognize union

   Thunda replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

   Fantastic and good for her! I wonder how her legal action was funded. Did her lawyer or legal team offer to do the work and get paid out of a settlement or did she have to muster up the money herself. Was there a union involved to cover the fees?

2. Not doing well in nursing school?

   Thunda replied to succinate's topic in General Students

   it's normal, go through my pre-req's with a GPA of 3.9, the first semester of the nursing program dropped me to a 3.4, and I went from barely having to touch my books to reading chapters multiple times. Nursing grading vs everywhere else is a contrib...

3. Reality shock

   Thunda replied to LookForward's topic in General Nursing

   This is VERY rudimentary, but it's great for guiding yourself with the very basic essentials on the floor with multiple patients. I made it so you can fold it and keep it in your pocket and reference quickly. Used it for my clinicals then transitio...

4. Pearsonvue Trick - Does it Work Every Time? Part 3

   Thunda replied to Silverdragon102's topic in NCLEX

   so frustrating when NURSES don't do any research before asking if they got the right popup, lol

5. Pearsonvue Trick - Does it Work Every Time? Part 3

   Thunda replied to Silverdragon102's topic in NCLEX

   finished at 1300, was on hold till 'bout 1800, now I got the "good popup" hooray!

6. Pearsonvue Trick - Does it Work Every Time? Part 3

   Thunda replied to Silverdragon102's topic in NCLEX

   Finished in 55min with 75 questions PVT shows my results are on hold :-( 1/4 sata, no order or calc questions. I think I passed, read somewhere that if you finish "too fast" that results will be reviewed manually so guess I'll have to be patient till...

7. Job outlook 2013 and beyond

   Thunda replied to nurse?99's topic in General Nursing

   The amount of Nursing Diploma Mills is staggering. Make certain the program you're going to attend is properly licenced (NLNAC is the important one in my area) and Make sure that the program you're going to attend has their clinicals in a good hospi...

8. Question about hip surgery and dressing change positioning

   Thunda posted a topic in General Nursing

   I was on the floor this week in clinical, we had a Pt. who had a left total hip done 2 days prior. Apparently on this floor, the surgeon has historically done the first dressing change, the surgeon who did this one is new to the hospital and wanted ...

9. How do you pronounce "centimeter" ???

   Thunda replied to shermrn's topic in General Nursing

   so-nom-e-ter   [suh-nom-i-ter]- an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing"

10. How do you pronounce "centimeter" ???

    Thunda replied to shermrn's topic in General Nursing

    cen-ti-me-ter  [sen-tuh-mee-ter] - noun one 100th of a meter, equivalent to 0.3937 inch. Abbreviation: cm, cm.

11. As an experienced RN, do you like/dislike having a student nurse assigned to you?

    Thunda replied to jamie32764's topic in General Students

    In my experience in both having LPN students assigned to me at work, and being a RN student in clinicals currently, it seems Nurses I'm attached to enjoy having someone take a patient "off their list" for 6 hours more than taking an active role in my...

12. Waitressing as a pre-req?

    Thunda replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    oooooooh! if only!

13. Confused new grad, any advice is appreciated!

    Thunda replied to Sophiamakesme:)'s topic in New Nurse

    If by Mayo you are in the Rochester, MN area you do have the option of going to WSU and get your BSN within a year. Take whatever job related to nursing you can now, then after getting your BSN you're considered a "new grad" again I suppose if that...

14. Pearsonvue Trick - Does it Work Every Time? Part 3

    Thunda replied to Silverdragon102's topic in NCLEX

    heh, have you read any of the questions in this thread, most if not all of them have been answered earlier in the thread, ppl don't like reading or noticing post dates for that matter (not so much here but in other forums)

15. Pearsonvue Trick - Does it Work Every Time? Part 3

    Thunda replied to Silverdragon102's topic in NCLEX

    Go Go Minnesota!