SJW

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1. Question

   SJW replied to wahida's topic in Education

   Maybe he just played tennis in the heat and has heat stroke.

2. Do I Love Nursing? What Day Is It?

   SJW replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in General Nursing

   :wink2: I started nursing school when I was 47. It took 4 years to finish a 2 year ADN because of waiting lists, graduated near the top of my class, got a job in a small hospital not too far from home and have been working med-surg since then. I felt...

3. I've made the decision to leave med-surg

   SJW replied to Jean1313's topic in Med-Surg

   I know 4 months seems like forever when your days are stressed out in MS, but it took me more like 10 - 12 months before I quit feeling dread everytime I came to work. Lots of people (much younger than I am) told me that it took them at least 6 month...

4. Any tips on being a preceptor?

   SJW posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am about to start "precepting" a student nurse. Any tips/suggestions?

5. did you ever think it would be like this?

   SJW replied to jamonit's topic in New Nurse

   Hey Tencat - How long into your nursing career before you switched over to hospice? I am a brand new nurse and I have always been interested in hospice and wonder how long I need to be in med-surg before I can entertain thougts of changing to hospic...

6. Nursing Classes Question

   SJW replied to daft_hands's topic in Career Support

   You're asking an awful lot of yourself just to go to school full time and work full time. Add dealing with grief to all that and you could be heading for trouble. You could start it and drop a class if you had to. In our school, you could drop wit...

7. Accepted my first job...now I'm nervous

   SJW replied to Luvelyone's topic in Career Support

   I don't know about anyone else, but I had the same thoughts when I started my LPN job a year ago. In fact, I dreaded going to work because of thoughts just like those. After a short while, I got more familiar with my job and my co-workers, and many o...

8. Need Advice On Job Opportunity

   SJW replied to Thepreacherswife's topic in Career Support

   Is the hospital where you could work as a CNA one you'd like to work in when you're a nurse? If so, working there as a CNA will give you an advantage when it comes time to work as a nurse. One more thing to think about!

9. desperately need advice

   SJW replied to STA29's topic in Career Support

   Does the school that offers the ADN program in your area allow you to enter the second year as an advance placement student? That is, if you have an LPN license, can you step in to the second year of the 2 year ADN program? Also, could you get right ...

10. Moving from LTC to Hospital Nursing

    SJW replied to State Birdie RN's topic in Career Support

    You aren't really a brand new grad anymore if you graduated last year and have 9 months of LTC experience under your belt. And since many, many of the patients hospitalized are geriatrics, you have lots of experience working with that population. I'd...

11. I need a Buddy!

    SJW replied to Ivanna_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I took mine on the 27th of June, got either 75 or 76 questions, and I passed. My test was on a Wednesday and I hoped to be able to look the next day and get my results because one of my classmates found out the day after she took hers, but I wound up...

12. Health South Rehab Hospital?

    SJW replied to Mulan's topic in Rehabilitation

    I am a brand new grad - well, as a matter of fact, I graduate tomorrow night. I applied on-line to a hospital that accepts general applications so you aren't applying for any specific job and today received a call to set up an interview for a rehab p...

13. Needle sticks

    SJW posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ever had a needle stick?

14. Why do so many people insist that LPN'S AREN'T REAL NURSES!!??

    SJW replied to RNsoon!'s topic in LPN/LVN

    I have begun the second year of my ADN program. We have the chance to take our LPN boards at the end of our first year of the program. Last spring in clinicals I had the opportunity to work with a wonderful nurse, an LPN, in a long term care setting....

15. Dosage Calculations

    SJW replied to frazlednsgstudent's topic in General Students

    I agree with the poster who said to sit down with the math book you got for your classes. We used Calculate with Confidence, and it, too, started with the basics and went through drip rates, etc. I was always afraid of math in high school ( a LONG ti...