BSNGUY

BSNGUY

med/surg, day surgery, psych as a CNA

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BSNGUY specializes in med/surg, day surgery, psych as a CNA.


finally got that "bsn"

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  1. Help! I think I hate nursing!

    I can tell you that in my experience, it took me five years to "adapt" to nursing. They didn't teach me in nursing school how stressful and awful nursing can be, esp. in med/surg. We had no education on how to work with angry family members, angry an...
  2. Have you ever...

    I can't believe this came up! When I was a CNA in a nursing home, I had a favorite patient of mine with end-stage Parkinson's disease. She could not move anything and I had to feed her with a syringe. (back when that was allowed). One evening, as I w...
  3. doctors treatment of nurses??

    Most doctors I've dealt with are great. But,now that I'm in my 40's and have been doing some form of nursing for over 20 years, if they are rude or mean, I don't put up with it. I don't care who they are. I treat them with respect, they must also tre...
  4. some younger male nurses.....

    I've never noticed that. I did read somewhere once that the "millineials", or the younger generation, has a much different work ethic. That is generalizing though. Since I'm the only male nurse on my unit, I don't see this. Of course, where I work, i...
  5. Sounds like we worked at a similar place. Another fond memory is seeing two young female pica residents "sharing" their "kotex" pads. By sharing I mean eating. Then there is the guy with a colostomy who when he got mad at someone, would rip his colos...
  6. When I was working med/surg I had a coworker who had a patient with an NG tube. The cannister got full and she went to change it. If you don't push down and secure the top, it can be loose. Um, anyway, as she was carrying it down the hall to dispose ...
  7. RN w/ BSN starting salary

    In my experience, there is no difference in the pay between the ADN, BSN, or even the MSN. I believe any nurse who gets more education should get paid more. It's one of the strange things about our profession. It only makes sense to get compensated i...
  8. I needed to find work out of high school in the mid 1980's. I had no education and no real idea about what I wanted to do. I was medically inclined, but poor and didn't have resources or the high school grades to do something like medical school. I k...
  9. Part time ADN programs

    Thank you very much. Yes, that does help. Congrats on almost being done! I graduate this May too.
  10. Part time ADN programs

    I'm an RN to BSN nursing student. For my senior project, I'm working with a nurse educator and we are trying to find information on part time ADN nursing programs. We are interested in knowing if there are any nursing programs that schedule students ...
  11. Has anyone here ever put a doctor in their place?

    Oh, and I should add, I wrote that "MD notified, no new orders" after calling. He then did his storming into the unit and ordered the 10 mg of Lasix and left, WITHOUT charting anything. I wonder how that would look in court if the patient went into f...
  12. Has anyone here ever put a doctor in their place?

    I was working in med/surg and had a patient with a long history of CHF. She measured her ankles daily, well her daughter did, anyway. She called me in the room one day and said she was getting more swelled up. I did a quick assessment, lungs, heart, ...
  13. Nurse, There's a Spider in My Throat

    UGH, I think I'm going to be sick.. :stone
  14. How can you say you're not paid well?

    I see you're a nursing student malusport? Come back in about 5 years after you've worked your *** off with no breaks. Then ask that question....
  15. any such thing as Male RN's in home health?

    Thanks very much. That's the type of reply I was hoping for... :)