Pedsnurse77

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1. Advice please

   Pedsnurse77 replied to Pedsnurse77's topic in Career Support

   Oops! I think I posted wrong. Here is my issue. Tell me what you think. I transferred out of a unit then transferred back in as a charge nurse on a med surg floor. I was asked and decided to try it. I am working on my msn currently and thought it wou...

2. Advice please

   Pedsnurse77 posted a topic in Career Support

   Charge nurse role

3. Obese Nurses

   Pedsnurse77 replied to yadi87's topic in Relations

   I agree. Nurses are trained to put others first. I am not overweight, however I can understand this. I would like to also add the mental stress of being a nurse is even worse at times than the physical aspects. One of the nurses on my med surg floor ...

4. Didn't pass NCLEX

   Pedsnurse77 replied to mariafromcali's topic in NCLEX

   Go over nclex practice questions. Learn the rationales. NOT the AnSWERS! There are only so many important points on each subject they are bound to hit. Learn the important ones. Memorize labs and I read "signs and symptoms" too. Lol I found it intere...

5. Difference in gluco checks

   Pedsnurse77 replied to laderalis's topic in Endocrine

   Omg me too! I've done forearms for this reason.

6. ADN or BSN?

   Pedsnurse77 replied to MrsBassett's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I am working on my masters. My job or the respect I earned from it hardly, if at all, changed as I moved up ( I started as a cna, Lpn, RN etc) Nursing is hard. Looking back at the overall scheme of things. I don't think my patients would have treate...

7. overwhelmed

   Pedsnurse77 replied to little_nurse12's topic in New Nurse

   Lol I'm not new and I do the same. I honestly worry more about the nurses who don't care! Good luck but you will do fine. Everyone has to be a new nurse once! (thank goodness only once!)

8. Has anyone been denied LPN training by NJ unemployment

   Pedsnurse77 replied to serendipitysky's topic in LPN/LVN

   LPN is a nurse. An ma is just a medical assistant. That doesn't even compare to me. No, I would say def Lpn! Hmm a nurse making $18 or so an hour or a secretary who takes bps for $8 hr. lol I would ask for further details and info. Good luck!

9. Nursing Instructor Continuously Embarrassing Me

   Pedsnurse77 replied to Jlseeze's topic in General Students

   Unfortunately this is the nursing way. I'm sorry for you but I have been there and so has most nurses. Nursing school is aweful. The bullying and intimidation unfortunately can continue into your workplace also. Nurses eat their young. And old for th...

10. LPN Course Help

    Pedsnurse77 replied to missy0910's topic in New York

    Don't let it bother you. The next time someone makes a comment like that ask them exactly what is the difference between an RN and LPN? Since they won't know or they wouldn't be so narrow minded maybe they will stop putting down others because they d...

11. Skill level not high enough for acute care

    Pedsnurse77 replied to hope3456's topic in Med-Surg

    My skill level has nothing to do with what boards I took (RN or LPN) LPNs in general are task based where RNs are rationale based. Their skill level depends on the person performing the skill not their licensure. I can see where either could be lac...

12. Med/Surg: When does this get easier?

    Pedsnurse77 replied to rairieRN's topic in Med-Surg

    I hear this a hundred times a day. Even from the nurses who have worked on our med surg unit for years. There will be good and bad days. Hopefully more good I don't know what the rest of the world is going through but I know it has been a rough roa...