mstigerlily

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1. Your personal delivery experience- what happened

   mstigerlily replied to DEB52's topic in Ob/Gyn

   First time I was 34 weeks pg and a young single mom, backache on and off all day. At 5pm my waterbag exploded at the tail end of my Dev Psych class. I sat there till the bell rang then hobbled to the bathroom, then to the Student Health, which was ju...

2. Please help me with my new Customer-er...I mean Pt

   mstigerlily replied to KellNY's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I've had patients of all ages and personalites but I see women like you've described quite often, we have patients like this every day on our floor. My hospital induces and c-sections every day for convenience and for social reasons. In fact, it's s...

3. Anyone Lost A Baby?

   mstigerlily replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in Emergency

   I lost a son at 16 wks in 1998, had backache, water broke, dilated, he came out in the ER feetfirst. Saw him on ultrasound two days prior swimming around sucking his thumb. I had been spotting for a week though, thus the ultrasound, maybe a small abr...

4. The logistics of nursing school and being a mom (or dad)

   mstigerlily replied to AmericanChai's topic in General Students

   I was lucky to have a husband who had a flexible schedule and a retired mom five minutes away who had plenty of time. Couldn't have done it without them. I start my kids at two full days of preschool at age three, and three full days of preschool at ...

5. If Money Were No Problem.........

   mstigerlily replied to mammaoftwo's topic in General Nursing

   If money were no object I would have done a private college with a 4 yr BSN RN program. If money were an object (which it was) I would do a community college ADN RN program and get the BSN later. If I had a bit of money (but not much) I'd wait for a ...

6. "I'm an uncertified medical assistant"

   mstigerlily replied to Freedom42's topic in CNA/MA

   I really have a problem with this. In our hospital we are required to wear badges and I actually find myself looking at them a lot when standing in elevators or waiting in line, etc. wondering, "Oh who is that nicely dressed person or what dept does ...

7. Post Partum...

   mstigerlily replied to sissyboo's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Depends on the hospital and unit, management, policies and the nurse herself, but at my hospital the duties are as follows: Admit, assess, discharge up to four couplets at a time. Some of these may include overflow gyn surgeries, low risk antepartum ...

8. Things you wish you could say to your co-workers...

   mstigerlily replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in Relations

   To the OP: Our hospital has an excellent new grad program, for 12 weeks we had class once a week from 8-5. We had a different system to study each week and while our quizzes weren't graded, we were expected to pay attention to the films, guest speake...

9. Name hospital and salary--everywhere

   mstigerlily replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

   San Diego area, new grad RNs are starting at around $26-$30/hr. My specific hospital has a $4/hr NOC differential, at least one hospital I know of has a weekend diff of $2/hr. Also my hospital pays $2/hr more for charge (no patients) and 2% more for ...

10. Please tell me it's worth the debt!

    mstigerlily replied to soragamii's topic in LPN-RN

    I wouldn't pay that much for an LVN program, here in Southern California there is an ROP program with not too much of a wait that is free. LVNs have limited job prospects compared to RNs so it wouldn't seem worth that kind of money to me. However, if...

11. Non-Nurses calling themselves a Nurse

    mstigerlily replied to sarajasmine's topic in General Nursing

    None of my kids have ever had a nurse there, they have something called a "health tech" whatever that is. Well, I guess they do have a visiting RN that visits schools in the districts to do hearing screens and I don't know what else... This is why I ...

12. Any San Diego RNs out there??

    mstigerlily replied to scallisto's topic in California

    Me, I'm here too! I work for Scripps and I like all their hospitals, esp La Jolla, Encinitas (but they are union) and Mercy. Not sure about Chula Vista and Green. Palomar/Pomerado are ok but I was disappointed in the pay/benefits given they are union...

13. I can't get a job, i'm so sad.

    mstigerlily replied to Lmex's topic in LPN/LVN

    Lots of jobs for LVNs in LTC but I assume you don't want that. Also clinics/doctors offices. I do know that Sharp hires LVNs, try there. Also the VA hires them, also Children's. Scripps and Palomar/Pomerado seem to be phasing them out. Other options:...

14. Did anyone hate nursing school?

    mstigerlily replied to FNPhopeful's topic in New Nurse

    I think everyone hated nursing school, or at least found it tedious and difficult. I used to get A's easily, I struggled to get B's there. I hated care plans, they got longer and longer every semester. I hated getting up at 4:30 to get to clinicals o...

15. HESI is Wrong ! Let's File Suit

    mstigerlily replied to gasguy1960's topic in New Nurse

    different schools have different requirements, you can find out about them before you started. i assume you knew you were supposed to take the hesi and pass before graduation so you've known about this for awhile, right? if you knew about this and ag...