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  1. How did your employer recognize Nurse's Day?

    My friend works in an office where the nurses were given gift cards and treated to a group lunch outside the facility at a restaurant just down the block. She said it was fun and relaxing and she felt special. Where I work? I didn't realize it wa...
  2. telephone triage flowsheet for receptionist?

    Front desk will pass the call back to the RN's line. If the RN is busy (and I usually am) that call goes to VM and the RN will return the calls in order of priority. The VM prompts the caller with what info to leave for the nurse to return the call. ...
  3. NCLEX it's come to this...

    Holy cats, I'm wondering if I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote your post myself. You're me in another place, my friend. And you'll be cool. Your subconscious is just telling your "what will be will be" attitude that this test costs som...
  4. NCLEX WITHOUT Saunders! Didn't have the attention span for Saunders.

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!! And please do not apologize for posting too much info on how you passed the boards. I'm always just happy to see proof positive that hard work and studying pays off. You go, you RN, you!
  5. Rant and insecurities.

    Face your insecurities, know they are there, know others have them as well, and move on. You're not great right now and you're not going to be -- no one expects you to be great right now. And others in your class who are telling you it should be ea...
  6. over it

    I am right there with you. Three months to go and I am having such trouble motivating to continue to learn (see, I'm right here now!!!) But I know if I stop now, even with all I've learned so far, there's a chance I won't pass the semester. There's...
  7. Palpations, physical exams on genitals?

    At my age, I have no modesty left (well, not much, anyway), but I was a tad nervous about going in on my first round of clinicals to do the physical assessments. I was looking for advice and the best I found was from a nun who trained other RNs who ...
  8. I am in school and not currently a CNA/PCT

    Stop stressing it. Everybody has a different path and not just those who have had work as CNAs get hired. I have a list of varied job experiences and twenty years of childraising behind me and I'm not going to let any of them lower my confidence in...
  9. classmate insists on posting her opinion

    Oh, ugh.... Ignore, ignore, ignore. We have several who apparently never listen in class and spend all their time on fb asking questions (about meeting times, counseling appts, etc) when if they'd listened in class they would know. Ignore, ignore,...
  10. "bad" evaluations given by students of faculty

    The teachers who recite from their power points which are taken verbatim (and yet, somehow still contain grammatical errors?) from the books we were supposed to read before lecture? Those teachers get poor evaluations from me every time, every semes...
  11. Dreading L&D/Peds

    Consider when you are going through the rotation that you are learning how best to help those who need it most. As you said, not every baby is born into a family bursting to care for it to their very best ability. Learn those assessment skills, get...
  12. Peripheral pulses - I'm not entirely convinced they exist!

    I was instructed this previous semester to palpate the DP bilaterally at the same time, as well, to judge differences in quality of each. Sometimes it's hard to find those pedal pulses in sick patients, but keep at it. They know you're learning.
  13. It just has to be said (vent)...

    THANK you for posting this at a time when there are so many of us slogging through finals, through the ends of long clinical rotations, and hearing how hard it is going to be to find work. THIS is what I'm looking for and it's up to ME to find it by...
  14. Dealing with anxiety/worry r/t nursing program

    Okay, first, STOP allowing all non-productive thinking. Focus right this minute on passing, passing, passing. Learn that material. If you don't, you'll never have to even think about why there are people in your class who don't like you. They don...
  15. Some people are ugly. Some of them are simply thoughtless about the discomfort they may be causing to another person, and some people are just trying to claw their way to the "top" and don't care whom they may step on to get there. I had a girl att...