erica2117

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1. De-accessed Port w/o Flushing! Please help!

   erica2117 replied to Bijoux Eze's topic in General Nursing

   Oncology nurse here who deals with ports daily. You absolutely have to reaccess, flush and heplock. It happens! We are all human

2. Non clinical boss wants to sit in on pre-op visit with patients

   erica2117 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey everyone, my boss is non-clinical and doesn't know a single thing about anything remotely medical related. She even tells us we are "grossing her out" when she hears us talking about medical issues. I work in an outpatient gynecologic oncology of...

3. NCLEX- PVT- help please!

   erica2117 replied to Capricornzoey's topic in NCLEX

   I just took my NCLEX-RN last month, 93 questions, had about the same amount of SATA, about 3 med questions and what seemed like dozens of prioritizing questions. From what I know, that's an excellent sign for you! Because I passed! :) I did the PVT a...

4. New Nursing School Blues

   erica2117 replied to nurse2324's topic in General Students

   When I first started in nursing school and would start doing skills, my hands would shake and they even said I looked liek a little baby chihuahua... they just want to guide you and help you through it..they aren't trying to make you fail. If you can...

5. Bullied by Clinical Instructor

   erica2117 replied to dorkiexcici's topic in General Students

   I had this exact same experience with my clinical instructor... are you sure you aren't in the program I graduated from?! haha! No this isn't acceptable and the higherups definitely do not listen. I was told multiple times I would be a terrible nurse...

6. Do Nursing Students Have a Life?

   erica2117 replied to BellaInScrubs's topic in General Students

   I worked full time during nursing school, did full clinicals, and had a boyfriend who lived an hour away and I still made sure I drove and saw him and stayed with him every Friday-Monday. I studied my butt off and got good grades and stayed on the ho...

7. Working in a Teaching Hospital?

   erica2117 replied to License2Heal's topic in General Nursing

   I'm hoping to be offered a job in a teaching hospital sometime this week... I'm pretty excited about it. Yet I can't help but be nervous at the same time. I keep hearing the first job be described as nursing school part 2

8. Fundamentals of Nursing need help on studying

   erica2117 replied to werwe's topic in General Students

   I always found I did much better in my fundamentals class by using the practice questions that come in the fundamentals book and make flash cards with important information

9. Nursing school turning me into a crabby pants.

   erica2117 replied to MinnesotaGirlRN's topic in General Students

   I work full time and of course a full time nursing student. I find myself definitely more crabby especially on high stress weeks. I'm just counting down the days til Summer vacation... spring break doesn't count because I'll be making med sheets that...