WheatGerm

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1. Unconventional hair colors

   WheatGerm replied to ScientistSalarian's topic in General Nursing

   Personally, I don't care if someone has tattoos/dyed hair and wouldn't think they were incompetent. HOWEVER...this seems like a bad idea since you already know that your manager isn't super into it. Why don't you get those clip on dyed hair strands ...

2. How to calculate clinical grade

   WheatGerm replied to LilyRN99's topic in Educators

   Our instructors always had us perform the task with them watching, or went in to talk to the patient about the level of care. Even if our instructor was passing meds with a few students, she would either have us wait to do the assessment before watc...

3. Need advice about jobs

   WheatGerm replied to Karamia0x's topic in General Nursing

   I agree with Jedrnurse. Also I would say that usually the first two weeks of a program are probably fairly easy, with the least amount of work so you should be able to push through. It won't be fun, but it will be nice to have it out of the way kno...

4. Multicare RN Residency beginning 8/22/16- Anyone joining this cohort?

   WheatGerm replied to danicaone_101's topic in Post Graduate

   Thank you! I just wanted to make sure I shouldn't be running out to buy scrubs...I don't have any! The last area I was in required nurses to wear certain scrub colors or uniforms from the hospital so I didn't want to waste money on fun scrubs if we ...

5. Multicare RN Residency beginning 8/22/16- Anyone joining this cohort?

   WheatGerm replied to danicaone_101's topic in Post Graduate

   Does anyone know anything about what happens after our first day of orientation? It was explained to me that there would be mostly classroom type activities for the first couple of weeks, but I have no idea on the dress code/locations of this. any ...

6. Second Nclex Attempt

   WheatGerm replied to Andrew92's topic in NCLEX

   Seriously that's how I felt. I got a couple questions regarding the same topic and was like...oh no, I certainly didn't learn this in nursing school! But I must have known more than I thought I did since I passed. Apparently this feeling of thinki...

7. How long is too long?

   WheatGerm replied to d31rdr3RN's topic in General Nursing

   Do they have any specific instructions regarding contacting them? When I applied for my job it specifically stated not to contact them because they had too many applicants to be receiving update emails from. If there isn't that policy though, I wou...

8. Balancing school and life?

   WheatGerm replied to mininurse24's topic in General Students

   You can't listen to other people on this one, really. You know how you were in previous school environments, so you really need to learn and take note from that. Personally I was an excellent student in high school, average in college (non-nursing ...

9. Quitting Nursing School

   WheatGerm replied to hmoge's topic in General Students

   I would encourage you to think about this a bit more. Only reason being that your exhaustion working as an assistant may be stemming from the fact that you are stressed in general with school as well. Do you think you would feel different about nur...

10. New Laptop!

    WheatGerm replied to mkcarlsonxo's topic in General Students

    I don't personally have a Surface, but a lot of my friends do and love it. The fact that you can use it as both a tablet and laptop is really neat, and it is very light. You can also get a discount on it for being a student! I will say however that...

11. How long is too long?

    WheatGerm replied to d31rdr3RN's topic in General Nursing

    Did you send a thank you to the person you interviewed with? If not, you could always send an email thanking them for the interview and say that you're interested in the position and see if that gets you a response. I don't think it seems unreasona...

12. New Grads With Attitude

    WheatGerm replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric

    I think maybe one of the issues at play is whether or not the new grads have had a job before. I used to work at a non-nursing job that required 12+ hour days, weekends, holidays, random hour long shifts at night, etc. I never had an issue with it,...

13. Should I go for it?

    WheatGerm replied to AmberRN2012's topic in School

    You could always make a quick little budget to make sure it will work for you. Obviously you can't count the benefit of having better hours in general, but I would want to make sure that with a pay cut I would be able to make ends meet. Things woul...

14. Yippiee!!I Cracked the Nursing School Interview!

    WheatGerm replied to janemulligan's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I was dropping in to say the same thing. There are fine nurses everywhere - and thank goodness for that!

15. FREE Colleges?! & How it affects Nursing

    WheatGerm replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    Although I'm sure this would increase the amount of people continuing their education, you have to remember that everyone is not cut out for college or wants to go to college. My brother, for example, would have been able to go to school if he chose...