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1. what are hospitals doing to fix the nursing shortage

   nursewannabee replied to phillies's topic in General Nursing

   I am disgusted that the management gets these big bonuses (probably get rewarded for cutting costs, i.e. nurses). As an up and coming nurse what can I do to help change this so called nursing shortage? Should I write letters to congress, the board o...

2. what are hospitals doing to fix the nursing shortage

   nursewannabee replied to phillies's topic in General Nursing

3. Less Applicants for Nursing Programs?

   nursewannabee replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

   Hello all, I believe there is a nursing shortage because of not enough clinical space at hospitals for students. I am a student and have had to do my first med-surge rotation at a nursing home/rehab facility rather than a hospital. I was not happy ab...

4. Starting to have bad dreams....

   nursewannabee replied to GottaGetIn's topic in General Students

   Hello Gotta Get In, I too have had dreams about school. I start my second year of an ADN on Sept 5th. We have a test consisiting of 27 pharmacology chapters and 10 math chapters on the very first day. August 30th I have my skills test where i need t...

5. Class of '08 - Are you terrified?

   nursewannabee replied to StudentNurseAbby's topic in General Students

   I am very afraid and disappointed. I am in an ADN program and have 2 semesters left. My first semester was fundamentals where I did my clinical in a nursing home. For skills we did LNA stuff and a few injections. We also learned a lot of theory and p...

6. There's always one student.....

   nursewannabee replied to APBT mom's topic in General Students

   Hello all, I am or was in school with a woman like that. She knew everything in class and in clinical. She knew so much in clinical that they booted her out of school. We have had three rotations so far and in all of them she had been put on warning ...

7. Bathing critically ill patients?

   nursewannabee replied to DOHALT07's topic in General Nursing

   I am an LNA and I fully agree that a back rub is a wonderful and caring thing for the patient but there is usually not time to give back rubs. I would love to give all of my patients back rubs but there are so many other things that need to be done t...

8. Cheap blood titers in las vegas?

   nursewannabee replied to HikingNinja's topic in Nevada

   Hi Dee. I was in a similar situation when I started nursing school. I could not locate my records and needed to get titers, hep shots, and an exam. Out of pocket the cost was over a thousand dollars. I did not have this kind of money so I did an inte...

9. How many hours do you study each day?

   nursewannabee replied to olufemi254's topic in General Students

   Hi all, I am going into my 3rd semester of an ADN program. Between studying, reading, clinical prep and clinical paperwork I can estimate my time at at least 40 hrs a week. Then you throw work, eating (ADL's), etc there was just not enough time in th...

10. CNA: Krappy attitude

    nursewannabee replied to FinderKeeper's topic in CNA/MA

    Hi Finderkeeper. I work as an aide on a telemetry floor and 99% of the nurses treat me and the other aides well. There was one that was a real B---h. I figured this nurse had self esteem issues and tried to stay away from her as much as possible. She...

11. Name MA Hospital and Starting Salary

    nursewannabee replied to jrv100's topic in Massachusetts

    Does anyone work for Saints Memorial or Lowell General? How do yo like it and what is the base pay for new grads? Thanks in advance

12. Nurses - Leading your subordinates (Nurse Aides, Nurse Techs, Med Aides)

    nursewannabee replied to brotherbear's topic in Management

    I work as an aide on a very busy cardiac floor from 3-11. The floor is usually full to capacity meaning their is 32 patients on any given evening. There is only 2 aides on evenings. From the moment we step ont o the floor till we leave we are running...

13. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    nursewannabee replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    I work as an aide on a cardiac floor. One of the patient's had a foley that was leaking so I informed her nurse. This nurse took the foley out of the patient and let the part that was inserted fall onto the bed. The nurse then reinserted the same fol...

14. Grades from school to school....

    nursewannabee replied to IrishIzCPNP's topic in General Students

    I totally agree with the above poster. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Finance with a 3.75 GPA. I am in nursing school and so far have received a B for Fundamentals and a B minus for Nursing 2. Our average test scores for the class were 78, 8...

15. Should I become a nurse???

    nursewannabee replied to ijuanabhappy's topic in General Nursing

    Hi JillPaige, I am a lot like you. I am very fearful and anxious also and not very assertive. I am in school now and i have physically trembled when giving shots. The instructors will guide you through these skills.Your instructors will see you are a...