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One year inpatient surgery/ Mama-baby (small hospital) 4 years med-surg in a fast paced high census hospital. 6 months in Hawaii as ante-partum in an Army hosp. and triage at an Army Post. Now have...

Heck, I work in a prison and I have a CCL and a 9 mm in my car at all times. What worries me is the GOV wants to limit our access to rifles which would be our best defense in any conflict.

Hell, I got the best commendation from our CEO for doing just that. The MD kept telling me to DC the telemetry because the pt kept showing RVR and had NO hx of heart probs. Over and over I refused...

Was accused of this last year needlessly and a month later accused of diversion and fired even though every drug test,etc. I had was negative. Now am in investigation and after several post job...

Sorry to say but ALL the patients I have had that passed had a yellow tint it to their faces etc. That is how I have NO doubt they have passed. I have wondered about this phenomena. I have watched...

The one I have always thought was freaky is "if you turn them they will die" for pts w/bad problems.:eek:

It all depends on where you live and work. I am in NW FL and the pay here is dismal. Base is 17-19.00. We were told upon graduating(4 yrs ago) we could expect to make 30-35k a year. I lucked out...

Gee, Ivanna, I would say we had the same preceptor but my school canned mine while she was precepting me. She pulled a lot of what you went through and more. Fortunately my instructors were more than...

Hey, I graduated PJC in 2006 and had many of the problems you guys have mentioned. Yes, they were way off base in many grading and testing skills but still the stuff they gave me allowed me to pass...

I dunno. I used Davis Inclex w/CD( got it at Books-a-Million) and it was exactly like the Inclex I took in 2006. Granted, I used the thing for a good year prior. It was my video game. I am a quiz...

Lucky me, I guess, with my previous hit and miss Special Ed degree forays I only had one semester of pre-reqs before ADN school and after graduation went straight to work as a PRN surgical floor...

My preceptor experience was similar but kind of covert. I had no idea how much this person had it in for me until I got a call from my instructor during a hospital day saying "We've got to get you...

They can tell time - clock watching drug seeker

I am a Florida native and raised here. I lived in several other places during my younger days of wanderlust. I chose to come back here because it offers everything but mountains and snow. Fantastic...

Yes, I agree. Hospital policies of "pleasing the customer" are too often ridiculous. What gets me is that I am such a BS artist I seem to ALWAYS get the " service recovery" patients. I find out...

Waitress, construction worker, gas station manager, thug, truck driver, office manager, plant nursery manager, auto parts counter person, special ed teacher, algerbra tutor, SAHM, and now an RN. Have...

When I was orienting to my new job my mentor checked my charting. I had charted that a patient refused Flu and Pneumonia vaccines due having been previously inoculated with both vaccines. The...

I am a new nurse, graduated in May. I have been working since August and I am always asking questions. I had a small problem with my orienter because I had NEVER done paper charting because all my...

I'm A new nurse and just took a position there. Isn't it a strnge place?

Thank you very much. Can't tell you biw much it mrans for someone to say hello and welcome!

Hooray for you! Me, too. I am 50 and graduate in May.

Hello, I am a nursing student, graduating this May. I will be starting my perceptorship in a month. Pretty nervous.