allnurses Time Travel

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

The allnurses website  has been around since 1997, about 23 years.

I've read some posts where members began visiting the site when they were students, which could mean that they now have nearly a quarter of a century experience in the profession.

Other members have been nurses for periods extending 40 years or more and have been members for years, even decades, on allnurses.

All that time set me to thinking: What if we older members had the advantage of allnurses when we got into the field?

What if we could go back even before the time of the internet, and post? What would we say?

I played around with the idea and came up with what my first post might look like:

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Here's what I am requesting that you do:

Enter a date, preferably a month and year, and post as you would as if it actually is that month and year.

You may want to give yourself a different user name, fitting your status at that time.

I will be submitting more time travel post myself and really look forward to reading other members' time travel posts!

So, GET IN THAT WAYBACK MACHINE AND POST!

 

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Specializes in Dialysis.

May 11, 1993

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TiredSingleMomNewRN

I just found out that I passed my State Boards, after having surgery this morning. I've been hired to work in TN at a large hospital in an ER. I can't wait to helllllllpppp people!

I can hardly wait to embark on a great career where I'll get respect and hopefully lots of opportunities. I wonder where it's going to lead me.

Edited wording for clarity

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
4 hours ago, Hoosier_RN said:

May 11, 1993

TiredSingleMomNewRN

I can hardly wait to embark on a great career where I'll get respect and hopefully lots of opportunities. I wonder where it's going to lead me.

Welcome to allnurses, TiredSingleMomNewRN!

I've been in nursing for nearly a decade now, and can say that I've gotten more respect in my three years as an RN than I ever did in my seven years as an LPN!

A friend/RN, who I worked with in OR as a scrub LPN, told me, "Get your RN and then you'll have a license to fly!"

And fly I have! In three years as an RN, I've worked at three different facilities! I am now employed by Buoy Memorial Hospital and work in med surg and ER.

I, too, wonder where the heck I'm going to end up.

Probably at some great hospital with the name of Rightway!

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

When I was 10 years old, The Time Tunnel was one of my favorite TV shows.

 

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Specializes in ER.

I just took my NCLEX. I've been told that it is a 2 to 3 month wait for my results. Are there any other options to get quicker results? I have heard other states are lightning fast with only a six to eight week wait.

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
1 hour ago, Emergent said:

I just took my NCLEX.

NCLEX? What's that?

I did hear tale that in 1994, a new computer-based test is going to replace the pencil-and-paper state board exams.

Imagine that! Instead of two eight hour sittings, the exam could be completed in less than eight hours! Wow! No more eraser-tipped #2's to use!

"Yeah we're living in a modern world." -ELO (1986)

 

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July 10, 1998

NewFulltimeRN,

Hi AllNurses,

I passed my NCLEX last month and am about to start my first job in med-surg. I have bought enough white uniforms to last all of my five shifts a week, I bought the latest drug guide, and I got a couple of four-color pens.

Is it true that nights charts in red, evenings in green and days in black? Or is it in a different order?

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
17 minutes ago, RNperdiem said:

July 10, 1998

NewFulltimeRN,

Hi AllNurses,

I passed my NCLEX last month and am about to start my first job in med-surg. I have bought enough white uniforms to last all of my five shifts a week, I bought the latest drug guide, and I got a couple of four-color pens.

Is it true that nights charts in red, evenings in green and days in black? Or is it in a different order?

Congratulations on passing the NCLEX, NewFulltimeRN!

You sound as though you're ready for your first job as Monica was for Bill!

You're absolutely right on with those pen colors! Did you get one of those nifty three color pens?

They're really all that and a bag of chips!

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Specializes in Travel, Home Health, Med-Surg.

Date: back in the olden days

Title of thread: HELP, I am freaking out!

Username: ScaredNewGrad

Hi y'all,

I am hoping for some insight. I just graduated, passed NCLEX, and got hired at a large hospital. Here is the problem, they say I have to pass their nursing test. I am freaking out, what if I cant pass it. What if I just did all that hard work for nothing and now cant get a job. Do all employers make you take a test, is it similar to the NCLEX, harder, easier, nobody ever mentioned this so I don't know what to expect. isn't it good enough for them to know that I just graduated and passed the NCLEX. Any advice appreciated!

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
3 minutes ago, Daisy4RN said:

Date: back in the olden days

Title of thread: HELP, I am freaking out!

Username: ScaredNewGrad

Hi y'all,

I am hoping for some insight. I just graduated, passed NCLEX, and got hired at a large hospital. Here is the problem, they say I have to pass their nursing test. I am freaking out, what if I cant pass it. What if I just did all that hard work for nothing and now cant get a job. Do all employers make you take a test, is it similar to the NCLEX, harder, easier, nobody ever mentioned this so I don't know what to expect. isn't it good enough for them to know that I just graduated and passed the NCLEX. Any advice appreciated!

Congratulations on passing the NCLEX and landing your first nursing job, ScaredNewGrad!

It's been said that those tests hospitals give are "As easy as riding a bike...

...except the bike's on fire...

...and you're on fire...

and everything's on fire...

..and you're in Hell"!

Hope that helps! Good luck! (You're going to be needing it!)

 

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Specializes in Sleep medicine,Floor nursing, OR, Trauma.

^^^^  Did I write that?  That totally feels like a response I would write.  

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Specializes in Travel, Home Health, Med-Surg.
1 hour ago, Davey Do said:

Congratulations on passing the NCLEX and landing your first nursing job, ScaredNewGrad!

It's been said that those tests hospitals give are "As easy as riding a bike...

...except the bike's on fire...

...and you're on fire...

and everything's on fire...

..and you're in Hell"!

Hope that helps! Good luck! (You're going to be needing it!)

 

So seriously dude, DaveyDude, what the (blankity bank) are you trying to say here. Either 1) I should worry because the tests are sooo hard or 2) your comment is sarcastic and I should just throw my books into the fire because I am so smart and don't need them (having just passed the NCLEX and all!).

I am going to go with the latter, thanks you have been most helpful!

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