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:
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!
Well, I made it. Graduated with a BSN, a husband and child. Had not planned on the husband and child when I started! Life happens and my OB rotation was not an effective method of birth control, who knew??? Headed to my home state to work a bit as GN in order to study for my 2 day paper and pencil NCLEX. What will the future bring?
Specializes in Physiology, CM, consulting, nsg edu, LNC, COB.
May 12, 19-mumble-mumble
I’ve finally graduated from college but before I could attend the ceremony my husband’s job has me and four cats on a plane to the other side of the country. The children’s hospital job I got near my university prepping for a pedi NP career is replaced by another in a different specialty. Good thing I did an optional rotation in a physiology lab where they were looking at those newfangled Swan-Ganz catheters and standing orders for nurse decisions on fluid management.
I will work as a GN until I can take state boards in July but no results until October. So until then my shiny new name pin has a sad-looking piece of tape over the “RN” with “GN” in marker. In PACU I can’t wear my distinctive cap, but I can wear my school pin at least! No others like it in this 700-bed place so far from home. I have a new apartment lacking the home city cockroaches and it has a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, and a pool!
No more set path of curriculum, narrow choices, limited movement to home-class-work-clinical-library. I have a car now and two days a week off. I can go anywhere. I feel like a grown-up. I’m a real nurse now.
Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
4 hours ago, Hannahbanana said:
19-mumble-mumble
I’m sorry could you repeat that? I didn’t catch the last part. (I really wanna know- when did those new-dangled swans make an appearance in the nursing world?)
June 1, 2005
Terrified New Grad
Oh boy. I hope this works out. I can’t believe I took a job in an area where I only had 12 hours of exposure to in nursing school. And will I really have time to study for NCLEX while working as a GN full time 5 days a week and driving over an hour each way?
The answer is yes, it did work out. I’m no longer direct patient care, but I still am working in the OR in the same facility I kicked off my career in. And as terrified as I was after answering a measly 75 questions that I’d failed, I did indeed pass NCLEX.
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
39 minutes ago, Hannahbanana said:
1970
I took my first Biology class and failed my first test ever in school. I was not to fail another academic test until 1987 when I failed a muscle practical in A&P.
Do you think I should put that information on my resume?
OMG! I just took the today NCLEX and I think I failed. I’m only here for reassurance from strangers so that I feel good. What’s an easy way of finding out my results? I’ve heard about trying the website with a credit card and if it doesn’t accept it, I passed, but I’m not sure. Please give me feedback. I’ve been stressing and praying for the last 2 weeks since I took it. I have a job pending in the CVICU. I hear nurses their eat they’re young. NETY anyone? Oh! I’ve read the most recent evidence-based literature on it and I’m wright on this. If you disagree with my POV you’re just old, jealous, and stuck in your ways. If you correct my perfect grandma, punctuation, incongruence, and incoherence or I will conveniently get outraged and cancel you for being an ignorant bigoted Neanderthal.
2 days later: OMG I passed. I only had 65 questions. The NCLEX ought to be made harder. I can’t believe I went to school for for years and obtained MY BSN just to be reduced to questions about minimum competency. Nursing needs a revolution.
3 days later: OMG! Look at my stats I’m applying to Harvard direct entry NP Program. What do you guys think? I’ve decided bedside nursing is not for me.
4 days later: OMG! ALERT! This is a vent post. I’m on orientation on my 7th job and I hate my preceptor. She’s so lazy. I’m doing everything and she’s just at the nurses’ station eating chips, gossiping, and getting fatter. Is it okay if I ask for a new receptor? (Don’t dare correct me or offer any contrarian POV, I no it all). Lastly, I’ll appreciate any feedback, thanks guys. It’s so nice to have an online family/community of people going through the same struggle, ya dig?
Day 5: OMG! I got caught diverting and fired, but landed a dream job the next day. I’m so confused as how this will affect my chances of getting into CRNA school ? Anyone else been through the same ordeal? Oh and my marriage is now failing, my dog had diarrhea while my aunt was on a trip in Cambodia. My sister put monkey glue on her hair and everyone is calling me because I’m a nurse and I hate the attention. Please help and validate my assertions because I’m sensitive to positive criticism. Who needs such negativity in life? Ugh!
OMG! I just took the today NCLEX and I think I failed. I’m only here for reassurance from strangers so that I feel good. What’s an easy way of finding out my results? I’ve heard about trying the website with a credit card and if it doesn’t accept it, I passed, but I’m not sure. Please give me feedback. I’ve been stressing and praying for the last 2 weeks since I took it. I have a job pending in the CVICU. I hear nurses their eat they’re young. NETY anyone? Oh! I’ve read the most recent evidence-based literature on it and I’m wright on this. If you disagree with my POV you’re just old, jealous, and stuck in your ways. If you correct my perfect grandma, punctuation, incongruence, and incoherence or I will conveniently get outraged and cancel you for being an ignorant bigoted Neanderthal.
2 days later: OMG I passed. I only had 65 questions. The NCLEX ought to be made harder. I can’t believe I went to school for for years and obtained MY BSN just to be reduced to questions about minimum competency. Nursing needs a revolution.
3 days later: OMG! Look at my stats I’m applying to Harvard direct entry NP Program. What do you guys think? I’ve decided bedside nursing is not for me.
4 days later: OMG! ALERT! This is a vent post. I’m on orientation on my 7th job and I hate my preceptor. She’s so lazy. I’m doing everything and she’s just at the nurses’ station eating chips, gossiping, and getting fatter. Is it okay if I ask for a new receptor? (Don’t dare correct me or offer any contrarian POV, I no it all). Lastly, I’ll appreciate any feedback, thanks guys. It’s so nice to have an online family/community of people going through the same struggle, ya dig?
Day 5: OMG! I got caught diverting and fired, but landed a dream job the next day. I’m so confused as how this will affect my chances of getting into CRNA school ? Anyone else been through the same ordeal? Oh and my marriage is now failing, my dog had diarrhea while my aunt was on a trip in Cambodia. My sister put monkey glue on her hair and everyone is calling me because I’m a nurse and I hate the attention. Please help and validate my assertions because I’m sensitive to positive criticism. Who needs such negativity in life? Ugh!
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
20 hours ago, cynical-RN said:
NoitallNewRN
Edit: I just came back and reread your post @cynical-RN and it is, truly, a classic! Drug diversion, a dog with diarrhea, and monkey glue in sis' hair! A pulp fiction perfect!
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