"When you took microbiology, how did your professors grade your assignments. What textbook did you use? Did you have to write essays? Yadayadayada"
I don't remember. This is the NURSES forum. I'm one of the younger ones here and I was in school 10 years ago.
"Y r rns so mean 2 me @ clinical? i am always nice to them. i try 2 tell them how 2 b better but they dont listen. I know better b/c I'm in school n their just old and dont have bsn. R they burned out?"
"My grandmother's cousin's niece has been crying for two weeks straight and now has a rash on her whole body. Her temperature is 103 degrees and she's been having trouble breathing. Please help! We can't go to the ER because we have a $30 copay and the doctor's office is closed for the weekend. Does she have measles? Or cancer? Or lupus? DON'T DELETE. I'm not asking for medical advice. Just general information. Should I give her some co enzyme q10?"
I am posting this after wiping off my computer screen. Too funny, I give it a 2 :roflmao: and a half !!
What state is easiest for me to pass the NCLEX in? I'll take the exam there and then get my license endorsed to California, where I REALLY want to work and live
Good news! California is easiest. Tied with 49 other states.
The funny thing is, if the moderators/owners/PTB of AN set up some stricter entrance rules, some kind of introductory posting criteria (common for many boards, not crazy/unheard of), or ANY kind of system that somehow prevented the deluge of these annoying posts, it wouldn't be so pervasive. And I know to simply skip past them, yes that is an option I exercise often. But why not take some kind of action to change it?
Could it be because it's nurses running this site and it takes 302,827 meetings and 827 hours of discussion to change ANYTHING, EVER? :) Hahahaha
Heh, heh ... lesbian collectives in the 70's ... good times!
-Any thread that discusses demonstrable realities as something one "believes in".
-Bully threads ... the quintessential broken record ending in the same old stalemate.
-Bullying in threads ... see comments by previous posters regarding drama.
-Endless pages of threads about schools, NCLEX, classroom ettiquette and questionable behavior of instructors/doctors/supervisors/managers. I realize that these are core survival issues for students and beginner nurses ... I just need to think about something else for a while. Sometimes I have to scan three or four pages of threads before I find one that interests me.
A subset of these are the "is this legal" rants over school or hospital policies, which rarely have anything to do with actual law, on any level. Unless you're working under a union contract, organizations get to establish and enforce any work rules they like that don't violate a very narrow set of civil rights, public health and labor laws. They are bound by their own published policies ... so read the dang handbook.
And no, firing you for your shenanigans on facebook does not violate your freedom of speech.
-Seeing experienced teachers get excoriated in obvious homework threads for declining to spoonfeed the answers. Don't ask the question if you're not willing to listen to the answer.
Don't get me wrong ... I like homework threads that ask good questions and the resources presented by the educators who get involved in them. It's the ones in which the OP (not always, but usually) insists that s/he should not be required to do any thinking or work on his/her own, then blows off the direction offered by people who actually know what they're talking about.
The PVT posts kill me. You can wait 2-3 days (or however long it takes- I think I found out in 2 days? Maybe 3?) to find out your results. Seriously. Take that time to process, relax for a bit, put the books down, have an umbrella drink- whatever! My cousin had to wait 6 weeks to get her NCLEX results in 1986. You will be OK, I promise!!!
The NCLEX: People pass at 75 questions, people fail at 75 questions. People pass at 265 questions, people fail at 265 questions. We have NO WAY of knowing if you passed/failed.
I, too, enjoyed the "I'm so good looking" posts from a few months ago. (Insert hair flip here.)
The "What do I need to do to become a _________ nurse?" get to be a bit much at times, too.
:roflmao: and a half 
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ixchel
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Yes, that was entirely irrelevant.