DahliaDaisy RN

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1. Will the White House fire Fauci because of his countless missteps on the Coronavirus?

   DahliaDaisy replied to A Hit With The Ladies's topic in Talk Politics

   And on that note, I think I'll stop listening to YOURS LOL! ?

2. RN's forced to do CNA work

   DahliaDaisy replied to rnckr's topic in New Nurse

   Jeepers, and to think I was considering starting my own post, on a somewhat related topic! Bullet dodged, and I'm sure I'll get flack for these few sentences LOL! I joined back in 2007 when even nursing SCHOOL was just a dream, and one mostly f...

3. Documentation

   DahliaDaisy replied to LovingLife123's topic in General Nursing

   As a new nurse, I've already come to sadly accept that most of my time will be spent writing ABOUT my patients rather than, you know, actually taking care of them. They might as well put law classes in nursing school now because that's what it's beco...

4. I've Been Employed at 7 Facilities as a New Grad RN

   DahliaDaisy replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

   I'm a new nurse as well, graduated in Dec. 2018 and started in March at our local state psych facility. I'm a bit older and went into NS knowing I wanted to do psych. I think my "favorite" part is wearing blue tooth head phones on the job lol. First ...

5. Things you wish nursing school would have taught you?

   DahliaDaisy replied to Clover19's topic in General Nursing

   ^^^THIS, is all brilliant advice and I wish I had read it before I started! In hindsight though, I probably wouldn't have understood it, and the reasons behind it nearly as well as I do now. #4 is GOLDEN and sums up my philosophy in school. Some peop...

6. NCLEX material

   DahliaDaisy replied to RN2B88's topic in NCLEX

   Nurse dot plus has many free exams on all of the different topics! I used that and paper books someone gave me and passed in 75Q.

7. Wanting to Quit Nursing School

   DahliaDaisy replied to _ashley_'s topic in General Students

   And what is wrong with that? I entered nursing school in my 40's KNOWING I wanted only to go into psych and/or addictions nursing. I too enjoy the academics and have consistently high scores on the ATI predictor (putting me at 99% chance of passing t...

8. First clinical nightmare

   DahliaDaisy replied to Flylik3abr1's topic in General Students

   I'm sorry I wasn't clearer. The 100 pt head to toe assessment we had to pass out of in procedure testing that I was referring to was literately assessing 100 aspects, including testing all 12 cranial nerves. Of course one realizes that any and every ...

9. First clinical nightmare

   DahliaDaisy replied to Flylik3abr1's topic in General Students

   We had in school "labs" they were called, for the first 8 weeks. It was then that we learned a BASIC head to toe assessment that we used for our first 8 week hospital clinicals. We also learned to pass meds in stages; PO, then Injections, then IV bag...

10. Perplexing Text Questions

    DahliaDaisy replied to cin808's topic in General Students

    I could be here for days if I were to recount some of the biased, DATED, you have to know the professor to guess the answer, questions Ive run across! Deep breaths, let it go and concentrate on passing the stupid things for YOURSELF! I'm doing great ...

11. RN Ati comprehensive Predictor 2016

    DahliaDaisy replied to gamblerlens's topic in General Students

    I took predictor A in August, got a 76 which was the 2nd highest in my class of 40. Then after 8 weeks of helpful quizzes and annoying homework, I got an 89.3 on part B, and last Thursday I took the 185 question predictor and got an 84. Our school ju...

12. Advice for Clinicals?

    DahliaDaisy replied to Transfer_Student's topic in General Students

    Everyone above gave you great advice, and I can't agree enough with the part about "befriending" the aids! They are less stressed than the nurses and know all of the ins and out, I have found them to be very helpful and kind resources when the nurses...

13. Chances and Advice on getting in?!

    DahliaDaisy replied to niajasmine98's topic in Pre-Nursing

    You mention Biology, but what about A&P I and II, and maybe Microbiology? My state school in NY looks at those the most and if you aced those, it will go a long way to overcoming your C in Bio 101. We also have to have a C+ for any pre-req to cou...

14. Best educational path for older student?

    DahliaDaisy replied to oneday_nursepoundcake's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Also in Upstate NY and there are a lot of programs here of all kinds AND, a lot of jobs! Everyone I know graduating from my ASN, Community College program are going straight into whatever field they are interested in: Peds, Neuro, ED, NICU, Oncology,...

15. Syracuse Nursing

    DahliaDaisy replied to adam3's topic in General Students

    I live in Syracuse and am in my second year of an ASN program. Everyone I know is getting jobs IN the specialty they prefer even before graduation. The starting salaries sound about average and the cost of living is relatively low. A place is what yo...