NursingStudent5548

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1. No time off for new dad!!

   NursingStudent5548 replied to NursingStudent5548's topic in General Nursing

   Okay to all the responses about us planning a small (BUT FORMAL) wedding... I have been married once before for 2.5 years my ex deployed to Iraq came back with an young female soldier. He divorced me and less than 6 months later remarried her. Our we...

2. No time off for new dad!!

   NursingStudent5548 replied to NursingStudent5548's topic in General Nursing

   Sorry the boyfriend is a CNA at a CATHOLIC, nursing home... He is a Catholic himself... We are not married but engaged to be... and if not for time and money would be getting married (date set). We are still planning on getting married but with us bo...

3. No time off for new dad!!

   NursingStudent5548 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have posted on here numerous times over several different issues.... but I am in a hard spot and disgusted by this facility. I am being induced on this Thursday due to a high risk pregnancy. We were just informed today, so at work today my boyfrien...

4. Studio B by Cherokee

   NursingStudent5548 posted a topic in Uniform/Gear

   Has any one else tried these scrubs out?? I just got a job at the largest hospital in our city... and they simplified the scrubs by colors per department. Basically RNs/LPN's where solid Marroon....Doc's where tealish color....and all other patient c...

5. Everyone has a 4.0 GPA!!

   NursingStudent5548 replied to NursingStudent5548's topic in General Nursing

   It mattered to me because I am transfering from another state and was trying to get statistical information on those whom I will be competing with for a limited spot in a nursing program. If everyone of those nurses truly has a 4.0 then, yes I have r...

6. Everyone has a 4.0 GPA!!

   NursingStudent5548 replied to NursingStudent5548's topic in General Nursing

   Oh well trust me I covered that...I specifically asked what skills she had learned in first semester. Vitals and Foley's were covered...I am not trying to attack her, I just found it scary since she is in her second semester of nursing school and did...

7. Everyone has a 4.0 GPA!!

   NursingStudent5548 replied to NursingStudent5548's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, I am thinking it could be due to a few possibilites. 1. That program is way easier than I anticipate 2. She lied about her GPA 3. She cheated her way through school When I heard from 4+ people they all had 4.0 in that program, I began to wonder ...

8. Everyone has a 4.0 GPA!!

   NursingStudent5548 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Okay I was doing orientation at a major hospital today...while there I had time to talk to new grads and students at the program I am going to enroll in. I am hoping to get into the accelerated program. The standards are higher to be accepted in this...

9. working at same hospital as my mom!!!!!

   NursingStudent5548 replied to coffee4metech's topic in General Nursing

   I worked a LTC facility with my MOM it was very small and she was the only RN on shift and I was a CNA... It was great except for once!! The Pro's: My mom wasn't down my back she knew my experience and my work ethic and knew my job was done and done ...

10. nurse to patient ratio

    NursingStudent5548 replied to lizzy84763's topic in General Nursing

    I just recently left a LTC facility like this... I worked there for over a year and the Nurse ratio was never better than 46:1 in the entire time I was there. I left we were paid a measley wage as a CNA I was making $6.85/hour!! I was 6 months pregna...

11. Your favorite nursing gadget?

    NursingStudent5548 replied to AOx1's topic in General Nursing

    I have so many...I have been working in hospital settings since I was 13 volunteering. All Time Faves- My Palm TX My Ipod Touch Army Combat Medic Pocket Essentials Tourniquets Kerlix Coban Tegaderm Scrub Pocket Essentials Pocket Pulse Ox Mini Bath a...

12. Oklahoma Nurses get paid WHAT?!

    NursingStudent5548 replied to Mrs.BSN71109's topic in General Nursing

    This is accurate I worked as a CNA in an Oklahoma nursing home, we made $8.35/hour. LPN's made $15.50 an hour and RN's made $18.50/hour. Our RN's rarely passed pills did, very few blood sugar checks. They had very few treatments, never passed trays, ...

13. Mom suffocates child, revives w/ CPR, then suffocates again...

    NursingStudent5548 replied to rehab nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I am outraged at the cruelty, and insanity of this!!

14. any areas of US where the RN job market is better?

    NursingStudent5548 replied to dreavt's topic in General Nursing

    Via Christi in Manhattan, Kansas had several pages of RN positions available!! Manhattan is a nice city....college town located midway between topeka and salina!!

15. How would you answer this interview question?

    NursingStudent5548 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I would have said something along the lines...to the CNA!! Unless this is an emergency...your patients come first!! All personal calls while on the clock need to be handled through the main line, like everyone else!! Consider this a verbal warning, n...