TJMICHAEL

TJMICHAEL

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About TJMICHAEL

TJMICHAEL has 5 years experience.

I am an evening LPN student, just over halfway through my program. I have a toddler & a 5 month old at home. I decided to go into nursing after having my daughter 4 months premature. I am interested in working in the NICU or Psych nursing.

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  1. Nursing with mental illness

    TJMICHAEL replied to qweez's topic in Disabilities

    Hi qweez, I am a nurse living with & working with with bipolar! Woo-hoo! Welcome to the club :) You can most definitely succeed, especially if you can juggle school & work while managing. I work in KY & in my state, it is a matter of volu...

  2. Unethical behavior on my first day of floor orientation

    TJMICHAEL posted a topic in Relations

    Seeking constructive feedback on this situation. I have 5 years experience as a trach/vent nurse in home health, right out of nursing school. This will be my first experience working in a facility. I just completed my first day orienting on the floo...

  3. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    TJMICHAEL replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    OMG! This is SO sad, & exactly why I want to work in the NICU. There will be one less spot for someone so careless & stupid to be handling these precious babies. I, myself had both of my children in the NICU - one for 112 days, the other for ...

  4. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    TJMICHAEL replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    OMG...this is SO sad. I, myself, had both my children in the NICU due to prematurity. One was there for 112 days, the other for only about 2 weeks. This is exactly why I want to work in the NICU. Can't believe anyone would be so stupid.

  5. Powerpoint Overkill

    TJMICHAEL posted a topic in General Students

    Is anyone else having this experience? Sitting in class, night after night (or day after day), listening to an instructor read, word for word, from a power point? Not that these instructors aren't qualified to teach up & coming Nurses, most of th...

  6. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    TJMICHAEL replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    I am a student, still early in my nursing education. At my clinical site, my patient was found having a hypoglycemic episode. Diaphoretic, lethargic, very thirsty. She was soaking wet from head to toe. I notified her nurse, who was not concerned. Tha...