Patience

Patience specializes in General Medicine.

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1. What's the weirdest baby name?

   Patience replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Precious Joy Purity Virginity Strawberry

2. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

   Patience replied to sethmctenn's topic in Humor

   Dr Stopaining

3. What does your username mean?

   Patience replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Humor

   Name of my favourite song.

4. Fake Nails on Nurses, Yay or Nay?

   Patience posted a topic in General Nursing

   I was just wondering what everyone thought about nurses having gel or acrylic fake nails. There are a few girls on my unit that have them. I wanted to know what people's opinions were or if your unit or place of work has a policy about them. ~Jes~ (s...

5. Nursing and tattoos

   Patience replied to MelRN13's topic in General Nursing

   i unfortunately don't have any tattoos yet. But i'm just trying to decide on the exact design i want. I do however have my ears pierced 13 times (7 in my left, and 6 in my right) As well as my nose. All of which i wear at work, and i've never had a p...

6. Lowest blood sugar you have seen

   Patience replied to AfloydRN's topic in General Nursing

   I was going to answer, but our ways of measuring blood sugar are different. Can i ask how you measure your in the states? For us a Blood Sugar of between 5-9mmol is considered great. But i've seen a patient with a blood sugar of 1.9,

7. Payrange in your area?

   Patience replied to NPs4health's topic in General Nursing

   I live in alberta canada and as an LPN up here we start at $17.39 going up to approx $21.89, And i work on a general medicine unit at out pt to nurse ratio varies between 4:1, to 6 or 7:1 depending on if we're short staffed or not

8. Job interview jitters

   Patience replied to Patience's topic in Career Support

   HEY ALL! JUST WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT MY INTERVIEW WENT EXCEPTIONALLY WELL, AND MY INTERVIEWERS WERE EXTREMELY IMPRESSED WITH ME. AND I GOT A PHONE CALL THIS MORNING OFFERING ME A FULL TIME POSITION ON GENERAL MEDICINE! I'm so excited as th...

9. Job interview jitters

   Patience replied to Patience's topic in Career Support

   i just don't want to end up getting hired, and show up with my piercings, and have them say, wait you didn't have those when we hired you. It's also a great hassle to take them all out. But i suppose it's something that i can deal with taking out for...

10. Priceless!!!

    Patience replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in Humor

    haha! that's great!

11. Job interview jitters

    Patience replied to Patience's topic in Career Support

    I've never had any of my instructors voice a problem with my piercings, and none of the units that i have done placements on (including maternity) have said anything about my earrings. Do you guys think that i should keep them in, and then ask what t...

12. Another Email

    Patience replied to Nutmeg5575's topic in Humor

    haha that was hilarious!

13. Job interview jitters

    Patience replied to Patience's topic in Career Support

    When you say no jewelry, i have a question there. i have my ears pierced 13 times (7 in one, and 6 in the other) I've never had a problem anywhere that i've done my clinical placements, relating to my piercings. They're all very plain looking studs, ...

14. Job interview jitters

    Patience replied to Patience's topic in Career Support

    I can't believe nobody has any tips. Please i really could use some advice, i've never had a job interview in nursing before and i'm really really nervous.

15. Job interview jitters

    Patience posted a topic in Career Support

    Hey all! I'm a new grad (as of a month ago today!!!) and i have my temporary LPN license, i just got a call today about a job interview on a General Internal medicine unit at a hospital here. And this is going to be my first job interview for an LPN...