KiusLady ASN, RN

KiusLady has 5 years experience as a ASN, RN.

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1. Nurses Begin Trauma Recovery from COVID: 5 Ways to Cope

   KiusLady replied to jeastridge's topic in COVID

   I worked as a COVID nurse for about six months. It got a little too much for me (not so much because I was losing patients - I was in a department that took care of *stable* COVID patients); it was the staffing (lack of), the constant policy changes ...

2. No Interest/Passion In Being A Nurse

   KiusLady replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

   Totally agreeing w/ a couple previous comments: I'm hearing Depression. It sounds like you started your education passionate and excited, but now everything in life has a dull film over it despite being good at what you're doing and being noticed in ...

3. How To Study for Nursing School Success

   KiusLady replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Students

   All great advice!! In my first half of nursing school I found that taking notes from the PowerPoint (and textbook) before class and then filling them out further during lecture worked very well. This strategy wasn't quite cutting it in the second ...

4. Scrub Skirts

   KiusLady replied to KiusLady's topic in Uniform/Gear

   Thx much for the feedback! Certainly makes a lot of sense on that front.

5. Scrub Skirts

   KiusLady posted a topic in Uniform/Gear

   It's looking like I just might graduate nursing school in a few weeks and with that (after passing my boards), I'll be working as a fer real nurse, wearing fer real scrubs. I've been curious about scrub skirts. In general I enjoy wearing skirts in wa...

6. Going back to Nursing School - Fearful of failing again

   KiusLady replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   If you want to try dipping your toes in the water before going head-long into a nursing program, try getting a second job as a home-care aid. Some don't require any type of certifications or medical degrees; they'll train you on-the-job for that par...

7. What made you want to be a nurse?

   KiusLady replied to MollyM99's topic in General Nursing

   Disclaimer: I'm not a nurse, a baby nurse, or even a "fetal" nurse (as in I'm not even in nursing school yet, but I've taken my pre-req's and will be slamming through gen-eds this spring and summer. I'll know in a couple months if I made it into the ...

8. Tips for my students that work

   KiusLady replied to tabrojajo's topic in Share Tips

   That method does sound like it'll be immensely helpful when I get to that point! Right now I'm just taking pre-req's, which is helping me a great deal get a feel for what I'll need to focus one in "real" nursing school. I noticed that the muscle unit...

9. How did you study for A&P?

   KiusLady replied to Neywel120's topic in General Students

   I'm taking *Essentials* of A&P this semester as a pre-req for the real deal (because I heard A&P 1 & 2 are so tough). The nice thing is I love this stuff and took a much simpler version back in art school over 15 years ago. Having that p...

10. If You Could Have Any Skill to Deal with Difficult People -- What Would It Be?

    KiusLady replied to PancakeSaturdays's topic in Relations

    I have a bad habit of getting passive-aggressive when dealing with people who are being difficult (either deliberately out of a need to be "in control" or because they themselves are getting flustered). Though I getting *much* better at reining in m...

11. Why is there a Bully on the Playground?

    KiusLady replied to Ahvegas's topic in General Nursing

    I'm finding that most people who bully tend to not even realize their behavior is inappropriate. To them, everyone else is mean or incompetent. There's a general lack of inborn empathy and a sense of "separatness" both self-initiated (as in being a...

12. Meaning of your username?

    KiusLady replied to Flightless Bird's topic in General Nursing

    I'm KiusLady all over the interwebz. Since I'm a blogger, utter and complete anonymity isn't the hugest priority for me. "Kius" (which has been spelled "Ciuss" in the past and "Kai'us" presently) refers to a race of beings I created on their own litt...

13. Just starting out. Am I being naive? Arrogant?

    KiusLady replied to KiusLady's topic in General Students

    Thx. I'll get that avatar changed.

14. Just starting out. Am I being naive? Arrogant?

    KiusLady posted a topic in General Students

    I'm in my mid-30's. I've been in the graphics field for over fourteen years. And I just enrolled in my local community college with the hopes of getting into their nursing program early next year (this year will be spent slamming through my gen-ed'...