Luchador CNA, EMT-B

You can't win with these ***es

I would be sure to have your little notebook out and take notes of the feedback they give you. Seriously it sounds like you have some good nurses there but some evil ones too. I do pretty much everything you do and have never gotten anything but fan...

Posts like this make me so glad I am a male nursing student in my last year. I do pretty much everything the original poster does, even carry around a tiny notebook I write things in and stick in my pocket, a habit from my ambulance days. I never get...

When I was a teacher I made about half of my wife's salary. It will be the same or worse when I start nursing. I'm glad she didn't think like the op!

With those grades, more than capable. It's really not so bad once you get your head around proportions and dimensional analysis.

So I just had an interesting conversation with my lawyer buddy. I pulled up the original post and showed him it. He said that parts of it are legitimate and parts of it are not. Obviously saying you cannot disclose secrets to law enforcement is absur...

The whole thing just seems weird as hell. If my new employer asked me to hand write my contract on paper to his dictation and put in weird stuff like that I would laugh in his face get up and walk away.

I am curious as to what you think the possible outcomes are of giving a patient an IV paralytic and then extubating the patient. I am grateful for your thoughts because they illustrate how a go along mentality could cause a nurse to lose his license...

I will never understand why people answer the phone if work is calling them on a day off. Do people think they are calling to tell them that you are getting a huge raise? Are they calling to tell you that you you get the next week off on paid vacat...

I'm not an auditory learner, really, but I have a long commute to school so I record lectures. Even casually listening to them as I drive is great help. In particular it seems a good way to catch the hints and little nuggets of what will be on exams....

Mine as well. I feel bad for the original poster. The person that can give her the answer she needs is sitting on a beach right now having a fruity rum drink near Tulum

Sorry you're having a rough time. I suspect after working for $10.75 an hour at Costco for a week you'd start looking for another RN job. Retail is the worst. Horrible bosses, on your feet more than nursing and lots of contact with crowds of horrib...

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Hello! You should look at options in your area because the variability in programs is huge. I have a master's in English, yet the "accelerated" BSN in my area would have taken longer than the ADN because of the additional pre-reqs and chem and o-chem...

I've not seen it in my limited student experience (Nursling !) , but don't some burn victims and cancer pts get doses that are incredibly high, too?

I'm always mortified by the stupid crap I say once they dope me up. I don't remember (versed), but apparently I asked the nurse about alteration in discharge quantity etc. Ack!

No, tell me! I will say one thing. The recovery is a lot worse than they make it out to be. Ouch.

My vasectomy was the best 20 dollar copay I ever spent. Highly recommend it.

This is great advise. I'm in my final year of RN school and I was horrified by the original post. What a nightmare.

Get yourself a crock pot. 1. Put some dead cow, onions, garlic, potatoes and tomatoes and a can of beer in it when you leave for clinicals in the morning (you can chop up the stuff the night before and keep them in fridge.) Season with more salt th...

P.s. course was not self paced, but it was fine. Our grade was based on quizzes, discussion board and final research paper.

The Colorado community college system does a thing with online courses where some online courses are not through any specific college. There were students from all over the state in my class, which was pretty neat. I took nutrition the same way.

It's not too bad. And there should be a lot of support if you need in the form of test reviews and tutors.

So if a doctor ordered you to give a paralytic and take a patient off of a ventilator and you questioned the Dr. and he said "yes that is what I want; don't tell me my business" ---- you would just shrug and do it?

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