Waiting for Retirement

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  1. Puppy??

    Waiting for Retirement replied to Ashley Mansell's topic in General Students

    Someone else here mentioned this but I wouldn't expect you would be able to bring your pet to classes. After all it isn't a service dog and frankly ALL pets are ESAs. Would any of us have pets if...

  2. Need Serious Advice

    Waiting for Retirement replied to LegoLand's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I don't mean to be insulting and really hope you don't take it that way but you cannot be "confident in your skills" because you do not have any yet. Not to discourage you, you might be a first-rate...

  3. Texas license

    Waiting for Retirement replied to Memalicious's topic in General Specialties

    This is two weeks old so you must have contacted your board of nursing by now. Am curious, what's the

  4. Can’t pass the NCLEX

    Waiting for Retirement replied to Kmmamea's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Regarding the part I highlighted in bold text, it seems to me that failing with the minimum number of questions is your biggest "tell". The foundation of the test is to determine if you have enough...

  5. out of state nursing

    Waiting for Retirement replied to Maddelyn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I can answer some of this for you. Schools vary greatly on how competitive they are, it's not as if the other 49 states (outside California) are a blanket "easier or harder". Honestly having failed...

  6. Need Serious Advice

    Waiting for Retirement replied to LegoLand's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Whether or not an ADN is "worth it" and whether or not it's possible to do what you're planning are two separate questions. Of course it is possible to get married and have a child while taking...

  7. Name Tags

    Waiting for Retirement replied to WSU_Ally_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Davey Do, I believe you have set the tone (positively, I might add) for my entire morning. Thank you

  8. Open letter from New Nurse to Supervisors, Experienced Nurses

    Waiting for Retirement replied to lorias's topic in General Nursing

    Well written and well thought out. Speaking from my own experience, most managers really do want to be the manager you seek and some of them even pull it off. Most fail from time to time, just like...

  9. How often do you wash your scrubs? :)

    Waiting for Retirement replied to RNinheart's topic in General Nursing

    I read the title to this thread and tried to wrap my brain around the idea that anyone who wears scrubs to work DOESN'T wash them after every single wearing. Nope, can't wrap that one up...it's a...

  10. Sick Days?

    Waiting for Retirement replied to newbienurse97's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. Willingness to reschedule an interview does not equate with willingness to tolerate repeated sick calls. I think by now the OP understands that she needs to do whatever she can to not call...

  11. Forgot to unclamp the secondary

    Waiting for Retirement replied to DH1234's topic in General Nursing

    There's an old saying, that if you come across a nurse who tells you she has never made a med error she's either lying or just too stupid to know the difference. People make mistakes. If you're lucky...

  12. Lacking all motivation

    Waiting for Retirement replied to SNgirl21's topic in General Students

    I would strongly suggest you meet with a counselor, not academic but clinical. Don't mean to be scary but there are many possible reasons for your current emotional state...and you want to be sure to...

  13. Non-Nursing Bachelors RN

    Waiting for Retirement replied to callinshotz's topic in General Specialties

    True. I’m not sure about what someone with new grad status might find when initially looking for

  14. Ap exam at 12 and i know nothing

    Waiting for Retirement replied to samanthacanelaa's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Ouch. You "hate old people like you" and you don't know the age of the person you are talking to? You didn't give your age so no one had a clue if they were older or younger than you. It was...

  15. *HELP* Is it okay to take an extra semester to complete prerequisites?

    Waiting for Retirement replied to Mikayla9990's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm sorry I don't have great advice for you but it seems to me there should be an Advisor assigned to you who you could ask? Someone in the Nursing department who could best answer what your best...

  16. Echolalia

    Waiting for Retirement replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for this, it was a much-needed smile in my day! Your patient was lucky for the interaction, and you got to stay more alert. Win-Win!

  17. Non-Nursing Bachelors RN

    Waiting for Retirement replied to callinshotz's topic in General Specialties

    Not always true. I know nurses working in VA hospitals who have bachelors or masters that are outside of nursing and they came in at a higher grade than those who held associate degrees in nursing....

  18. Pearson Pass

    Waiting for Retirement replied to Hayes2019's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Ha! Sometimes I think I might be but I'm still here

  19. Your most bonehead moment in nursing. Or 2. Or 3.

    Waiting for Retirement replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    Took a CBI fluid bath many years ago. One irrigation bag up high, the other lower, emptying from one to another as it was supposed to. I was changing out the depleted bag for a fresh one and didn't...

  20. 265 questions is almost guaranteed if your a male.

    Waiting for Retirement replied to wilderness47's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    What you are observing and posting about is nothing more than anecdotal evidence. Or, in nursing parlance no actual evidence. Beyond that, since the exam has no way of knowing one's...

  21. let go from job

    Waiting for Retirement replied to tinybbynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Such a disheartening situation, I feel for you tinybbynurse. It sounds very similar to a situation I was in a few years ago; it wasn't me who was let go it was another member of the staff but it was...

  22. Concierge nursing?

    Waiting for Retirement replied to cowan19's topic in General Specialties

    Sorry, only correlation I can come up with is what I remember from a fun 'medical' TV show from a few years ago called Royal Pains. It was about medical professionals who offer their services to the...

  23. Is Nursing Dangerous?

    Waiting for Retirement replied to Bones17's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I have never worked in psych, and I have never been assaulted by a patient. I have worked med-surg with patients who are absolutely not in their right minds and have had to wrestle some of them to...

  24. Nclex

    Waiting for Retirement replied to sianee's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I’ve been reading through her past posts. The answer to “what is your school’s pass rate” a couple of years ago was “average”. Now she says “low”. A couple of years ago she thought...

  25. Nclex

    Waiting for Retirement replied to sianee's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    It is a word describing the act of slapping one’s palm against one’d own forehead in an expression of utter disbelief at the stupidity of a situation with which they are faced. In this case,...