ArmyRntoMD

ArmyRntoMD BSN, RN

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  1. Effect of 12 Hour Shifts on Patient Care and the Nurse: A Need for Change.

    ArmyRntoMD replied to LindaGracie's topic in General Nursing

    I don’t understand how anyone can go back to school working 5 days a week. It’s hard for me only working three. T/Th at school, fri/sat/sun working in the hospital. Gives me two days to

  2. Gossiping Nurses

    ArmyRntoMD replied to Beau Wolf's topic in General Nursing

    I have experienced this as well. When I was a new nurse I worked with a lot of gossipy cliquey young girls who loved to gossip and talk crap behind people’s backs. I was weak at giving report, and...

  3. How are my chances?

    ArmyRntoMD replied to youngrn325's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I don’t know about CRNA,but I did poorly in nursing (2.92 gpa) but I feel much of it was because in my diploma program much of the grades were subjective opinions of the instructors and a 94-100...

  4. "The Nurse doesn't really DO anything" -Middle school students

    ArmyRntoMD replied to RNTadaaaa's topic in School

    Some school nurses DONT do much. As part of RN school I had to get school nursing experience and some of them take the job because they can get away with doing very little. The nurses I followed...

  5. Millennial Nurses Have Issues

    ArmyRntoMD replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

    I don’t like to sum up people based on generation but I would like to point out how annoying it is, when I (a 32 year old soon to apply to medschool, disabled combat vet with a background in law...

  6. I Made A Mistake

    ArmyRntoMD replied to dmarzzz's topic in General Nursing

    I see this a lot. Many nurses I’ve worked with will see a symptom and immediately assume it’s a certain disease process without understanding differential diagnosis. Lets say a symptom is...

  7. Effect of 12 Hour Shifts on Patient Care and the Nurse: A Need for Change.

    ArmyRntoMD replied to LindaGracie's topic in General Nursing

    If it weren’t for 12 hour shifts I wouldn’t have done nursing. Some of us don’t want to feel trapped in a 5 day a week work week, I never could’ve done premed and went to college if this were...

  8. I Made A Mistake

    ArmyRntoMD replied to dmarzzz's topic in General Nursing

    Everyone makes mistakes. Anyone who says they don't is a damned liar. The important thing is try to be a better nurse every day. You care that you messed up. THAT is what is important. I nicely asked...

  9. You should never ask a nurse this question.

    ArmyRntoMD replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

    People asked me this question. I thought about it, and asked myself the same question. and now I am PRN working 4 shifts a month while finishing up premed and studying for the MCAT. Switching is right...

  10. Millennial Nurses Have Issues

    ArmyRntoMD replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

    Eh younger nurses/ college students have issues. I can attest to this. BUT older nurses have their issues too. Some are very uneducated and stuck in wrong ways. Every generation has strengths and...

  11. Am I too stupid to be a nurse?

    ArmyRntoMD replied to iconicqueen's topic in General Nursing

    NO! We had people in my online RN-BSN class that passed, and appeared barely literate. We were instructed to speak in the third person instead of the first person to be "scholarly" and classmates were...

  12. So we have enough nurses nursing supervisor, really?

    ArmyRntoMD replied to Workitinurfava's topic in General Nursing

    When my unit had enough CNAs I didn't mind having 4 vent patients (ICU Stepdown). What was awful was when we had 4 critically ill patients, no unit secretary and had to cover the call light, and no...

  13. Preceptor is SO BAD!

    ArmyRntoMD replied to Guest606's topic in General Nursing

    Why should she hide taking her medication? I don't see a problem with that. I do have a problem with how much of the public is reliant on Adderall, caffeine, nicotine, etc. We shouldn't need all of...

  14. Oh dear . .Audited for proof of CEUs and don't have

    ArmyRntoMD replied to Norma_Saline's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah but its boring level stuff. They assume we don't know basic things that are taught in basic prenursing courses such as classes of insulins, antibiotic classes, anatomy physiology etc. I have dug...

  15. Nursing shortage is BS

    ArmyRntoMD replied to Guest1130774's topic in General Nursing

    Come to Louisiana. I have made 90+ an hour before. Starting pay was 23.00 an hour out of school, time and a half after 40 hrs, and Single EP (emergency pay) is 10.00 an hour, Double is 20, and Triple...

  16. Nursing shortage is BS

    ArmyRntoMD replied to Guest1130774's topic in General Nursing

    I decided to go the MD route instead of NP because they're just pushing people through NP schools. They even have online schools that don't require a nursing background. You earn your RN and NP...

  17. Nursing shortage is BS

    ArmyRntoMD replied to Guest1130774's topic in General Nursing

    Nah I never did medsurg. Not interested in running my *** off for 7

  18. Nursing shortage is BS

    ArmyRntoMD replied to Guest1130774's topic in General Nursing

    Must depend on where you are. I've quit my job and gotten rehired within two weeks-

  19. Oh dear . .Audited for proof of CEUs and don't have

    ArmyRntoMD replied to Norma_Saline's topic in General Nursing

    Ahh gotta love CEUs. Basic boring RN student level information that you have to take year after