Jaber06

This sounds like a copout if ever I heard one! You want us to truly believe that when you step out with your patient to have a smoke you are doing this in the interest of patient satisfaction? Please, be true to yourself and admit the true motivation to taking that walk across the street with that stranger who has the same addiction as you do (forget your safety)... it's to satisfy and gratify your addiction. Why should security be exposed to your second hand smoke? Meanwhile who is protecting the other 90% + of patients who don't smoke? It's abhorent to be a nurse that smokes, it's putting patients at risk etc... I work in the ICU and it saddens me to see nurses who provide care to MI patients doing D/C instructions while they reek of smoke... don't smoke blah blah blah! Oh please, spray on febreeze or whatever you want, wash your hands etc.... It still stinks on you! I loath nurses that smoke because they dump on others to gratify their addiction. Mostly on nightshift. They go out every two hours for 20min and get that fix. Oh men, if I could convince my congress man to introduce that bill I would.

Congrats!!

Congratulations!!! I take my NCLEX on Feb 7th and I can't even begin to describe the anxiety! How did you prepare if you don't mind me asking.