kellerpatty

kellerpatty

Burn ICU, Psych, PACU

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  1. Can I really handle this?!?

    kellerpatty replied to blaaveispiken's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi: I, too, am a fairly new nurse. This is my second career and I'm what you would call "older". It's almost as if you were telling my story...I was successful at my previous position, organized and...

  2. Never understood nursing

    kellerpatty replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, please...lighten up! There's no way you can compare someone asking why a PA is on a ALLnurses.com website to discrimination based on religion or race. Talk about stepping back and getting "some...

  3. Never understood nursing

    kellerpatty replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

    Why is a PA (as in physician's ASSISTANT?) venting on a nurses' website? That's like me going over to a PA website and telling them all what a bunch of losers they are...wouldn't go over very well....

  4. I don't know how to feel about this

    kellerpatty replied to sweetcheekers's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for being honest about your feelings. I've had the same thoughts time and time again. We get a lot of really sick people in the BICU, and some of them die...I often wonder what I could have...

  5. rn nclex

    kellerpatty replied to failed's topic in General Nursing

    If it didn't prepare you for the NCLEX...how did you pass? Sounds to me that maybe you need to start looking about what is positive about your achievements and look forward to the good things that...

  6. Poll for those who have already taken NCLEX..

    kellerpatty replied to lpn2rnMay2005's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    1. Took 75 questions. 2. Kaplan (book and computer), and just about every other study book out there. Kaplan helped me the most (I believe), especially the focus on what to look for in questions and...

  7. Why do you Nurse in the Burn unit ?

    kellerpatty replied to EENstudent's topic in Burn

    To the note above: I've got to tell you that I've always been the "sensitive" one who cries at everything! I feel things deeply and always have been rooting for the underdog. I, too, thought that...

  8. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    kellerpatty replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I thought I was the only one who hated spit, phlegm, loogies, goobers, snotters...whatever you want to call them! The only time I feel like vomiting (and I work in a burn ICU with lots of burned...

  9. Starting Med-Surg in Aug ~ advice please

    kellerpatty replied to btown annie's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    "Straight A's in..." books very cut and dry, not much explanation behind the theories. "...Made Easy" books offer a lot more explanation and pretty easy to understand. Not all subjects fully...

  10. Rules for the ER (long)

    kellerpatty replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    Aren't opinions like bumholes, they come in all shapes and sizes, sometimes they're stinky, and last, but not least...everybody's got one? I'm thinking, hmmm, maybe lighten up...isn't nursing is...

  11. New Grad-What should I do?

    kellerpatty replied to exairex's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm working in a teaching hospital as a new nurse in the Burn ICU (cross-training in the Surgical ICU). My orientation, and preceptors, have been great...tough? Yes, but thorough. Communication has...

  12. Why do you Nurse in the Burn unit ?

    kellerpatty replied to EENstudent's topic in Burn

    Hi: I'm a new nurse working in a Burn ICU now for a couple of months. It's a satisfying place to work and have learned so much about nursing and myself. It is difficult and draining, but there is...

  13. First timer - Burn Unit

    kellerpatty replied to redwinggirlie's topic in Burn

    Hi everyone: Well, tomorrow is my first day on the job as a GN in our hospital's burn unit. I've been working as a Burn Tech, which helped prepare me a great deal for what I could expect. I look...

  14. Advice needed on becoming a burn nurse

    kellerpatty replied to Brainyheart's topic in Burn

    Just graduated with ADN and was hired on in our area teaching hospital's Burn Unit. It's the only burn unit in a very wide radius and we're a level I trauma center. How did I get hired? I think my...