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  1. Nurses: Who came from a dysfuntional family?

    chase4myheart replied to kstec's topic in General Nursing

    A picture of my family should be in the dictionary beside the word dysfunctional. My father was an abusive alchoholic who was a control freak. My mother had several mental issues including several...

  2. Nurses Who Are Drug Addicts

    chase4myheart replied to jill48's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Can you please tell me where it is written that only night shift nurses divert meds? I'd really be interested in knowing where you obtained that

  3. Do New grad NP's have to work full time?

    chase4myheart replied to abalou's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Here in Virginia, a FNP told me that she was required to work 1500 hours per year to maintain her license. Hope this

  4. can a school do this?

    chase4myheart replied to RNmom08's topic in General Nursing

    My best friend was diagnosed with malignant melanoma at the beginning of our 3rd semester of clinical rotations. Because she was taking radiation treatments she wasn't able to get the immunizations...

  5. Prayers for the Families of the Virginia Tech Massacre!

    chase4myheart posted a topic in General Nursing

    I live about an hour away from Blacksburg, Va. I just wanted to take the time to say that the families of all of the students at VA Tech are in my thoughts and prayers tonight. While sitting in my...

  6. Prayers for the Families of the Virginia Tech Massacre!

    chase4myheart replied to chase4myheart's topic in General Nursing

    Yesterday morning a student went into a dormitory at approximately 7:30 am and then into a classroom at approximately 10:00 am and killed 32 people (students and professors) then turned the gun on...

  7. Register to take for NCLEX before I graduate?

    chase4myheart replied to krazykev's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I just sent my fees in to take the test last week. We were told that we had to have our money sent in by April 1st if we wanted to take the test in June. I'll graduate May 11th. We can't actually...

  8. How Your Life Can Change in the Blink of an Eye!

    chase4myheart replied to chase4myheart's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all of your replies. The day after the lumbar she was more like her self, but she was just really mad at me and my father because she was there. She still wasn't able to walk or even stand...

  9. How Your Life Can Change in the Blink of an Eye!

    chase4myheart replied to chase4myheart's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all of your replies. I have gone over her meds with her physicians, and they have discontinued anything that they think could possibly be causing it. The strongest anxiety med she is taking...

  10. Pts swiping in to the ER?

    chase4myheart replied to herecomestrouble's topic in General Nursing

    I think that anything that can speed up the ER process is terrific, but I may be biased in my opinion. The ambulance took my mother to the ER yesterday. They had about 50 people in the waiting room....

  11. typical wage for lpn?

    chase4myheart replied to lizzyberry's topic in General Nursing

    I live in Virginia in a very small town. I will be graduating in May from the LPN program. I called the nursing home that's about 5 minutes from where I live, and I was told that they start LPN's out...

  12. Bullying in Class

    chase4myheart replied to Jayfa's topic in International Nursing

    I have to say that this has never been a problem with any of my classes, and I'm in my last semester. With all of the stress and the struggles of nursing school, we have become more like a family. I...

  13. Nursing school didn't prepare me for reality

    chase4myheart replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    I am in a LPN program at a community college. I have to say that I feel totally unprepared for nursing in the real world. We have two nights of clinicals that last 5 hrs. each. I am in my last...

  14. Sharps Containers in Public Restrooms?

    chase4myheart replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in a factory about 5 years ago. One of the women that was in charge of cleaning the restrooms got a needlestick when she was tying up a bag of garbage. Immediately after that, they placed a...

  15. How Many Times Do You Have To Take A&P1 ?

    chase4myheart replied to juicy_jade's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'll be graduating in May from the LPN program. I took A&P 1 last semester and carried 18 credits with it. I made a B. I'm taking A&P 2 this semester and have 20 credits and still have a B...

  16. Wrong place, but car wreck please help

    chase4myheart replied to Vap23's topic in General Nursing

    I am so sorry for what you are going through. Being involved in an auto accident is very traumatic, not to mention losing someone you love. When I was 12 years old, my father hit another car, took...

  17. Nurses With Glaucoma

    chase4myheart posted a topic in General Nursing

    I went for my routine eye exam today and was diagnosed with glaucoma. I always thought that this was a disease that primarily affected older people. I guess I now fall into that category. It hurst...

  18. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    chase4myheart replied to SRbear's topic in Pain Management

    I developed an absessed tooth during the time for my drug test for clinicals. My dentist gave me a prescription for oxycodone due to the severe pain that I was having. I was very honest and told the...

  19. SENIOR IN NURSING SCHOOL FACING HUGE PROBLEM...please help

    chase4myheart replied to JNogueira95's topic in General Nursing

    Please check the handbook for the year that you first entered the program. At my school, we are held to the policies in the handbook for the year that we first registered for the program. Any policy...

  20. Nurses Who Are Drug Addicts

    chase4myheart replied to jill48's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Please don't be so quick to judge recovering nurses who have sufferred from addiction. When I worked as a CNA, I worked with nurses who were recovering addicts and I worked with nurses who were just...

  21. Shoes

    chase4myheart replied to ghost's topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to try to paste the website. Hopefully it will work. I'm pasting the entire site that will take you directly to the crocs. This is the cheapest website for the "croc" brand that I have...

  22. I wanted to explain what happened to me...

    chase4myheart replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

    To the person who offered to help OP financially: I think that you are just a wonderful person. I am a nursing student and my husband has been out of work for over a year and still can't find a job....

  23. What medical shows do you watch?

    chase4myheart replied to shellsgogreen's topic in General Students

    I absolutely love to watch House. I always tape it when I'm at school. Some nurses that work at Baptist Hospital in Winston Salem acutally told me that when they took their state boards that there...

  24. What's everyone taking this fall?

    chase4myheart replied to Christinmomof3nrs2be's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am taking Anatomy and Physiology I. and Nursing and Health Changes II. this fall. This makes a total of 15 credit hours. By doing this, I will only have A&P II and Microbiology to complete...

  25. How soon do you go to get your textbooks??

    chase4myheart replied to Iwannabeababynurse's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    A lot of it depends on whether you get financial aid or not. Ask your college bookstore. My classes start on the 21st and I was told to pick up my books on the 16th because I'm TRA. Regular...