CountrifiedRN

CountrifiedRN

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  1. Nursing Students: good/bad moments

    CountrifiedRN replied to nursbee04's topic in General Students

    Best: Educating the young parents of a newly diagnosed 2 y/o diabetic, and having them tell me that no one else had explained things in a way that they could understand, and they felt less anxious...

  2. Undecided whether to become a Letter Carrier or R.N?

    CountrifiedRN replied to Lisa24's topic in General Students

    Wow, when I read the title of this thread, I thought the postal worker thing was in jest! Since starting nursing school, I sometimes daydream of having a job that requires no thought processes, no...

  3. I overslept on clinical day!!!

    CountrifiedRN replied to dianacs's topic in General Students

    Diana, I know how you are feeling! The same thing happened to me on our first clinical day of the summer semester, and I had an instructor that I had never even met before that day. Even though our...

  4. Practical jokes at work

    CountrifiedRN replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

    This happened to a nurse I worked with when I was a CNA. One of the nurses on the floor had gotten a male blow-up doll as a gag gift for a bachelorette party, and brought it in to show everyone. There...

  5. Dropout rates?

    CountrifiedRN replied to dianacs's topic in General Students

    My class started in the fall (2001) with 80 students. Starting back to spring semester in January we had about 60 students, but that included about 7 students who had dropped at that point in the...

  6. bacterial meningitis

    CountrifiedRN replied to essarge's topic in General Students

    Thank you for the reminder, essarge! You can never be too

  7. Nutrition courses in nursing school

    CountrifiedRN replied to Squirrel's topic in General Students

    I'm in an ADN program, and while nutrition was not a separate class, it was a separate unit that we had class time for during the first semester. Our book was "Nutrition and Diet Therapy", but we...

  8. Do NLN exams really indicate how well one does on boards?

    CountrifiedRN posted a topic in General Students

    Our class took the NLN exam about a month ago, and just got the grades back. Our instructors said that the exam is an indicator of how well we will do on boards. (We still have over a year to go) They...

  9. Funny Names for Nurses

    CountrifiedRN replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    When I lived in California, my dentist was Dr Au (pronounced Dr Ow!) It was