Need2Wings

Systems monitor- fancy name for computer troubleshooting in a retail setting! Best no stress job ever.

I spray mine with either theives or purification oil to kill anything that might be creepin! Sometimes I use a bleach wipe or damp paper towel for a quick clean up but my shoes are black (danskos). Never considered putting them in the washer.

Too funny!! We had a particularly colorful lady whom we were always redirecting away from the door! On this day I was bringing her back down our hall and she was cursing at me. She said "you are a whore!" Of course one of our male residents was com...

Great idea for a thread! Thank you for starting it, really enjoying reading them! I have 2 teenage girls! Just got the oldest off to prom tonight, boy does time fly-she sure is beautiful and even though I'm a nurse I have no idea how that happened. ...

All great posts really, **it does roll downhill and I currently work in one of these toxic environments. Where do I begin? At the top we have so much unprofessionalism, gossip, backstabbing.. One of my co-workers told me that just last week the Admin...

Not only do I learn new things or find clarification on this site but sometimes when the day has been long and rough there is a post that exactly describes how I feel--now I have validated my feelings and probably also found something to laugh about....

We have to get a second signature on any sliding scale insulin but are not required to do so for Lantus. Of course its to reduce errors but its a necessary evil and I am glad the nurse I normally have to track down checks mine just as I check hers.(...

Thank you for posting this, the song is familiar to me as well... I also work LTC/rehab. I thought of a few extra things we are responsible for but the only thing that now comes to mind is checking O2 tanks q 2 hrs with documentation of such. There a...

Plagueis, I too am a new LPN and feel your pain, I was just started a LTC job not quite 2 months ago, all of what you detailed I am seeing also.. Perhaps we work at the same facility. LOL. About Borrowing meds, recently this came to a not so nice FR...

I sure am glad that our facility schedules us with a half hour overlap.. so no one is volunteering time to come in just to get report. Of course it's my first job but I like that I come in,punch in on time and then get report, count narcs.. We are n...

Our school uses the ATI Programs but we get a book with each course. I have found them to be helpful. However if your school doesnt provide them with the courses not sure how you could get them. ATI has practice tests on their website for all the ...

WOW, absolutely wonderfully written and well researched, thank you for sharing it. This was my family just over a year ago with my oldest brother, I thought he had a DNR already, however he ended up in ER, coded and was down for an unknown amount o...

Hostess of Dirty Jobs or The barn manager at dhyser96's camp

You know your a nursing student when your rolling backpacks wheels break in the second week of classes.

Dshonelove you have the strength and courage to keep going it took those things to begin this journey. You have already taken the steps. I commend you for not letting your challenges deter you from entering the program, when your heart is set on it, ...

Keep at it, it takes time but you will make it.. I start in March after working on pre-reqs for 3 years (part time) and now have to leave my full time job and change my entire way of life. It will all work out somehow( I hope)) lol Good luck to a...

I have a question about responses from an ICU patient. Let me start out by saying that I am a pre-nursing student and this is a personal question. I am not asking for medical advice just some possibilities. My brother is a pt in an ICU unit, he was...

Morning to all, thanks for the additional support and information. We continue to talk to and touch him as much as we can. He is not sedated at all, he's in a vegetative state. They tried the feeding tube but it appears he's not tolerating it, so ...

Thank you all for your responses, your well wishes mean a lot to me and my family. We are hopeful but trying to be realistic at the same time. Initially it was very difficult to talk to him, its getting a little bit easier. We just arrived here th...

If you can get to a store where you can try as many as possible. I ordered the Littman Select, which one of my fellow students had that I tried out, I can hear well with it but not a darn thing with the adscope that the ex bf's mom gave me. go figur...

For the student nurses: Your children ask why they have to be your victims and even the dog hides when you get the stethoscope out.

I get a lot of my text books at Amazon.com. saved a ton of money that way.. good luck

I'd avoid Michigan entirely, not just Detroit, our economy is in the bedpan, unemployment is rampant,housing prices aren't great, taxes are high, lots of nursing jobs though. However we do have The Most beautiful Big Lakes (partial to Lake Michigan m...

true for me

Hi Emily. I too struggled with math, especially algebra..:trout: who ever thought of putting numbers and letters together ?? lol Anyway, perhaps you could so some math review online and warm yourself up for a math class. I think one of the sites I ...