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ruby, best wishes for a speedy recovery. i so enjoy reading your posts. if you need to talk, feel free to pm me as well.

If you will pm me, I will be glad to answer your questions. Been at this for two years now. J

I love these questions. So here goes---Textile (sewing mill), vet's office, plastics, carpet,chicken, library, hospital. J

Never tasted the saline, but you better know that when I was taking chemo, as soon as the drug hit the vein, I had this horrible taste that was like diesel exhaust.

I don't know if you would count me as inactive, but I have been away from critical care for the last two years (still nursing, but doing something else) and I wonder if I actually need to go back for a refresher myself.

Well,I willprobably get flamed for this, but it has been my observation as a female nurse that when the more guys on the floor for whatever reason has a positive effect on the mood of the whole group. I don't know if it is because I have been fortunate enough to work with some really great male nurses or if just having a little testosterone around settles things down. Good luck in school. JLowe

I am so glad that I saw this post. I have also wanted to thank all nurses who go into hospice. I lost my dad March 21 after a short bout of CHF. We only had hospice for a week before he passed, but they were such a great help to us.

You forgot to mention the stinky foot cheese (can't remember the name). Seriously, though, I just lost my dad last month (we had hospice). Now, I'm a nurse myself, but his hospice nurse told us that families were afraid to give the medication for fear of "overdosing them." Heck, I wanted my daddy to be comfortable. God bless the hospice nurse. We couldn't have gotten through it without you!

Didn't see if anyone answered this. But, actually you have to return the paperwork in 15 days.

Boring? Sometimes. Coming from your background, it all depends on what shift you will be working, and what all you are required to do. Day shift is usually the busiest by far (at my plant, they are the neediest, it seems like) also, if you are handling worker's comp cases that's when you have to talk to your adjusters, etc. Here someone is always coming in during the day. My plant is the only one company wide that has a nurse on all three shifts, so its a little different. I guess its just like anything else; it's not for everyone. It just depends on what all your job will entail.

I was fired because of someone else, and it has been ultra difficult to get another job. I have kind of kicked around since then, left hospital nursing (which I truly love) completely at this point. No one will even talk to you about a job. I have to say that I am still very hurt and bitter, because the person who got me fired was supposed to be a friend.

107 in a MS pt with a fistula

I relay as a survivor, too.

JLowe here from Cartersville, GA; working in Ft. Oglethorpe, GA; Been nursing for 3 years. My background is ER, ICU and HH

Not an educator yet, but when I was in nursing school, our instructors were required to work in the clinical environment at least prn to maintain their skills;