Gator,SN

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  1. first of all, RELAX!!!!!!! Everyone I know who had 75 questions, including me, passed on the first try! Try to stay busy its helps to pass the time. The bottom line is, even if you failed, you can...
  2. Congratulations Cindy! I am very happy for you! Hopefully all the negativity of the past will be just a bad memory as you start this new year and your new job! Keep your chin up and show these new...
  3. Hi I'm new!

    Hi Nickel and Welcome!!!!!! Happy New
  4. Tell me I'll get over needle fear

    I did have a fake arm in school to practice on, but believe me that it is not the same thing as a live person...at all! Please believe me you will get past this fear you have, though it will take some...
  5. Made to look like an idiot. (rant)

    Marcus, I just wanted to let you know that I went to my local ER about 2 years ago with the worst abdominal pain that I have ever experienced and I was sure that I was going to die. I couldn't cough,...
  6. WARNING!! Discretionary subject matter!

    I don't know anything about what goes on in LTC, but when I was in school and finishing my psych rotation, I was assigned to a lady that I was told to "keep an eye on"....this pt had earned the right,...
  7. Central Lines: saline or heparin?

    Where I work, we use heparin to flush a central line. Some nurses use saline first, then heparin, some skip the saline. I've been told to use heaprin to avoid the possibility of a clot. We have...
  8. :( sad and in need of advice

    I am also sorry to hear about your precious little one. My prayers are with you and your family at this time. I have had 2 patients in the last 6 months that had 'BOOP' and the only thing that helped...
  9. Why there is a debate re: ADN/BSN

    oh...nevermind, I see the troll was already banned! my bad.....
  10. Why there is a debate re: ADN/BSN

    I currently have a BSc in Liberal Arts and will be starting an RN-BSN program next fall.(posted by Berkeley) your reply sounds very much like what I came to know of nursing school instructors. The...
  11. Emphasis on caring or personal gain?

    This post sounds very familiar.......... Nurses behaving badly,......complaining about salaries,.....the old doctor vs. Nurse line of BS............nurses being 'ungrateful' because "at least they...
  12. A graduate nurse..........

    LOL, I've read this before, but still think it's funny ......and true!!!
  13. Is it too late to become a nurse?

    Alexbor, You are not too young to get into nursing! The average age in my class was 30! If this is what you really want, then I wish you the best of luck! Gator CONGRATS on the new baby
  14. New to the forum

    WELCOME to the BB and Good
  15. A long lost "Nurse" poem from long ago....

    Very Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! send it, send
  16. all the latest tricks to keep nurses.

    Alan, Help me out here, why isin't this true?? Are you saying this because employers promise ER and then float people to other floors? I am a new grad and I was hired and signed a contract. I have...
  17. nasty patients who whine too much

    ((((HUGS))))) Nadia! They say the first year is the hardest......I think thats right. Some days seem to go on for an eternity. You handled the patient well and as long as you are doing your best, the...
  18. tomato/tomahto?

    Good question. I've heard both too and thought that the person speaking had mis Mediaounced the words. I also hear orthopod, when talking about an orthopeadic surgeon. ??
  19. Tests during Orientation???

    I had to take a pharmacology test and it was horrrrrrible! Drugs I'd never heard of, calculations that seemed impossible! I passed it, though I don't know how! After the test, I could pass meds on...
  20. Required Math test for Nursing program

    Looks like every nursing school has the same requirements... Mine was 1 test, 90% or better or you were placed on remediation and had to go the tutoring sessions. If you failed again, you were out. I...
  21. Nursing, God's Work

    Thank you
  22. How Do You Manage To Clock Out On Time?

    I don't usually clock out "on time" but lucky for me, they pay by the quarter hour so that if I leave at 7:29 instead of 7:15, I still get paid until 7:15. If I am there until 7:30, my manager puts a...
  23. "The View" insults nursing

    Disgusting!
  24. "The View" insults nursing

    :rotfl:
  25. "The View" insults nursing

    oh, everyone knows the only reason to become a nurse is to marry a doctor!