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  1. Are There Jobs for Inexperienced RNs Besides Floor Nursing?

    harleyridingirl replied to jack1971's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Look for a small endoscopy clinic. I did pre-op, post-op and loved it. You learn to start iv's, consents, put monitoring and charting. It can be fast paced but smaller clinics are more

  2. Interview issues

    harleyridingirl replied to amiss5572's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Google interview questions and answers for nurses and then practice, practice, practice so you don't have to think about it and it just flows. I found some great answers to those questions like where...

  3. Which Master's Degree?

    harleyridingirl replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    My tuition for a Masters in Nursing Leadership and Management is $3300 a semester but all reading material is included. You might think about that since you only get that much a year in reimbursement....

  4. Feeling like you're complicit in the addiction problem...

    harleyridingirl replied to ScientistSalarian's topic in General Nursing

    I have had 14 surgeries, 3 of which were back surgeries where the pain was so bad beforehand that I wanted to die. I find right after surgery I require a lot of pain meds but after about 3 days I can...

  5. What a Tobacco Treatment Course Taught Me About Opioid Abuse

    harleyridingirl replied to Issaiah1332's topic in General Nursing

    I agree this is a physiological and a genetic issue. I have been on opioids for months at a time due to 3 back surgeries (all before becoming a nurse) and I have no trouble getting right off the meds....

  6. What a Tobacco Treatment Course Taught Me About Opioid Abuse

    harleyridingirl replied to Issaiah1332's topic in General Nursing

    I agree completely. We gave these people the medications knowing they were addictive and now we are just stopping them? What do we do with the people who are still seriously in pain? When I had...

  7. RN For 2 Years: Can't Find My Place

    harleyridingirl replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I am in the same boat. I got my ADN 6 years ago. Went in to home health. Got my BSN. Then did adolescent psyche. Then changed to Endoscopy at a small clinic. I am just not very good at IVs. Then I...

  8. Required By Work to Get BSN - Don't Want to Write Endless Papers

    harleyridingirl replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I am doing my MSN at WGU in Nsg leadership & Mgt right now. I am over half way thru. It is mostly papers. A few classes have tests and some have field assignments. You get a student mentor that...

  9. Is it ever okay to follow up with a patient you've cared for outside of work?

    harleyridingirl replied to Momma1RN's topic in General Nursing

    As a home health nurse you are in the client's home and become family some times. The relationship can become strong, especially when you care for them for months. I have called to say hello after the...

  10. working nurses that started late in life

    harleyridingirl replied to momt5's topic in General Nursing

    I became a RN at 51. I am not in great shape as some have said we need to be. I'm doing just fine. I started with an ADN in 2009, my BSN in 2013 and am now halfway thru my MSN. It's doable but you...

  11. The film: Vaxxed.

    harleyridingirl replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    I wish they had had the chicken pox vaccine when I was a child. They are miserable. I can still remember it. Plus, now after seeing friends with Shingles, I paid for my own Shingles vaccine before the...

  12. The film: Vaxxed.

    harleyridingirl replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    I have a friend that had Polio as a child and her leg has never been right. The older she gets, the worse it gets. It causes her pain every day and she has had multiple surgeries to correct the...

  13. Required By Work to Get BSN - Don't Want to Write Endless Papers

    harleyridingirl replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I could have written this exact post. Going to UTA was great but hard and I agree about the group projects. I quickly learned to take the lead because the one project I didn't was mediocre at best....

  14. Required By Work to Get BSN - Don't Want to Write Endless Papers

    harleyridingirl replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I am an older student and got my BSN from University of Texas at Arlington. It was all online. It was not just papers. I already had my ADN so I had to take English, Algebra, Fine Art (Humanities),...

  15. How to NOT interview for your RN/LPN job!

    harleyridingirl replied to musicianRN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Evidently you are not a professional and have never interviewed anyone for a position. As professionals, we need to look and act the part. In an interview you are up against many other applicants and...

  16. Have you ever worked with someone who had such a nasty attitude that it was almost hostile

    harleyridingirl replied to 1Jessie86's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Exactly. RN's used to command respect from every one they worked with. It is not like that any more. And why are women so ugly to each other? Shouldn't we have each other's backs? I know there is...

  17. Have you ever worked with someone who had such a nasty attitude that it was almost hostile

    harleyridingirl replied to 1Jessie86's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was brand new on a job and had one fellow nurse that had everyone fooled. She would smile and hug fellow employees and then turn around and say the nastiest things about them and me. I tried...

  18. Is nursing school REALLY that hard?

    harleyridingirl replied to Courtney M's topic in General Students

    It's the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I tried an ADN program at 18 and didn't make it. Tried again at 50 and was one of only 7 out of original 30 that graduated without failing a class....

  19. My interview at a Hospital with the lions

    harleyridingirl replied to garn12's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    As a relatively new nurse you already feel insecure because you don't know everything, haven't seen everything and even though you feel you can handle your job since you have learned o much since...

  20. Is your Hospital requiring a copy of your diploma or transcripts?

    harleyridingirl replied to floridaboundrn's topic in General Nursing

    My new employer asked for proof of graduation and a photo of my diploma was enough. I got my ADN 3 years ago and my BSN last

  21. I got my first job!!! But I am worried...

    harleyridingirl replied to Bunny99's topic in Home Health

    In Texas we get paid by the visit, depending what type of visit it is. I made $30,000 in 6 months but I put 10,000 miles on my car. I had to pay for gas, my own phone, my computer and paper to fill...

  22. 57 and need to start over YET AGAIN!

    harleyridingirl replied to Bailey246's topic in Nursing Career

    I don't know so much that its ageism. I got my ADN at age 53 and just completed my BSN at 55. With both degrees, I got the first job I was interviewed for. Trying to get my first nursing job was the...

  23. experienced nurse with anxiety on the job

    harleyridingirl replied to SFDRN's topic in General Nursing

    Doing IV's on the elderly can be tough with their tiny veins and no muscle or fat to hold them still. I too have that "OH NO" feeling and I'm an endoscopy nurse. You have to just grit your teeth and...

  24. do employers look down upon those who earned their bsn online?

    harleyridingirl replied to mee9mee9's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Write your state senators. The state of Texas has passed a bill to give nursing schools money to help expand their programs so that more nurses will be educated and graduate. I wrote mine (school...

  25. do employers look down upon those who earned their bsn online?

    harleyridingirl replied to mee9mee9's topic in Online Distance Learning

    UT Arlington is University of Texas, a well known university. The RN-BSN program is for those who are already nurses who want their BSN's. There are no clinicals since you are already a nurse. There...