SandyB

SandyB

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  1. It was years ago but in nursing school, when we had breaks, I walked around campus rather than eat a snack. I remember being pretty happy cuz I did lose a few pounds and didn't gain even though I did...
  2. Make quick friends with someone working their and offer cash for their couch? Then look for a room after you get
  3. To 'relocate' just find a room to rent from someone renting out a room in their home. Check gov jobs (counties/cities, jail/prision/mental hospitals/Fed). Look at the ickier areas of CA if you want to...
  4. opinions on in-services

    Colorful Power Points hold my
  5. Update: An instructor who went Wed and did the med pass said "never again" it wasn't safe, they didn't get lunch and it took 3 1/2 hrs for the 0900 med pass...the staff nurses did not jump in to help....
  6. I expect to have 5 students passing meds the entire day at a SNF in sub-acute. We get the whole med cart to ourselves. Basically I am thinking I'm fully responsible for every patient, who of course I...
  7. Hopefully my director will see it that way. I know I do! Overall so far I love teaching...this is the first time in 6 months where I had to make a decision like this....most my previous nursing...
  8. Purplemania, I have done up to 8...4 students doing 2 pts each. We didn't manage perfectly within the acute time frame but it was close enough that no one was upset with us. 17 for the whole day with...
  9. New grad ICU job offer: Please advise

    Are they asking you to sign a contract? for how long? how much $ to "run away" if it
  10. LPN's who can't pass NCLEX-RN??

    I and a number of others I know did LVN to RN and had no problems passing. Even Excelsior grads among a few I know did fine. Get the NCLEX-RN when you have time and then study it before you take the...
  11. Inland Empire So Cal: new grad to ICU?

    Riverside Community takes new grads to ICU and so does Loma Linda..or at least they did a couple of years
  12. What can I do with my BSN that Assoc. RN's can't?

    In California with a BSN I can teach clinicals in the community colleges LVN or ADN and in the vocational schools I can teach everything... school nursing (awesome hours and time off :) Public...
  13. Psych nurses, ?for you

    Sounds like you did the safest thing you could for the patient and the
  14. Are u extremely organized and meticulous?

    Wow! Great thread! I think I'm normal. I am sure I will never be truly organized at home, I'm old enough to have just accepted "good enough". Work is a whole different place
  15. HELP in So. California

    ck out http://www.mapquest.com for maps and driving directions. ck out http://www.abc7.com and click on traffic and also http://www.nbc4.tv look at different times of day for how bad the traffic is......
  16. quit job or stay

    Well if working w/him would be that bad, your sanity is worth more than any job....Good luck with your
  17. quit job or stay

    Do you know that this doc is still a problem? if it has been awhile since you worked with him, maybe he has changed...before you quit, at least know he is still someone you can't
  18. Just don't teach acute care....in my BSN program I had more than one school nurse teach community health courses. So go for
  19. Nurseweek subscription??

    Well in California if I know your name, I can get your license number at the BRN web site. It seemed freaky at first(when a co-worker with the same last name and same first intial found mine when she...
  20. advise from cali nurses needed

    In the BRN Report (like a newletter) they send out, they mentioned staff cutbacks due to budget cuts. Maybe that explains the delay! Good
  21. Thought I would like nursing...now I don't know

    I also hated clinicals and had good grades. I knew from the clinicals I would hate working med/surg or long term care. Worked psych and forced myself into tele for medical experience (picked tele cuz...
  22. Has anyone tried Tamiflu or Relenza?
  23. skunks on night shift?

    Actually skunk at a distance smells ok, but up really really close I discovered my tummy just turned right over all on its own! Skunks in the garage aren't much
  24. pct debate

    I worked as an N.A. in southern Calif and saw N.A.'s who were trained passing meds in ALF's....this was a few years ago but I doubt if anything has changed...I can't imagine a hospital having trained...
  25. Do you have to be "super smart" to be a nurse?

    Good study skills and test taking ability to get thru school. Caring, compassion and good coping skills to name a few, once you are out of school and