deidrasue

deidrasue has 22 years experience and specializes in psych -22 yrs, med-surg and a little OB.

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1. As a nurse, would you go on for an MD?

   deidrasue replied to PopeJane3rd's topic in General Nursing

   What a question......... woulda, coulda, shoulda.......LOL I've wished a million times that growing up, someone would have told me I COULD be a doctor - but I didn't know it. My mother said - you're a girl, you can play the flute or the clarinet.......

2. Is the pay really that bad??

   deidrasue replied to myty23's topic in General Nursing

   Man oh, man, Life's too short. Are they going to fire you? Bet not. Get centered again. Find yourself, take lots of deep breaths. If you can, walk. Walk even 5 minutes at a time - leave - get a break - deep breathe - it'll help - it will make you ...

3. Is the pay really that bad??

   deidrasue replied to myty23's topic in General Nursing

   Are you in Oklahoma? Sucks working for the state as far as our budget cuts..... to top our problems, everyone is retiring and people who are in charge don't know anything except rules and regs.......... they have no idea how to manage the PEOPLE. Ou...

4. Is the pay really that bad??

   deidrasue replied to myty23's topic in General Nursing

   No. The pay isn't that bad. When I found myself a single mother of 4, the youngest of whom was 6 months old, back to school I went to learn how to support myself and my children. Nursing was what I wanted to do as a very small child and went to a 3 y...

5. should ok require nurses to have CEU's

   deidrasue replied to smcknight's topic in Oklahoma

   I would vote an unqualified yes. Here we are struggling for respect and recognition as a profession but we don't, as a profession, require continued growth in our members? Since I work in a state psych facility it's really "in my face". All other p...

6. Difference Between a New Nurse and an Old Nurse

   deidrasue replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Humor

   Very, very funny - and often true!!! I will never forget when I was a brand new, fresh nurse and a more Experienced nurse told me "help when it helps - otherwise - let the patient help themselves!" Makes perfect sense to this day. If my patient is...

7. confused psychiatic nurse

   deidrasue replied to nya2000RN's topic in Psychiatric

   Hi kiddo, Follow your heart and it will be ok. There are too many opportunities in psych to put it off - and if you decide later you want to go into another field - hospitals and other sites will train you just as they would a new grad. I'm pretty ...

8. Would you want your children to go into nursing?

   deidrasue replied to 2rntish's topic in General Nursing

   you know, i've always said i would not encourage nursing as a choice of vocations for my children. but i have to revise that. my dil who has a psych degree is headed to lpn school and i'm very proud of what she's doing - didn't think i would be. howe...

9. WHAT DO NURSES DO? --help me respond to this question

   deidrasue replied to RiaRN's topic in General Nursing

   Amen! But it sounds more like a teacher - someone who's never been in the trenches - or has been out so long they don't remember. Honestly, I do think this NM is trying to educate the doctors after one of them made an off-hand remark about "well, wha...