elliejayRN

Yes, I have an associate degree in legal secretarial science, many of my credits from this degree actually transferred to prereqs to help with my nursing degree. I've meet other nurses with degress, and they just did one year for a BSN. I made the ...

Sweetheart, excuse me, that's thick skin...Grin smile a lot and never tell anyone what you really think, if they don't have a suggestion box, mums the word!

If you asked before starting LVN school, I would have told you to go for RN!!! I remember taking the NCLEX with as a GN sitting in the room with GVN thinking how fortuante, I will never have to sit through this again and they will have to do it agai...

Medication for pain good, pain bad!!!-perhaps you could write this somewhere. Get the families involved and let them complain to management, customer service is key!!

I passed in 75 questions under two hours, I still had anxiety, because I thought I failed and the computer just got frustrated and kicked me out. Trust me though, nothing compares to anxiety you feel after you've passed the test and the tremendous r...

Yes, that sounds like your organization, as mine we all get a pretty heavy load. What gets me is certain nurses routinely get all there work done. They're surfing the net, reading the newspaper and I don't know how in the world they get it all done...

I'm a new nurse with AD/HD. I began working as an RN and judged harshly on my inablility to get the paperwork done quickly. If you have AD/HD what ways have you used to get your assessments charted, notes charted-before the end of your shift, still ...

StacieRN, you certainly put him in his place! With all that knowledge though, offering assistance if pt. is struggling or comforting anxiety perhaps could have squashed this incident all together! Caring profession?..... Anyway, what do I know, I'...

I just finished in May with my ASN/ADN and I'm still kicking myself. It's taken me a longtime too (2003-2007) and I had a previous degree. My suggesstion, do all you prereqs. on the com. college level and transfer over to the BSN. My BSN bound friend...

caring for people is a big part you didn't mention? what do you think? go for it if its in your heart to do. Depending on where you work, you might not sit down for 8-12 hours, except for breaks-that you must make yourself take! :thnkg:

My experience has been the more educated the quicker the stereotype where you're banished without a hope and prayer for being seen as a person. Institutional racism insure that utopia of multicultural society never exists. Unlike the small town poste...

Beck really seemed to be most unhappy with the 250-300 male nurse. I'm frankly as surprised as he that he was treated in that manner. He expressed concern about breathing and was anxious; he was ignored. He was angry about his mistreatment and u...

cool, what kind of nursing did you want to do?:icon_hug:

It's just that it pretty much lumped all black people as being poor as Koolaid is a matter of economics, not really actually being a preference over more nutrional drinks. Understand, basically a negative racial stereotype. Simply, the statement is...

Oh, that same chart is hanging prominently in the nutrition office in one of the major hospitals in northern va area. When I saw it for the first time, I just dismissed the entire chart. I figured if they couldn't get that right about a people who ha...

. multiculturalism-(http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=multiculturalism) there are countless people from different cultures arriving in this country all the time. my gosh, the many languages and then dialects of those languages. ...

Leaving I can't get in!!! I'm so addicted to the smiles, and the thrill of seeing people get better and I helped!! I could do without the political mumble jumble though. For those who will not get better, I enjoy being a bright portion of their da...

I used Kaplan I thought it was the most like the NCLEX. Many of my classmates didn't and they didn't do so well, including those 4.0's. Oh, you will be using the decision tree during the NCLEX, so don't hate too much.

Don't correct your assistant nursing manager! Just bite that tongue off if you have too, let someone more seasoned correct her. There is nothing like a PO ANM!:angryfire Oh, she's shoving a foley catheter in an old guy's urethra, he's screaming and b...

Yes, it happens to the best of us. Everyone has been there and done that if they say they haven't their a bold faced liar or incompetent and don't know when their giving wrong meds. I applaud the way you handled it, you put the pt. safety first KUD...

Yes, I couldn't go to sleep unless I did.

I'm a new nurse and I've only worked long term in a hospital for nearly 10 years in which they were constantly fighting off the union. Great healthcare system, nurses are really spoiled, then I applied at a union hospital and what they were selling ...

I wish you well in attaining your goals. We have our way, however, God will always his way. :pumpiron: Good luck.

Monster.com and some of the nursing magazines are really great resources too. Check in the nursing administrative offices, nursing labs, medical library, etc., for these magazine freebies with plenty of job potential for new grads.

Night shifts are tough, they aren't for everyone! Whatever you do make sure the job you jump into next is actually better for you. Don't jump from the frying pan into the fire. For me, I love night shifts simply because min. politics and other behavi...