running_nurse

My undergrad GPA was not spectacular. It wasn't awful, but in retrospect, I could have done better. I think anxiety about my grades kept me from going back for my MSN earlier. After 5 years of working as an RN, I did pretty decent on the GRE and a...

I went on a medical mission in Guatemala last summer. The group was Refuge International. I was a PNP student at the time, and our school took NP students as well as SRNAs. Most of us worked in the outpatient clinic (saw about 100 patients a day) ...

I had a few C's in undergrad. I actually didn't pass anatomy and ended up fulfilling the requirement at the community college. When I applied to NP school (the same school where I went to undergrad), they actually had me take the required pathophys...

Yup, what Shannon said too....I worked at Metro for 3 years, and it was awesome.

If you live on the West Side, I would skip Hillcrest altogether. You can get the same experience at Fairview or Lakewood. It's a pain to get to Hillcrest from the West Side, and the intersection of Mayfield/SOM Center is a logistical nightmare. Mai...

I work in Peds and we don't have many PD patients. HOWEVER. When we a PD patient in the hospital (usually a new PD patient), we come in and do the set up and take down. Not sure what system they are using, but the PD machine should measure the Is/...

Hi Everyone. I just wanted to get other people's views on something. I graduated from nursing school 5 years ago and like almost everyone (including my mother now...) I have a Facebook page. It is kept on full privacy settings, etc. Now...the hos...

Oh yes. One of my closest friends is a HS english teacher. She had Facebook for maybe a week and deleted it entirely. Even with privacy settings she hated that her students would find her and send her a friend request. I'm a clinical instructor a...

I had one particular day from #&!@ in which a "veteran" nurse chewed me out. In front of my coworkers AND the patients. I had walked into a mess, both of my patients needed CT scans, I needed to accompany them (ventric), and to top it off I go...

Nice work to those of you starting out...keep it up:up:

See my username? I run anywhere from 25-45 miles a week...currently in training for the Chicago Marathon. I loooove running. Most coworkers just think I'm crazy.

I worked in the PICU @ Metro Health Medical Center in Cleveland right out of school. I also know someone who worked in PICU @ The Cleveland Clinic right out of school as well.

Nurses don't sleep at night. Required to stay awake on the night shift. Docs get call rooms and sleep when they can. Just a helpful piece of info.

I have suffered with canker sores since my childhood, generally a handful of times/year. I recently started a new job in March, and by April my mouth was FULL of cankers - and they all clustered together to make one BIG canker. Generally, my cankers ...

um..........NO

While I find ALL of this ridiculous, the thing that got me FUMING MAD was the MASSAGES?!?!?!?!??!?! Are you kidding me? If I had been told that while working in the hospital I would have to MASSAGE MY PATIENTS, I would have stood up, probably said a ...

I worked at a hospital last summer that unveiled the "new trendy patient friendly gowns" last summer. Seriously, you would have thought a celebrity was coming, it was such an event. Whlie they promoted patient "modesty" they were the WORST THINGS EV...

I live downtown and LOVE it!!!!!!!!!!!!! then i just realized you said suburbs :) all the above mentioned were good. Lakewood is great, I lived in the Coventry area after school and found that to be great as well.

I'm a nurse in Cleveland and only did my clinicals at UH, but I do believe the nurses are paid salary, not hourly. Somehow they figure out shift diff and everything in. I think only their ED is paid by the hour. I'm not quite sure off hand what th...

You'll be fine. In my teenage years when I knew I wanted to be a nurse, I watched them draw blood when I had mono - almost passed out. I had my tonsils out and watched them put the IV in - almost passed out. As far as others....well, at my very f...

Since most of my friends from college not nurses or are currently not practicing b/c they are raising families...I just wanted to say I freaking loooooooove my HH job!! Since my tiresome nightshifts in PICU and neverending Evenings in PACU I can't ...

I haven't exactly failed a semester but during my 2nd year there were a group of us who didn't pass anatomy 1st semester (passing is C or above). The 6 of us were told we would not be able to take our 2nd semester med-surg class (which would basicall...

In PICU we ALWAYS returned our blood unless it started to clot. If you have a 8kg baby who is getting multible labs q 4 hours and it's only access is A-line/Central line, we still needed to draw at least a 5cc waste. 5ccx6 times a day is A LOT of b...

from my perspective, i think it's pretty good. im an "internal" HH employee and i work as an RN clinical supervisor. when i was part time i was paid well with no reimbursement for gas/mileage. now i am full-time/salary and get on 10cents/mile but a $...

I agree with what you did as well. Although, in my old job we were told differently. In the PACU family members would drop like flies (although they INSISTED on coming in as soon as the surgery was done....haha), we were told only to offer them a c...