emmy27

emmy27

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  1. 58 years old - Am I too old to start nursing school??

    emmy27 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Honestly, nursing school is incredibly stressful and draining, and being a new grad even more so- assuming you could find a new grad program willing to hire someone in their sixties, which is,...

  2. Can i still get a job with an ADN??

    emmy27 replied to Sparky231's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, and I know that people call them "two year" and "four year" degrees, but that's very misleading- while actually ADN-program studies typically take 5 semesters, they also typically require several...

  3. Can i still get a job with an ADN??

    emmy27 replied to Sparky231's topic in General Nursing

    This varies so much from area to area, and it's also in flux at the moment. When I graduated with my ADN six years ago, there were still many ADN and even LPN hospital jobs in the southeast, but that...

  4. Assigned to TWO units simultaneously, anyone else?

    emmy27 replied to Sol6's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This sounds crazy. I mean I'm sure it's typically fine, but it has the potential to go so bad, so fast. How/why are they keeping an ER which typically sees 0-2 patients/day open? And how can they...

  5. hiv and infections

    emmy27 replied to Toadd35's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    If you are this frightened of simply being present around blood from an HIV+ patient, you either need to educate yourself or get out of bedside care. 1. HIV is not extremely virulent- even if you'd...

  6. ER wait times

    emmy27 replied to kp1987's topic in Emergency

    It used to kill me when we'd have people come in through the front door with obvious serious emergencies (GSW, old ladies with full-blown stroke symptoms, etc) and be taken straight back past the...

  7. From the files of "You can't make this up".

    emmy27 replied to casias12's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Patient found down on floor at home, family swears up and down that the 911 operator "told them" to put patient in the tub and pour ice on top while they waited for EMS, *not* start CPR. ... I take...

  8. Do you get hit/spit on? Does body fluids splash on you?

    emmy27 replied to KatFUTUREnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Swearing, spitting, choking: ER nurses endure this and more - NBC News In a study in 2010-2011, more than half of ER nurses reported having encountered verbal abuse in the last week, and more than 10%...

  9. why do so many nurses post that they love the med scanners

    emmy27 replied to the nites's topic in General Nursing

    There we have it, folks: the majority of AN posters are shills for Big Scanner. I knew we'd be caught out sooner or later. Yeah, sometimes they don't work right (although slow has never been an issue-...

  10. BA in unrelated field first a bad idea?

    emmy27 replied to haileyp's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Non-nursing courses may well make you a more well-rounded person, but nope, a non-nursing BA won't do a thing for your career prospects in nursing. At best it'll let you get in to an (even more...

  11. Some Days I Can't Stop Crying

    emmy27 replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in Emergency

    This hit me so hard. I clicked over to the specialty forum to post about feeling like I've reached compassion burnout and I hate who I am and how I feel at work so much of the time. I still love...

  12. Nurses with pedometers - How far do you walk?

    emmy27 replied to ixchel's topic in Health, Stress Management

    At my last hospital, where we did a lot of our own transports, I often got 15000 steps a shift. At my new ER with better layout and techs, I'm usually ~8-10K. Weirdly, I get a lot even in triage- I...

  13. Fall risk assessment and transgender pts?

    emmy27 replied to StayOrthostatic's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    It was "just a question" that has some disturbing implications about both your grasp of evidence-based practice and your understanding of good assessment and documentation practices as well as...

  14. Realized floor nursing isn't for me, anything else i can do with a bsn?

    emmy27 replied to enchantedlife's topic in General Students

    Getting at least a year (and ideally a couple of years) of bedside acute care will give you more flexibility in the future, but it isn't mandatory, especially if you really don't want to work in a...

  15. What advice would you give your 19 year old self?

    emmy27 replied to depalma.amada's topic in General Nursing

    I would tell my 19-year-old self: Don't worry about this boy, or the one after that, or the one after that. Don't worry so much about boys in general. Relationships that feel like exhausting work 99%...

  16. You are NOT allergic to...

    emmy27 replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think a lot of the goofier "allergies" come from it either being impossible or difficult to distinguish between "allergies" and "adverse reactions" in many EMR systems, and from a healthy dose of...

  17. Question for those who have finished - prorated tuition?

    emmy27 replied to klone's topic in Western Governors University

    It's prorated the way TheCommuter described. Doesn't matter how long you take- you can still take the whole semester to finish those final credits if you like, and hurrying doesn't cut the cost any....

  18. Fall risk assessment and transgender pts?

    emmy27 replied to StayOrthostatic's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Since I highly doubt this fall risk model has been validated using a statistically significant number of trans patients, from a legal/ethical standpoint I would mark their score according to whatever...

  19. Why are the floor nurses so unwilling to teach?

    emmy27 replied to 2bnursebeckky's topic in General Students

    You poor thing. I would have died if that happened to me as a student- I already felt so bad about sticking people at first! But... it happens. I promise you, a family member who would flip out about...

  20. Why are the floor nurses so unwilling to teach?

    emmy27 replied to 2bnursebeckky's topic in General Students

    I loved having a student in the ER, but a. those students were usually in their final semester and already reasonably competent at basic tasks, and b. their clinical instructors were also staff on our...

  21. Night Shifts?

    emmy27 replied to MeredithAnne's topic in General Students

    This is common but not universal. More people want to work days on most units, so generally as day shift positions open up, they're taken by night shifters who want to go to days, and new hires- new...

  22. Give me the good and bad of Chamberlain

    emmy27 replied to YoAdrienne216's topic in Chamberlain College

    At WGU you start each six-month semester with a 12-credit course load that you and your mentor decide on ahead of time. Generally they open one class at a time and encourage you to complete one at a...

  23. how to leave a job...gracefully

    emmy27 replied to eternalbride's topic in General Nursing

    1. Be 100% certain that the other job is formally offered and accept it. 2. Write a letter to give to the DoN/HR/your supervisor if there's one between you and the DoN- google "resignation letters"...

  24. Pts handpicking assignments, and refusing nurses of opposite gender?

    emmy27 replied to jdub6's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've seen these requests made (rarely) and yes, where it was possible, the person making the assignment did comply. Did their choice to make that request make me think poorly of the patient as a...

  25. Pts handpicking assignments, and refusing nurses of opposite gender?

    emmy27 replied to jdub6's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This, yes. My patient population is largely much more religiously and politically conservative than I am, and on a personal level, I probably disagree with them about all sorts of things. And I can't...