elizabeth8503RN MSN, EMT-B, NP

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    High school student wanting to be a nurse!

    elizabeth8503RN replied to chocoholic1324's topic in General Nursing

    I started right out of high school too. It was difficult, but it is doable. Nursing is not for everyone. rph3664 is definately right, you should try to get your your CNA license and see if you like...
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    Flooding in Iowa

    elizabeth8503RN replied to NeosynephRN's topic in General Nursing

    I live here in Iowa also, no where near Cedar Rapids, (Knoxville area) but the flood is comming and soon. We have about five fire departments, all volunteer, (yes, I live in a very rural...
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    My LPN license is expiring--how do I put it on an inactive status?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    I know that here in Iowa we can keep both, I just don't know the proceedure to do it. I guess my reasoning to why is because I can I have a very hard time letting go of something I took such a hard...
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    Are you an introvert or extrovert?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to jessi1106's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    According to the test I'm an introvert (ISFJ), which I tend to agree with, but I seem to do well in the nursing setting. But I also love to be out with people in some settings, it kinda depends...
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    How much is your pay?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to rainbowcak3's topic in General Nursing

    To lamazeteacher: All I know is that Iowa is the lowest paid of the fifty states. I have read in several articles that Medicare is to blame. I COULD BE WRONG. IF I AM I WILL APOLIGISE RIGHT NOW. I...
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    How much is your pay?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to rainbowcak3's topic in General Nursing

    Here in Iowa we are at the bottom of the national payscale. We on average get paid about $8,000 a year less than the national average of 47,000 a year. This is RN's I'm talking about. I got...
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    Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    i first decided i wanted to be a doctor when i was in fourth grade when er first came out. it was thursday night, 8 or 9 at night. my mom, who is an x-ray tech, said, "hey, come and sit down and...
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    Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    elizabeth8503RN replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    I've had this happen quite a few times in the almost 5 years working in health care (2 1/2 yrs as a CNA, 1/2 yr as an LPN, and almost 2 years as an RN) the most recent was at a VA hospital, the call...
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    Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    elizabeth8503RN replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    It was maybe my fourth week of clinicals in a LTC facility and within an hour I was spit on, **** on, bled on, and vomitied on. Not to mention I was almost hit and punched, and I was kicked. A...
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    Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

    elizabeth8503RN replied to grace90's topic in Nursing Humor

    It's Matchbox
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    Welcome to my unit

    elizabeth8503RN replied to Cmariehart's topic in Nursing Humor

    Your unit reminds me of the LTC facility I used to work at about 15 months ago, and now reading about your patient's it makes me remember how much I miss working there!!! Trust me, I had some of...
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    Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

    elizabeth8503RN replied to grace90's topic in Nursing Humor

    I LOVE THOSE SONGS!!!!!!!!!!! Harder and harder to breathe...... Maroon
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    Funniest thing a new co-worker asked you?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to fultzymom's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was in clinicals and saw an order for "APAP 325mg ii tabs". I had no idea what that ment. It was maybe my third day on passing pills, and the first time seeing that order. Luckily my nursing...