Diva Nurse Dani

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Hi everyone. I have applied for full time and have been turned down each time due to limited experience :-(. I've been working as adjunct 1.5 years, almost straight thru due to one school going year around. I have worked 2 schools at the same time s...

MSN, plan to go back for my DNP

I've been working in community colleges and private university online programs.

Hello All! I recently graduated with my MSN (yay!!) and I have been offered 3 adjunct clinical positions. 2 are close to home and are with ADN programs, and one is with a BSN program but far from home. I am excited to get my foot in the door, and hop...

Well, I am an oncology nurse who has worked on the Med-surg-Onc floor for 3 years now and I am moving to the home health division. I am scared to death (but change makes most of us nervous). I keep looking around and thinking, "here I have the suppor...

Thanks Ellie. I guess that is it. I know change is good, and I need this change for many reasons. Whew...but good to know I'm not the only one

Wow...this has been helpful!! I am considering moving from a Med-Surg floor (with almost 4 years experience) to HH. My fear is I am also working on my Masters with the intent to teach, and afraid of another change. But if I don't get off my floor soo...

Wow, that is good to know about the claiming on income taxes. I wouldn't have remembered that! Thanks!!

I went back to complete my BSN and I am ready to throw the towel in! I completed 2 semesters, this is my third, and I am crying my eyes out because I can't do this anymore! I know critical thinking is a big part of my job (career) but I don't get th...

BamaRN1990, No I'm not married, nor do I have any children (to my grandmothers dismay) I live at home with my mom and 94 year old grandmother (moved home when I went back for ADN) I am currently working a 0.8 FTE, looking to buy my own home, I'll be ...

Thanks everyone!! I really do ant to do this, and maybe I have too much on my plate this semester. I wanted to go full time this semester so that I can hurry up and get this over with. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea. I had someone tell me today ...

You ask what I love most??? MY PATIENTS!!! Some days I wouldn't go to work if it weren't for the people I care for. I mean, these are people who have a totally different perspective on life!! I love my patients, even when they are screaming bloody mu...

Hi all! I am looking for a class (or classes) to be certified as a wound care nurse. I'm taking the ACLS class in July, I am attending a radiation class next Friday, and who knows when my job will send me for Chemotherapy class!! Oh, and did I ment...

Ok, so I just got home from work and I am ready to scream!!!:angryfire Yes, another "Evil PCA/PCT" story. There is this one who has been a thorn in my side from day one!! I ask her to do something, ANYTHING, and I have to hear every complaint in the...

Thanks for your support. Fortunately, on this shift I can avoid her. We are assigned a PCA every day, there are 2 on this shift everyday. I can request the other one. And since one of the Charge nurses will change the assignment when he doesn't want ...

Well, I went back to school in January, and my 1st year is up in July!! I'm pretty sure bedside won't be where I end my career, but I'm not sure about specialty...I'm in Oncology now, but Psych and Burn are interesting to me too!! Still trying to f...

Ok, so here it is...AGAIN!!! (I say again because so many of us have posted a message about feeling inadequate and not getting what we think we should from our 1st positions. So, here's another. Since becoming a nurse in July, my 93 year old grandmot...

Thanks Kidznurse!! Its not that I don't love what I do, I guess maybe it is just everything. I can't leave "Nurse" at work because I come home to sick people. I moved home when I went to nursing school. So when I come home from a long, exhausting ni...

Thanks Cali! I just wish I could feel better about what I'm doing. I have had to use most of my PTO days for the illnesses of my mom and my grandmother, and one for me being sick, and one today because in the Midwest we have been buried under snow (...

I work on an Oncology floor at a large hospital. Its a good hospital. I've had some say that maybe it's the unit, som say its the hospital.

I bring either Lean Cuisine or Smart Ones (both have WW points on them :chuckle ), a naturals fruit cup, a Yoplait Whips Yogurt (chocolate whips are the best...keep me from devouring a candy bar looking for the chocolate fix!! :roll ) and a diet tea ...

I deal with death of patients quite often on my floor and I can say you did what any reasonable person would have done in your position. We will always have the "not so perfect" situation and we do the best we can in that situation with what informat...

blueiwahine....man are we lucky to have others to cry with!!! I guess we need to stick together to survive this!! How did nurses before us do it?? I mean when they didn't have as many choices as we do...what did they do???

I am hugely fond of Nursing 2007 and Nursing made Incredibly Easy!!!