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  1. Are you a nurse from a dysfunctional family?

    My mother had five children and never raised any of them. My older sister grew up in foster homes, my older brother grew up with our grandparents, so my little brothers and I was passed around alot....
  2. Nursing student with migraines, HELP!

    I am going into my senior year of my RN-BSN program. I have been through the whole migraine thing throughout the last three years of nursing school. I tried so many different meds I can't name them...
  3. Can Someone Be a Nurse Without Jean Watson??

    I'm a nursing student at a school that thinks Jean Watson walks on water. Every paper, care plan, and clinical prep we have to incorparate the 10 carative factors. We even had to read the book about...
  4. migraines and nursing

    I am a junior in nursing school right now, but I have had migranes for many years. I have tried many different drugs. Right now they have me on anti seisure drugs. The Topamax was very bad though....
  5. This stuff makes me so angry! I went to the local ER and they dismissed my pain. They thought it was GERD. It took me three hours to tell this resident that it wasn't GERD. I have had GERD all...
  6. How many books do you have to buy?

    I am in a BSN program. 4 years and all finished as I say. My second year was the worst. I had 10 books, but it was the first of my clinicals and all that jazz. I saved up for my books that should...
  7. What will YOU do with your first "real" paycheck!?

    Just the thought brings tears to my eyes of having not to live paycheck to paycheck. First sign up for loan payments, go to mall and buy me a nice outfit that hasn't been out of date for years. Get...
  8. How many quit???

    I am going into my junior year for a BSN program. Thank God I haven't failed a class yet. We started out over 100 people in the class. I think we are about 80's now. It is a private college and...
  9. Gotta good "poop" story? I do.

    I am a PCA (glorified nurses aid) as I say, and one day I had a patient with a belly surgery. No problem right??? Wrong! She was my first patient I went to see that evening and it looked like an...
  10. Funny things that pts say

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  11. Story on Oprah: Cradle Rape

    I watched that program this afternoon. I just sat in my chair and wept for thoes small innocent children. They didn't do anything to deserve it. I have no idea why anyone would say that if you have...
  12. which shift is busier?

    I'm only a Personal Care Assistant(aka nurses aid), but I am in nursing school. I work on a SIMCU unit. Days have baths, two tray passes and the family that never ends. They don't stock and the...
  13. which shift is busier?

    I'm only a Personal Care Assistant(aka nurses aid). I work on a SIMCU unit. Days have baths, two tray passes and the family that never ends. They don't stock and the