ncnurse99

ncnurse99

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  1. North Carolina Roll Call

    ncnurse99 replied to RNPATL's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    Dixie, hey. I know you were talking to babynurse but I am doing my nursing classes at home through Excelsior. After your GE classes are out of the way you only have 7 classes to take for nursing. It...

  2. North Carolina Roll Call

    ncnurse99 replied to RNPATL's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    ncbabynurse, i am in nebo as well. i tried to IM you but i think each person has to have 15 posts in order to IM. just wondering if we knew each

  3. Do Day Nurses Really Feel that Night Nurses Do Nothing All Night?

    ncnurse99 replied to Brita01's topic in General Nursing

    I work both days and nights. We are required to alternate our 12 hour shifts monthly. This is to keep the "well the othe shift does not do this/that" to a minimum. We experience first hand that each...

  4. Nursing, Smoking, and Kids

    ncnurse99 replied to JettaDP's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, do what you think will make you feel best, afterall you are the one who has to live with yourself. Everyone has different things that drive them. I guess my post made me sound hardened and...

  5. North Carolina Roll Call

    ncnurse99 replied to RNPATL's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    Awesome! Yeah I have looked at CLEP study guides and Ebay, WOW the money you can save! Thanks, its great to hear from others in NC and have

  6. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    ncnurse99 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hope my post was not offensive to some of u, but it seems it was. That was not the intent. That is simply something that aggrivates me. Having "sugar" not "sugar diabetes" is sweet alright but not in...

  7. Advice re: nightshift

    ncnurse99 replied to Jules A's topic in General Nursing

    May take a while to adjust, but it will happen. Many people have said to take care of stuff before you go to sleep and sleep until aprox an hour prior to going in to work. I am opposite. I have small...

  8. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    ncnurse99 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ohhh soo many to choose from lol! I really should give those with no healthcare education some slack, but patients and family drive me crazy with mispronunciations!! Im sure after all the replys to...

  9. North Carolina Roll Call

    ncnurse99 replied to RNPATL's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    Little town 40 min east of asheville here. LPN for 9 yrs, taking classes for RN....FINALLY!!! lol Anyway, anyone else from around the area that is doing RN classes at home? Looking for some local...

  10. Does your hospital have Trauma Care Unit?

    ncnurse99 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everyone! I just responded to a post earlier re: TCU, which was transitional care unit. We refer to our TCU as our Trauma Care Unit. These are Trauma ICU Stepdown pts. We are a LEvel II Trauma...

  11. If You Had To Do It All Again Would You Go Straight For RN Instead?!

    ncnurse99 replied to Batman24's topic in LPN to RN

    YES YES YES a thousand times yes!!! I would NEVER have went for LPN first. I am an LPN and have been for 9 yrs and have said from the day I graduated I was going straight back for my RN...well life...

  12. A & P Class requirement

    ncnurse99 replied to BjSkyGGEvan's topic in LPN to RN

    Here is a great study site for A&P. Made me feel pretty stupid!!

  13. Nursing, Smoking, and Kids

    ncnurse99 replied to JettaDP's topic in General Nursing

    Why the sudden urge to talk to them since starting nsg school? Would you tell someone who was drinking around their child they could be rotting their liver out...i mean eventually that would harm...

  14. A day in the life of an nurse in a Doctor office

    ncnurse99 replied to D&Ggirl's topic in General Nursing

    Either those are some very low paid RN's or some really high paid MA's lol...I think if the later is the case, I'd sure like to be that

  15. PCA a good or Bad idea?

    ncnurse99 replied to AngelaChanel24's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I'm finding a little good in all that each of you are saying in regards to the question asked. I do agree that PCA/CNA is a thankless, physically demaning, extremely low paying job. I think that most...

  16. Does your hospital have Trauma Care Unit?

    ncnurse99 replied to ncnurse99's topic in General Nursing

    We get only trauma pts. They are c us til they go to the floor. We are a 24 bed unit. Thanks for your response. Interesting to see differences between

  17. Difference b/w TCU/Stepdown and ICU/Stepdown?

    ncnurse99 replied to 3KittiesRN's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to seem ignorant, but the TCU stepdown I am familiar with is Trauma Care Unit Stepdown. These patients are still not in best of shape, some w vents, trachs and lots w telemetry. They crash...

  18. Roll Call, LPN to RN Students!!!

    ncnurse99 replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in LPN to RN

    Hey again guys. I just found a GREAT site to help with nursing in general and esp those who need A&P to meet RN requirements. I thought I was semi knowledgeable about the human body....this made...

  19. Roll Call, LPN to RN Students!!!

    ncnurse99 replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in LPN to RN

    Hey everyone and GOOD LUCK! Woo-hoo to all of us! I am not yet enrolled in the program as I keep putting it off, but honestly, being on this site has truely motivated me! I have been a LPN for 9 years...

  20. agency vs. float pool

    ncnurse99 replied to meriposa's topic in Agency Nurses

    I know that I have worked both agency and float pool and have found that I was more likely to get called to work in the float pool. Agengy was too sporatic and always last minute. At least with float...