Jaybird310

I don't sleep a lot anyway, I've always been a victim of insomnia. But my sleep patterns were completely jacked in nursing school. I'd come home from class or clinicals and sleep for an hour or two, the get up study, do care plans, etc, for about 6 h...

A basic tear like that you're looking at probably 6-8 weeks. And when I went back I didn't go back to the ER for 2 months after that, I did med surg so minimize the stress on my knee. Depends on your personal recovery really. I suffered a knee injury...

Ultram's not a placebo for pain relief. And there have been cases of people becoming addicted to Ultram. It's less likely to be abused than narcs but shouldn't be used as a placebo. And for me personally I prefer Ultram over narcs because narcs make ...

I'm being an insomniac and since I'm anxiously awaiting the birth of my first child, I've been reading the L&D threads for a while. This thread should be entitled what NOT to name your baby. I'm going to refer people here when they look at me fun...

If this is a true statement then my fiancee would have to do some serious convincing if she really wanted this man delivering our baby. The idea of a misogynistic OB delivering my child and handling my pregnant fiancee just makes me uncomfortable.

My first question is why didn't he discuss this with you on your first visit? Most of this type of thing was discussed with my fiancee and me when we had our first appointment with the OB that would be delivering our baby (she was living in another s...

It sounds like the program you're talking about requires that you're in school to aquire an RN or an advanced nursing degree. I'm not sure but being that it has requirements on testing and getting recomendations from nursing instructors. I'd stop tra...

The mentality of your ex husband is very different from what the OP is dealing with in her husbands worries. I was very much exposed to the kind of mentality your ex husband has through various male family members and actually had a touch of it mysel...

I'm with the majority in saying I wouldn't give it. I actually had a patient who was a drug seeker hit me because he thought I was giving him a placebo pill. And to whoever had the orders to narcan the pt until family makes them a DNR that doctor...

Scrubs is about the closest scripted show you'll get actually hospital life, even though I'm not a huge Scrubs fan. I personally LOVE House, and it can be accurate at times as well. I also love Grey's Anatomy but most of the scandalous behavior seen ...

I actually have liked my co workers at every hospital I've worked. A few months back I did have an issue with one, as some of you might remember, but that was due to her behavior and she ended up getting fired. But other than that I've never really h...

Tell your husband he watches too much television lol. Hospital work is very rarely anything like what it's protrayed on television and he's stereotyping based on fiction. My fiancee jokes with me about it because up until I met her a lot of the olde...

I'm very much on the younger end of nurses at 25 (though I've been a working nurse for almost 5 years) but at 45 you're really not that old for a nurse. I've seen new grads that were in your age bracket. Did you have any issues with co workers or yo...

Are you doing a BSN or an AND program? I know a buddy of is on the last of his pre reqs for his AND and he hasn't had it take chemistry. So if it's an AND maybe you could look at other programs in your area and see if your credits would transfer to o...

I don't know exactly how much credit card debt you have but have you tried calling the credit card company and seeing about getting your interest rate reduced? This could lower your payments and help you out. I personally don't carry much credit card...

I started going back to school for my pediatric nurse practitioner this past fall. I worked as a nurse for about 4 years before going back to school, mostly in the ER. I made the switch to a pediatric ED about a year before going back to school. My...

I work in ER and have for most of my nursing career. I'm an insomniac and not someone who's naturally needs a lot of sleep. Long shifts are never fun and personally anything after 15 hrs (which I pull or come close to pulling at least once a week) I ...

I didn't read all the other posts. But I totally feel the OP sometimes. I had to stay for a meeting this morning after a 12hr night shift, despite the fact that my fiancee and I were leaving to pick up friends in Knoxville and then back home to New O...

I laughed a little at this title because I can totally understand. My fiancee gets 'jealous' of a lot of my habits (if it were just allnurses that'd be the least of the evils haha) and she's currently trying to break me of my 'bachelor and loner' way...

1) Pay attention and STUDY first and foremost. Learn that until you are finished with nursing school your head will stay in a book and everything else will have to be dealt with once you're finished studying. 2) If you don't have thick skin, grow it...

I've been a smoker since I was 15, I managed to quit for a about a year but then I moved here to Kentucky and in the stress of moving and not knowing anyone I picked the habit back up. I like a couple of other posters actually enjoy smoking. Plus wit...

Yea I've been assured by all my friends up here this isn't normal. I'm not worried about myself, I'm gonna be a nervous wreck next week when my girl starts working up here, she's got to commute over Louisville from Lexington. That's when getting to w...

Mine are the cliche coffee and cigarettes. I drink coffee all through the day, which is horrible I know and I have to give the cigarettes up by June 4th.

I didn't read through all the posts, but I know getting to work in my area has been hell this week. I'm from Louisiana and this is my first winter in Kentucky, so I had the learn to adapt quickly. It usually takes me about 25 mins to get to work and ...

I posted this in the general students section before I read around and found this board. I'm new and just found this place tonight looking for a little support from those who live this profession and understand. I've been a nurse for 4 years and at t...