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False. I disagree with this post and I've been a nurse for several years now. First of all I hate people who work with under served populations anyways. Do you think you're doing someone in these areas a favor? Blessing them with your expertise?! ...

Not to rain on your parade but everyone shadows. When you shadow you'll meet the department head, try to make a good impression. Don't wear open toed shoes. That's probably all I can think of. Check out the people you'll be working with don't be ...

It does sound like a dump. I don't want to be rude, and I don't know you or this specific case but many times we get pt's from LTC and when they get to us they are sweet as pie. They meet after waiting hours to see a psych dr, NOT AN ED MD! and th...

So at first I thought, wow, these people are all crazy I don't do anything like that, then i looked down at my air mattress. LMBO!!! I tossed my mattress and insist on sleeping on an air mattress because of the constant exposure to bedbugs at my jo...

So I had a pt this evening who was suicidal. Blatantly suicidal. He was found in his home with a gun drinking and saying he wants to end it. So he went to the Psych lock down part of the ED and when they attempted to medically clear him there by doin...

OK, I'm actually glad I posted this for future reference. It was a slow night and I was able to watch him all night. I didn't get any other patients. But I did sit at the nurses station and I didn't sit within arms length like the policy stated. ...

I don't know what why being oppressed is synonymous with victim. But whatever's it's semantics, not important. if you don't want to use that particular wording then don't, but the reality is there is some serious workplace violence happening within...

I always wanted to be an ER RN but when there were no openings I gladly took tele. I ended up being miserable in tele because of the STAFF i worked with NOT the patients or the work. THe MD's were annoying but there were always ways around them. B...

So sick of the oversupply of nurses that's why so many nurses want to leave the bedside. There are literally TONS of nurses that would gladly replace you for lower pay. I want to get away from the bedside and work where I'm needed as well. I'm scar...

there are some real cockroaches in this forum, and nursing in general:mad:. this forum in a microcosm of how nursing really is. i wish nursing wasn't so hard, but it is, and facilities require a lot of stupid double charting. and if you don't, you ...

My only suggestion would be to tell you to take a step back and really consider the feelings coming from you because things are not going to get better once you become an NP. Once obama's healthcare bill takes place, in combination with management i...

Actually I wondered the same thing. At work, all the NP students keep saying that there aren't any more masters programs. They're saying, they're the last masters class. I'm from CT so the schools around me are Yale, Central CT, UCONN, etc. but I...

[color=#ff3399]when i started school i thought i would be a die hard ed nurse. ed all the way. and people did try to pigeon hole me into med surg, by not giving me interviews or telling me my gpa was too low... i just kept trying. literally, fo...

In our hospital we keep specimen cups for pee on the wall in a cupboard, so to speak... I was so tired one day, I told the pt, "If you go in the bathroom you can pee on the wall." "I mean pee on a cup on the wall." "I mean get a cup off the wall and ...

I traveled to missouri and make around $700/week PLUS living expenses, and that was in missouri... cost of living should be higher in CA. right?

BTW I heard an RN-MD state she had no advantage in residency over other residents except in bedside manner. ~true story~

Let me say first off, I'm neither a MD or FNP. However I've been searching for the same answers as you have becuase I don't want to waste anymore time in school. I want to work towards what I want and not play around. I honestly have scoured the int...

the DNP requirement takes effect 2015. Just beware of that...

sounds low to me. check with another agency, read your contract VERY CAREFULLY...

you can def get in without medical experience. But volunteer or shadow first. School is nothing like work.

Check them every single shift, check all that are ordered. Look them up if you don't know them and if they are out of range, look up the time period you have available to you maybe at least a week... something like that or whenever they were last ad...

I must bring it up. How can the republicans jump on this "president forcing" people against their religious beliefs then also turn around and vote for FORCED transvaginal probes prior to any abortion? Why can the government FORCE a probe in a woman's...

This is going to sound crazy but I'm all into the barefoot/minimalist shoe group. It's a relatively new group of people. The same group of people who make those 5 finger/toe shoes that look really weird. There is some research out there that shoe...

do not tell your educator!!! do not! if she is this immature and unhelpful then you aren't the first person this has happened to and they know about this. try your best to suck it up any way possible and work through it. in the end you will be bett...

Nursing can really suck! some nurses are really mean, and more than other fields. I've cried on the shoulder of a PA all the while he was saying, "WE don't treat each other like you guys do..." Nurses eat their young. You will learn this statemen...