Daddoo1

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1. Are you in Nursing for the Caring or the Cash?? Be Honest

   Daddoo1 replied to 1BlessedRN's topic in General Nursing

   Weird how the younger (I call them the me generation) think, isn't it. I am a 47 year old male GPN (graduate practical nurse) waiting to take my NCLEX and I am totally in to the people I am caring for at this time. My residents keep asking me if I ...

2. Why did you become a nurse?

   Daddoo1 replied to Tinuviel's topic in General Nursing

   One of my children died after I found out he had leukemia. At the time, I was making $20/h in a paper mill. You don't just throw away a job like that, but in 2001 the mill closed and I knew right where I was going to go...to school to be a nurse (a...

3. have you ever "written up" yourself in an incident report?

   Daddoo1 replied to l.rae's topic in General Nursing

   If we can't be honest, we shouldn't be nurses. Every incident is a mistake and every mistake could mean a life. It's a bit heavy but that's the way I feel