Koyaanisqatsi-RN

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1. Nurses, it's time to harden up

   Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to Koyaanisqatsi-RN's topic in General Nursing

   I'm a realist too! I believe that no matter how crappy my life has gotten (and trust me, it's never exactly been a free ride) I could always have it much, much worse. That's realism, to me. Me and...

2. Nurses, it's time to harden up

   Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to Koyaanisqatsi-RN's topic in General Nursing

   I would never argue that anyone should be blindly optimistic. Just as you said, blind pessimism is certainly every bit as damaging. You are 100% right that conditions like this are unacceptable,...

3. Nurses, it's time to harden up

   Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to Koyaanisqatsi-RN's topic in General Nursing

   I've read it. :) Freud gave us a much more lucid look at society and it's need for delusion / optimism in Civilization and its Discontents, but I digress! Care to tell us how this is true? What is...

4. Nurses, it's time to harden up

   Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to Koyaanisqatsi-RN's topic in General Nursing

   Don't get me wrong, like I said in the post itself I need this reminder as well, quite often. It's just part of life, but even particularly so when you do something as stressful as nursing. Nursing...

5. Nurses, it's time to harden up

   Koyaanisqatsi-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

   I've been reading a lot of posts here lately about people complaining about nursing schools "churning out nurses", (if I hear that phrase one more time I might throw up in my mouth!) about bad...

6. Help me to understand something about diabetes

   Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

   I'm not sure what you mean. Dehydration doesn't raise BP, it lowers it with regard to the loss of volume. As far as blood sugar, it elevates during prolonged periods of stress as a result of...

7. Time of the month in light colored scrubs

   Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to jkmk's topic in General Students

   Hello ladies! ...just your average every day guy checking in to see what's hap *stops dead in tracks* *backs out of room very

8. Would it be worth it to take an EKG cert class while in nursing school?

   Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to Koyaanisqatsi-RN's topic in General Nursing

   How is it not a leg up on the competition if i've already learned those types of things? The school I go to is a pretty good one, and I've never run into any weird money grabs like what you mentioned....

9. Would it be worth it to take an EKG cert class while in nursing school?

   Koyaanisqatsi-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

   My school is offering a summer course to get certified as an EKG tech, while I'm in the RN program. I realize that I won't be working as a tech, but would this experience and certification help me in...

10. Prayer as a Nursing Intervention

    Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to TOYMECH's topic in General Nursing

    Prayer is as worthless an intervention as "disturbed energy field" treatments. It's an embarrassment to the field of nursing, and any medical profession to include stuff like this as part of official...

11. I killed it today!!!!

    Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    I wouldn't worry about it, honestly. I've definitely seen what you experienced, but I just blow it off. As long as someone isn't being smug and rubbing in someone else's face, I don't see the problem...

12. I killed it today!!!!

    Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    As long as you wouldn't mind an A student gloating and proclaiming how well they're doing, since you're only a B student. Just saying. :) I don't mind people discussing their grades at all, but most...

13. Fellow student is....a little stinky

    Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to wants2BRN's topic in General Students

    Hey as long as you're willing to go without deodorant when you go to a country where the people don't use it, then I agree with you.

14. Fellow student is....a little stinky

    Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to wants2BRN's topic in General Students

    Oh come on. Really? I read your post the same way, but I doubt anyone assumed you were some kind of ignorant racist. The world is full of a lot of ignorant people, however, so it isn't much of a...

15. 100% pro-life, considering nursing school

    Koyaanisqatsi-RN replied to Beebop25's topic in General Nursing

    OP, you do not have the right attitude to go into health care, period. You are clearly ideological to a fault, and this will get you into a lot of trouble working with patients. Even if the abortion...