Koyaanisqatsi-RN

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 staffing ratios, bad management, bad patients, bad famili...

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 some of my friends have a phrase we always use with ...

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, unsafe and must be dealt with. I am not the kind of p...

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 dramatically different about nursing school today t...

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 and healthcare run in my family, so I know that many...

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 cortisol. Given its anti-inflammatory properties, this is ...

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

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 my job search? I've heard that it would, but I wa...

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. And yes, I would specifically like to go into th...

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 nursing practice, and i'm hoping you do not assoc...

Heh, this is all correct. The problem with facebook is people get too dumb and friend literally everyone who asks. People laugh at my list because it has a smaller number of people on it, but I know them all in real life and consider them friends! I...

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 with at least being excited about what you earned....

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 are pretty hypocritical when it comes to people do...

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. :)

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 stretch to assume someone who calls odor a 'cultural t...

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 issue never comes up (and it will, at some point an...

It is always hilarious to me that the most racist, xenophobic people out there are the ones who can never speak English correctly! :) Human beings are never illegal. We need to get over this crap real fast. I agree that if people live here, they sho...

It's actually worse than that, heh. Those "guests" are just search engine bots browsing and indexing the site. Not real people. :)

i wasn't there to hear the conversation with your friend, but I'm going to go against the "advice" given to you in this thread These are all true statements. Real friends are not ones who blindly encourage you and tell you "you will do great, don't...

Have you ever lived or gone to school in a country in which you didn't speak the native language? I think you could be a little more compassionate. It's not easy to do what they're doing. Anyway, as far as this particular subject goes, I find it's ...

Just posting in support and to say I'm wondering the same thing. I only just finished 1st semester and most places don't want an extern with that little experience.

let me ask u, do u really like cleaning people's anus? I think that's going to be my new away-message for a few weeks

How much time do you save writing dgter instead of "daughter"? It took me a few tries reading your post to figure out what the heck you were talking about. Just saying.

I'm glad you pointed this out. It really does illustrate how stupid it is for people to be so concerned with our business, right? It doesn't really matter what you do, people will always criticize you if they want to. I do think we can agree though, ...

Well, I obviously know exactly how you feel. I think in a lot of ways it's just a side effect of how prevalent having children is, in our society. I try to remember that most people mean well and some, perhaps, never considered not having children, s...