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    Quitting 4 months into nursing?

    truern replied to mariedoreen's topic in General Nursing

    That's probably right up there in my top five problems with time management. On my unit the nurses carry phones that the patients can buzz thru on. It's such a PIA to wait for the phone to connect...
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    Do I need CNA training for ADN?

    truern replied to Love Coronado's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Whether or not its required is immaterial to me. I could tell a HUGE difference in the nursing students who were CNAs. They seemed more at ease in the hospital setting and it definately helped in...
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    Quitting 4 months into nursing?

    truern replied to mariedoreen's topic in General Nursing

    My thoughts: Myself and most every fellow student from NS I've talked to feel much like you do. I can only hope it DOES get better with time. Nothing in school prepared me for the REAL thing. The...
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    Medical Workers wearing scrubs to and from work, outside the Hospital, etc..

    truern replied to Galvatron1's topic in General Nursing

    I know...let's ingest oral antibiotics, insert PR antibiotics for those nasty GI bugs, and don hazmat suites before taking report... then stand naked in a disinfectant shower before leaving the...
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    Nursing 101 Question - How would you answer this?

    truern replied to julsywulsy's topic in General Students

    I also chose C because of the worsening pain after medication. The posters that said NOT to rely on personal experience in answering questions are dead on. That was ONE experience out of, what,...
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    Strange Licensing Question

    truern replied to BSNtobe2009's topic in General Nursing

    The NCLEX I took in NC is the same as in California which is the same as in Virginia which is the same as in Maine...ad infinitum. It doesn't matter which state you're in...the test questions all come...
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    NOC shift-how do you arrange your sleep?

    truern replied to supernova004's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm confused....when you work nights you come home and go directly to bed?? Isn't that contrary to what you would do if working days?? I never come home from work and expect to go right to sleep....
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    Nurses/Office Staff who Smoke in the Office, it's Killing Me!

    truern replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    It doesn't even matter whether or not they go outside.....get enough smokers together in a workplace and the combined lingering odor is enough to make me not work there Kind of hard to be productive...
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    Dumb Question?

    truern replied to RNin2007's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You read wrong,
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    help! My g/f stuck herself...

    truern replied to Malloy's topic in General Nursing

    At my hospital the form you sign in the ED/on admission is only consent for treatment. Any testing for HIV requires a separate consent and is only used in the event of a
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    paperwork aaaarrrrggghhhh!!

    truern replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sigh...I feel your pain. I've done so many discharges that I can do them in my sleep....I THOUGHT! Once I asked what was a FL2 form that was in a patient's chart with all the other discharge forms...
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    Do I Have the Right NOT to Be Weighed?

    truern replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I often refuse to be weighed for a routine office visit. I think Meerkat has every right to refuse especially if it's not relevant to the reason she's seeing the doctor. And really...just how many...
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    Nurse Salary Poll

    truern replied to EqualPay's topic in General Nursing

    - age? 51 - experience (# yrs as an rn) still counting in months - city / state raleigh, nc - salary (prefer hourly wage as full time equivalent) (ie, $32/hr) $19.18/hr - benefits: just need, full,...
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    New nurse giving up on first job in med surg after 7 mos.

    truern replied to MimismomRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Of course you're overwhelmed!! You have a lot on your plate. Is there any way you can stop working and concentrate on your studies?? It just seems you're stretched so thin between work, school, and...
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    How did you find your first nursing job?

    truern replied to jimd59's topic in General Nursing

    During my last semester of clinicals I KNEW I wanted to work on that unit!! I applied while still a student, interviewed, and was hired contingent on my passing the NCLEX. I work with a great bunch...
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    Dumb Question?

    truern replied to RNin2007's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm in NC and we don't have GN status. I was hired before graduation, but had to wait until I passed NCLEX to begin
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    nursing caps

    truern replied to biker nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm wearing mine to work next
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    Is this a HIPAA violation

    truern replied to avalynn's topic in General Nursing

    Babynurselsa, I'll go halves with ya on that
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    Pinning ceremony, now that you're an RN, was it worth it?

    truern replied to Halinja's topic in General Nursing

    I was sick the day of pinning, but I took some Phenergan and went anyway. I'm sooooo glad I did. Our pins, lamps, roses, etc were donated by local hospitals. As a matter of fact, I now work at the...
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    Giving report - experienced nurses make you feel foolish

    truern replied to Layla_B's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My personal favorites are the nurse that barely acknowledges my report and gives me the "Run along now...the REAL nurse is here" attitude and the one that nitpicks and drills me until she finds...
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    would you finish work from previoius shift?

    truern replied to Ms.RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I would do the work...it's not the patient's fault, after all, that the previous nurse couldn't get everything done during her shift that was needed. It's not happened that often, though...I'm sure...
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    Question about CKMBs and Troponins

    truern replied to mariedoreen's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/ckmb/test.html "Sometimes persons who are having trouble breathing have to use their chest muscles. Chest muscles have more CK-MB than other...
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    Pinning ceremonies...

    truern replied to MsBruiser's topic in Male Nursing Students

    During my pinning ceremony they dimmed the lights and then we lit our lamps from our neighbor's lamp. It was a beautitful and special moment...one that even our men graduates enjoyed. Trust...
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    Non-Hospital jobs for new grads

    truern replied to NurseLatteDNP's topic in General Nursing

    My doctor's nurse graduated a year ahead of me from the same program. She told me she didn't like the hectic pace in the hospitals and KNEW she wanted to do office nursing. She was hired without...
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    I got an "unsat", now what?

    truern replied to lindy777's topic in General Students

    I'm a walking "to do" list :) I write things I have to remember to do on my arm...I found out the hard way that my hand was NOT the place to write anything important :uhoh21: Mind you...I only have...