Duttygal86 BSN, RN

NS here. Yesterday when sitting through an HR orientation for my new barista gig, the girl next to me starts coughing badly (we were eating the standard stale, tasteless corporate pastries) and in my head I'm like: Can I lift her out of her chair, t...

Oh! I apologize I didn't read the entire post! Sorry about the leadership at your school. Nurses love being nurses. There is obviously an entire culture and identity built around the profession. Most of them get upset at the insinuation that being an...

My final for Med Surg is in the morning. She gave us a list of topics and told us how many questions would be in each. But the list is not super specific. It helps.

I have found that this question is very person specific. Especially, when over the course of my 3 years in a BSN program (thus far) my financial situation has changed multiple times. I would say the same for some of my classmates. One in particular, ...

The major problem I see is time constraints. My school has a unique (antiquated) paradigm. We were allowed to take our pre-reqs right along with our nursing classes, this semester I had Microbiology, Pediatrics and Med Surg I. I think a lot of pre-nu...

All through my 20's I've omitted jobs that didn't work out or didn't apply to the type of job I was applying for. I generally don't like to have jobs on my resume that are less than 1 year and because I always worked multiple jobs at a time, I've nev...

When I worked for a travel Medicare auditor we had nurses traveling with us. They got meals/housing/travel expenses paid for and worked 9-5 doing chart review. They still cleared over 1K per week (which was more than some of them made coming from Io...

I'm graduating May 2017 with my BSN and am seriously considering Mayo, it checks off all of my boxes. I've been doing my research since freshman year. I am applying for the Summer III, but my GPA is not that high so I don't anticipate being accepted ...

You will have slacker classmates who provide pt. Care and then plop down in the nursing station or conference room. Don't do this! Always ask "what else can I do?" Also, you will realize quickly that all of your classmates are better/worse in specif...

I would also suggest googling "tic tac acidosis/alkalosis" videos.

^^This^^ Prior to entering NS I was a Medicare Analyst. I looked at the Medicare beneficiary health data all day long. The boomers are about to cause an enormous shortage, and not to be crude by the cohort right behind them are going to be riddled wi...

I am a BSN student in the US Virgin Islands and I have noticed a few things: 1. Hatians are by far the most pleasant patients from childhood to older adults. The kids sit still during vaccinations they are patient. 2. Caribbeam people tend to call e...

I live on STT so let me take a crack at your question.Pay - more than the staff nurses. They are paid less than the US average with a COL 3x higher.Hospital - equipment is somewhat antiquated, but I'm glad that I am learning to rough it from the sta...

What about Florida Hospital Waterman? I grew up in the area and want to return home to work their after graduation, but it sounds like FH is run poorly at every location.

When I gave birth to my daughter my mom took EVERYTHING from my hospital room. Diapers, formula, blankets, pillows etc. When I did my maternity rotation last semester the nurses were complaining about a patient hoarding all of the diapers and I was l...

As a SN right now, I will say that the majority of my complaining has less to do with the difficulty of the coursework AND more to do with the constant hoops that SN are made to jump through by faculty. Students in other majors don't seem to have to ...

Hi! I have a quick question. I grew up in Lake County and have offically survived my 1st year in nursing school (yay!) anyway, I am doing my BSN in the US Virgin Islands but I am looking to move home after I finish, so I can be near my grandmother. D...

Thank You both! I appreciate your help. I think half of it is me psyching myself out!

Come do your BSN down here in the US Virgin Islands! There is NO Wait list. I am halfway through the program and am living off of a combination of sporadic PT work, Pell/Student Loans and Scholarships,(and raising 1 kid too) and I have been out of HS...

I'm a Millennial (1986) and I agree with most of these things except for not being flexible w/ weekend work. I've always been willing to work O.T. and change my plans to work on weekends. I think Millennials get painted with a really broad brush and ...

I've found it difficult to maintain a job during the semester simply because the area I live in the population here doesn't value education, which translates into managers who are extremely inflexible when scheduling shifts for students. I tend to fi...

My BSN program requires a C, no C- allowed. So basically that is a 73 or greater. However, the way our paradigm is set up we take A&PI, II and Micro concurrently with our Nursing classes and clinicals making for some suicidal level course loads. ...

The problem with classifying the entire South as a low COL region is that some regions have COL so high that it rivals NE cities. Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and most of South Florida is becoming an extremely cost prohibitive area, and Orlando is right on ...

No replies as of yet? That has me even more worried!

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