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Nurselife13, how do you get the photographs, you take them with your phone? And how do you print them? I love this idea!

I was JUST --like 5 minutes ago-- saying to my husband how I walk out of my school so tired every day. I chalked it up to a few things: working 5 days a week after working just 3 days per week, bring a natural introvert and the amount of contact I no...

I didn't know what I wanted to specialize in during school and I still have no idea. BUT I do know that I've never had a desire to be in any of the sought after specialties (L&D, ICU, NICU) and think I may be drawn more to non-acute care settings...

It's good to see someone who has gone into a specialty like psych straight out of school. Right now I have a preliminary offer (pending background checks and all that) at a detox facility but keep wondering if I am doing the right thing. Everyone say...

Preach!!! I wholeheartedly agree.

One day during my nursing student preceptorship I forgot to alcohol swab my patient before giving the patient a dose of insulin. When we left the room my preceptor gently let me know that I had forgotten and to remember to do that. Well, I beat mysel...

Thank you! For a minute there I thought I was crazy and missed some key parts of the post but it seems like some people were ready to get the sword out so they totally just did not get it.

With only 2-3 semesters left there's no question that I would go back and finish. It won't be easy with all of your other obligations but it will definitely be worth it. Good luck!

As much as their policy stinks, I would not call out or anything similar those 2 days. It isn't worth it. You'll be out of there soon enough.

Congratulations! I am set to graduate in 2 weeks too and am so excited.

I'm a student and I always have a pen. Because regardless of the fact that many setting have computerized charting/etc, doesn't anyone take notes about what they're being taught or tasks they need to remember to do? This is akin to me to my classmate...

I agree. Before 1st semester started we got a list of books that we would be using and most have been used at different times throughout the course-- sometimes we used one more than the other but ultimately we would use all of them. I am 3 weeks away...

I am in my final semester of nursing school and last semester, in particular, I got to experience how RTs fit into the team of healthcare professionals who take care of patients. I was in the ICU a couple of days and the RTs there are like gods (okay...

Do you think that new nurses who have no preference as far as where they want to work have an easier time with, well, being a new nurse? Basically, if you take away the expectations of a dream job right of the bat, is that a big chunk of burden off...

Dave Do, you're giving way too much credit but I'll take it :-)

Exactly this. In this case it was not OP's fault that the coworker did not hear OP address her EXACTLY as she (the coworker) demands to be address. She flipped out over something that was not even wrong. Why that behavior (and I don't care the reason...

Really?!!?

This right here. Every word of it. My husband is also an engineer and I could see him having the same concerns as the OP. It seems to me that certain types of people require more 'rigidity', so to speak. Nothing against them at all, It could be certa...

Exactly! I was thinking more along the lines of an attic. That way you don't hear footsteps above you the whole time you're trying to sleep

A couple years ago when my husband was scheduling his first colonoscopy he looked up info on having the procedure done without sedation since he has a fear of being put out. Apparently it's done a lot more often over in Europe than here. He ultimatel...

The good thing about my school is that completing either a CNA, patient care tech, or home health aide course is a required part of the curriculum, so we could get a direct care job (after becoming certified) if we're so inclined. I suggest that you ...

Yes, that sounds like some sort of continuing education course or refresher for those who have some experience. The phlebotomy training course that my community college offers is 170 hours (lecture and clinical components).

Gotcha. Hmm, if no one volunteers here could you possibly interview a nursing instructor at your school, provided you are a college student? If your physician uses RNs in the office, maybe try that or visit a Visiting Nurse Association office.

Do you have a clinical component to your program where you could interview a nurse that you're acquainted with and in person? I mention that because you are going to meet resistance about virtually interviewing someone here who may or may not be an a...