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mom and nurse

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  1. Andrea Yates R.N.

    mom and nurse replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Zoeboboey - Thanks for sharing your struggles. My other kids are doing well. Our lives without him here have been quiet. When he was here I had nightmares sometimes, as did my youngest daughter...

  2. How Can You Bear to be a Nurse?

    mom and nurse replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. I needed that. This is so true. I'm dead tired today. Had one of those days. Spent so much time consoling two very anxious daughters after their mom was admitted (the mom was quite calm and...

  3. Andrea Yates R.N.

    mom and nurse replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks zoeboboey... I'm been on many a psych unit...psych facility, etc. Two of my five kids were adopted (we had a 3, 6, and 7 year old when my husband and I adopted a 6 and 7 year old around 12...

  4. Will I be able to find a job after Surviving ANP program?

    mom and nurse posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Just curious....What are my chances of locating a job as an NP assuming I survive the Adult Nurse Practitioner Program of my University (assuming also that I pass the required test to become...

  5. Any bedside nurses making over 100K ?

    mom and nurse replied to EveMJRN's topic in General Nursing

    Not much to add...Perhaps if you worked weekend differential at nighttime somewhere....but even then, I don't know if the resulting salary would be over

  6. What was the toughest part of Nursing school for you?

    mom and nurse replied to LADYFLOWER's topic in General Students

    The worse part of nursing school. On the undergraduate level it was the first day of clinicals. I remember driving to my first day of clinicals and fighting the urge to turn around. I was fighting...

  7. Do you have a favorite allnurses post?

    mom and nurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have many favorite posts on allnurses. Do you have a favorite post or allnurses thread? Two of my favorite posts: Orrnlori's post found at this link on her appreciation of the different nurses who...

  8. I am new and just wanted to say hello

    mom and nurse replied to meme39's topic in Rehabilitation

    Hi and welcome. I work in an inpatient rehab. When I graduated from nursing school yes I did get a couple of people saying things like rehab was not real nursing. I chose to ignore them. It may...

  9. Wants to go into rehab nursing

    mom and nurse replied to cathy54's topic in Rehabilitation

    Pros: Getting to work with and really know the patients and their families. Being able to watch them improve. Watching my patient come in on a stretcher and walk (or roll in a wheelchair) out of...

  10. What was your HARDEST class?

    mom and nurse replied to LADYFLOWER's topic in General Nursing

    On the undergraduate level it was Statistics......On the graduate level so far, it has to be the Research class (which involved Statistics). It was like learning a whole different language and I am...

  11. Sent in my resume...wish me luck!

    mom and nurse replied to nurscee's topic in Public, Community Health

    Nurscee - did you get the job as a public health nurse. I also work in a tense hospital situation and I often wonder about being a community health nurse. I'm also an older new nurse ...(2

  12. Use of Admission Nurses

    mom and nurse replied to mom and nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone for your replies. I've been doing a literature search to try to find out if patient/staff satisfaction is tied to having an admission nurse without much success. I appreciate your...

  13. Just passed the NCLEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    mom and nurse replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Congratulations to you!!!!:balloons:

  14. still choosing APN even with possible doctorate future?

    mom and nurse replied to sourpunch's topic in Post Graduate Students

    NAh - I'm not worried, I'm an older new nurse. Lord willing, By the time everything works out with the DNP I should be safely on my way to

  15. nursing a calling?

    mom and nurse replied to hTx87's topic in General Nursing

    I think it is a calling at this point in my life. But then again, I did many other things on my way to becoming a nurse....so I believe I was called to do those things also..... But with nursing....,...

  16. ER- violent patients

    mom and nurse replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

    I was sent from my hospital to a workshop by a company called Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) which trains individuals to go back and train their staff on nonviolently deescalating situations (there...

  17. What is your favorite grad school course?

    mom and nurse replied to christvs's topic in Post Graduate Students

    wow. those were my thoughts exactly. I enjoyed the class that tells about Advanced practice Nursing, etc. I enjoyed pharmacology, I don't even want to go into my feelings about research class,...

  18. Nursing is taking over my life!!!!

    mom and nurse replied to Samantha2000's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with Tweety's advice. Nursing school is rough, especially the med surg rotation ......hang in there, it will pass. (In nursing school I literally slept with nursing books piled on my bed....

  19. Were you/family ashamed or shamed for NAI descent?

    mom and nurse replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    My grandmother used to tell us (I'm quoting her) "Both my parents were members of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and I'm a black woman". After researching years later, and discovering her parents...

  20. NAI descent: Roll Call

    mom and nurse replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    Don't know if I count. My great grandmother and her sister, both her parents, and grandparents, cousins, etc were members of the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma (also Cherokee citizens were my...

  21. ? for Nurses who deal with nursing students

    mom and nurse replied to AllyRN82's topic in General Nursing

    Just wanted to say, I love having students around, love their energy, love their eagerness. Only advice I can give is "There is no such thing as a stupid question, when in doubt, ask questions. If...

  22. Classes started yesterday......

    mom and nurse replied to CardioTrans's topic in Post Graduate Students

    In our advanced pharm class, just as the other posters mentioned, we learned the "why" and "how" of how certain classes of drugs worked. For some reason the drug names, etc. seemed easier to remember...

  23. Classes started yesterday......

    mom and nurse replied to CardioTrans's topic in Post Graduate Students

    i'm surviving. So far, it's just a lot of reading. I'm in an ANP program and just have two classes this semester. I study and work, study and

  24. A nurse health?

    mom and nurse replied to babyphat's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I've been healthier since becoming a nurse and I exercise more (up and down halls, in and out of rooms, it's better than jogging, burns calories too

  25. Nursing school vs. actually starting nursing

    mom and nurse replied to MiaNJ's topic in General Nursing

    MiaNJ - take it one day at a time. It's hard to worry about nursing school and what you will do when you graduate. Concentrate on what you need to know right now and you won't feel so ovewhelmed. Yes...