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  1. New nurse blues

    Pleaides posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am nearing the end of my "orientation" program in my first RN job. The first two weeks were spent observing various departments and then we went to the floors to orient. A month later and all the...

  2. iv calculation problem!!!!!!!!!!!

    Pleaides replied to prettyparade_3's topic in General Nursing

    Drip factors.....I have never, ever had to worry about drip factors in the real world. We have one size tubing, period, for everybody. Rate is controlled by a pump. Why are students still...

  3. Switching to ER--Advice?

    Pleaides replied to mesixfuture's topic in Emergency

    Can you start Peds IV's? Of everything we do in the ER that is the thing I hate the most, it is ofen very difficult and babies and children always cry. I would rather help intubate or do a chest...

  4. What do nurses really think of CNAs?

    Pleaides replied to ccyrrus's topic in General Nursing

    When I first worked as a nurse in LTC, I had the license but did not know how to dress a combative pt, get a 400 lber out of bed, etc. Everything practical I learned from CNA's. It is a very stupid...

  5. what did you do in your former life?

    Pleaides replied to 3rdgenRN2B's topic in General Nursing

    I was a flight attendant for 24 years, and would be today except for american airlines dirty tricks. Now I work in the ER, but am considering going to

  6. New Nurse feeling overwhelmed!

    Pleaides replied to Diva Nurse Dani's topic in General Nursing

    Just go one day at a time and do the best job you possibly can, if your patients are happy you are doing fine. I too hated my first RN job, on a Med-Surg floor, at a facility with lots of infighting...

  7. What is the #1 healthcare problem in the USA?

    Pleaides replied to nurse_wannabe's topic in General Nursing

    NOTHING is more problematic than smoking-related problems. So preventable yet the it-won't-happen-to-me and then "why me?" folks who continue to waste money on cigarettes instead of treatment to...

  8. Nurses Who Shouldn't be Nurses

    Pleaides replied to bobnurse's topic in General Nursing

    So what if some of us became Nurses for money and job stability/mobility? I became an RN precisely for that reason. For 24 years I was a flight attendant until American Airlines destroyed that...

  9. New Grad hired for Float pool

    Pleaides posted a topic in General Nursing

    Well, I didn't hear last week whether I had been hired, so I figured not and sent out some resumes today. At 1705 I was informed that I had been hired at a place I had given up hope on, and that it...

  10. 38 too old for school?

    Pleaides replied to akanarn's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Just do it! If you don't you will regret it later. You will certainly get older, but not neccesarily wiser unless you take that path. The old retirement age of 65 will recede until retirement is...