noahsmama

noahsmama

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  1. I'm an Italian nurse

    noahsmama replied to mon74's topic in General World

    The problem with those translators is that they often make errors. For example, the last time this poster posted in Italian, the translator made people think she had said that Americans don't speak...

  2. Am i the only crazy one who feels this way?

    noahsmama replied to newnurse012's topic in General Nursing

    If you can afford to go away on vacation, then go for it! I don't think wanting to get away is weird at all -- it's nice to get out of your regular environment. I find when I take a "stay-cation" I...

  3. Job interview tomorrow...will my clothes make or break me?

    noahsmama replied to purple_nomad's topic in General Nursing

    When is the interview? Do you have time to go shopping? If I were in this situation, I would go out and buy a new outfit, mostly to eliminate the question of whether or not the outfit might make a...

  4. Change is scary!

    noahsmama replied to adpiRN's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely. It always amazes me when nurses try to suggest that anyone could be "healthy enough" to go without health insurance. We are all just one car accident or one unanticipated diagnosis away...

  5. Change is scary!

    noahsmama replied to adpiRN's topic in General Nursing

    Can you afford the reduced pay and increased health insurance costs? Is the loss of two weeks of vacation per year worth it to you to get your weekends and holidays back? If the answer to those...

  6. would like to quit one of my jobs....but??

    noahsmama replied to NPvampire's topic in General Nursing

    You hate the HH job, you have another job and that job wants more hours from you, and the problem is............? If you HH job were your only job I would understand the problem, but since you already...

  7. Kant and his Theory

    noahsmama replied to NURSEBROWNEYES's topic in General Nursing

    I'd like to help you, but I Kant. (sorry -- sometimes I just can't resist the urge to make a really bad

  8. Pay for classes?

    noahsmama replied to pmcd8243's topic in General Nursing

    Yes and yes for both my current and my previous

  9. I should have become a teacher!!!!

    noahsmama replied to NayD_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I have a nephew who lives in New Jersey who is a new grad teacher. He has been looking for his first job for over a year now -- has been on some interviews, but no job yet. If you had become a...

  10. What are your favorite types of patients??

    noahsmama replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Babies, toddlers, and up to elementary school-aged kids. I like kids that are still kids, not the ones who are transitioning to adulthood (or think they are!). That may change once my own kid is...

  11. remember the flight attendent who quit creatively?

    noahsmama replied to nola1202's topic in General Nursing

    Here's a story about the same flight attendant, 9 months after he quit: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/05/05/steven.slater.lessons/index.html Sounds like he's still unemployed or at least...

  12. My nursing judgement call.....thoughts?

    noahsmama replied to knittingfan283's topic in General Nursing

    During my orientation as a new nurse, it was emphasized to me over and over again that it is better to call the RRT and not need it, than to not call and need it. We were told that no one should ever...

  13. Question about expiration date on RN License

    noahsmama replied to iamNurse23's topic in General Nursing

    Do you live in California? Is your birthday in September? In CA, the first renewal is not 2 years after the license is issued. If they did it that way, there would be a big cluster of licenses that...

  14. I'm the office manager and "his wife"

    noahsmama replied to netglow's topic in General Nursing

    OK, that's two red flags, and to me, this is a much bigger one than the husband/wife thing. Do you really want to work for someone who's going to lie to

  15. They're just not that into you

    noahsmama replied to jeyre1847's topic in General Nursing

    For my current job, it took 6 weeks (I kid you not!) to turn my verbal offer into a written one. Why? All I can say is, I work for the government, and the wheels of the bureacracy turn...

  16. Is Nursing really THAT bad???

    noahsmama replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

    I think it would be a mistake to assume that the stories on that website are a representative sampling of how all nurses feel about their jobs. I believe it suffers from the same selection bias as...

  17. How Far Do You Travel For Work?

    noahsmama replied to sweetsleep28's topic in General Nursing

    I only drive 4 miles to work, but I also do home visits and have driven as much as 100 miles one way -- that's unusual but 30 to 40 miles one way is pretty common for me. I don't mind -- I'm getting...

  18. You know you spend too much time on AN when....

    noahsmama replied to NeoPediRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    And I am totally guilty of

  19. What was your first "paying" job???

    noahsmama replied to Butterfly0328's topic in General Nursing

    Cashier in the neighborhood grocery store when I was 15. Made $2/hour and thought that was good money because it was twice as much as what I had made babysitting. Didn't even have to apply for the...

  20. ER vs. Dialysis (New Grad)

    noahsmama replied to DysrhythmiaRN11's topic in General Nursing

    Don't feel bad about quitting your current job -- if your current employer's needs were to change and they needed to lay people off, you can bet that they would lay you off in a heart beat. You have...

  21. You know you spend too much time on AN when....

    noahsmama replied to NeoPediRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    When you've already read and responded to all of the threads but keep checking back to see if anything new has been posted in the last 5

  22. New Grad Should I take a job as a call center RN

    noahsmama replied to Cindy 17's topic in General Nursing

    Most call centers have an online database you can consult to answer the caller's question. I think you should be able to handle it. I agree with advice others have given you -- take the job and keep...

  23. How many of you have a BSN

    noahsmama replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

    I also am a graduate of an accelerated BSN program. I'm now a PHN, which I couldn't be without the BSN (in my state,

  24. Student nurse gets the boot...veteran nurse fired

    noahsmama replied to C287's topic in General Nursing

    The fact that there are similar stories on the Internet does not convince me that the OP is fake. The fact is that there are similar stories because an awful lot of people are actually stupid enough...

  25. Gradiva and para

    noahsmama replied to neurontin's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Believe it or not, I actually know someone named Gradiva! (I wouldn't describe her as a "diva" at all -- not sure what the origin of the name