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I like to cook in batches and freeze things for later to save time. If we all post easy recipes, it should help us get through nursing school.

I'm Bipolar 1 and have been probably all my life but wasn't officially diagnosed until around age 20. I'm 28 now. I was diagnosed with major depression as a teenager and prescribed Paxil, which made me manic as all get out (think carrying around a bl...

My job let's me pretty much work whenever I want as long I work every other weekend and inform them of needing a schedule change ahead of time. I mean, I can't just call out for the heck of it but say I want to work Mon, Wed, and Fri + my weekend the...

I work in LTC and some of the residents push the call button for the strangest things. Last year I had a real PITA who was CONSTANTLY on her light. Most of the time she pushing it just for the hell of it . After awhile, she started demanding that I...

If that actually worked, I'd make more of an effort with my appearance at school.

I wanted to add that I've seen the horrifying effects of CPR on a person when there's no hope. I was at work (LTC) when the nurses had to perform it on a woman who was already dead but was a full code. They did it to cover their butts. This poor litt...

LOL, I didn't take it personally. I don't even eat at McDonald's unless I'm desperate, away from home, and extremely low on cash. The food makes me physically ill for some reason and has since my second pregnancy. I was pointing out that in that s...

Oh please. McDonald's should not have served a cup of coffee that was capable of scalding a person. They were found guilty of having their machines turned up way too high. She had every right to sue and win. OP, if you were told to perform CPR the...

What a freaking waste of money on the hospital's part. Hair analysis isn't cheap. Why ban something that isn't illegal?

Man, I wish I only had 12 ambulatory patients. That would be nice.

I would and I have. When I was considering law school, it wasn't for the money. It was because I wanted to help people and planned on working for a non-profit like Legal Aid. I don't think that people in helping professions (and yes, I do consider...

LOL, I don't know where you worked but CNAs in LTC typically have MORE work and a FASTER pace than CNAs in a hospital setting. I have 14-18, sometimes up to 24 residents to myself on any given day and most of them aren't able to do much of anything ...

I'm scratching my head over here wondering how you could have possibly not known to put the PT on isolation precautions immediately. I'm not even a nurse yet and I know to do that. Oh well, live and learn. It sounds like you learned from your mista...

I'm a CNA in LTC and am assaulted at least once/week. Sometimes it's physcial, sometimes it's verbal. One of the Alzheimers patients attacked me so badly it looked like Freddy Krueger had gotten ahold of me. Nothing was done because "she didn't kno...

This thread is making me want to send my husband out for a vasectomy. I had a tubal last summer and I hate reading about people getting pregnant after them. I don't know what I'd do if I found myself pregnant again. I had a tubal for 2 reasons: I ...

I work in LTC and have to deal with some real crazy *** family members from time to time. One woman comes in and spends all freaking day long with her husband, who has cancer and isn't all there mentally anymore. She's up our butts constantly with s...

I'm so glad that people are saying they wouldn't stay in nursing if salary caps were put into place. That's an excellent way to weed out the bad nurses who are only in the profession for the money.

Ooh, goody! A CNA bashing thread! Can we also talk about the lazy nurses while we're at it? I don't like working with lazy CNAs or lazy nurses. BTW, taking your breaks doesn't = lazy. You can't take proper care of another person unless you take c...

Your statement ignores the reality that people tend to be alcoholics or drug addicts due to an underlying mental illness. That's hardly "bringing it upon themselves".

I'm sure it happens but people don't talk about it. I mean, I have a family member who used to be a nun, got involved with her priest, and ended up marrying him. They both left the church and nobody knew until they went public with it. That happen...

I think the fact that you're worrying about it means you'll be ok. I'm more concerned with the people who think they'll breeze through the program.

Of course it is. Everyone has the right to health care, regardless of what politians may think.

In MO, they prefer something like criminal justice, psychology, or sociology. I don't think it really matters, though, as long as you have 60 credit hours with 2 years of experience working with the public or 120 hours with no experience. Go to your...

I have an AA in Criminal Justice so my back-up is working for the state in some capacity, like as a caseworker for foodstamps & medicaid, a corrections officer, highway patrol, etc.

Funny how you take offense to being told you should become a nursing instructor because you'd fit in with them :chuckle. It wasn't meant to be an insult.