Val_998 BSN, RN

Perfect answer. The thought process is concerning.

I really hope you're not insinuating a comparison to concentration camp victims. That's disgusting.

I logged in after like a year just to comment on this having received this in the Allnurses email sendout. I honestly cannot believe you would even consider calling out as an option being that your staff, patients and Co manager depend on you. ...

You are not looking at this from the perspective that the OP is asking. This isn't about some ethical dilemma or hypothetical situations (pt's don't hold their faces up to flaming stoves while wearing cannula) I had a pt once who smoked at home, and ...

I know how you feel, I also cannot stand bedside nursing. My patience level is not what it could be and interaction with people drains energy from me faster than physical activity ever could. I've had several different jobs and the one I enjoyed most...

Msmoe16, not all places make assignments this way, but it does happen, charge nurses would rather avoid making their own people the dumping ground. However, as I said, it does make you a stronger nurse so I feel they are doing their own nurses a diss...

I've only gotten fired twice by patients, and they were aggressive, threatening and verbally abusive. Both times my managers were on my side and aware as these patients had been making hell for the other nurses prior to me coming along. I was pissed ...

IV therapy isn't quite the same as phlebotomy. There are also a lot of factors that go into placing a line and managing it, knowing what medications will do to the veins. I think outpatient infusion would be a good place to start especially if they a...

Perhaps you could try to reach your goal from a different angle? As a hospice RN, you have great experience with oncology, symptom management, and working with vascular access as often patients will have PICC or ports. What if you try outpatient infu...

In a few places that I've worked, any trauma line or field line must be replaced no later than 48hrs and all tubing changed. They are considered "dirty".

Our policy is very similar, except I believe 4.50 is the on call pay. On top of that, I'm in the float pool so I'm scheduled more than I end up working, I'm on call pretty often. I've gotten called in as late as 230 am with a 1hr time to make it in. ...

im about a month into my junior year of a 4 year rn program at my university, and honestly, ive never been super interested in nursing, but i knew it was a needed job with good pay and oppurtunities, so i applied to nursing school, and did great on a...

@pneumothorax- i agree with you on basically everything that you said. that is exactly why two years ago when i got into clinicals that i felt i would never be able to handle the "changing oozing purulent wounds, emptying bedpans full of waste and wi...

Thanks miss jamie, i am very excited, as soon as i get my 1-2 years of experience im hoping to be a travel nurse somewhere awesome like hawaii or california, another great perk of nursing :)

PS forgot to add, I'm still not a 'soft and squishy' nurse, BUT I did have my senior internship in the emergency room and it was the best clinical I had! I think I'm going to aim for critical care nursing, and I definitely do not want L and D or psyc...

Hey everyone! I guess I never realized that I had so many helpful responses to my post, or that I was the only one who felt that way about nursing.... Life has a funny way of working out though, 2 years, LOTS of hard work, clinicals, blood/sweat/tear...

75 questions, many meds, 10-11 SATA, and the good popup!!!!! thanks everyone for your support :)

ahhhhh 8am!!! praying for some sleep, the good pop up tomorrow and better news in 48 hrs lol!

I havent taken either of the courses, but based on the books they have to accompany the studying, the hurst review really does seem to go over the core content of what you need to know for the exam and the questions in the back are so much more deta...

GOOD LUCK and let us know about all the good popups!

congrats!!!!

July 7th also here! I'm planning on doing a good amount of studying every day until the night before, when I'm gonna relax and go out to a movie.... fingers crossed.... btw I'm using a book called comprehensive nclex rn review by hogan... she was my ...

im using nclex 3500 (along with several other sources...) mainly for the fact that you can select alternate format questions to practice with instead of just multiple choice, i get more out of the rationales whether Im right or wrong

July 7th as well!!!! I'm definitely scared of the big bad test, and I do feel like I just won't feel prepared for it no matter how much I study or how many questions I answer... Good luck to us all :)

this is so helpful!! I take the big test July 7th (ahhh) and have also been getting scores in the 60s and a few 70s wondering how I will ever be able to pass. I didn't take any review courses but I am using prentice hall's comprehensive review book ...