november17 ASN, RN

november17 has 9 years experience as a ASN, RN and specializes in Ortho, Case Management, blabla.

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1. Fellow student=back stabbed?

   november17 replied to esrun77's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I was thinking of it in terms of the sheets HR and nursing management uses to score individual applicants these days. Peer interviewing is a buzzword fad. It's just part of the algorithm for hiring...

2. Fellow student=back stabbed?

   november17 replied to esrun77's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   There's a book called the Survival Guide to Working With Humans. It'd be a good little self development project if you're truly interested. Sent from my XT1585 using

3. Fellow student=back stabbed?

   november17 replied to esrun77's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   That's better. My advice; Act professional. Grow a thick skin. Stop worrying what she thinks. This career is no joke. I really truly mean that constructively. Ever hear the phrase "nurses eat their...

4. Fellow student=back stabbed?

   november17 replied to esrun77's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   A) I'm failing to see how her conduct is unprofessional, honestly. B) It sucks you didn't get the job. It sounds like you are blaming her because she was a part of the peer interview part. I doubt...

5. Evil Nurses

   november17 replied to sammiesmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Personally, I'd start looking for another job ASAP. Sent from my XT1585 using

6. Fellow student=back stabbed?

   november17 replied to esrun77's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I think you should act like a professional. Sent from my XT1585 using

7. Fat nurses

   november17 replied to questions1025's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I was 5'9" 240 when I graduated nursing school. One year I decided to start taking my weight seriously. I started paying some attention to what I was eating and worked some light exercise into my...

8. The First Time I Had to Tell a Family That Their Loved One Passed Away

   november17 posted a topic in General Nursing

   The term "actively dying" has always struck me as amusing, because in the end, we're all going to die. So in a sense, no matter how healthy, we're all actively dying. Of course, when we say it at...

9. How did you land your first RN job?

   november17 replied to DL2013's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I got my first job on a Friday, the same day I took my last nursing school exam, and started orientation on Monday. Fortunately the area I graduated in had a need for RNs at the time. Me and three of...

10. YouTube Nurses and Nursing Students. My Top 10 List.

    november17 replied to Not Your Nurse's topic in Nurses Rock

    Once in a while I do a youtube search for nursing school clinical groups that are doing roleplaying as patient/nurse. The naiveness never fails to amuse me. I don't mean that in a mean spirited way,...

11. is LITTMANN still the best brand when it comes to stethoscopes??

    november17 replied to monkago2009's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I don't know about it being the best but I wouldn't trade mine for anything

12. Does becoming a CNA help you if you want to become an RN?

    november17 replied to Becca014's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I was an aide for several years before and during nursing school. Being a CNA is practicing the art of basic nursing care. That is taught in nursing school, sure, but it isn't practiced very much...

13. Have Male Nursing Students felt bias during class/clinicals?

    november17 replied to Murse Wannabe's topic in Male Nursing Students

    If you mean numerically dominating, then yes. I've really had no experiences with it being gender biased at all as far as instruction or practice - unless the coin operated tampon dispenser in the...

14. Coping with large patient assignments due to staffing issues

    november17 replied to Spretty's topic in General Nursing

    And make sure your people are writing variances for every single little thing that happens due to being short-staffed. It will encourage management to address the problem faster since they'll start to...

15. How to chart I&Os

    november17 replied to RNstudent13renee's topic in General Students

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