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  1. What was your first year of nursing school like?

    linzjane88 posted a topic in General Students

    Hello all! After stalking the post office for the last week my ACCEPTANCE letter finally came! :yeah:I start a 24 month ADN program January 2012. Sheesh, I was shaking as I was reading it. As with...

  2. nursing DX help

    linzjane88 replied to linzjane88's topic in General Students

    Thanks so much! Sounds fancier than I would have thought to put it too . Everyone keeps saying "One day this will just come to you". I think thats far in the future! Thanks again

  3. nursing DX help

    linzjane88 posted a topic in General Students

    i don't know why this is so difficult for me to wrap my head around. i am having no problems getting the information, assessing the patient, and getting an idea of the nursing diagnosis label to work...

  4. I feel so embarrased and feel like harrased...

    linzjane88 replied to neeke816's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

  5. Area of hospital with minimal vomit...

    linzjane88 replied to alxndria.mrqtt's topic in General Nursing

    DON'T let it stop you from anything. You can get over it! I too had/have emetephobia. I am also a nursing student . I dealt with it from the time I was a small child (BAD vomit experience). When I was...

  6. I'm new here, but this forum needs a Staff Lounge...

    linzjane88 replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    Going to have to agree to disagree on that one. Took me almost 3 years to discover it! I like that there is minimal "I am going to make an account today to post a major life question/homework...

  7. OB--When it's good it's good and when it's not...it's heartbreaking.

    linzjane88 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I absolutely love where I work. Being as that we are a small hospital we see usually less than 100 deliveries a month. When things don't go as planned and when new moms and dads have to go home empty...

  8. OB--When it's good it's good and when it's not...it's heartbreaking.

    linzjane88 replied to linzjane88's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Oddly enough I was able to make it the whole shift without crying. The second I stepped off the floor though....I was a mess. A while back we had two in one day. That never happens (like I said, were...

  9. If I see one more post titled....

    linzjane88 replied to PinkRocksLikeMe's topic in General Nursing

    Yes! I like to look at it glass half full. When I pull up AN, I click to what looks like the dumbest question 1st! In my head I am thinking "fight! fight! fight!". I don't like to stir the pot, but I...

  10. "Hidden" cameras on the floor--do you have them??

    linzjane88 posted a topic in General Nursing

    After a few years of being undermanaged on our floor (we went through 7+ managers in ten years so issues were never followed up on) we recently got a new manager who seems to want to stay a while. A...

  11. I ♥ downstaffing!

    linzjane88 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I managed to get put on call 4 days on this rotation, so when my next scheduled day comes around I will have had 13 days off straight. What other field can you work in where you get random days off? I...

  12. I ♥ downstaffing!

    linzjane88 replied to linzjane88's topic in General Nursing

    Our union has worked out that we still earn our PTO on days we've been called off and we have the option of not using it if we like. I didnt find that out for a long time too. On call got much more...

  13. I ♥ downstaffing!

    linzjane88 replied to linzjane88's topic in General Nursing

    And to be fair, my husband changed careers and got a job that supports us without my income. After 4 years of being the full time working breadwinner I think I enjoy my 'home time' a little more than...

  14. If I Said on Here What I Wanted to Say.

    linzjane88 replied to DixieRedHead's topic in General Nursing

    Your soapbox is

  15. Your body did what?!?

    linzjane88 replied to pink_shoes99's topic in General Nursing

    More! More! I enjoy

  16. If I Said on Here What I Wanted to Say.

    linzjane88 replied to DixieRedHead's topic in General Nursing

    Glass half full! You made it a whole, what, ten pages before you "got one". Wait. That was bitter. I mean Unicorns and

  17. Potentially great job while in nursing school "unoffered" because of HR

    linzjane88 posted a topic in General Students

    I have worked at our local hospital for over 4 years now in a few departments, most recently as a Unit Secretary on L & D. While I LOVE the people, what we do (who doesnt love having babies?!),...

  18. Potentially great job while in nursing school "unoffered" because of HR

    linzjane88 replied to linzjane88's topic in General Students

    Thanks :) I really do want to thank the nurse manager. She went to bat for me and tried her hardest to win them over. She felt really bad about the whole thing. Thanks for the advice--no letter...

  19. DEPRESSED New grad. What are we suppose to do?

    linzjane88 replied to Newgrad_STAT's topic in General Nursing

    Apply at anything and everything, even where they say they want experience. I just got a job as an ED Tech (start nursing program in January) and on the application is said "Required 1 year...

  20. "Hidden" cameras on the floor--do you have them??

    linzjane88 replied to linzjane88's topic in General Nursing

    I work on OB too. We have cameras all over the place--that has never been hidden.In fact we have a monitor setup at our nurses station to view the different cameras--entrances, exits, lobbys, etc....

  21. Any phobias you overcame to become a nurse?

    linzjane88 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am looking for a little entertainment Have any of you had to overcome any phobias to become a nurse? I am starting the nursing program in January (finally!) and it is hitting me that I am within...

  22. Any phobias you overcame to become a nurse?

    linzjane88 replied to linzjane88's topic in General Nursing

    I really think its the sound that bothers me the most. The wretching noise itself followed by the

  23. Any phobias you overcame to become a nurse?

    linzjane88 replied to linzjane88's topic in General Nursing

    Cowboys and crop dusting. Didnt expect the thread to go this direction....mmmmm....Cowboy's..... :redbeathe....wait, what? Maybe a good lookin' southern man vomiting wouldn't be so bad.

  24. Unlicensed caregiver?!?!

    linzjane88 replied to caregiver1977's topic in General Nursing

    I am in Washington and my CNA class was $600 and you could split up the payments. I chose an accelerated evening class that was Tues/Thurs 6-10 and Saturdays 9-5 for 4 weeks. There are many nursing...

  25. What's the L&D visiting policy at your hospital?

    linzjane88 replied to byrd262's topic in Ob/Gyn

    *As a Unit Secretary on the OB floor (hopefully future L&D nurse!), here is how it works with us: *No set visiting hours. As long as the patient is accepting visitors its fine with us *2 support...