chasemelony

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1. Who is to blame

   chasemelony replied to Finallydidit's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Op, it seems like you know a lot of details about this story. Do you happen to be one of the characters in this

2. Stop being so miserable

   chasemelony replied to mkhoaja's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Love the humor after everyone is getting so serious about what a nursing student posted. It's not that serious people! One of the many ways a nurse is able to be a nurse is if she shadows a nurse...

3. Accelerated BSN at Valparaiso

   chasemelony replied to careerswap's topic in Indiana Nursing

   Congrats on being accepted :anpom: I love their program. It's challenging but if you put the time and effort into studying, you will be fine. The Professors are very nice and understanding. They are...

4. How do you handle the smells and control your gag reflex?

   chasemelony replied to MiahMSN's topic in General Nursing

   I was the same way before I started my nursing career. I became a CNA at the age of 17, so before I started nursing school, which im currently in now, I got use to all of that. At first it is nasty...

5. Question! Best and Worst departments to work in @ the hospital?

   chasemelony replied to chasemelony's topic in General Nursing

   Love the discriptions :) I was thinking about doing the ER but I mite want something a lil more calm (now im not saying that there are departments that u don't have to work hard because all require a...

6. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   chasemelony replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

   What is ECT if you don't mind me

7. Nurses with Sickle Cell Disease

   chasemelony posted a topic in Nurse Disabilities

   Hello, I am currently in nursing school for my BSN. Going to school can be challenging when I have a pain crisis. Everything is sooo much harder on me when I am in pain. I can barely think let alone...

8. Question! Best and Worst departments to work in @ the hospital?

   chasemelony posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello to all, I am currently in nursing school. I don't know which department will interest me just yet, but I would like to hear the experiences that some of you nurses have had in departments that...

9. What are the pre-nursing classes like?

   chasemelony replied to TCLA's topic in General Nursing

   Out of the pre-reqs, chemistry & micro-bio. So far the actual nursing program isn't too bad, just a lot of reading and material that you have to know. The test are much different in the nursing...

10. Addicts!!! NURSES How do you seperate addicts from pts. who really are in pain?!

    chasemelony replied to chasemelony's topic in General Nursing

    Some pts. have told me they over heard the nurse say that they were drug seekers (addicts). As for me, the doc did it indirectly. He said "Your blood count is not that high, why do you need more pain...

11. possible to go from nothing to BSN online?

    chasemelony replied to cdu22's topic in General Nursing

    Some of the post were kind of mean... As adults, all you have to do is explain to her that the nursing field is a challenging field and if she is not up for all the hard work she has to put into the...

12. Addicts!!! NURSES How do you seperate addicts from pts. who really are in pain?!

    chasemelony replied to chasemelony's topic in General Nursing

    And I truly respect that. I've heard that a pt. died from a sickle cell attack because the nurses and docs just thought she was lying so they left her there. Nurses and Docs need to assess pts. the...

13. Addicts!!! NURSES How do you seperate addicts from pts. who really are in pain?!

    chasemelony posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok let me make this short and straight to the point... I am currently in nursing school for my BSN, and at the same time I have sickle cell disease. Basically I've been the patient plenty of times and...

14. Not sure how I'm going to survive

    chasemelony replied to BabyLady's topic in General Nursing

    I thought nurses made lots of money... I don't

15. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    chasemelony replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    I know this may be a crazy question, but why do ppl stick animals up their