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Your answer is an example of horizontal/vertical violence. Your response seems intended to belittle and demean.

Fear not my friend. If you want if badly enough, you WILL do it. And you CAN do it! Sending postive vibes your way!

Yes, but the point is...it can be done. If I had a choice, I certainly wouldn't have worked. But there was no choice. Pregnancy is a totally different ball of wax.

If I had the option, I personally would have done the accelerated program. It's like a bandaid. You just want to rip it off and get it over with. Although, as I have no experience with the accelerated programs, take that advice with a grain of sal...

would have been better had I spelled "experience" correctly the first time. :-)

ADN vs BSN...will it ever end? Nursing school DOES NOT make the nurse. Your experince on the floors and your own critical thinking skills make the nurse. ADN program = 2 years of gen ed + 2 years of nursing core. BSN program = 2 years of gen ed +...

Poop doesn't bother me, never has. If you really want into this career, you get used to it. You also find out that poop is small potatoes. Try a necrotic foot with gaseous gangren. Now THAT will make your stomach turn. Or a patient in DIC who is...

It can be done. I was in your position. My parents let me move back home rent free when I got into nursing school, but they didn't pay my bills, my tuition or carry me on their insurance. I had to do all that on my own. And I did it. I graduated ...

Nice recovery on that one! I don't think I would have been quick enough to think up a story like that.

I had a patient once, post cardiac cath. Her sheath had just been pulled so she was still on bedrest. She had to use the bedpan so myself and my coworker were log rolling her onto the pan. As we were doing so, she was telling us about how hard it ...

My only issue with APA is that every instructor I've ever had all seem to have their own way of doing it. And their way is the "right" way. My sister is a librarian and she always proof reads my papers...and we both shake our heads cause we know th...

It really depends on the location your in. There are jobs out there, but as someone stated earlier, you can't be to terribly picky. I currently work as a tech in a large teaching hospital and we hire BSN and ADN nurses all the time. And yes, once...

Oh, I hate a lot! LOL. But I'm getting towards the end and I am just sooooo over it. I'm tired of the papers, the ATI stress (we have to pass ours, I've heard not every school that utilizes ATI has to pass) and the information overload! I miss my...

So, here's the background info. I'm a tech at a large teaching facility and I am one of the few that work with the STAT team. As in, I get called for particularly tricky IVs, help transport ICU patients to CT/MRI and such and follow our stat RNs (w...

I appreciate all your input. You've all had great input!

Hello all! I'm a senior nursing student in a BSN program in Michigan. I have been employed at a hospital as a tech for 7 years, so while I am not yet a nurse, I am no stranger to the difficulties that face nurses. High acuity patients, high patien...

Your information has been invaluable! Thank you so much! If I can think of anything further, I'll come a-begging you for more info. Just curious, and not at all my business, so feel free to tell me mind my own, but how did you end up in Australia?...

LOL, it's funny you say that. One of my CCRN has been one for about 30 years and she said the same thing the other day. "It used to mean something...sigh."

Assuming your right handed...when you get that flashback, use the thumb and forefinger of your left hand to advance the catheter in. Just make sure you are touching the hub and ONLY the hub. Not the angiocather itself or the end of the hub where th...

I am not a nurse (yet) but I am a STAT tech at a large teaching hospital. I'm called in for difficult IV starts. This is what I tell the people that I precept. Just ignore me if you heard it all before.... 1. Don't go for the vein that you can s...

At the hospital I work at (Michigan) pumps are only used for things like heparin, insulin, cardizem and all the other "big guns." Antibiotics and fluids all run via gravity drips. And I work at a LARGE 700 bed teaching hospital. My nursing school ...

Okay thanks!

LOL, well that explains a lot! I live just across the Canadian boarder...so it's now safe for me to assume that my Guinness here is most assuredly NOT made in Ireland!