Fannie'sMom BSN, RN

Hi there! So it occurs to me that while I'm interested in becoming a traveler I DO NOT want to work overnights and wondering if that may be a problem. So a couple of questions come to mind regarding scheduling and such. Are there day positions for...

hello all. i am hoping someone in the chicagoland area may be able to help me. i just graduated from nursing school and 32 hours post graduation my classmates started complaining on our facebook page that they were bored. well i told them i was going...

Hi Friends! Hope you can help with a couple of research/resource questions. Just as an FYI, I'm not a traveler yet and am in the beginning stages of conducting comprehensive research on all aspects of traveling, as I am looking to begin travelin...

OMG...Yes! Ebay is a great resource, as well as Half.com (an sister company of Ebay), Alibris, Abebooks, Amazon, and Betterworldbooks. I've used them all, plus a few others I cannot remember now. Just be VERY CAREFUL about buying the right book....

Congrats on the new gig; way to go! While I do not have a book that encompasses all that you require, I do have an AMAZING EKG book that I would highly recommend. As a little background, I just transferred from Med-Surg to Telemetry 8 wks ago and ...

Yea, good news!!! Thanks so much guys for your responses; I really appreciate it!!! Kim

Hi there! I am in the process of researching travel nursing and I've read a lot of great stuff from this site and have taken extensive notes. Now I am wondering if you could read the sketch of the plan I have and share any thoughts, experiences, o...

Thanks so much to both of you for your responses. Good to hear about Mammoth Lakes, as that's near the Northeast entrance, which is exactly where I want to be. I googled nursing jobs at national parks and saw the gig you mentioned. I loved how the...

Hi there, thanks for reading my post. Just for context let me start by saying that I have been an RN (med/surg) for THREE WHOLE DAYS now and am looking for some opinions/advice regarding a patient I had the other night. During my initial assessment ...

Thanks for setting me straight; one more lesson learned :-)

As best as I can remember, there was no physician diagnosis. I am guessing by that question that if it had not previously been identified, I should have called the doctor to advise her/him?

Thanks to Followyourbliss for your post; your suggestions are very helpful as I am a new med/surg nurse and looking for resources/direction to increase my knowledge of wound care.

BLESSINGS UPON YOU for reading this!!! I am hoping my fellow Illinois Nurses could share with me some of their wisdom, knowledge, experiences, and suggestions/tips regarding how the nursing hiring process actually works at hospitals, and how one goe...

hi clodhopper. i must compliment you for thinking ahead, as you are going to want an edge two years from right now when you are searching for your first nursing job. i am a second career new nurse grad (graduated 3 months ago w/my bsn for a local ...

Hello friends, I need some honest opinions from people outside my circle, as all of my fellow students share my same opinion and all the faculty blow sunshine up my you know what, when I even hint that the situation isn't right. So here is the deal.....

Believe it or not, yes.

Dear nurseclm, Honestly, the first time I read your post I almost thought you were responding to a different thread, because it didn't seem to connect w/the main topic of this thread-my crapy clinical assignments. Additionally, it came off as somewha...

Well nurseclm if you are speaking to me (the original poster of this thread) I will agree that some of my time and a lot of my money were wasted, however I believe it is a mistake to be so quick to dismiss the abilities of anyone in my situation, as ...

Dear Itrnkoczy, First, thank you for your reply and second, nothing has changed in 7 years. They are still using that same buzz phrase (and had to laugh hard because I feel the same way) and they are still promoting the idea of the BSN nurse startin...

No disrespect to Krosho, but do a lot of research when it comes to Chamberlain. I was seriously looking at them for fall of 2010 and they just didn't seem to have their act together...couldn't return a call to save their life, wanted me to take a ma...

I am not 100% certain this will help, but if I may, I will briefly share my story, as it seems as if we were/are in similar shoes. I was 37, in a cush job making good $$$ with lots benefits. My plan was to retire at 42, leave all that behind (as I di...

I worked in a courthouse for 9 years and my last assignment of 6 years was in a courtroom that heard medical malpractice cases. I concur with with the majority; a judge or jury ruled in favor of the defendent/defense.

Hello again friends, Some people just don't get it. They see what they want to see, they hear what they want to hear, and they can't look beyond their own presumptions. There is no point in trying to have an open exchange with people like that, as it...

Two words was all I read and thank you for proving my point so well. Character, not education, dictates how people treat each other!!! :kiss

update from the dean of nursing... i am such a tease, but before i give you the update, i would like to comment of a few things i've read from new posters since i last wrote. regarding the post that said: "dear am i crazy, what exactly were you expe...