threelittlebirds

My first three years of nursing school, I was sick (miserably sick!!!) for a week every two months. Sinus infections, tonsillitis, colds, the flu...Now that I'm finishing up my fourth year, I haven't been sick for a very long time! I guess my body fi...

Sounds like it went very well :) Hang in there, good luck!!!!!

Honestly, I couldn't "get" ECGs until I took ACLS and PALS and had to memorize them. My instructors taught them, but I never really understood until I sat down with the material right in front of me and took practice test after practice test. PALS ha...

Something else to consider- going out of state for your education. The college I am graduating from has an excellent nursing program, and it was not difficult to get into, if your grades are good. (I had a GPA of 3.5, I think, when I got in- minimum ...

Okay, I'm not comfortable with the personal judgments going on in this thread, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. This forum is not, contrary to popular belief, about exchanging harsh judgments. Sorry, OP, that you're seeing this- shouldn't h...

My boyfriend has to cover his tattoos, and he wears long-sleeved underarmour heat gear. It actually keeps him cooler. They also make flesh colored sleeves that you can wear just on that arm to cover tattoos, and maybe a bandaid (of whatever size) on ...

New grad, northwest, acute/chronic, $23/hour. Hope this helps!

Mine too! About 10 lbs when you factor in clothes and some food in your gut. As much as I realize that they don't care, I don't want that number on my record!

I can see how it can get really annoying with people behaving this way...but I know how it feels to be on the other side of it. I was in urgent care once for what my primary care later determined was panic disorder, complaining of palpitations and fe...

There are still people in my nursing class (graduating in 8 weeks) who cheated their way through a&p and who knows how many other classes. Our school has a 95-100% NCLEX pass rate. I sure hope it catches up with them, but I don't think it ever wi...

You will likely get a lot more time with your patients as an NP...and the focus of care is very different. It's a lot more holistic, caring for the whole person as opposed to treating a clinical disease process. Are you in a nursing program? Do you l...

Wow! I'm doing my final clinical rotation in dialysis and it is nothing like this...all LPNs and RNs, mixture of acute and chronic, no more than 4 patients/nurse...in a hospital, I always get a lunch break...Plenty of time to assess and talk to the p...

Perhaps in the future, you will compare your skills to those around you and perform ongoing self evaluation...so as to not be reliant on the preceptors who've failed you.

Of course the clinical instructor can be wrong. But so can you. You solicited advice on a public forum, and you're getting it. I'm sorry that every person who reads your posts does not agree with your perspective. But I do not think it is appropriat...

Can I ask what they were investigating/how it all turned out? Glad it's worked out for you and you're feeling better, knowing it wasn't your fault :)

What?! Theory is everything.If you're not using it in absolutely everything you do, that could be your problem. Know what you're doing before you do it. Know why. If you don't, ask...and learn it. I think that you might have misunderstood your prece...

Are you a nurse?

Thank you for the laugh :) This made my night!

Haha...you should be safe. I'm a 20 year old nursing student and I was the first one to say something. I'll protect you! There's absolutely no way anyone can accuse me of young-eating! :) Although now that I say it, what do you bet somebody will prov...

As a student myself, I feel your pain, but allnurses.com is not the place to complete your homework assignments. The purpose is to get you out into the community interacting with nurses. I don't know how far along in your education you are, but you w...

I think it does happen everywhere...In a different job, I once heard that I had slept with four of the male managers. I dated one of them casually...and briefly...with no sex at all...years before. Explains why some of the new hires were so gosh darn...

I've experienced this too...many patients have attempted to take advantage of the fact that I am a student and ask for multiple boxes of tissue, wipes, toothbrushes, toothpaste....because apparently being a semester away from my degree is equivalent ...

I was 17 years old when I went to fill my birth control prescription for the first time at the pharmacy next to my religious college campus. I won't go into details, but the religiously and judgmentally motivated nature of the conversation with the p...

What we were taught was that we could be pleasant, but no more than we would be with any other stranger... unless they initiated more interaction. For example, you could make eye contact and say hello, but unless they started up a conversation, or in...

I'm a junior in my four year program, and have spent the last three years in the dorms...My freshman year, it was wonderful. I loved my roommate, never had a problem studying or sleeping, and still had plenty of social time. My sophomore year, I had ...