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How many days a week do you work in the staff nurse role? I've been told I am to be the RN two days a week and am alotted three "director days" a week. Is this normal? I've never worked in this environment (voluntary residential psych) and never been...

That's what I think, too. We only have two nurses for up to 32 clients. They don't all take meds, but many of them need a LOT of attention so the days are busy, and with admissions and discharges and panic attacks and questions and BPD... oh LORD, ho...

I think what he meant to say was, “More nurses will not improve my profits.”

I’m a school nurse which is the perfect job for me and my family’s needs EXCEPT for the pay. Oh, the pay. I have $29 after paying rent and one smallish bill immediately after my paycheck dropped last night. That’s right. $29 to live on for two weeks....

Why didn't she call the pharmacy first and ask about the med not showing up?! Sure, she may have been rushed, but GOOD LORD. If Versed is ordered, it doesn't show up in the Pyxis, you type in VE on override and something else shows up, you DON'T PICK...

LOL! Oops! I meant to type "$39K", as in $39,000 a year. Minus taxes and benefits, I end up with $2000 a month. I thought I could make it work. WRONG. As for cost of living, yes, it has increased dramatically around here in the past few years. From o...

In Metro Nashville, I am an employee of the city Health Department within Metro Government, which has excellent benefits. I divide my days evenly between two schools which are just down the road from each other. We work on the students' calendar with...

NOW do you guys understand why doing mouth care is so important?!

Right. I once said to a parapro who brought in a student she just really did not want to deal with that day (temp was in the lower 98's), "She feels warm because she's alive" and laughed so she wouldn't slap me.

Heck yeah! If the student has made it clear they are Christian, and they are in need of prayer, then how could I not?

Student comes to clinic with 45 minutes left in the day saying her sore throat is worse and looks all sad and wilted. I tell her go get your backpack and just wait for the bus in here with me. She comes back, plops down and proceeds to talk for the n...

I've already got a BS in Psychology, but what I want to really do with my life is nursing. I'm enrolled at Nashville State and got one on-campus class (A&P I) and one RODP class (Microbiology). I called TSU, TSU at Vol State and Nashville State a...

Do it! Go all the way! We have three women in our program who are 50 and above and a couple others who are in their 40's, and they are doing great. I think you have two advantages over younger students: life experience and your kids are self-sufficie...

I'm in my third semester of nursing school.Tonight at clinical my patient had cellulitis caused by MRSA from a neglected PICC line. Go ahead and laugh at/berate me for my ignorance, but i was confused by her arm that seemed totally fine, but she had ...

It was in her chart. It had been placed to admin antibiotics before surgery because of a previous MRSA infection. Home health nurse failed to show to assess/change it, finally arrived three days late and found her legs swollen and hot. The pt said he...

Dr. R. rules!

I'm assuming you were at the meeting Wednesday? : ) Wish I'd seen this before, because I would've told you the same thing the day you posted this that I'll tell you today. Just fill out the FAFSA and THEN pursue answers. Get that paperwork done and ...

Can someone give me an idea of the daily time span of nursing school around Nashville? Can you go just the hours the kids are in school without having to pay for before and after care? When I'm getting paid to be involved in nursing, it won't be a pr...

Bowman, by any chance?

So I would probably be able to drop off and pick up the kids from school myself?! As long as I have that, I can work around the rest.

Thanks! Microbiology was super tough online, but I managed to get away with a B+! I agree about Belmont. It's just too doggone expensive! And you have to take 6 hours of religion courses, too? My husband works there and could get me a discount, but i...

How do they know, though? That doesn't show up on your transcript, does it?

Thank you. That's encouraging. I think I'm going to go down to NSCC in person and ask an advisor face to face. Apparently, no one answers their school emails over the summer, except Belmont.

Huh. Well. So Belmont will accept credits MTSU won't. Did you know if you already have a Bachelor's that you can earn RN with an Associate's and then get an MSN online? MTSU's online advisor told me this. Good to know. Of course, if you get into Belm...