Danelle

Our administrator was honest and said it was so SHE (not the patients) and the other employees could walk on any unit/floor and know immediately who the nurses/techs/secretaries were. Which, to me, makes more sense than thinking the patients are goi...

I'm DONE TOO!!!!! We had our pinning today!:balloons: :balloons: :balloons: I can't wait to start my new job in the SICU after the new year!

Like they say here when there is a mandatory evacuation: A mandatory evacuation means that if residents choose to stay then there will be no one to rescue them if something happens. They can call 911 all night long, but nobody will be able to help....

Like legalnurse asked, where are you staying? Here in Mobile, the state psych facility in the northern part of the county was advertising that they were hiring a few weeks ago. And I know of another in town that takes children and adolescents as we...

I've run into this in nursing school. I met a lady the other day that just started nursing school who is a MA. I asked why she decided to go to nursing school. She said "Well, I've been working as a nurse and doing everything a nurse does for 15 y...

My OB/GYN is female and has never had children and my husband and I absolutely love her! I could not imagine having anyone else support me during my delivery. I do understand where you are coming from though, my mother did not approve of my child's...

I will agree that it is not your place to inform the school. That being said, I completely understand where you are coming from. everyone that has been to nursing school can be as non-judgemental and supportive as they like, however, there is tha...

I received Demerol IM post-op from ankle surgery. I hated it. It only worked for an hour or two, but could only be given every four hours. I had IV access, by the way. I was in pain all night and all the next day. My nurses called the doctor 4 tim...

At my school, they did teach dosage calculations. However, the dosage calculation test that we take is 10 questions and has to be passed with 100%. You have three trys and if you don't pass, you have to sit out a semester and retake the test when i...

A three ring hole puncher--I have a desk one and a small flat one that clips into my binder. Great for all of those handouts in class. On a lighter note....Vodka and apple-tini mix for AFTER those miserable Med-Surg tests

At my school, the RN's and LPN's take the same classes the first 2 semesters, and then the third lpn semester is different, as it is their last, and the rn's move on to their second year. If this is the case at your school, then you would be with he...

My cousin had a c-section last year and came out of it so upset because during the delivery the anesthesiologist berated her because she made the choice not to breastfeed. She basically told her that if she cared about her baby at all then she woul...

I had a patient who has been a quad for over 25 years and he said that he used to have metal foley bags...said they were a pain because they would rust:rolleyes: Had an 80 something year old patient that was an RN trained in the 40's. She quit in the...

A really good vacation...You won't get another one until school's over. A really, really good house cleaning...You probably won't have time for much more than clean clothes, clean dishes and clean sheets until school's over:lol2: I second the antib...

I went out with a guy named Wrangler. My friend named her baby boy Climpston. I knew a sad young mom who was an addict and named her son Dylan Kane (dealing cocaine) I have a friend that named her child Dixie Mary Cilana. Cilana is not the last name...

Too bad you don't live here in south alabama or the florida panhandle. You could just put plywood on the outside of your windows and nobody would think it looked strange at all. Half of the houses around here still have the boards up from Hurricane ...

i used to have this written on my notebook to help me make it through med-surg: it's supposed to be hard! if it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. the hard... is what makes it great!----tom hanks, a league of their own this is a southernism that my d...

I had the seatbelt/helmet law discussion with my Dh's step mother who was a paramedic in Florida for many years. we both agreed that with the helmets, yes people should wear them, but it should be your right to choose. Some parts of Florida (I'm no...

My school too!!! We have a 97% pass rate, but only 20/150 ever made it to NCLEX.

Sorry, it has taken so long to respond. trust me that it is not my test taking. I have yet to make less than a "b" in any class until now and I usually have the best grade in my class on the HESI every semester. Our teachers use the same testing ...

Ok, here's the thing. I am in semester 4 of a 5 semester ADN program. We started with approx. 90 students in fundamentals (60 day, 30 night). Now in semester 4 we have only 9 (yes 9!!!) students left that have not failed at least 1 class .... many ha...

Rarely, you have to be careful about the "if their cervix does not dilate, they are not in true labor" A friend of mine with scar tissue on her cervix from some sort of procedure to remove pre-cancerous cells started having contractions at about 4 a...

Thanks for the replies. Those numbers did not include those that are in class with us now because they were ahead of us and failed. I am sure of those numbers. We only lost a few (2 or 3) to personal/medical dropouts. There are 6 people in the clas...

I fully recommend getting the HESI book. We have to take a HESI test for each subject we take each semester and an exit hesi. I used the book last semester and made over 1200 (99.99%) on both of the tests I took (psych and peds). There are section...

For me, it's not the substance, it's the sound. I can clean vomit all day, but if I hear them heave, I'm going to heave too.