My schools have been closed since Friday, but school nurses are employed through the health department here, so we're being utilized as public health nurses while this is ongoing. We've done...
I'm totally new to PDN. I was offered a job for an agency and will start training next week. There are a handful of cases in my area, but they're split among multiple offices, the closest of which is...
It must be catching. The NM on my surgical floor just decided to put all the nurses on a track for weekends. We're supposed to start working every third weekend. Our input wasn't requested in the...
Thought this would be the thread to share this, since we've discussed availability of appropriate PPE during a pandemic. Anxiety in Mexico City Near the end, there are a few healthcare workers...
Thanks for the input, everybody. I found out last night that I'm not the only nurse on the floor who's upset about this. It reassured me to hear that even nurses with 10+ years experience are worried...
Hope it's alright to put this under general discussion. I just wanted to get some other nurses' opinions on a new staffing grid that's supposedly going to be unveiled during our next unit meeting at...
Took NCLEX on Saturday, June 7th. I wasn't feeling too great about it. I took it out of town (in Asheville, NC) and spent the night before with my best friend who lives there. Well, there were 4 kids...
Me too, me too!! Well, I graduated Tuesday night. Pinning ceremony was the night before. I had this horrible nightmare the night before graduation that one of my instructors came up to me right...
Very little experience here since I'm still a student, but thought I'd give it a go. One of the ways the kidneys help control acid-base balance is by forming and reabsorption of bicarb. In kidney...
I started the ADN program at CPCC in fall '06. I finished Fundamentals and Psych and then withdrew near the end of last spring semester during Adult Nursing. I've been accepted to start back this...
Unfortunately, this isn't true in all states. In NC, sexual preference isn't added to the list of protections against discrimination unless a company adds it by free choice to their employment...
To be honest, I really don't know. I don't study any more than my classmates do - in fact, I'm pretty sure I study less. I'm never the best clinical student, either, but our clinicals don't affect our...