devi ADN, BSN

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 everything from phone triage to covid-19 swabbing to active...

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 over an hour away. The cases won't be too difficul...

Thanks for the response, Kitiger. I'm hoping my agency works the same way. If you have to take a verbal doctor's order, does that get faxed or mailed, too?

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 decision-making process at all...we were all simply pu...

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 complaining about not being given masks at the hospital. ...

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 work because I'm not sure if I'm overreacting. I'm...

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 about it. Many say they're going to voice their co...

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 at her house that night...4 very hyper, unsleepy ...

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 before graduation - already in my cap and gown and all...

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 failure, they don't do too great a job of that (among ...

Like a previous poster said, CPCC is all about the points. I was never put on a waiting list.

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 coming spring semester with the graduating class of '...

online, definitely. Good luck!

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 practices. I was fired 5 years ago from a job (not in hea...

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 final grade - just whether we pass or fail. And I...

I had my only child (boy) at 18. Was I ready? Heck, no! But I loved being a mom from the beginning and still do. Part of me wants to have another in a few years, but I'm reluctant to start over again at square one. After all, the silver lining to hav...

I'm so sorry you went through such a humiliating experience! The way those women treated you was ugly and disgusting! :angryfire I've been in a couple of similar situations and was just as shocked and speechless as you were. The difference for me wa...

See, I don't really blame the mothers who would feel it was unfair. They would have the right to expect the same concession because it would be as beneficial for them as it is for the student bringing her baby to class, and they are paying the same t...

This is where I see the biggest problem, too. There are mothers in my class who have to pay so much money to have their children in daycare while they're in school that they are barely scraping by (and some haven't). I can imagine one of those mother...

I'm not sure if it's a generational thing. I'm 26, but I would definitely prefer being called by my surname. After all, I call patients by their last names (unless clearly invited to call them by first names). It's a respectful courtesy and should be...

For the first half of this semester, my class was divided into days and evenings. Half of us (myself included) went 7:30 am - 1:30 pm and the other half went 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm. This was for two days per week. Now that we're starting psych clinicals, ...

Great news! Congrats! :yelclap: :balloons:

I, too, am in the Bible Belt and found sex ed in school seriously lacking. I only had one sex ed class in 7th grade. I went to private parochial school in high school and they didn't teach it at all (well, except don't do it). Personally, I don't app...

I'm sorry about your FA suspension When I worked in financial aid, it was always a sad situation to have to tell a student that he or she was no longer eligible, especially when I knew they had a good reason for it. It has nothing to do with the sch...

I just keep imagining how it would have felt for the last employee left there alone with the remaining residents after all the others had one by one left to evacuate with their families. At least the ones who left first could soothe their consciences...