bewitched

so, i was a great student in high school and got into the university of florida, no problem. but for the next two years, i worked my butt off trying to commute 2 hrs a day and do all of my pre-bsn nursing program coursework. despite my hardest effo...

RNs are amazing people, and it's not because they know three languages, play in an orchestra, or write like Shakespeare. It's not even whether or not they had a 4.0 GPA in school. The best nurse I know struggled through high school, struggled throu...

Just saw this on my Facebook... Florida Hospital in Orlando, FL is apparently hosting an RN Job Fair on May 5. The ad stated that there are sign-on and relocation bonuses... Here is their website, with pre-registration for the event. Looks like the...

Realistically, like normal human beings.

I'm a 1st semester nursing student and we've just had our first test, one week in. I did good as a whole, but one of the questions really stuck out to me and I want to see if I'm remembering my Anatomy and Physiology right or what. The question was...

We're supposed to be using our Davis Drug Guides to answer the following: "Research the routes for morphine. Other than the IV route, what 3 routes of morphine are more reliably absorbed than po and give a rationale for your answer based on the instr...

Nope. Just "which of these findings in a client would you report to the PCP" basically.

I think their rationale was that diaphoresis/sweating is *meant* to lower body temperature. I just figure any majorly noticeable loss of body temperature is something I'd report to the physician, but then again, I've only got one week of real nursin...

This is a great thread, I've been laughing since I opened it. Keep 'em coming.

I don't know if this helps or not, but there is a pretty lengthy thread somewhere around here about med errors etc... I can't seem to find it right this second. Maybe someone else has the link?

I'd also suggest taking Biology, Chemistry, and Anatomy&Physiology in high school if at all possible. Try to take these on an AP level to take the AP exams and get college credit for them! You don't need physics, but you do need to take at le...

I made the mistake of loaning my physiology textbook to someone who didn't return it, and now I'm trying to find a physiology textbook online that I can purchase and ship for fairly cheap. I don't mind an older edition so long as it's still fairly a...

I've looked around the other threads about Littmann's here but haven't quite found the type of thread I'm looking for. My fiancee wants to buy me a Littmann Cardiology III stethoscope from medisave.net, but before he does I wanted to check and make s...

Wooow, just read this gem on there--"The good thing about PAs is that they embrace the practice of medicine, unlike nurses, who degrade medicine, claim to be practicing nursing, and yet desperately wish they were part of medicine." I just went on to ...

My mother's company wants her to work in Oklahoma in a month or so, and she's been licensed there before in 1989, but it is considered "lapsed" by the BON's system now (obviously). She also has several licenses in other states but Oklahoma's not a c...

I guess I don't understand why it bugs you...?

Um. No offense, but if you don't like it don't read it? I love giggling at these funny names. :)

I feel that nursing is a good fit for my personality, as well as my interests; I have always been fascinated by medicine and the biological sciences. But when people ask, I will tell them that if nursing only paid minimum wage, I wouldn't do it. I ...

Interesting how the book notes that "the public thinks that delivery is something that requires no special care" and that women are "admitted due to the complications of delivery" at home etc, whereas today women are made to think that they can't pos...

No, you need a device. Sorry!

I've never heard of this but my M-I-L has a non-healing post-surgical wound on one of her ankles from Achilles Tendon surgery. This surgery was a year and a half ago and it just doesn't want to close up completely. I looked at MediHoney's website ...

In one of the free Kaplan eBooks referred to in this thread, Final Moments: Nurses' Stories About Death and Dying, I just read a short story called "Never Too Late" by Rachel Shinabarger, RN. The text of this touching story about a student nurse's f...

I am actually surprised that more hospitals don't prefer ADN just for the sheer fact that they'd be saving roughly $1-$2 an hour per ADN, if they're a facility with a pay difference between ADN + BSN.

There is an OR Nurse Internship Program open at Florida Hospital right now, guys! :)

If you are considering having kids + going to school at the same time, you might look into local colleges' Child Education/Childcare programs. I know the college I will be attending for my nursing school offers free childcare in order to teach those...