ThePrincessBride MSN, RN, NP

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    New Nurse With Large Disposable Income

    ThePrincessBride replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have actually found the opposite to be true. The young people I know including myself are the ones traveling the most and saving money because they are splitting their living expenses with their...
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    New Nurse With Large Disposable Income

    ThePrincessBride replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Why not? It is perfectly acceptable and even expected for multiple generations to live under the same roof. I plan to do the same with my mother (she is very excited about watching her future...
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    The Six Month Scream

    ThePrincessBride posted a topic in General Nursing

    AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! It has been six months since I started my job as a new grad on a busy med/surg floor. I have been on my own for four months, and I have to say that I feel myself growing stronger...
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    The Six Month Scream

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    So apparently I am eligible for a transfer, but the person I talked to highly encouraged me to stick it out for a year as HR won't look at my application favorably if I wanted to transfer so soon....
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    Not having kids until 35

    ThePrincessBride replied to waiting4ivpush's topic in General Nursing

    Guys can have children until three days after they die (though I don't suggest you wait that long). Although health risks increase with age, you have to also take into account the socioeconomic...
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    The Six Month Scream

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    You are right. It does feel like forever. And when I do look at positions, I feel like I am cheating on my manager. Right now, there are a few NICU positions opened up. Some are posted every month, it...
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    The Six Month Scream

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for the advice! I will look taking an NRP course through my job. I honestly don't know how I have managed to survive this place as long as I have, and when they instituted the new rule that...
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    The Six Month Scream

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    That is my thought process too. Adult med/surg isn't really going to help me with the itty bitty babies. I am planning on calling HR tomorrow to see where I stand in terms of being able to transfer....
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    The Six Month Scream

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah..they tried to send me a suicidal patient the other week. I called ED. I was pissed. Had I not looked through the chart, my floor would have ended up with another sitter case without appropriate...
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    The Six Month Scream

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    Two years? No thank you! I think I would quit nursing if I had to stay where I am for that long,
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    New Nurse With Large Disposable Income

    ThePrincessBride replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Grossing and netting are two different things. 30x36x4= 4320. As a single and childless person, expect to lose at least 25 percent to taxes. 4320x.25= 1080. 4320-1080= 3240-1200=2040. And that isn't...
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    Encouragement needed - Frustrated and insulted by hourly rates

    ThePrincessBride replied to kemansha1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Looks like someone didn't do their research... I am not sure what you expected. As a new grad, you have zero work experience and nothing to offer to the table. Making 26-32 dollars/hr starting is very...
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    New Nurse With Large Disposable Income

    ThePrincessBride replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am not sure how you will end up with that much money left over. Recheck your math. I make between 29-34 per hour. Without overtime, I net about 3k after taxes, a mandatory pension contribution of...
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    Is the nursing profession causing its own RN shortage?

    ThePrincessBride replied to RNDave's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Sounds like my wet dream... Management at my hospital sounds the exact opposite and instead of looking at the real issues (ridiculous ratios, unsafe work environments, etc), they are forcing everyone...
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    IVs in the breast

    ThePrincessBride replied to kasekin's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure. I think it was a mycin or chemo. I'm leaning more towards
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    IVs in the breast

    ThePrincessBride replied to kasekin's topic in General Nursing

    You are more likely to feel the burn of an extravasation/see signs and symptoms of infiltration earlier on in the hand than in the breasts though. I would like to keep both,
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    IVs in the breast

    ThePrincessBride replied to kasekin's topic in General Nursing

    A lady had a IV in her breast at my hospital. The IV extravasated and she ended up losing her breast. No
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    Aging Nurses - Where do we go?

    ThePrincessBride replied to TamDar429's topic in General Nursing

    Lol. My mom is 53 and runs several miles a day on the treadmill. She is in way better shape than my fat, twenty-something
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    Does everybody want to be a NP?

    ThePrincessBride replied to Cola89's topic in General Nursing

    I know a ton of people who are going for their NP license. Nearly all are going for their FNP. My goal is to become an NNP. I don't see NNPs or psych NPs facing a glut. The rest? Absolutely. I...
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    Jealous Friends...

    ThePrincessBride replied to Upward_Bound's topic in School, College Programs

    According to OP's previous post, the OP took seven years to graduate with an abysmal 2.6 gpa (in psychology, I think), took seven years off and then took another couple of years to do prerequisites....
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    Nurse Practitioner Route: No RN Experience?

    ThePrincessBride replied to meganec17's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Huh? Apparently, a lot of people. See the OP and allnurses for more examples. The NP education, as it is, expects the nurse to come in with a notable amount of experience. The scant amount of clinical...
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    Nurse Practitioner Route: No RN Experience?

    ThePrincessBride replied to meganec17's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I am not an NP. I am a bedside nurse. I have taken classes alongside direct-entry NP students (when they were completing the RN portion of the program). I was not impressed. There are NP schools...
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    New grads are expensive...really?

    ThePrincessBride posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Can someone explain how new grads are an expensive investment? My orientation was barely six weeks on the floor and two weeks of corporate and computer training (all the paper work and stuff). I work...
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    Am I going into the right profession or should I just

    ThePrincessBride replied to Soon2beStudent's topic in Nursing Humor

    If I had millions, I would LEAVE nursing, lol. Or at least my current
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    Is it true that being a job-hopper is a good thing?!

    ThePrincessBride replied to Cola89's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Have you considered internal transfers? You can have a chance to try a different specialty, but you are still in the same system and retain your vacation hours, benefits and sometimes seniority. I...