ThePrincessBride MSN, RN, NP

Med-Surg, NICU

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    Quit nursing school after two months...

    ThePrincessBride replied to keeyumbow66's topic in Nursing Career

    IVs in the first semester? Yikes! In my program, you don't do IVs/blood draws until your Junior year (first or second semester, depending on when you take med surg II). However, in clinical in our...
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    YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

    Lord, some of you take this thread too seriously. Of course no one was being cruel and I wasn't given the middle finger! Lordy,
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    Reading for pleasure

    ThePrincessBride replied to remotefuse's topic in General Students

    Supposedly, it is going to be released in next year(according to wiki and a few other sources), but...I don't know. He is incredibly
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    Dumbest thing said to family

    ThePrincessBride replied to Nanz_B's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have to refrain from saying "see you later!" as that can come off as mortifying to some of the patients and their family
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    Reading for pleasure

    ThePrincessBride replied to remotefuse's topic in General Students

    I'm currently on A Dance with Dragons. Loved the first three. The fourth one was "meh", but this one is looking pretty good. I can't wait for the Winds of Winter to come out next
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    Reading for pleasure

    ThePrincessBride replied to remotefuse's topic in General Students

    I've been trying to get through A Song of Ice and Fire series. I have been able to do that mostly on my breaks. Between nursing school, my two jobs and allnurses, I don't have much time to
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    YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

    I wasn't being all that serious. I'm still happy with my grade, just venting my frustration. Yeah, it isn't that A I wanted, but I will definitely take the grade that I earned. Generally speaking,...
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    YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

    Yeah, she just emailed the class. She won't round. But given the stress I've been under (finding out that my grandmother has three types of cancer, sepsis and c.diff in particular) and having worked...
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    YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

    Thanks! Fortunately my school does the + and - system. I'll take the A-, but it was
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    Everyone Won't Succeed. And That's Okay!

    ThePrincessBride replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    BrandonLPN Very great post! I agree with most of it, but I do think that there is so much more opportunity for the poor to succeed now than ever before. In the end ,life is just as much about choices...
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    The Dark Side of Unions

    ThePrincessBride posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    For years, unions have been praised for protecting workers' rights and providing a fairer system for the "little guy", often overlooking the faults in a potential union. I currently work at such a...
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    Is having an ADN really a terrible choice?

    ThePrincessBride replied to Guest757854's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Depends on what you see yourself doing. If you want to work in management, be a clinical educator or go on to grad school, I highly encourage a BSN. If you see yourself working on the floor for years...
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    Any ADN-BSN programs without ridiculous papers?

    ThePrincessBride replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Online Distance Learning

    What class was it
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    Everyone Won't Succeed. And That's Okay!

    ThePrincessBride replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    Success is subjective. I consider anyone who is living a happy and productive life to be their own success
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    First RN job

    ThePrincessBride replied to mzdamele_2010's topic in General Students

    I've heard this too. I have no desire to work on a med-surg floor. I already know I want to work in the NICU, and I know some NICUs prefer new grads because they have a "fresh template" and don't need...
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    Is this salary range realistic?

    ThePrincessBride replied to GlowBear500's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    At that base pay I would be making 47k a year and that isn't including weekend and shift diff and holiday pay which is double time and a half at a facility I work at. Most new grads will be stuck...
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    Any ADN-BSN programs without ridiculous papers?

    ThePrincessBride replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I had to write ten to twenty page papers in HIGH SCHOOL. Six to eight pages is nothing. And if you managed to get a bachelor's and master's without writing papers, I strongly question the quality of...
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    Is this salary range realistic?

    ThePrincessBride replied to GlowBear500's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    It depends on where you live but I wouldn't focus on money so much as quality of life. I would rather work three twelves a week making decent money than work myself to death for great money. I'm...
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    Why info on white culture omitted from cultural compence in textbooks?

    ThePrincessBride replied to ArrowRN's topic in General Students

    There is no "white culture" but there is a dominant culture which could be considered the "white culture." Also it needs to be said that unlike minority groups, whites do not share a common experience...
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    8 months as a nurse and I am failing miserably

    ThePrincessBride replied to RN119's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It isn't misogyny (completely inappropriate use of the word)...it is the truth. And this is coming from a female. Women can be so damn evil to each other sometimes very quick to tear each other down...
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    Confessions of a Job hopper

    ThePrincessBride replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in General Nursing

    And I should also add that these are either low wage or student jobs. Most college students job hop and I've never quit a job before getting a new
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    Confessions of a Job hopper

    ThePrincessBride replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in General Nursing

    Not really as this is within the same company and one of those two transfers was actually a promotion with the first job lasting fifteen months and one day. My other job I have been at since May 2012....
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    Confessions of a Job hopper

    ThePrincessBride replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in General Nursing

    And guess what? I'm not longer at ^ job either. Lasted there for 9 months, transferred, and now I've been in this new job for 2 months and 8 days.
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    Surviving Nursing School- financial wise

    ThePrincessBride replied to jofapcastillo's topic in General Students

    I know a single mother of 2 who works two jobs and lots of overtime while going to school full-time. How she does it...I don't
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    Advice to students

    ThePrincessBride replied to donjon2015's topic in General Students

    RNs have the MOST flexibility and room for advancement, and RNs can do 90% of what RTs do, or so I've seen, and RNs also do some of what physical and occupational therapists do. RNs are the jacks of...