MissHaleyDawn

MissHaleyDawn has 4 years experience and specializes in Nephrology, Oncology.

Latest Activity

1. Advice on becoming a Nurse

   MissHaleyDawn replied to Rodo4141's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   Why did you choose nursing? My mother passed when I was 15, I watched my father struggle with pancreatic cancer from the time I was 17 until he passed away when I was 19. I was inspired by the...

2. What Else Can I Do For A Living?

   MissHaleyDawn replied to RNCM123's topic in Nursing Career

   I'm in the same boat. I've been a nurse for 4 years. While I do like the nursing aspects of things, I did not sign up for all the drama between management and pettiness of staff and favoritism. This...

3. What to expect the first semester of nursing school

   MissHaleyDawn replied to KWRN29's topic in General Students

   Congratulations! I've been out of school for 4 years now but I remember nursing school so clearly. For the first day we didn't have any lectures, just going through mounds of paperwork, getting know...

4. 84 hours = Full Time?

   MissHaleyDawn replied to MissHaleyDawn's topic in General Nursing

   I understand that it would be less stressful having an employee committed to that 4th shift but being able to call them off. Two things stick out to me though, even though I'd personally never want...

5. 84 hours = Full Time?

   MissHaleyDawn posted a topic in General Nursing

   So my hospital is starting something that sounds very strange to me. Every so often I look at the jobs page of my hospital because why not? Full time hours used to list 72 hours in the job details (we...

6. Why did you want to be a nurse.

   MissHaleyDawn replied to OrealyYouThink's topic in Nurses Rock

   When I was 15 my mom became very ill very suddenly without president or a cardiac history. She died within a week of being admitted to a cardiac intensive care unit. She was in such unstable condition...

7. My first med error (Rant)

   MissHaleyDawn posted a topic in General Nursing

   I need a little support. I'm a fairly new nurse, just under a year and I made my first error on my shift last night. At my hospital, the nurses aide will collect vital signs and blood glucose values....

8. Why are new nurses treated poorly?

   MissHaleyDawn replied to rnckr's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Adding to what another poster said about the type of meds a patient will be on depending in valve type, I imagine that info would come in handy if a patient was ever ordered an MRI? I had a patient...

9. Stabbed in the Back? Nursing Culture?

   MissHaleyDawn replied to Cauliflower's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Sounds like you work with a bunch of class-A buttholes. While some gossip I would expect (it's human nature to just talk/people to run their mouths), what you're having to deal with is ridiculous. Did...

10. First night on my own. (Long vent)

    MissHaleyDawn replied to MissHaleyDawn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thank you all for your replies! I was so hyped up from that shift, my mind was going in circles. I'm on call tonight, and bummed. Worried I won't get enough clinical experience being hired part-time,...

11. First night on my own. (Long vent)

    MissHaleyDawn posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I survived, somehow. I had 5 patients (D/c'd one but picked up another right after). For a while I thought I was doing really well...2000 & 2100 meds were all passed on time, patients were settled...

12. New RN starting 1st job

    MissHaleyDawn posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi all! I think this is in the correct forum? I graduated this May 2012 and passed boards at the end of June. Before taking boards I had been extended a job offer for a new RN grad position at an...

13. Decision Tree

    MissHaleyDawn replied to SugarSugar15's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I didn't use the decision tree religiously. Rather, I developed my own style from it. The tree is meant to get you in the habit of looking at first the question systematically, and then each answer...

14. Do you have to be above passing or just passing standard?

    MissHaleyDawn replied to jorgecardenas55's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I believe if you go all the way to 265 in the amount of testing time (6h) it doesn't matter if you get the last question wrong or correct -- it has to be a passing level question. If someone has gone...

15. Nclex pn pvt good pop up

    MissHaleyDawn replied to fitnessfreak's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I did the PVT about an hour after I took my exam back in June; got the good pop up. Resisted paying for quick results because I'm stingy/cheap/hate to spend money that I don't have to. Lol A few...