floatnurse29

I realized it when I was a little girl. I wanted to help people but I also wanted to go to graduate school and knew this would be a great stepping stone in the medical field.

I would like to go to graduate school eventually. But like they said above it helps to have some experience in nursing. At least then you would know how the system works in the real world instead of just in nuclex world.

These are very good tips.

So sad and tragic. Beutifully written. I'm utterly speechless as to what to say about the daughter.

I look at it this way. Since you work there and that is suppose to be where you take care of people who need help then why post anything about it. I have heard of people getting in trouble about postings that were done on their own time. However, I feel like work is work and home is home. Leave work at work.

I had the same experience but on the other side. My mother is a nurse as well and when I was in high school I had a major lower GI bleed. I was sent to the nearest children hospital and in turn The Doctor kept me NPO and done a EGD after I received 3 units of PRBCs. Yes a EGD!!! Keep in mind I was not vomiting had no c/o nausea. My mom kept her mouth shut and trusted the doctor to do what was right. Turned out the doctor gave me a regular diet again and told my parents he was going out of town and other doctors would cover. Mean while I was still having the horrible GI diarrhea. This pushed my mom over the top and jumped the doctor and he ended up quiting and sending me to another hospital where the doctor immediately done a colo and found colon polyps where one was "hot"! I found it amazing how just because my mom is a nurse and she didn't let them know they still didn't do their job and then when they did find out they couldn't handle the fact she called them on the mistakes they made. In a way its good to let them know and for us to not to be afraid to say that we do know wat is suppose to be done for our family.

When I'm at work I dont have one particular place I work all the time. I like to say 'I don't have a home' lol. I'm not a med-surg nurse, I'm not a pre/post op nurse, I'm not a recovery nurse, I'm not a icu nurse. I am a everywhere nurse.

Very nice article. Its about time we all get thanks for the things we all have to deal with.

When I was a new nurse I thought I needed to go to a big hospital to learn as much as I could, but when I was there I got treated as just a number. The other nurses had the attitude like 'ugh another new grad nurse' like I was getting in the way. I quit there not long after starting and went back to my hometown hospital and I was treated as a person and some of the nurses still acted that way as the bigger hospital so all in all every hospital is the same. But I love my work now and I always tell my aids that I have been in there shoes and I jump in there and help them out whenever they need help or when I have the time. My thought on the subject is; when I get to the point where I think I'm to good to help out another nurse or coworker then I need to find another career.

I use to ride a bike when I was in nursing school and now that I have seen alot of traumas caused by motorcycles. After all that I stopped riding. Now I have been recently wanting another one.....but I more then likely not get one due to all the bad things that can happen with them.