morecoffeepls BSN, RN

I was too vague: there are a variety of forums categorized under 'General Nursing' (e.g., 'Nurses Rock', 'Nursing and Spirituality') - are these ineligible?

Hi Joe, What would be some examples of appropriate/eligible forums for article submissions?

I am the lone night nurse on a small community hospital acute inpatient psychiatric unit. I agree with several salient points made by the OP & commenters. I value an "uneventful" night (no string of admissions, no one actively psychotic or suicid...

We try to teach our children how to be good. Being innocent isn't necessarily the same thing, and some day, when the sheen has worn off, becoming a virtuous person in this world will mean making hard decisions and choosing difficult paths. I was fort...

Happy holidays again. No wonder I'm a psych nurse:

The only reason I went to nursing school was to become a nurse anesthetist; then I did a few psych rotations and I was hooked. If you suspect this specialty is something you would especially like for some reason (vague, specific, whatever), or that p...

Thx, all. Happy Thanksgiving. Who else is working the holiday?

I finished SHU's RN-BSN online program about a year ago (its inaugural class). It took two years and seemed interminable, but I'm glad I did it. The only reason I enrolled was to be able to get into a decent NP program (Yale and Fairfield are the onl...

The three of us walk into a bar ...

Remember that time I spent 120 days in jail for a felony conviction? Good times. I'd rather not disclose why I ended up there, but I deserved it. My wife & I operated a successful business at the time. We decided to sell it when we had our first ...

Do rights return to author if original allnurses.com publication acknowledged?

Communicate with your state board as much as possible before registering for school. Congratulations on being accepted, by the way. They may give you ambiguous responses, but save the communication (emails, in all likelihood) and perhaps they'll cont...

I know you guys are probably swimming in headaches since the upgrade, but I woke up this morning feeling a little upset. I submitted an article after the 15th evidently, but had received some very nice feedback and, last time I checked, 20 kudos. I d...

No problem. Thanks for the prompt response, sir. Is the contest over? Should I bother? Honest answer, please, because I would prefer to not submit if there's no point. Also, change is good. You're probably getting inundated with small issues, but it...

My article seems to have disappeared. Oh well.

Another dumb question: How are these contests judged? By the number of user 'kudos', comments, etc.? By staff? Pieces of paper in a hat? You'll probably say by some combination of the first two, which would indicate that the earlier an article is sub...

@sir1: I get 'Antigonish' stuck in my head sometimes. Nice. Also: Why does this site (& 'Central') have these contests? Or rather, why (and how) do you pay enough money to make it worth putting off other, quite possibly more important, things? Th...

Can I write about my personal experiences with turkey gravy and yule logs?

I've only been a nurse for a few years now. I was hired as a new grad to work full-time nights on an inpatient psychiatric unit. I am the only nurse on my shift, and the long-standing mental health worker is reticent and sleepy and barely there, so t...

I'm of the opinion that "work experience" doesn't necessarily mean health care or nursing experience. I had several careers before graduating nursing school, none of which had anything to do with health care, and felt comfortable spinning those jobs ...

"what can I do to make my experience during my shift more positive?" One of the reasons I took a position working nights after I graduated was the downtime. I'll be finished with an online RN-BSN program at a decent school soon, which I would not hav...

(I just deleted the beginning of a post about how people need to get over the negative connotations associated with the evil, demeaning term "customer service" when used in the healthcare context. How this is, in fact, a business, & patients, cli...

I'm almost done w/ an online RN-BSN program. I got my ASN through an accelerated program, started working & took a year off from school before starting this program. I work nights, so I have enough downtime to do schoolwork. It wasn't difficult e...

bottled water?

The main reason I love nights is because I don't have to work with a few other staff members on my unit. I couldn't do it. Rotten people with awful attitudes, garbage work ethics, who wallow in their own bloated self-importance all day. (Of course th...