Bruce_Wayne ASN, RN

Not worth losing my license over. After I retire, who knows what I'll put in my garden.

Sterile water seems pointless because the cup you pour it into isnot sterile and neither will the syringe or funnel, unless you're getting new sterile stuff every time. I save my sterile water for chest tubes.

Propofol, fentanyl, levophed, lovenox, and protonix lol

If you have white collar history I would honestly advise you to stay in your current field or get another white collar job. You might make more money being a McDonald's manager than you would as a CNA

25000 for an lvn program just sounds like a stupid scam. I'd try to find an ADN program that was accredited instead. My ADN cost me 5000 total and my Bsn only cost 6000. I cannot imagine the prices you're getting quoted.

That is quiet the situation. Have you looked into nursing home jobs as well? I know in my area they're absolutely desperate and constantly building new ones. It's kind of an unglamorous job and they don't treat or pay you very well. But it is a star...

Nursing is a hard stressful job. The pay can be good but for what you have to put up with sometimes it doesn't seem worth it. If I had to do it all over again I'd choose physical therapist because they get paid slightly more and they're focused on a ...

I used to miserable but then I came to terms with expectations vs reality and I just do the best I can with what I have. As a shift lead my process was to give mys of all the biggest baddest cases but that line of thinking was unsubstantiatable. I...

I saw a doctor try an NG once because I couldn't get it. Neither could he and we actually had to consult a surgeon to help. we routinely place NG or OG tubes on our vented pts and have it confirmed by air bolus heard by two RNs. by the time we get...

The mentors don't really do anything except talk to you and keep you motivated. Their only purpose is to keep you grounded and set realistic expectations and keep you motivated since you will be working from home. By in large, the learning is self di...

Speaking as somebody promoted to shift lead before I thought I was ready, you do not want to put yourself in that situation. The stress was unbearable and I started smoking. And that's not even on the same level as a unit manager. Do yourself a favor...

Our monitor techs are RNs or LPNs with special ekg training. Our portable tele monitors work in all departments so there is no "off unit" considerations. The patients primary RN is responsible for checking the accuracy of the strips and that is part ...

Have you ever heard of Keesler Cream? It's used ubiquitously here for pressure ulcers, burns, and just about anything else on the skin. I cannot find anything about it in any of my nursing or drug books. Also searching online doesn't reveal anything...

I just use the website version. I don't recall the exact instructions because none of my classes have utilized vitasource yet so I kind of forgot how to do it.

Is there a good way to incorporate a tie with scrubs? I've been wearing scrubs for all of my adult life and I really hate them. I am really a fan of the tunic/smock style that male nurses in the UK wear and I saw at least one person rock the tunic...

I was looking through this board and naturally like you'd expect it attracts a lot of people that are nervous and a lot of people that are having problems with the test taking. So I thought it would be useful to others to read a positive NCLEX exper...

If you get the education, experience and credentials and are willing to relocate you can find something somewhere in management if that's what you want to do. After you get your foot in the door of management you can try to work your way up from the...

Fiona59 mentioned fob watches, I can't find any masculine style fob watches that I like. The closest I got was searching on amazon for carabiner watches but on most of them the watch isn't oriented so that you can read it by looking down at your che...

You didn't become a nurse because you don't care, so don't beat yourself up for being a compassionate human being. You will probably become a little more detached and clinical as you get more experience, but hopefully you'll never lose your compassi...

Probably need to start out with some basic classes like English Composition, etc.

I still highly recommend it. A year of reading from a tablet vs a year of reading from a computer makes it an easy choice in my mind. Reading on the computer screen is just so horrible, or maybe it's just my computer? Maybe a nice mid range comput...

My watch is just north of a 100 dollars but it was the cheapest watch I could find that wouldn't breakout my arm, and I usually take it off halfway through the day when I'm done with my assessments and admits because I hate wearing a watch. Then I p...

Tablets for reading not for typing.

You can print things out from vitalsource and the courses if you think that would would work.

After you finish education without boundaries you can access all the courses in your degree plan. So I start working on care of the older adult in June while I was waiting for my term to start in July. So I was ready to take the assessment shortly ...