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I work in a classic stepdown unit. We have only cardiac pts and ICU overflow. Our staffing is 4:1 on days and 5:1 on nights. These days it's difficult to know what to call a unit like ours. We used to be called telemetry, but now every little hospita...

Honestly, if I were you, I wouldn't do it. Nursing school is really tough; not just academically, but it takes up your entire life for 2 and a half years, and then the first year of nursing is pretty tough (as I am experiencing now). I love nursing. ...

I worked as a CNA in a LTC facility during my prereqs and Level 1. I was a good one, but some of the ones I worked with were just this side of convicts and gang members. It's a tradgedy what takes place in long term care. One guy (and I don't care if...

When I was in level 1 of nursing school. A neighborhood kid had a bleeding nose. I told him to put his head back and hold his nose closed and then walked him home. On the way, a ten-year old told me that the kid should keep his head forward so he wou...

This is for all the nursing students who have yet to work as a nurse on the floor. I just graduated, got my RN licesnse, and am in an internship on a stepdown floor where I was a tech for a year prior. I've been in these forums the entire time I was ...