Seriously?! ADN, LPN, RN

We often use a neobar!

When you first become a nicu nurse, they don’t tell you your life is forever changed. They don’t tell you that you will literally hold a life in the palm of your hand. They don’t tell you that you should make sure your vision is checked regularly bec...

I haven’t forgotten to feed a baby or had that dream but I have had some doozies of work dreams, it usually happens after a really rough night. In one dream, the baby was getting a picc placed and the isolette was open and the sides were down. The nu...

One of the great things about NICU is that you have a variety of acuities and needs. We have some nurses that love NAS infants, some love to do feeder/grower, some love discharge teaching and time spent with parents, some love the critical care. None...

Yes, I love that!! It is so true! ❤️

We don't use bean bags underneath but we have "frogs" that we use for boundaries. For probe positioning, we use z-flos and those foam probe positioners that look like a fish. I wish we had a developmental specialist! We only have PT part time!

I've been a NICU nurse for about 18 months now, and I just had my first bad iv infiltrate last week. It was a preemie with iugr, 960g. I felt sooooo awful because she was my only patient- she was counting on me and I let her down. I was checking it e...

I'm a new grad and have just started (2 weeks in!) labor and delivery at a rural hospital in Georgia as well. I LOVE it. There's no nicu team to save me, we do all of our own labs, resus, ivs (even neonatals), everything. There isn't a dr/cnm in the ...

Try not to worry and stress over it too much. Do the best you can- it's all you can do. I'm graduating in May from GTC. Y'all can do it!

I just today had a lightbulb moment about my stethoscope causing my headaches! So I googled it and found this thread í ½í¸Š I thought I was going crazy lol I couldn't figure out why I got a headache after a few hours every single time!

I was a smoker, quit a week ago today! Now I have a problem with too much dr pepper and not enough exercise.

At midterm of my bridge- middle of 8 week long classes before we transition into the senior year of traditional RN program. Sooo very overwhelmed! They assume we know a lot of things but I am quickly finding out I don't know anything! Just looking fo...

Did you get in? I got accepted and running around like a crazy person trying to get all this stuff together :)

I'm a nurse in a nursing home also with a history of childhood sexual abuse. I'm also in therapy to deal with trauma resolution. I have only had (very) few uncomfortable experiences, and they were dealt with. The worst that's happened to me at work i...

I'm lpn night shift at a SNF. Two CNAs were changing a resident together, and afterwards one of them reported to me that the other CNA was very rough with the resident and stated she was "throwing her around". I'm so upset by this. I mean, I'm upset ...

An update on the situation. I assessed resident, didn't see any physical damage. DON acted on the report, got a written statement from the accuser and mailed to corporate or the state or whoever handles such things. She and managers also spoke with r...

A really good book I used was "test taking strategies for beginning nursing students" and any nclex review =) good luck!

I take mine on Tuesday, July 12th. So nervous. I'm mostly doing tons of practice questions, saunders vol 1, 2, and 3 apps on my iphone! Once I got 100% on 20 questions. But most of the time 80%. Not sure how I feel about that. Just gonna keep studyi...

I'm taking mine on the 12th!! I'm focusing on pharm, since that's my lowest and I hear theres a lot of that on it. Good luck!

Hi! I've been doing clinicals at Northeast GA for a very long time (it seems like, hehe). I think you would enjoy working there, they have an oncology/nephrology floor, and the nurses there are very very nice! Have a big heart center too, and cath la...

I live a little north of Atlanta, near Gainesville area. I'm about to take NCLEX-PN. I would really like to work in a hospital, preferably with pediatrics. The main thing I hear around here is that hospitals no longer hire LPNs. Is that true? There a...

That is a long drive! In the first quarter, class m-w then clinicals at the nursing home on thursdays. Since then, its been class m-t and clinicals weds and thurs. You dont finish clinicals til you finish school, its all rolled together.

Just today I discovered Tul in fine black. We have no choice but to write in black, and I hate bold because I write fairly small. Thin lines are better for me. I also hate smeary gel. Zebras are too fat for me. Picky much? Hehehe :) They are officem...