UPSBossman

For the TL;DR crowd, after just half ofmy L&D rotation, I'm having a freakout about ever having afamily. This is me venting/looking for advice. Many of my classmates have alreadyfallen victim to Nursing Student Syndrome - that moment in everystud...

I take my first ATI med/surg test next friday (first semester, WOOT!!) I'm hitting the same scores as you... 64% and 61%, so now I'm very interested in how you end up doing :) Best of luck, and let us know how you do! I'm finding studying for the tes...

I'm a student nurse about to finish my first semester. Per my understanding, after semester 1 RN students can (generally) work as techs/aids to gain experience. I want to go this route, but I'm unsure how to go about it. The units I'd like to work on...

I work for Baptist health system [baptisthealthsystem.com] We're hiring nurses at all 5 of our facilities right now. Its a pretty good system. Pay is a little higher at Methodist, but the employee satisfaction is higher at Baptist (and arguably we ha...

I decided to go into nursing because my wife is a recent (one year ago) graduate. She was an LVN prior to that (2 years, while we were dating.) While she was working in health care, I worked at UPS and a restaurant, and went to school. My typical day...

You dont have to eat every 2 hours. I'm a hard gainer and used to eat every 3-4 hours. I never managed to put on much muscle, and my lifts never improved much. Since I started eating paleo I now eat 3 times a day, some times I miss a meal (I'm almost...

I will be going to Bapstist School of Health Professions (Wife & several friends graduated from there, and I work for the system now) 3.2 GPA (3.8 in field) 88% on TEAS

$40k isnt bad money, and if you need more then you can work a 4th shift one week (which would be all OT.) My wife made over $45 last year, and she wasn't working as an RN until mid April. OP, why are you asking? From some of your responses, it sounds...

I'm in San Antonio, Tx. My wife is a RN (1 year now) and we both work at the same system. Here, RNs are starting around $21.50, a little more if you have experience (2 years clinical, 3 years non-clinical)

i'll chime in i suppose. i was wondering, why are nurses in such bad health to begin with? i'm not yet a nurse, but i work in a hospital doing risk management. so many of the nurses here are obese (to put it "lightly,") smoke, i know of several who d...

i work with nurses all day... a lot of 'em i can't understand how they became nurses. it seriously is one of those "if she can do it, anyone can" moments almost every day for me. every time i start to feel nervous about the program, i think of all of...

I've been an insomniac for more than 10 years, at some times going 5+ days without ANY sleep at all (my longest was a 7 day sleepless bender!) Changed my diet and got more exercise and it cured me. And on the rare occasion that I still can't fall asl...

i'd have a field day with your classmates. an entire program full of gullible people who take spoken word as gospel? make up an awesome back story for yourself and slowly hint it to them. feed them slowly like you were reluctant to tell the truth. yo...

My advice would be to wait a week or so for a call, then call the manager back and ask him if they were interviewing yet. Explain about how HR got an attitue with you but you want to work there. He's the one who decides your fait, not HR

Lots of resume services online. My brother writes for one of them from time to time. Prices vary. Look into another job in the mean time. Something disposable to let you keep your apartment and your freedom.

I start school in August. Weight train 3X per week right now, and I hope school doesn't get in the way of that. Recently changed my diet around and have dropped 15lbs! I'm hoping to lose my "desk job physique" before school starts.

Breakfast: Take some eggs, beat them in a bowl to make scrambled eggs. Add some cheese, and meats of your choice (if you use ground beef, make sure you brown [cook] it first.) Get a muffin pan (like for cupcakes) and put the paper liners in it. Pour ...

i have worked for a health system for a little over a year now, and start rn school in august. the system offers a scholarship where they pay for your schooling in exchange for 3 years of service after you graduate. my wife did this option, and i wan...

I've been trying to solve the problem of falls since I started in healthcare a year ago. I quickly decided to approach the problem differently from the rest of my health system, assuming that falls can not be eliminated, so we should try to lessen th...

Look at SmartCell mats. They absorb more impact than foam, do not absorb fluid, and have minimal deflection under weight. Its very similar to the flooring I pitched a year ago. As for rounding, our system rounds every hour (in theory) although I don'...

as someone who works in risk management, here's my $0.02 -disclaimer- laws vary by state, so what i say may not apply to you. per my understanding, once something is charted, it can not be changed. i agree with the above statements that you should wr...

Got my letter yesterday, accepted to my first choice school. I almost fell down the stairs when I read the email (I wasn't expecting to be emailed my letter!) I'm not sure who's more excited, me or my wife.

A&P I in a summer [FLEX] session should be fine. Don't let people scare you. They told me that taking MicroBio (without having taken general bio) and A&P II and Psych all at the same time, while working full time at one job and part time at a...