CrunchRN ADN, RN

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  1. CrunchRN

    I want to quit 4 months in

    I worked nights all through nursing school. Thank god for caffeine. Just do it for a year. You are young and it won't kill you. Then you will be in a much better place for job hunting. No offense...
  2. CrunchRN

    Esme Needs Your Prayers and Well Wishes

    Wishing you well
  3. You the man. May I ask the cost for your full
  4. No matter what happens I wish you much
  5. Perhaps, but apparently only if you have an especially equipped facility like
  6. The Ebola frenzy here is nuts. Closing schools and all kinds of nuttiness. The only people who have caught it are the 2 nurses who cared for the patient at his sickest with improper protection...
  7. From what the nurses at he hospital are now coming forward and revealing the hospital and CDC mismanaged horribly. It is the CDC responsibility. They should have been in that hospital from the...
  8. I think the patients should only go to the hospitals that are set up for this. It is not like we have such a flood of cases that they every hospital in the nation needs to care for them. NONE of the...
  9. A fool and her money are soon parted................... Ok, obviously you are not at all foolish. You have really done your research extensively and seem quite intelligent. However, going to a...
  10. How can it be the nurses fault if she doesn't remember a breach? I say it is the CDC's fault for not providing stronger guidance and
  11. CrunchRN

    Had to code my best friends husband

    There is nothing you could have done differently for a better outcome. So you must let it go and know that some people just have a shorter time than others for whatever reason and no matter what we...
  12. CrunchRN

    BSN Only? Give me a break!!

    84k for an MSN? Insanity. 20 to 40k to get a BSN so you can work at the bedside? Something stinks. I am shocked at how many are buying into it. Luckily, I never had a desire to work at the...
  13. CrunchRN

    New RN drowning

    I am not in the "suck it up" group. If you hate it and have other options then take them. Life is too short and stress is too harmful to do
  14. CrunchRN

    Can clinical nurses review routine labs?

    As an office nurse I always did this and alerted the doc if
  15. CrunchRN

    Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    I read this morning that Nigeria has eliminated Ebola. No new cases since August. Teams are headed there to study what they did. If they can do it then certainly it can be handled and eradicated...
  16. I understand the drive for customer service, but in medicine you cannot use the same type of system that works for other types of businesses. Often things must be done or not given in the name of...
  17. CrunchRN

    Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    Panic is as much or more of a
  18. CrunchRN

    Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    I think it is more likely that the nurse or nursing "assistant" as one article called her may have not been careful enough about the precautions required. Who knows? All speculation. I wouldn't...
  19. CrunchRN

    BSN Only? Give me a break!!

    I LOVE that you told them to"stuff it". I am 52 and i just got a specialty certification. My specialty has both hospital and non-hospital based positions so i am hoping to make it to retirement...
  20. CrunchRN

    Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    Because that is what the hospital said
  21. CrunchRN

    My Sad story

    I would keep it to yourself. Then offer them the chance to hire you as an RN once you pass the
  22. CrunchRN

    No one will give me a chance

    I take the lowest dose of Propanalol for public speaking/high stress situations. It shuts down the performance anxiety/fight or flight adrenalin surge. Talk to you doc. No shame in it. A physical...
  23. CrunchRN

    Ebola here in Dallas USA

    Both are to blame. They should have read her info, but seriously, she should have made certain they knew this incredibly important bit of
  24. CrunchRN

    Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    It was noted on the triage form from the triage nurse. Somehow it was not "communicated" to the treating team per our local news here in
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    Ebola here in Dallas USA

    I think we are in more danger from the panic and tanking the stock market and economy from fear. It was just like this with HIV too. I wish people would really listen to the info. The only person I...