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Hi, I'm a brand spankin new nurse and I work on an oncology unit. I'm pretty freaked every time I go to work and I dream about working post partum. I never thought I'd want to go that route but it seems like a lot less stress. Is this true? Mayb...

I've always dreamed of becoming a nurse and now that I am one I'm not exactly happy. I do it for multiple reasons: want to help even when ppl don't want my help, want to make good money, job security. And I didn't have to go to school for a million...

Hi everyone, so I'm about a year out as a nurse, I spent 6 months in adult oncology and 6 months at my current job in a nicu. I'm interested in case management but I'm not really sure what it all entails. Some people say its really stressful but I...

It took me five months and I was already working for a hospital in the area so I knew I'd get a job there eventually. It is still very difficult especially if you don't know anybody and have no experience. If your just starting nursing school I sug...

Sac state university. It was easy!!

I agree with the first post!! Your job will never care about you or your mental state!! You have to care for you. I have a great job in a nicu but unfortunately ALL our managers are new at managing and therefore suck at it. I've been there a litt...

Once you finish your first semester, you just take a little test and get your cna. Nothing more. It's easy

Congrats!! Now go wipe some stank behind! :)

Awesome!!! I love working with men but in the nicu it's rare. When I worked in onc, I'll ask anyone to help me pull pts up in bed, and I'm a 6'2" tall chic

Wow!! We got some fired up folk up in here! I'm a newbie only been a nurse a year. Here's what I think, SOME nurses are hard and cold. I don't read this thread thinking it was meant to state that nurses suck and were all on drugs, sounds like more...

Hi, I'm not from NY, but I'm finishing up my RN to BSN program in California and all I can tell you from my experience is that I would not have done it if it wasn't online. When u have to work twelve hour shifts and try to have a life with family, ...

thanks! your right, PP has it's own stress, I guess theres no real escape from the stress except go with the flow and time and experience de-stress me. I'm going in tonight, Its my first solo shift without a preceptor so I think that's why I'm on e...

I just wanted to say that I'm so happy I signed up for this site! I have learned that I am a normal new grad. All my stress and fear is normal. After reading many posts about new grads at their first job, I feel I am right where I need to be. Bef...

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Not really, unless you count the really old confused one's who don't even know what they're saying. I don't think it would really affect me, but then again I haven't really been in that situation. If they were like crazy mean and they were in their...

Who are you to say that this persons observations are wrong or inaccurate? If the institution they work is some how doing very well and patients are always having a great experience and its so "faith based" that this person can see a difference from...

The post never said that an atheist nurse can't be effective or is less effective, they just said they've noticed a difference between the two. There is no mention if that difference is good or bad so why are we jumping to conclusions here? Why so ...

Wow! Can't believe this post has ruffled so many feathers. Why are so many people in here so sensitive and take stuff so personal? We ALL have faith. There are all kinds of things that we are faced with everyday that requires faith, like boarding...

Who cares if you hear someone call a CNA a nurse. It doesn't matter what people think they are as long as they aren't performing outside of there job. The cna's license is expired? big whoop. I use to be a CNA before becoming a RN and my certific...

Ok, it's kinda hot in here huh? I see what your looking for and yeah maybe bad choice of words, but I honestly don't see why everyone is so offended. I don't take it to mean I'm a moron, but I do think you are very unclear about whats going on in t...