Cohiba

Cohiba

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  1. Career Change

    Cohiba replied to 3rdgenRN2B's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Quit your job, take out student loans, and hit the books full-time. It'll suck for a while but if you really want to be a nurse and the prereq courses are only available on a day schedule I don't see...

  2. Oldest patient

    Cohiba replied to MessyMomma's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I worked with a patient (during mental health clinicals--go figure) who claimed he was Jesus so unless you can top someone who's 2,013 years old I win this

  3. Pretend Patient

    Cohiba replied to green34's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Ebola or organophosphate poisoning are "interesting"... The organophosphates could come from a pesticide exposure and not necessarily a nerve gas attack if farm chemicals are around where you're...

  4. Temporarily on night shift; too scared to do it

    Cohiba replied to LaceyRN12's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Working nights vs. being unemployed as a new grad in CA? That one's an easy call--drink a ton of water to pressurize your bladder and stay awake from having to pee every 15 minutes, pound some...

  5. Need advise. About to be put on probation in CA for DUI.

    Cohiba replied to Nursequestion's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    As with many many other threads in this sub-forum, there is absolutely no way to answer that question since circumstances vary between cases and what works for one set of conditions (DoJ, employer,...

  6. Finally signing RN at the end of my signature :-)

    Cohiba replied to PortCity_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The day I got the "You passed" email, I took myself out to lunch and paid with a check just so that I could sign it and tack on "RN"--after that I only use post-nomials on work stuff where necessary,...

  7. Whats a good elective?

    Cohiba replied to ant2cory's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I've done some more thinking and have a caveat to my posts about Spanish--if your school offers an ASL (American Sign Language) class that fits in your schedule, IMO you'd be silly to pass that up....

  8. Whats a good elective?

    Cohiba replied to ant2cory's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Even if you only retain a little bit from a semester or two of any foreign language, being able to ask a patient in their language "Where is your pain" and a few other appropriate phrases can go a...

  9. Working Mon-Fri

    Cohiba replied to litebrightgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps you could reflect on their comments while you spend a pleasant weekend with your family/friends as they're schlepping off to work on a

  10. Graduation gift for spouse and son: need help with ideas

    Cohiba replied to rubato's topic in General Students

    A trip is a nice idea, but make sure it's to a destination where THEY want to go, not necessarily where you want to. As an example, if they both really love fishing and couldn't give a hoot about...

  11. How much do they let you customize your program/select your clinicals at your school?

    Cohiba replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

    What she said with the exception of our Senior Practicum where we submitted a list of specialties (ER, ICU, Med/Surg, etc) and facilities and facilities where we wanted to go, then matches were made...

  12. Whats a good elective?

    Cohiba replied to ant2cory's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Spanish

  13. Whats your favorite montra or saying?

    Cohiba replied to Kimynurse's topic in General Students

    "Lord, don't let me mess this

  14. Unit Manager Offered Me a Job Before Graduation. How to proceed?

    Cohiba replied to KatePasa's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Perhaps I'm reading this differently than the first repondent, but I interpreted that quote as her telling you not to focus on job hunting (at that facility or anywhere else) before you pass the NCLEX...

  15. Probation, lost current job, now what?

    Cohiba replied to Armychicka12's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Doubt it--for any of the V.A. applications I've submitted, there is a question in the "Basic Qualifications" section asking something like (sorry--I can't remember the exact verbiage) "Do you have a...

  16. I am now a nursing student! Yay. Now what?

    Cohiba replied to kylepatrickk's topic in General Students

    Cut-and-pasted (with slight edits) from another thread: Between now and orientation sleep as much as you can, party like a rock star, load up your Starbucks card, and don't do anything school-related...

  17. RN pay Louisiana

    Cohiba replied to FlyaboveLPN's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Impossible to say--it's not as if there's one standard pay rate for RN's

  18. New Pre Nursing Student

    Cohiba replied to mrskrobbins's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Sleep as much as you can, party like a rock star, load up your Starbucks card, and don't do anything nursing school-related unless you absolutely have to, i.e. start a vaccine series or turn in the...

  19. Fluids during Endoscopy

    Cohiba replied to cardinal14's topic in Gastroenterology

    civilian outpatient GI clinic: normal days with moderate sedation (Fentanyl/Versed): hang 500 ml NS TKO MAC (Monitored Anesthesia Care) days w/an anesthesiologist pushing Proprofol: hang 1L LR

  20. What Watch?

    Cohiba replied to CyndleT319's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I've been thinking about buying one of the watches I linked to below the next time I order from Amazon--it's dirt-simple, has a second hand, is reasonably water-resistant, and is cheap enough that if...

  21. NIGHT SHIFT CENTRAL!

    Cohiba replied to meanmaryjean's topic in General Nursing

    I would drink a TON (perhaps literally) of water when I was working nights. Keeping my bladder at three trillion psi meant I was alert, even during my witching hours from 0300-0500, but didn't have...

  22. What made you decide to go for ASN or BSN?

    Cohiba replied to Idiosyncratic's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    ADN (in Cali) = 2 or 3 year waitlist IF I got onto it, but cheap ABSN = basically no waitlist since I had my prereq's done (applied end of March, interviewed in May, started in July) but

  23. Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

    Cohiba replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

    Seeing "walking quadriplegia" as a direct quote from the pt. in triage had us all scratching our

  24. The waiting period

    Cohiba replied to hgt219's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    " Anyone want to share stories of how they distracted themselves..." Cigars, Scotch, and quality time with my buds behind a rifle--once my app dropped into the mailbox everything was out of my hands...

  25. Preparation/advice for precepting student?

    Cohiba posted a topic in Emergency

    Maybe the work/studying paid off or maybe I just got lucky when the assignment generator was running, but I was fortunate enough to receive the preceptorship assignment I've been hoping for since...