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MN-Nurse ASN, RN

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  1. Feel pressured to do 2 people transfer alone

    If someone falls or gets hurt when you are transferring them improperly, your facility will hang you out to dry. Your managers, supervising RNs, and coworkers will be more than happy to throw you...
  2. Monitor and RN go with the pt at the two hospitals I've worked
  3. Insight on a question I do not agree with

    I found frustrating debates and agonizing over test questions very helpful. It's part of how you learn to take those blasted nursing school tests. The truth is that "NCLEX-style" question writers...
  4. Associates vs Bachelors Degree

    I changed careers and did the Associates because of cost. If I had unlimited resources, I would have gotten the BSN. Because of all the prerequisites required to get into my program, the ADN took...
  5. New Grad

    Congratulations on the NCLEX and the new baby! Hospitals appear to have their pick of any number of experienced nurses. If you don't hear from any in your area, try LTC and Home Health. Good
  6. Insight on a question I do not agree with

    You misidentified the key words. The key words in the question are "appropriate response." "Absorb" is most definitely not a key word in this question. The word absorb is being used (instead of...
  7. Insight on a question I do not agree with

    Further assessment is appropriate, but D is not an assessment. OK, so let's say you are going to use D as an assessment and you ask the patient, "Are you sure you are...?" A. The patient answers...
  8. Insight on a question I do not agree with

    D is not an assessment. An assessment would be "How much water did you drink today?" or "What did you have to drink and eat
  9. Insight on a question I do not agree with

    The answer certainly did NOT state "as if no more could be absorbed under any circumstances." Nor did it state that only 1 liter of water per day is needed. Remember, don't ask "What if?" and don't...
  10. I would imagine they meddle in providing health insurance for their employees. This may have something to do with the nicotine aversion by
  11. Gonna get stuck?

    Congratulations on your position as a hospice nurse! That is a challenging job requiring a lot of skill. I worked as a hospice aide and applied (and was turned down) for a lot of hospice nurse...
  12. about to graduate

    Go ahead and start now. A few of my classmates had jobs before they graduated and passed the NCLEX. Most in home health and nursing homes. One worked under a temporary license for a home health...
  13. Insight on a question I do not agree with

    No, it would not follow at all. Consider the insensible losses for example. Either way, it's a bad question. When we study fluid intake and output, "Absorbtion" is not one of the
  14. Insight on a question I do not agree with

    C is a stupid response, but it is the best among those crappy answers. Very often in study groups, I would say something like, "I don't care what C says. It could say, "Slap the patient so hard his...
  15. NCLEX today...walked out in tears!

    For calilloter: "Good luck on your official results." I wish I had a nickel for every RN that told me, "I bawled for the entire rest of the day after I took the
  16. Nurse anesthetist

    I think it is required for every prospective nursing studen to say the are going to be a CRNA. Even if you hate math, chemisty, physics, and science in
  17. Saying a Prayer

    I'm an atheist (secular humanist) so I just say, "Whatever your favorite is" then I pretend to pray as they do their
  18. New Grad Charge Nurse for Rehab to Home Unit

    Yeah, when they start positioning you over that trap door on the floor....jump! My nursing home was a firing squad for new grads...and many went from new grad/new hire to charge nurse to fired in...
  19. Overtime, how much?

    This is part of the reason I quit my salaried job. I figured by 10am on Thursday, I, was working for free the rest of that day, Friday, and often Saturday and
  20. Taking good body mechanics too far?

    Then I would bring my own just like I did as an
  21. Why can't I let go?

    Put your big girl undies on and write them a friendly, glowing resignation letter with at least two weeks notice. "Step out the back, Jack, make a new plan,
  22. Nursing students required to have health insurance?

    Health insurance was not required at my CC, but we were offered fairly cheap insurance through the school. I think it was like $100 a month and a ridiculously high deductible. I ended up getting...
  23. This can't be what it's all about, can it?

    It is NOT the same everywhere. Most places I have worked the RNs are BUSY. Two exceptions during clinical: the Special Care Nursery RNs basically sat on their butts chatting (all the babies were doing...
  24. second career nurses finding jobs

    Second career ADN here. Was (still am I suppose) a mechanical engineer. I got a job offer 4 weeks after graduation and 10 days after passing the NCLEX. I started my job search 4 years ago. I began...
  25. Torn between NCLEX books for study??

    Agreed. Read and re-read the strategy section in the beginning before every semeter and before taking the