anissa

anissa

Cardiac ICU, Med/Surg, Ob/Gyn Onc

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  1. Night shift sleep schedule

    I work 7p-7a and if our unit needs it anything in between. When I get home I get straight to bed. Sometimes I sleep until 5pm, sometimes I wake up at 1pm and just can't go back to sleep. I try to rest for 1 hour before I go back to work; unfortunatel...
  2. The University of Texas at Arlington

    I have applied to this program last year and was accepted to the school, however, for whatever reason that NOBODY there can explain my transcripts were never evaluated nor was I issued a course map. In the meantime I finally received a transcript eva...
  3. University of Wyoming RN to BSN online pros/cons

    I was looking into UWy myself. Have you found out anything more about this program? If so I gladly would like to receive an update if you wouldn't mid.
  4. The University of Texas at Arlington

    you don't have to be in Texas to enter the program. I'm on the east coast and I'm in the AP program
  5. What is the dumbest order you ever read?

    obtundant patient and an order for "peanut butter sandwich - STAT" !!!
  6. German Nurses anywhere?

    I have a German license and have worked in Germany as a nurse. I also have a US RN license and work in CCU.
  7. What's your holiday bonus?

    My christmas bonus just showed up in the mail: a coupon for a free 12 oz. coffee at our hospital cafe. Yippieh!!!
  8. Charting Bloopers

    was supposed to read Shift Summary...somehow the f was dropped! Must have been a long day ...
  9. Lifting during Pregnancy

    We have several nurses pregnant on our med/surg floor and one of them brought in a note from her OB doc stating she can't lift over 25 pounds. She was flatout told that the lifting requirements are over 50 pounds as stated in the job description. Too...
  10. Too Old?

    Got my RN in Germany at the ripe old age of 26, and my RN in the US with 48! Currently persuing MSN/NP; my kids think i'm nuts...I say that's a prerequisite for nursing anyway! Figured I will work until I keel over...so I'm going for it!
  11. Where are you from?

    I'm from Germany, currently working in Virginia. Would like to go back to Germany for a while to work, but Great Britain sounds good also
  12. Threats from Management

    We have monthly mandatory meetings scheduled. This year they are on Fridays. The meeting I need to attend is at 3:30 pm. Considering that I work 7p-7a and live 46 miles away from work I can't just attend a meeting and turn around and go back home u...
  13. how many hours a week do you work????

    36-48 scheduled, up to 60 due to short staffing and being called in extra
  14. Working as RN in Europe

    I graduated in 1983 in Germany as an RN and jumped back and forth over the ocean every time my husband got transfered. Every time we were in Germany I could work, over here not a chance. I finally finished my RN here in the states by going through a ...
  15. Holidays - deciding who works??

    Thanksgiving we work if we were off last year. Christmas and New Years we either work Christmas/New Years Eve or Christmas/New Years Day. Nobody can get both off. It stinks.
  16. I don't know if nursing is for me anymore...

    >I work nights, 7 day schedule and 12 hour shifts. I work 12 hour night shifts and have a hard time after the second night. Sometimes I don't even know how I made it home. I have a 60-75 minute commute each way. No wonder you are tired.
  17. Homeopathic Disaster NCLEX style

    Hi everybody, I took the NCLEX today and got absolutely clobbered with herbal, homeopathic, and essential oils questions. Over enteric peppermint oil, lavender, Ma Hung, Ginseng, skull cap, black cohosh, to valerian..... and those are just the ones ...
  18. Homeopathic Disaster NCLEX style

    Apparently you all were right and these questions are part of the pilot questions for future tests. I found out this morning that I passed the NCLEX! Thank you to all of you for all your kind words!
  19. I am starting with the panic, like everyone else!

    I'm sitting boards on the 25th and I'm ready to hit the PANIC BUTTON!!! I am currently out on sick leave after surgery and have another surgery scheduled for the 15th of this month. It seems to me the more I study the less I know. ...
  20. Covering your Earned Time Off

    We have to cover our weekends also, and you also better not get sick. If it is your weekend to work and you get in an accident on Thursday and are out until sometime the following week (happened to a coworker that ended up as a patient on our own flo...
  21. I work in southwest Virginia and the hospital here recruits nurses from the Philippines, Korea and Africa.
  22. What online RN to BSN do u recommend?

    I'm searching for online RN to BSN programs at this time. I will be graduating next May and want to start next fall with an online program. Besides UPhoenix I was looking at University of Maryland. Anybody know something about their program? Any ...