CelticGoddess BSN, RN

I never realized it wasn't spelled with an "n" until I read your post. Wow. I learned something new today. ?

Not only did my school specify a color, we had to have our shirts and lab coats embroidered with our schools name. So basically we all wore the same brand of scrub top. The only requirement for pants was nothing too thin.

My husband played stupid when they called about windows (We are an all Mac family). He had the phone on speaker and it was all I could do to not laugh. THe caller was getting more and more frustrated and my husband keeps asking them what type of wi...

Can you go over the questions you missed with your instructor? Or do you have access to those questions you missed and the rationales? THat would be a good first step. Try to not stress out over it too much (yea, I know, easier said than done). Y...

It's not painful and doesn't harm? Tell that to my paternal grandmother who was forcibly sterilized when she was in her 30s. She was harmed. So were a lot of other people who were deemed "feeble minded" or epileptic or mentally ill. They were har...

To be fair, this is a southern thing. People, even men in their 50's call their mothers mama and their fathers daddy. Hell, I'm from Chicago and I call my dad daddy. It's regional.

The hospital I worked for also had this. When I worked acute care, we had 2 badges so no matter which way they were flipped, our name, face etc still showed. The hospital I was most recently a patient at also has the two badges: it does make it easi...

I had a nurse complaint to my (our) manager because I didn't know enough history about the patient. She was upset that I didn't know who did the patients total knee more than 10 years ago. the patient was in hospital for AML. I seriously doubt tha...

That ED doc would really freak out over my nephew. He was an adult (like 20 or so) before he was able to swallow pills. He had been on liquid metoprolol since he was 8yo. Until he was able to successfully swallow pills. trust me, his mother and f...

Thank you for sharing Ruby.

I love Terry Bradshaw! Part of the Steele Curtain. Go Stillers!

It sounds like we worked with the same nurse!!

Nurse did not get fired for giving a non-diabetic patient insulin. The nurse gave insulin to the wrong patient. Pt had to be sent to the ED. Nurse did not get fired for not passing meds but signing off she did. She was counseled about giving meds....

Fishing hooks are for fishing, not to employ as a sex toy. (Man int his case)

what about Euchre? I grew up in IN and we played a lot of euchre. I love euchre. NO one around here can play it. I guess I need to teach my fellow nurses the game.

I did my practicum on the bone marrow transplant unit (BMT) and at the hospital that I was at it was considered a critical care unit. Technically, I was not allowed to assess patients, but I did. I just couldn't document the assessment. I passed m...

Back in 2013, I worked for a facility for a year. We had 5 or 6 cases of TB. I was lucky, they were known to have TB before my shifts started but several of my co-workers were exposed. All because the patients (who were coughing up blood int he E...

You're right, in the real world, things happen. I had an asthma attack on my way to work once and had to go to the ED. My husband had to call in for me because I couldn't breathe. I still got an occurrence. My husband had a heart attack and I had...

I've seen orders for beer and wine, never whiskey though. Sometimes t's just better for the patient to get a controlled amount of ETOH. Pharmacy would send up the beer, and we kept it in the fridge (where other "high risk" or expensive meds that ne...

While that might be true for your program, that is not true across the board. My ADN program, we got more clinical hours and experience than did the 3 BSN programs in my area. Nurses who graduate from the ADN program are more likely to be hired as ...

In order to help we might need more details. Trying to renew your membership where? Are you a practicing nurse? That is what it sounds like it is asking you.

That depends on the school. Contact those schools you're interested in ask. Or look at their websites

Most community college programs in SC are extremely competitive. The program I graduated from was more competitive than the 2 local BSN programs

Was this really necesary? BTW: Most of the anti-gun people I know happen to be on the right. Most of my left leaning family own guns. Don't generalize

I'm going to tell you what I once told a tech when she came to me to complain about what another person was said to have said: Don't get involved. First off, unless you actually heard the instructor/charge nurse make the comments, you are going to ...