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    What's the first thing you'll buy when you're officially an RN?

    Twinmom06 replied to mssjez's topic in General Students

    I promised the kids a trip to Disney after
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    Abolishing the Pinning Ceremony

    Twinmom06 replied to drem7116's topic in General Nursing

    the school doesn't pay for our pinning ceremony - it is held on campus in the gym but the students buy their pins and their "pinning whites" and the SNA pays for a small reception afterward... I think...
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    Abolishing the Pinning Ceremony

    Twinmom06 replied to drem7116's topic in General Nursing

    our pinning ceremony is tomorrow - I'm a junior and we plan the senior's pinning - to us the pinning is bigger than graduation and I know many of the nursing grads are skipping graduation and just...
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    Murphy's Law of Nursing

    Twinmom06 replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    I just started as an aide last week but inevitably 3 of the 5 shifts I've worked I've had a code brown 15 min before I leave! Last one was a pt on Lactulose, with a rectal tube who decided to d/c his...
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    Are many nurses products of abusive/drug dependent homes & parents?

    Twinmom06 replied to wsp4905's topic in General Nursing

    loving happy home here also - my parents are married 39 years, no drugs or alcohol (socially - nothing addictive), I live next door to them
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    Things we think that we do not say... humorous...

    Twinmom06 replied to Baubo516's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    to the patient in my first semester of clinical during fundamentals - my god man you stink!!! why do you keep confusing the toilet and the
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    Men in OB/Peds Nursing....Any thoughts?....

    Twinmom06 replied to Wild Irish LPN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    as far as pediatrics go, both of the peds instructors where I go are male - and they are wonderful wonderful caregivers - and the guys in our class actually saw more births during the OB rotation... I...
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    Pyxis for the uninitiated

    Twinmom06 replied to goats'r'us's topic in General Nursing

    the hospital I'm doing my clinical at now has this interesting device called a Wallaroo - it is a large cabinet bolted to the wall outside of every patient room...it has a pull down drawer (think of a...
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    I'm scared

    Twinmom06 replied to ixchel's topic in General Students

    nothing says you have to work in an ER when you get out of school...I think we only do one or two clinical days in the ER so that may be the most you get exposed to it - and if you don't like it, well...
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    Struggling in Clinical

    Twinmom06 replied to exoticstar14's topic in General Students

    I had a CI like this for fundamentals - she'd been a bedside nurse for many many years and didn't realize that us newbs were really inexperienced - one of us was her ***** every week...at any rate at...
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    Why can't you get Financial Aid with a Bachelors Degree?

    Twinmom06 replied to thewoods4's topic in General Students

    i have a BA also and am only eligible for federal loans (same as I was last time around as at 18 with dual income parents I didn't qualify for anything but loans, and I only took out one small loan -...
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    How significant is it to have references?

    Twinmom06 replied to Seas's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not yet a nurse but I have applied for several hospital jobs (including an externship) and I used 2 of my clinical instructors and my supervisor from my former job (I worked with her for 10...
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    Nursing classes are easy...

    Twinmom06 replied to Brian's topic in General Students

    I agree - I learned quickly that nursing school is not the regurgitation that regular college was the first time around (independent of
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    What can I do to these scrub stains? Help Me!!!!

    Twinmom06 replied to BostonTerrierLover's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I find that a combination of spray shout, then gel Shout, and Tide stain booster pods get ANYTHING out of my kids white school shirts....along with an occasional bleaching when they start to look...
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    maternity/pediatric rotation

    Twinmom06 replied to lovecorinth's topic in General Students

    we assessed newborns with the pedi's, took babies out to their parents after they'd been assessed in the nursery, changed a LOT of meconium diapers, bottle fed quite a few babies, rinse, lather,...
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    Patho of a heart attack

    Twinmom06 replied to sjb12283's topic in General Students

    I googled "pathophysiology of myocardial infarction" and came up with several good websites including Cleveland Clinic - perhaps your answer lies in
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    Countdown to Pinning

    Twinmom06 replied to Turd Ferguson's topic in General Students

    398 days - 5/9/13 (which will be my twins 7th
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    My spirit is broken.....

    Twinmom06 replied to fairy-mary's topic in General Students

    had this experience also in L&D - not so much in mom/baby but the L&D nurses were not only brutal to the students they were downright awful to our
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    Im here to complain. you can too:)

    Twinmom06 replied to Pneumothorax's topic in General Students

    I hate dayshift clinicals also!! I, too cannot wait for an evening/nightshift job!!! I don't mind my uniform that much (Navy blue pants and navy or white scrub top) and I'll be DAMNED if I burn my...
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    electronic bp cuff

    Twinmom06 replied to TurboGirl's topic in General Nursing

    well - I'm not a nurse but I will tell you that the dentists office attempted to take a bp on me last Friday using a wrist cuff and it came out to 178/140 - not sure how I'd be alive with that...
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    Just curious, What do they teach in Nursing School these days?

    Twinmom06 replied to AMN74's topic in General Nursing

    I think it has to do with the age of the students also - for example I have a few fresh out of high school teenagers (18-19) that are flighty, scared of their own shadow etc...then for example you...
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    The student nurse

    Twinmom06 replied to musickx2's topic in General Nursing

    this - we have a co-assigned nurse (the nurse that is assigned to the specific patient we are taking care of) but if we need something or have to get checked on meds the instructor does it, co-signs...
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    working as GN vs. waiting to your RN license

    Twinmom06 replied to justchill's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I know the one hospital here (I'm also in PA) will make you an aide until you pass the test if you get hired as a GN before
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    Grossest thing that you've experienced?

    Twinmom06 replied to dirtyhippiegirl's topic in General Nursing

    last semester I had a gentleman who kept mistaking the toilet and the floor - more than once he urinated everywhere BUT the toilet/urinal...anyway at one point I walked into the room and it was...
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    What field of nursing do you want to go in and why?

    Twinmom06 replied to aghols12's topic in General Students

    OB - I love seeing life come into the world - I realize that it sometimes isn't happy, but the majority of the outcomes are good...I just did my 5 week OB rotation and spent time in mom/baby and NICU...