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Thanks to NedRN, Dassit82, and wayemika for the advice. All great ideas I hadn't thought about before. I'm going to look into those possibilities. Much appreciated.

Hi everyone, I'm going to start my first travel gig in December and it's about two hours from my home. I want to negotiate a cheap rate at a hotel with suites and am looking for advice. Should I go to my travel location and talk to some managers at t...

Oh. My. God. Are you serious? Women nurses are like little pigs. At the beginning of each shift I go into our break room and it looks like the basement of a frat house after a keg party. Doughnut boxes are everywhere, each of which contains just one ...

Dude, just do it. I'm 46 and finishing my first year at the hospital where I work. I enjoy every day I go to work, even the most stressful, long, ***** shifts. When I went to nursing school I felt the same way you feel now and I thought I would never...

Hi barcode, no disrespect here...But I think that's EXACTLY what the OP wants -- to have someone give him the answer. A long, long time ago, when I was in nursing school in 2011, we had to rely on obscure resources called books, professors, and fello...

Yo hairy dude, wear the undershirt. Nobody wants to see your chest pubes. As for laundry, consider it the cost of doing business. If you worked in an office and wore a suit every day, then you'd have to wash your undershirts and have the rest of your...

I've been a nurse in my hospital for about six months and still dread giving report at shift change. This morning I finished my third night shift in a row. It was a tough three days, but the last shift was really great. I felt like I did well with my...

Thanks everyone for the comments. I agree with all. To BaileyRN, what you described is EXACTLY how it is with this rude nurse. Thanks for writing in.

Maybe now I can finally hear those lung sounds!

1. Three hospitals. 2. Out of the three, two were new-grad programs and one was a job on the floor that I did my practicum before graduating with my ADN. 3. I never heard back from one of the new-grad programs. I interviewed at the hospital where I d...

Hi everybody, I'm starting my first hospital job and am in the training program right now. Since I started nursing school I've found myself collecting quotations that help me get through the day. For all you veteran (and new) nurses, I'm wondering wh...

Thanks everyone for more quotes and I look forward to even more. To "blueheaven," I love your modification of the serenity prayer to the second/minute/hour. I sometimes find myself saying, "If I can get through the next second/minute/hour, then I'll ...

Awesome poster!

Thanks for all the great quotes. I especially liked this one: "Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway." -- Eleanor Roosevelt Hope to hear some more! Dave

1) WHY NURSING? Nursing is my second career. My first was editing/writing and I decided that I needed to be engaged with people on a different, personal, daily level. I got my ADN in December 2012, passed the NCLEX, and am now in training for my firs...

Hi everyone, I'm in my RN program and am about to enter the Advanced/Cardiac class. My college also offers a non-degree phlebotomy program that's not based on credits, but instead is classified as a "75-hour professional course." I've been seriously ...

Hey Mike, I'm a 44 year-old gay man who is really close to finishing my associate's degree RN program. I'll probably sit for the NCLEX in December. Everything you said in your post is exactly what I was thinking when I started on this adventure nearl...

Hi, My humble advice? Stay in the 90K job for another year (or two) and bank away cash to go toward a nursing program in a STATE school (not a private school). Meanwhile, get all of your prerequisites out of the way through online/evening classes. I...

Hi, this is my first post, so I hope I'm in the right section. I'm in nursing school GU med-surg and got a test question related to burns and when discharge planning begins. I answered that it begins after the emergent stage. But the correct answer w...

Thanks everyone for all the replies. I won't be making that mistake on tests anymore. And it's probably safe to say that all the turkeys have been admitted and fully discharged.