Luckyyou

Luckyyou BSN, RN

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  1. Winging the NCLEX

    I skimmed the Saunders book on vacation (with a few margaritas in my system) and took one or two practice tests. Took the exam like three weeks after graduation, passed in less than an hour and 75...
  2. Nursing student lacking passion?

    I'm passionate about working three days a week and getting paid really well for all my
  3. whats your plan B

    Nursing WAS the plan
  4. When you save a life

    I guess I've saved some lives working in a NICU. What really sticks with me, however, is the lives I've prolonged long past the point of
  5. I suggest this thread as a good overview of the realities of NICU nursing:
  6. Staying afloat on a nurse's salary?

    I own my own home, drive a brand new SUV, take vacations 2-3 times a year and can buy/shop (within reason) for whatever I want. I also have zero debt with the exception of my mortgage and $6k in...
  7. How to get a job working with babies

    Yes, and sometimes this is the worst part of my job. We can "save" a whole lot of babies of increasingly earlier gestational ages these days. It doesn't mean we should, or that they will have any kind...
  8. How to get a job working with babies

    A high acuity NICU is not the place for
  9. ROAD

    it generally applies to medical specialties that are considered lifestyle friendly... good hours, good pay. these are usually popular and competitive residencies. sometimes emergency medicine is...
  10. NCLEX- What to wear?

    I had to take my hoodie off, but that was several years
  11. What was your GPA?

    My school was exactly the
  12. Today a patient asked, "Do you know Jesus?"

    if I could like this a hundred times I
  13. Do I need a Pediatric Stethocope?

    In our NICU, every patient has their own stethoscope in their room. We don't use our own, only the fellows carry their own around. On the floors, the nurses carry their own, but every isolation...
  14. Need Advice!! STUDENT

    What do you mean by going the extra two years to be a neonatologist? Neonatologists go to four years of medical school, do a pediatric residency and then a
  15. Launch of New Responsive Mobile Design

    How do I turn this off?? I have never had any problems when viewing the desktop site on both my iPhone and iPad and now I feel like I can't see
  16. Isolette Practices

    We don't pop unless the excrement is hitting the
  17. Spirituality and nursing

    If anything, being a NICU nurse has made me more convinced that there is no God/higher power/flying spaghetti
  18. What age did you complete your BSN or ASN?

    BSN -
  19. Nursing tougher for guys than girls

    ...are you two
  20. High frequency vents on your unit

    Only oscillators
  21. Whats your NICU experience?

    The recent realities of NICU nursing in my world (details changed to protect privacy): Admitting a term infant who coded for over an hour at an outside hospital, knowing that he will never be...
  22. Best alarm clock tone for an iphone?

    Set it in a (dry!!) glass volume side down. It will get significantly louder. Also works for
  23. New Grad Question

    I work in a high acuity NICU (ECMO, 23-24 weekers, etc) and nobody's ever asked or cared how I did on any class in nursing school. For my first nursing job, I had to submit a transcript, but it wasn't...
  24. My program was the same. 95% were straight out of high