Luckyyou

Luckyyou BSN, RN

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  1. HELP-- New Grad Planning to Move to St. Louis

    Luckyyou replied to BSNSt3ph's topic in Nursing Career

    The north side is most definitely NOT the better area. Yikes. Do you live here?? OP, I own a house in STL city and have zero problems with safety. It's just like anowhere else, there are nice parts...

  2. NICU Nurses

    Luckyyou replied to ambojcksn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    This. It's not the babies that die that get to me. It's the ones that no one will let

  3. Random: best lotion for dry nursing hands!

    Luckyyou replied to stacylethani's topic in General Nursing

    All I know is that I better not come to work with parabens. (No but seriously, I use the burt's bees milk and honey

  4. Do Nurses really make "good money?"

    Luckyyou replied to Want2BeeRN's topic in General Students

    My base hourly pay works out to a $48k yearly salary. With overtime, shift bonuses, skill-based pay and shift differentials, I made $100k+. Not shabby for the Midwest. I haven't had to worry about...

  5. Weird/ Dumb Nursing School Rules

    Luckyyou replied to Randy RN ASN's topic in General Students

    I'm a practicing nurse who went to class 99.9% of the time in t-shirts and sweat pants. Or gym shorts. Or oversized hoodies. Oddly enough, people take me seriously just fine. Nobody cared what we wore...

  6. Common NICU conditions

    Luckyyou replied to batgirlRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Great list ^ A couple others: Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) What's surfactant, when/why/how do you give

  7. Will I have any time as a nursing student?

    Luckyyou replied to Alicee's topic in General Nursing

    In school, I worked three PRN jobs, played video games competitively ($$), kept up a long-distance relationship half way across the country and still had time to sleep, eat, bathe and graduate with a...

  8. NICU New Grad Programs

    Luckyyou replied to Nursing1990's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    sent you a

  9. Nursing is a passion?

    Luckyyou replied to mindofmidwifery's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have a passion for buying lululemon leggings and nursing is how I get

  10. Hospital getting ECMO

    Luckyyou replied to Icualltheway's topic in Critical Care

    We make an extra $3/hr -- so $1.50 per person if you're splitting the assignment with another ECMO specialist, or $3/hr all to yourself if the person you're paired with is just a regular

  11. Should I continue as a Pre-Nursing student?

    Luckyyou replied to tsstudent's topic in General Students

    What about social work? They're overworked and underpaid, but hey, so are

  12. Confused between Nursing and PA

    Luckyyou replied to Loveleen Sahni's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    PA also typically requires paid healthcare

  13. Specialty pay

    Luckyyou replied to BeachsideRN's topic in General Nursing

    I make an extra $3/hr for any shift I run an ECMO pump, or half of that if I share the shift with another ECMO specialist. Don't spend it all at

  14. I feel nursing is more of a calling than anything else

    Luckyyou replied to Tarrus Eliuds's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    The only calling I have is to stay in bed all day, but I've yet to find someone to pay me for that. Nursing pays the bills just fine and I can only work 3 days a week if I

  15. Actively bleeding patient

    Luckyyou replied to shnnon90's topic in General Nursing

    Well, all bleeding stops ....

  16. What thrills you/what terrifies you?

    Luckyyou replied to Philly85's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a newly minted ECMO specialist and I'm still thrilled and terrified on a daily

  17. When did you know you wanted to be a nurse?

    Luckyyou replied to rachflamini's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I've been a nurse almost five years now, still not sure what I want to do when I grow

  18. NICU Documentaries

    Luckyyou replied to maeli's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    These aren't documentaries, but.... I've always thought this article was a nice antithesis to the "MIRACLE BABY BORN AT 300 GRAMS FLIES SOLO ROCKET TRIP TO MARS" stories you see in the news far more...

  19. Nursing VS Medical School

    Luckyyou replied to kwr2439's topic in General Nursing

    Have you taken the

  20. [California] Paying for WCU nursing school while not working

    Luckyyou replied to cjsiege's topic in General Students

    130k is more than my mortgage and student loans combined. Yikes. There are no other options for a

  21. Com'on, you got one...What is your heart wrenching moment?

    Luckyyou replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    The dad of one of my long-term patients screaming at me during one of multiple codes the night he died, "Why won't you save my

  22. No calculators allowed as an RN?

    Luckyyou replied to dancediva234's topic in General Students

    Not only do I use a calculator on a daily basis, but I use the one on my PHONE. The

  23. would adult camodeling affect your licence or ability to get a job?

    Luckyyou replied to Morgan264's topic in General Nursing

    I have this strange sense of déjÃ

  24. Nurses, how do you view your job?

    Luckyyou replied to 8*P23J's topic in General Nursing

    It's just a job. An interesting, fulfilling job, but still just a job. If I lost a part of me every time one of these little people died, or went home with a terrible family, or had bilateral grade 4...

  25. Medical school after nursing school ?

    Luckyyou replied to Harlee92's topic in General Students

    Additionally, this poster has previously asked about getting into nursing programs with an ACT score below 20.... so I highly doubt they got the required 28 on the MCAT and the 30 on the ACT to get...