Luckyyou

Luckyyou BSN, RN

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

    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

    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!

    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?"

    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

    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

    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?

    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

    sent you a
  9. Nursing is a passion?

    I have a passion for buying lululemon leggings and nursing is how I get
  10. Hospital getting ECMO

    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?

    What about social work? They're overworked and underpaid, but hey, so are
  12. Confused between Nursing and PA

    PA also typically requires paid healthcare
  13. Specialty pay

    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. 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

    Well, all bleeding stops ....
  16. What thrills you/what terrifies you?

    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?

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

    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

    Have you taken the
  20. 130k is more than my mortgage and student loans combined. Yikes. There are no other options for a
  21. 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?

    Not only do I use a calculator on a daily basis, but I use the one on my PHONE. The
  23. I have this strange sense of déjÃ
  24. Nurses, how do you view your job?

    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 ?

    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...