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  1. Wait staff and flight attendant c/o customers

    englishgeek replied to dudette10's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Honestly, I'm surprised you haven't witnessed this. I wish I was in your shoes. Seriously, my nursing class voted on a class shirt: nursing: gave up my life to save yours. Ick, really?! Sounds good,...

  2. Does nursing really suck that badly?

    englishgeek replied to Irish_Mist's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I worried, too. And worried and worried and worried. Like you, I'd read posts on here and think, "Have I made the biggest mistake of my life?!" But then I got into it and I really like

  3. teacher to nurse transition

    englishgeek replied to Nursetobe25's topic in General Nursing

    I love that if you've got a little snot of a patient, you see that annoying face a few days instead of ALL YEAR! Haha. Seriously, though. I loved teaching and I also love nursing. What I like about...

  4. Media a bit too invasive of nurse's personal info following her catching Ebola?

    englishgeek replied to Blue Roses's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yahoo news stated something to the effect of, "She was keeping her identity private, but we have exclusively learned who she was through her home location and nurse's license." Um....

  5. Easy to get a job

    englishgeek replied to englishgeek's topic in General Nursing

    Haha. Mystery solved! I'm Okie to the core, but my goodness are we backwards on way too many

  6. Easy to get a job

    englishgeek posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've seen plenty of posts about how hard it was for people on here to get a job out of school. I'm wondering if anyone lives in an area like where I am, where the jobs are many and the nurses are few....

  7. Nauseous vs Nauseated (another grammar lesson)

    englishgeek replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    When this started I totally thought you were going to talk about

  8. Well, I didn't expect THAT answer...

    englishgeek replied to jadelpn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A guy came up to the nurse's station on the med-surg unit. The charge nurse asked, "Can we help you?" "Yeah," He replied, "my back is really hurting and I think I need to be admitted. I need some of...

  9. Nurse Staffing Costs

    englishgeek replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I think it's awesome that you've come to get ideas from people you know probably have good ideas. I've been a nurse for about 2 seconds, so I have no good ideas for you. Just wanted you to know I...

  10. Things you tell newbies

    englishgeek replied to JBudd's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm still the months new. Went to a patient's room with an experienced nurse to start her mediport IV, my first. She asked, "Are you learning, or do you know what you're doing?" I looked her in the...

  11. Love working in an area that needs nurses

    englishgeek posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    So, I now have two jobs two months post grad: Med/Surg the local hospital and PRN home health. The first job interview went like this: "You've worked here as an aid so we saved you a spot as an RN....

  12. Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    englishgeek replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    My dad kept telling people he was getting colostrum on his wound instead of collagen. We finally convinced him that the first was breast milk, but then he couldn't remember the real word. He would...

  13. Good Nursing Books

    englishgeek posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    So, I've been a nurse for about a week now. However, I've been a nerd my whole life. Having said that, I love research. If there is something I'm interested in, I research the heck out of it. One...

  14. teacher to nursing?

    englishgeek replied to RNtobe23's topic in General Nursing

    You have to decide for yourself. But I do know that a background in teaching would be applicable to nursing. Good nurses ate

  15. Abuse at school

    englishgeek replied to jdoezer's topic in General Students

    You should go into politics. You're AMAZING at using tons of words to say absolutely nothing. Those Senators and Congressmen who think they know how to pull off a good phillibuster or throw some...

  16. child safety

    englishgeek replied to amoLucia's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yes they

  17. child safety

    englishgeek replied to amoLucia's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    About the weeks ago, I was driving to work. I was mentally "getting into the groove." As a new nurse, I was trying to prepare myself for what I was going to do to give my patients the very best care I...

  18. Thanks, guys.

    englishgeek posted a topic in General Nursing

    So...I read a post on here about someone who could have possibly gotten in trouble for posting sensitive, identifiable information on here. I'd never thought of that. You smart people have influenced...

  19. Bedside rounding in-front of patients

    englishgeek replied to Nurse-84's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree with the others. I think bedside reporting is a good thing. It helps the patient feel better and more informed about the case they were

  20. Thanks, guys.

    englishgeek replied to englishgeek's topic in General Nursing

    I know HIPAA is important, I just didn't think about the fact that when I registered here I'd put the town I was from. Thank goodness I never revealed anything

  21. rant

    englishgeek replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    I've ranted very similar rants SO many times. I'm not against CAM, but when people continually make absurd claims like this it makes to hats to listen to

  22. Is nursing hard on a marriage?

    englishgeek replied to Wannabeeinscrubs's topic in General Nursing

    I am in nursing school right now and working part time at a hospital. My husband is seriously borderline Aspbergers and schizophrenic, and when I first started, he was having major depression issues...

  23. Who are PCTs accountable to?

    englishgeek replied to StephanieZie's topic in General Nursing

    I am working as a PCT while going through nursing school. I know several who have the attitude of the one who trained you, but I feel like my entire job is to be there to assist the nurses so that...

  24. Nursing School Blues

    englishgeek posted a topic in General Students

    This will be sort of a survey. I am a 29 yo nursing student/mother/wife/previous teacher. I've noticed since being in nursing school that I go through random bouts of depression once in a while. Now...

  25. Is becoming a nurse really that bad?

    englishgeek replied to luvmykids0810's topic in General Nursing

    I have learned that in many cases, it seems like it's the people. I think many people are just unhappy and when a job fails to provide that happiness, they blame the job. I think you can be happy...