englishgeek

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, but like NO ONE in this room is "giving up their li...

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 it.

I'm a new nurse. I love when the doctors are open enough to allow questions. You guys got more school than I did, and residency is INTENSE! You know a lot. And I want to know any info you are willing to share with me. And you want me to know it too, ...

Scraping, cutting, breaking, drilling into bones. It makes my skin crawl just thinking of it. Already broken? No problem. But I will not be around for us messing with that. So, no surgeries where bone is involved and no IOs.

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 nursing is the lack of planning/grading. You come in...

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.... what?!

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

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. Seriously, one job a friend told me to about, I f...

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

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 that Demerol." We all just stared at him for a coup...

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 appreciate your effort.

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 eye and said, "I know what I'm doing... and I'm lear...

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. Just let us know when you're ready." Second intervie...

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 say, "It's not colostrum, it's that other thing." The...

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 thing I'm looking for, though, are nurses' opinions on...

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

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 misdirection have nothing on you. And those bunch of de...

Yes they do!

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 could. When I pictured myself pulling into the pa...

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 me to change my town to something more generic. Th...

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 receiving.

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 crazy.

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 anything

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 due to a severe accident he had suffered. Thank God...

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 they can more easily do the things that I am not yet ...