ganursechick BSN, RN

i had a guy puke all over the floor the other day at work because he happened to walk in the room when i was giving his wife a flu shot!!!:uhoh21: she said that normally when he goes with her to the doctor and she is gonna get a shot, he will turn hi...

:angryfire I work in LTC and usually work weekends, but worked this week 7-3 to help orient a new nurse....this morning, i was in the hallway and heard 'all available nurses to unit one', i left my orientee with another nurse and went to help. When I...

My mother in law has a history of several medical probs...htn, NIDDM, severe apnea, anurysem in the brain that was removed, and congestive heart failure. last Weds she was admitted and had a small tumor removed from her adrenal gland...she spent 48h...

Ok, I work in a mental health/behaviorally challenged unit of a LTC facility. We (I) work 12 hour shifts on the weekend, and the weekday nurses work 8 hrs. On the 8th of this month, my fellow charge nurse and i were informed by a CNA that she has ...

I had a girl that lived down the street from me a long time ago, and her mom and dad were HUGE SF 49 football fans at the time. Mom got pregnant, and they decided they would name the baby JOE MONTANA SMITH.....well the baby was a girl. so they named...

okay here is mine....i am a fairly new nurse (since April) and I work in LTC. Kinda ironic that I chose that line of work due to the fact that i grew up with one grandparent and lost him way too early for my liking.... My resident was Raymond...he w...

i work in a mental health/behavioral health unit of LTC, we have one patient, male who has an extremely high sex drive.....he is in his room as much as possible making love to his 'matress wife'....one night as i was doing fsbs checks,,,i went to his...

I had my oldest daughter by c-section in 94 after being induced for 2 days and only progressing to 9cm.....the c section was okay.:) in 98 i was convinced that a vbac was a good idea and i was a good candidate for it....so i had my second daughter ...

i have wanted to be a nurse since my second daughter was born...she was really sick and spent a lot of time in the childrens hospital...just to sit there and watch the nurses, respiratory therapists and docs show so much compassion for a child that s...

even where i work in the mental health/behavioral health unit of a LTC, we have a lady who likes to rip the cord out of the wall and swing it at people...she should have been a cowboy the way she can swing that lasso...but we have to get it from her ...

when i was in my lpn program last year, we had clinicals on tues and wed from 0530am to 0500pm every week...clinicals were 3 semesters long. we had to complete a minimum of 700 hours of clinicals to complete the program.

i work in LTC and am a new grad..never worked in healthcare before, but I love elderly people and of course was nervous when i started there in April. I have learned so much more about wound care and pressure ulcers than i ever did in clinicals. we...

yeah the one about threatening a child is bad , but its really bad when you work in the behavior unit of a LTC facility, and the residents tell each other, if you dont take your medicine, she is gonna give you a shot....man that is bad.

at our school we had to take the hesi to graduate, and you had to score at least 900 to pass it.....our campus has a 100% pass rate on the NCLEX and the main campus of our school has about a 96% pass rate. they also require you to take the NLN at th...

here is a good website you can check out too....beinggirl.com

YEAH GRADUATION IS TONIGHT!!!!!!!!! :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: I FINALLY MADE IT.:rotfl: :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :p :p SO JUST A LITTLE EXCITED.

Well grad last night was a BLAST! We were so hyped up and it was well worth. Kinda sad though, most of us will probably never see each other again, since we live in a military town. But there is always email and phone calls,we made it through scho...

thanks everyone, I am sooooo glad this day has finally gotten here.!!!!!! :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: and congrats to those who are graduating also.

that is the way it was when i took the nclex last week. min was 85 and max was205 and it tells you on the computer that your time period includes all breaks and tutorials and stuff.

you are right, I say 'c' for the other one too-aspirating is never done with heparin

Hi We used the Lippencott Clinical Procedures Book. It is spiral bound and fits into the pocket of your lab jacket. I got mine from the bookstore at school, but i am sure you can find it somewhere.

:balloons: I just found out that I passed my boards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!whoooo hoooooo I am really a nurse now! :balloons: :balloons: :biggringi :yelclap: :cheers: :smiley_aa :biere: Thanks for all the support and encouragement from everyone ...

congrats to you!! i passed too!!! :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: :rotfl:

I took the test wednesday morning and got my results a few minutes ago. we are a quick result state!!!!!!!! good luck to all that are still studying, and getting ready to test. relax and focus and all will pass.:balloons:

Ok, i took my boards this morning....had 85 questions..all but 2 people in my class that have already taken boards had 85 and they all passed, other 2 had all 205 and they both passed..........hopefully this means GOOD things for me. now i start the...