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  1. Quitting 74K RN job for a 30K vet tech job? Advice please!

    Pets to People replied to RNCDN's topic in Nursing Career

    "Petstopeople made a statement that "When you leave nursing your license does not just disappear" This is true, BUT with a caveat. Once you stop having any kind of recent experience, you become...

  2. Quitting 74K RN job for a 30K vet tech job? Advice please!

    Pets to People replied to RNCDN's topic in Nursing Career

    "If you are in a large city with teaching hospitals and research facilities, the upward mobility as a VT that another poster spoke of MAY exist for you (although we never had first assists in OR, it...

  3. Quitting 74K RN job for a 30K vet tech job? Advice please!

    Pets to People replied to RNCDN's topic in Nursing Career

    "I always think about going the vet tech route, but, yes, the salary is deplorable. Especially for the two-year, and usually very expensive degree/certification route. Honestly, I grew up around a...

  4. IVF excessive?

    Pets to People replied to coogabooga's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Maybe want to change your title...I thought you meant invitro fertilization lol. Thought this was gonna be an exciting

  5. I'm going to NS, why has your attitude changed toward me???

    Pets to People replied to niqua8604's topic in General Students

    Haters gonna

  6. Quitting 74K RN job for a 30K vet tech job? Advice please!

    Pets to People replied to RNCDN's topic in Nursing Career

    Wow, there was so much horrible advice on here that I decided not even to address each indiviidual, but to focus on what I would like to tell you. I have great news for you, but you will still need to...

  7. Where Do You Study??

    Pets to People replied to RocketMama2011's topic in General Students

    Anywhere I can! But usually at the library at school or at home after everyone else has gone to

  8. When did wearing a stethoscope become popular

    Pets to People replied to Katniss88's topic in General Students

    Actually this post should be titled "When did it become popular NOT to wear a stethascope?". I have noticed more and more during clinicals that has become rare to see a floor nurse actually wearing...

  9. "Well it doesn't matter, they're already on abx anyway"

    Pets to People replied to sapphire18's topic in General Nursing

    But didn't you know this is "real world nursing", not all that fancy stuff that teach you at school (jokingly sarcastic) :rotfl: Soooo tired of hearing that real work nursing

  10. Oh boy, what was she thinking?!

    Pets to People replied to uRNmyway's topic in General Nursing

    And I take offense at your "at the very least a GED". My dear, I have a GED which has allowed me the great opportunity to persue two degrees (one of which I am almost finished, the other I graduated...

  11. Oh boy, what was she thinking?!

    Pets to People replied to uRNmyway's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, wow...did you ever stop to think maybe she was very nervous and/or shy and not high? Or that her concerns were about prescription drugs? Some people get worried or feel ashamed when they are on...

  12. Is a nurse in the ER joking to a patient like this appropriate?!?

    Pets to People replied to Laurenslovely's topic in Emergency

    What the nurse did wrong is what many nurses do incorrectly when doing pt education, and that is to talk AT the pt instead of speaking WITH the pt. It took me years to get good at this (as in getting...

  13. Shady S/R practices. . .

    Pets to People replied to BSNBritt's topic in Psychiatric

    Here is a link (doesn't seem to have been updated recently) that shows deaths of children 18 and younger at various types of psych facilities. Just horrible, makes my chest hurt to read this kind of...

  14. Sterile nacl or h2o???

    Pets to People replied to Lasoniamacaroni's topic in Operating Room

    Never heard of sterile water for cancer cases and the rationale is not, well rational. The sterile h2o when injected IV will hemolyze the rbc's in the immediate vicinity long before it would ever...

  15. How many ml for IM injections?

    Pets to People replied to KaeliF's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    This has happened a lot to me in the class room where each of our books would say a different range on lab values, injections, etc. We were told to remember them all because they are all correct and...

  16. Why cannot give IV medication via artery?

    Pets to People replied to suizzz's topic in Patient Medications

    Thank you for clearing that up! I understand that fetal circulation/cutting the cord/change of pressure and all that jazz, but I was thinking that if fluids and other substances were still being...

  17. Advice for new students

    Pets to People replied to Live.&.Learn's topic in General Students

    I like the dual stethascope idea! It's not up to you to judge whether it was unfair or not, you weren't there. All I was trying to do was offer new students some advice...learn from my...

  18. Why cannot give IV medication via artery?

    Pets to People replied to suizzz's topic in Patient Medications

    first of all, we need to go back to our basic a&p...the substance in the vein is heading to the heart, then out into circulation after liver filtration. substances in an artery are heading right...

  19. Advice for new students

    Pets to People replied to Live.&.Learn's topic in General Students

    "I got dealt a ****** hand, I was not given the same chances as my peers, I was picked apart by this instructor and it was completely unfair." You didn't explain how you were picked apart by your...

  20. Advice for new students

    Pets to People replied to Live.&.Learn's topic in General Students

    No, the OP has failed twice and is now taking up another spot that someone else who is more serious about their college education could have taken. I know this may sound harsh, but the truth usually...