ICU_UcMe BSN, RN

Nursing school is like daycare, and being a new grad is like college. In nursing school, everyone watches out for you and makes sure you aren't messing anything up. People will answer your questions, and generally expect you not to really know anythi...

I stumbled upon this thread, and just wanted to tell you that I work with a bedside APRN. Like you, she didn't want to practice anymore so she doesn't. The hospital couldn't care less about her being licensed as a NP. She's still a nurse, and that's ...

I agree with you for the most part. However, of the preceptor hasn't first told her what she's doing wrong and attempted to help her correct said behavior then she is also failing Alice herself. She's a student. Students are used to hand holding and...

I love being a nurse. I do feel overwhelmed sometimes though because I'm a new nurse, and I'm in critical care. I know it takes a bit to get your footing, but it can be a little disheartening when people treat you like you should've had it after only...

I work with some of my friends from nursing school. I'm not going to stop hanging out with them simply because we work together now.

Isn't that the overpriced, one-size-fits-all leggings? I have a friend who tried to talk me into trying them. No thanks. My $5 ones from Walmart are just as comfy and have lasted me for years. Lol

Sometimes I donate to GFM accounts, and other times I don't. It depends on the circumstances and on my mood. For instance, I donated to one that someone had made a crappy comment on about how they'd just spent a week at Disney and "should've used tha...

Thanks for this. Googling and finding this thread just saved me from spending $50 on a book on amazon. I'm having trouble understanding as much as I feel (or it seems I should according to some others) I need to after a few weeks in the ICU under a p...

At will means neither of you have to give a reason for termination of your employment. That said, if you don't give the proper notification for them to find someone else to fill your position then I'd expect that to get around and bite you in the lon...

If you add to this calling pharmacy repeatedly because they refuse to send the proper drips from the list they were faxed by the unit secretary, you have my life. í ½í¸©

I wish my lunch break ever truly lasted my thirty minutes. I'm lucky if I get 15 mins uninterrupted. Lol

I am sorry this happened to you, OP, but I agree with this. They probably figured that if you have enough personal conflict to keep you from orienting properly then you're going to have too much to keep you from retainment. Further, since you've been...

Fact. I got screamed at my first semester of nursing school because I refused to take an order from a doctor. Umm, let's see, I had been in nursing school for a matter of weeks, and I was specifically told it was out of my scope of practice so why wo...

I'd say go FNP if that many things interest you. I wouldn't limit myself to a specific area if you don't think you want to spend your entire career in it. That's just my opinion though. I'm currently in the ICU and PRN in MH so I clearly can't make u...

I never came back to say that my license was up before my unofficial results were even available. I found out I passed, applied for jobs, and got hired at one all within 24 hours. Woohoo! Now the fun part begins. Lol

So I took the NCLEX today, and when the test closed out at 75 questions, I was 100% sure that I had failed. I decided to just try the PVT and got what they say is "the good pop up." I know that you can get the bad one and still pass, but has anyone e...

This is true. I'm fairly certain that six weeks would've killed me though. Lol

Oh, honey, lol. Nursing wasn't my first career. In fact, I just graduated with my BSN last year, and I'm in my 30s. Trust me, you'll be fine.

I never even knew it was an option until now. I DEFINITELY didn't feel competent enough to be a LPN after two semesters of nursing school. Hell, I still feel lost half of the time now. 😂

I got into the nursing school at my university the first time I applied so don't freak out over wait lists unless you aren't a good student. I also had to apply in like April or May to get in for the following January so no way you could get into one...

Well, I am a concealed-carry permit holding, handgun owning, democrat so I'd probably really make your co-worker's head spin.

So do you feel like uworld was worth it? I have the Saunders book, and I need to read it again because I haven't looked over it since this summer, but I didn't do many of their resource questions online because they give entirely too much information...

We graduate in December; I've already had 3 job offers, and two have offered sign-on bonuses. One of the offers is in mental health (which is my current field). I don't know about your area, but it is my understanding that mental health nurses are al...

I wasn't insinuating that it was chump change. I just know people who pay less. Granted, we live in a rural area so I am sure there is probably some type of forgiveness going on there. I don't know because I've honestly never asked.

It depends on the type of debt. Personally, they paid my student loans off for me (from a previous degree).