thekingandhislady

I had to present my degree to the hospital I work for so be careful not to go off and spend your time doing something that will limit what you can come home and do later with your experience.

I'm looking for various avenues you can use your nursing in the case of burn out. I have spent time doing Med/Surg, Outpatient Surgery Clinic and most recently floating through an extensive critical care department in a local large hospital. About 2 years into being a critical care RN, my oldest son was diagnosed with a brain tumor (he was 15 at the time). At that time I was a pool nurse and able to take the next couple of months off to get him through brain surgery and a very bleak prognosis. I have to say, it sucked something out of me. Prior to that experience I could see that I was "made" for critical care. Absolutely loved it. As of October of last year, I resigned that position to come home and care for my recovering son. We are to a point now, even though he's not completely healed, I am capable of re-entering the work force and I have NO desire to bedside nurse anymore. During the war to save my child's life, my ICU experience gave me an advantage of more control of his care but it also allowed me to see the bare ugly that most lay people don't have to face. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss I think. On the rare occasion that I covered a shift after he was released home, I found that I was grieving with every intubated patient and their families and it never seemed to fail that I would have a neuro patient and the dark cloud would get even heavier. My personality, in general, is I bore easily. ICU gave me the ability to have no time to get bored. I loved the constantly changing environment. Another thing I LOVE to do is teach. Teaching in general is fun for me. I'm trying to rack my brain to find an avenue that I can go down (even if it requires more schooling as I only have an associates at this time). If I don't figure this out soon, I'm going to have to drop nursing and go back to school for something entirely different and I'd hate to see such potential wasted. I'm lost in the middle--part of me is nurse, the other part just wants to throw up before she does another neuro check, hangs another BP drip or suctions another OETT. Surgery isn't an option either bc I don't want to have to face a family that stood where we did for 8 grueling hours while their loved one is on the brink of death. I'm tired of death. However, clinic nursing feels redundant for me and not really challenging. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!

I am happy to say that I finished AND passed fourth semester finals. I am approachin preceptorship and then pinning in Dec and NCLEX in Jan! Hallaluah! It's been a long road and here I am, the one posting an "I passed" thread on the site! Never thought I'd see the day and here it is. For those of you who feel like giving up and its getting hard. To you I say, stay in the race, it is well worth the prize. WOOOHOOOO!!! God is GOOD! :dncgbby:

Ever day??? Occurence? :uhoh21:

100-90 = A 89-80 = B Also for the other post by this user "What is your final worth?" Our finals are worth 30% of our grade.

I basically do it the same way. From higher to lower I go right decimals and from lower to higher I go left three decimals. Ex. Higher to lower: 1kg =(left three decimals)1000g Lower to higher: 1000mg= (right three decimals) 1 g and so on. Kg G mg mcg

80 yeilds you a B..anything below is failing. If I'm not mistaken they do round 79.5 and above as an 80. I'll have to find that out.

Keep em comming! I have already looked at those two sites. Thank you for the info. I am compiling a practice quiz and I'd like to have at least 50 questions when I'm done for my class. Thanks in advance!

https://allnurses.com/forums/f205/easy-way-remember-abgs-144947.html Pay attention to the links that VICKYRN gave. ROME we learned in class.

I am looking for practice questions on interpretting ABG's. I found a link here that someone posted for understanding them better. But I think this is going to be like math for me..the more I practice the better I get at interpretation. I'm not knowledgeable enough yet to make my own. Any links to practice questions and answers would be appriciated. I found a site with 20 practice questions, but they didnt have the answers. I found that out after I tried to work them. Thanks so much

When I divorced from my husband of 11 years, I didn't know how to go back into the dating scene. Dating always makes people feel like they have to perform to an unknown standard. So, I decided, instead I would be God's lady...hence thekingandhislady.

three things....first i passed my first semester with a b! second...i tried the link that deelite gave me..it is for pn..i am in the adn (rn) program. however, i wish i would have looked at this prior to my exam monday because alot of what was on my exam was communication. also, suzzanne..what is a sticky. i looked for a link but i have no idea where to find your program. thanks all for your help!!! busy summer ahead with micro and learning meds. if anyone has an easy idea for learning meds and what they do..lemme know. sure could use the help because just thinking about it hurts my head. take care guys:p

what is suzzane's plan??

I am facing my first comprehensive exam in RN school. I'm looking for a free fundamentals nclex review other than the questions I have already answered in my current textbook. Any suggestions?

I am a new nursing student!!! Divorced with 4 kids and a wonderful b/f. This will be my second attempt. The first one I attempted while going through a divorce and had to move about 3 weeks before the end of first semester. And the sickening part is, I was passing with an 86! Age 29 It's gonna be a fight but I will finish in '09 :smiley_ab