daniellenursing

daniellenursing has 3 years experience and specializes in BMT, Oncology, LTC/SNF.

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1. What's In A Name Badge?

   daniellenursing replied to TruvyNurse's topic in Nursing Professionalism

   Ive seen it go both ways. Funny enough, no one has told me I'm wrong for my badge saying RN, BSN, OCN (also what I do in emails and official documents). I am proud of my BSN. It means I made it and...

2. Did You Know the Specialty You Wanted to Work In Before Clinicals?

   daniellenursing replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

   I knew I wanted to be in pediatric oncology. It's what got me into nursing school in the first place. I had five pediatric patients in nursing school clinicals and it was the best thing ever. However,...

3. ADN-BSN Programs

   daniellenursing replied to mlbrn71's topic in Online Distance Learning

   I got my BSN through WGU. Very challenging, but worth it. However, while WGU does have a MSN, there are no grades attached to courses. It is competencies. So it may hurt your GPA and chances of...

4. What is your dream unit?

   daniellenursing replied to guest769224's topic in General Nursing

   I currently work in half of my dream job, lol. Adult oncology. But my complete dream job is Peds Onco at St. Jude's Children's research hospital. However, I would dig any major children's hospital...

5. Why don't you just read the chart?

   daniellenursing replied to Guest219794's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I ask where the IV is if it's a new patient to me because A: how many times have I seen an IV pulled out??! B: the chart is about 50% incorrect when it comes to IV site, gauge, and orientation. Sorry,...

6. Public's lack of knowledge about what nursing actually is

   daniellenursing replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

   I'm glad my mom is a nurse, and even though she went to the big University in my school's town, and that's where she got her Bachelor's of Nursing, oh, 30+ years ago, she was 110% okay with me going...

7. Oncology Nursing Vent

   daniellenursing replied to bonnielilgirl's topic in Oncology

   As someone who desperately wants to work as a Ped Onc Nurse - it's literally my dream. Oncology and children have been my passion since my sister's BFF died from a rare cancer - I understand how you...

8. "Throwing Out" questions on a test

   daniellenursing replied to DawnJ's topic in General Students

   My teachers do stastitical analysis of every test for both campuses in the program, and do further review of questions as a faculty when the percentage of answering correctly is below a certain...

9. Unbelievable exam question

   daniellenursing replied to metal_m0nk's topic in General Students

   Some teachers don't want to admit they made a faulty test question. I thankfully have had wonderful teachers who know they wrote an off question - even a CLICKER question during the lecture - when...

10. What is the one thing that turns your stomach?

    daniellenursing replied to FDW630's topic in General Students

    I can't do sputum - sometimes not even my OWN - and fecal matter just... isn't cool. Sometimes farts and burps gross me out - probably from experience with my dad *ugh*. I can do just about anything...

11. Normal nursing grades..

    daniellenursing replied to katestudentnurse's topic in General Students

    When I see a post on facebook from a classmate, or on tumblr, about "I got a B on the test :(" or what not - I kind of raise an eyebrow. People who freak out over a B make me weary, honestly. 4.0 are...

12. What Nursing school are you in? Show your pride!

    daniellenursing replied to straba's topic in General Students

    Walla Walla CC 2nd year nursing student - ADN program. Just gained my LPN this summer, next up:

13. Can you guys give me an example of a day in the life of a nursing student?

    daniellenursing replied to patriotprincess's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm going into my 2nd year of a fantastic ADN program, just went through summer school for my LPN. My school uses angel, which is basically an online classroom, which helps supplement and communicate...

14. IV Infusion Time!! Please please help!!!!

    daniellenursing replied to Born2Care4All's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The only difference between figuring out ml/hr and gtt/min is one uses hours and one uses minutes *plus the drop factor* The formula for ml/hr is: Total volume to be infused (say 2000 ml) / total time...

15. passing NCLEX-PN

    daniellenursing replied to ksmith9's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Congrats, ksmith9! I too took my PN test just recently and found out two days later I passed. I also felt I had failed epically. 85 questions and I was sure I was answering most of them wrong. But...