WordWrangler

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1. How did your employer recognize Nurse's Day?

   WordWrangler replied to allevi's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   My friend works in an office where the nurses were given gift cards and treated to a group lunch outside the facility at a restaurant just down the block. She said it was fun and relaxing and she...

2. telephone triage flowsheet for receptionist?

   WordWrangler replied to Ashley02's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

   Front desk will pass the call back to the RN's line. If the RN is busy (and I usually am) that call goes to VM and the RN will return the calls in order of priority. The VM prompts the caller with...

3. NCLEX it's come to this...

   WordWrangler replied to Crazed's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   Holy cats, I'm wondering if I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote your post myself. You're me in another place, my friend. And you'll be cool. Your subconscious is just telling your "what...

4. NCLEX WITHOUT Saunders! Didn't have the attention span for Saunders.

   WordWrangler replied to SilkenSail's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   CONGRATULATIONS!!!! And please do not apologize for posting too much info on how you passed the boards. I'm always just happy to see proof positive that hard work and studying pays off. You go,...

5. Rant and insecurities.

   WordWrangler replied to missmollie's topic in General Students

   Face your insecurities, know they are there, know others have them as well, and move on. You're not great right now and you're not going to be -- no one expects you to be great right now. And others...

6. over it

   WordWrangler replied to Wrangler156's topic in General Students

   I am right there with you. Three months to go and I am having such trouble motivating to continue to learn (see, I'm right here now!!!) But I know if I stop now, even with all I've learned so far,...

7. Palpations, physical exams on genitals?

   WordWrangler replied to lissart's topic in General Students

   At my age, I have no modesty left (well, not much, anyway), but I was a tad nervous about going in on my first round of clinicals to do the physical assessments. I was looking for advice and the best...

8. I am in school and not currently a CNA/PCT

   WordWrangler replied to twins1_92's topic in General Students

   Stop stressing it. Everybody has a different path and not just those who have had work as CNAs get hired. I have a list of varied job experiences and twenty years of childraising behind me and I'm...

9. classmate insists on posting her opinion

   WordWrangler replied to adnstudent44's topic in General Students

   Oh, ugh.... Ignore, ignore, ignore. We have several who apparently never listen in class and spend all their time on fb asking questions (about meeting times, counseling appts, etc) when if they'd...

10. "bad" evaluations given by students of faculty

    WordWrangler replied to goingback's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    The teachers who recite from their power points which are taken verbatim (and yet, somehow still contain grammatical errors?) from the books we were supposed to read before lecture? Those teachers...

11. Dreading L&D/Peds

    WordWrangler replied to bagface's topic in General Students

    Consider when you are going through the rotation that you are learning how best to help those who need it most. As you said, not every baby is born into a family bursting to care for it to their very...

12. Peripheral pulses - I'm not entirely convinced they exist!

    WordWrangler replied to seconddegreebsn's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I was instructed this previous semester to palpate the DP bilaterally at the same time, as well, to judge differences in quality of each. Sometimes it's hard to find those pedal pulses in sick...

13. It just has to be said (vent)...

    WordWrangler replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    THANK you for posting this at a time when there are so many of us slogging through finals, through the ends of long clinical rotations, and hearing how hard it is going to be to find work. THIS is...

14. Dealing with anxiety/worry r/t nursing program

    WordWrangler replied to justbreathee's topic in General Students

    Okay, first, STOP allowing all non-productive thinking. Focus right this minute on passing, passing, passing. Learn that material. If you don't, you'll never have to even think about why there are...

15. Have you ever had fellow students make you feel really stupid and incompetent?

    WordWrangler replied to futuresctRN's topic in General Students

    Some people are ugly. Some of them are simply thoughtless about the discomfort they may be causing to another person, and some people are just trying to claw their way to the "top" and don't care...