Amnesty

Amnesty

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  1. medical marijuana past and wanting to be a nurse

    Amnesty replied to lakersfan92's topic in General Students

    There is, actually. Blood testing measures actual THC in the blood stream to show whether impairment is an active concern. Unfortunately, not even blood testing is going to help clear someone who is a...

  2. Ad on Craiglist for ghostwriter for nursing student

    Amnesty replied to tsm007's topic in General Students

    As a former ghost writer who used to freelance to try to stay afloat while in school for my first degree, how much you wanna bet she's also paying some ridiculously low amount like $5 an hour? I bet...

  3. Things I should be doing

    Amnesty replied to springchick1's topic in General Students

    Yeeeeep. Supposed to be looking over 20 billion pages of fundamentals for a final right now, and instead I'm finding any excuse to be doing something else. I'm usually a perfectionist nutball about...

  4. Hospital Unit Secretaries

    Amnesty replied to TheCommuter's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    In my hospital, nobody wants to be a unit secretary because it's a huge hassle and you don't get paid any more for doing it than you do for being a nurse extender (glorified CNA title). I guess it has...

  5. I feel like I'm not going anywhere in Nursing!!!

    Amnesty replied to Kaemi's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    If your South is anything like my South, it's completely apples to oranges. Where I live, they were jumping to get me into the program when they thought my GPA was 3.45 -- when they found out my...

  6. Driving an hour to school there and back

    Amnesty replied to SarahStoddard14's topic in General Students

    Oh, you definitely aren't alone in driving long distances to get to your classes. I was really surprised the other day to find out that I'm actually the only one in both of my skills lab classes and...

  7. I Feel Done

    Amnesty replied to i♥words's topic in General Students

    You pretty much could have stopped here. Your advice is irrelevant (save for getting a thicker skin) since it doesn't address what the OP was even talking about. It's sad that you'd read the OP's post...

  8. Nursing makes me hate fat people

    Amnesty replied to LifeCrisis's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think the place where most of the disagreement is at in this thread is the crux between treating patients on your floor and treating patients for their obesity. I do have private thoughts about the...

  9. Change of Major (Stressed - Needing Advice)

    Amnesty replied to Cg37387n's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    OP, I am basically just like you. I have a degree in Accounting, a BBA. It cost me ~$30k after scholarships, and I was only 2 classes away from dual-BBA in Management as well (which even then I found...

  10. Is it covered under Obamacare? - Cartoon Contest Winner

    Amnesty replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    That actually proves her point xP. Yes, there is a north/south divide. I don't know many non-nursing staff who live here in the South who are for Obama care. You have to remember, most Southern people...

  11. Does it really matter which school you go?

    Amnesty replied to emde's topic in Georgia Nursing

    If you honestly want to know the reputation of the schools, ask the community. Go to local hospitals, nursing homes, even clinics, anywhere nurses routinely work, and ask the higher-ups about it....

  12. PLEASE HELP Before they kick me out!

    Amnesty replied to FutureRNKat's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Oh wow. I think it's really interesting to see what constitutes failure for attendance policies across the board here. Personally, my school has a clinical policy that states you can miss one and...

  13. "I don't know how you do it"

    Amnesty replied to KelRN215's topic in Pediatric

    Nah, just a lot stronger. Sick kids is the one area I don't think I would ever even want to try. It's more of a statement made in awe that you could go in there every day and see and feel the...

  14. New Nursing Student

    Amnesty replied to IveyPanozzo's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It really depends on your area, which is all anybody can tell you with any certainty. I live in Georgia. I know that in Atlanta, it can get pretty trying to find that "dream job", or any job in a...

  15. Losing my religion

    Amnesty replied to jadelpn's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I didn't assume that the prayers were out loud. You explicitly stated that your guy asks if he can pray with them, and they all say yes. Yes, I know you can silently pray for people, and that's fine....

  16. Losing my religion

    Amnesty replied to jadelpn's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    The only thing this post "stinks" of is a call to professionalism. Perhaps you and your surgeon work in an area where people are flexible enough to not report you for asking to pray with them, but...

  17. You won't believe.....

    Amnesty replied to NanikRN's topic in General Nursing

    Posts like this are always fun :3. Lots of different perceptions and opinions being tossed around. Lots of people getting heated and annoyed over piddly things. My take: The "break room" on my floor...

  18. A few questions about bedside manner.

    Amnesty replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Tbh, it's just a natural thing. Just being bubbly, like Commuter said. When I was a teenager, I was pretty energetic but also very reserved with it, and it just never really came across to people....

  19. Call Bells and IV Pumps

    Amnesty replied to avaloncar's topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to have to recommend that a doc order a psych eval for nurse avaloncar

  20. A little joke for all of us in school...

    Amnesty replied to bagface's topic in General Students

    Have you asked her how she tests? We all actually ask our professors and have gotten answers ranging from incredibly helpful (where the prof will give us questions and rationales throughout the...

  21. Call Bells and IV Pumps

    Amnesty replied to avaloncar's topic in General Nursing

    But only at 2 or 3 in the morning when the patient is usually sleeping and then wakes up to find a machine beeping and thinks s/he's dying because that's always what's wrong when machines beep on TV ....

  22. RNs who guide nursing students during clinicals (and do a dang good job of it!)

    Amnesty replied to sarahdanielle14's topic in Nurses Rock

    I knew I'd found the hospital I wanted to work in upon graduation when I started work there as a CNA and just about every single nurse thanked me for my help and showed appreciation at the end of each...

  23. Where do YOU sit in class?

    Amnesty replied to Caribbean Character's topic in General Students

    I'm an A student, and I always sit in the back. 1. I'm paranoid. I don't like having people behind me and not knowing about any possible threats. I always position myself so that I can see everyone,...

  24. Are we tyrants?

    Amnesty replied to Bortaz's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Just because you can't always ensure that your patient is getting the best care (because you can't always be there) doesn't mean you should allow others to give sub-standard care while it's your...

  25. Professionalism 101

    Amnesty replied to lpnpgh123's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This isn't really how "professionalism" has been defined to me. IMO, nursing is a very special profession. To put it bluntly, if you're going to be a nurse, most of the time what that means is that...