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agree with the above posters......employers care that you passed the NCLEX and have license...I've never been asked about grades or transcripts

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hello Susan & Vickie, what counties are you in, sounds like Susan lives in the Cary, Garner area I have found the Lee & Harnett County areas cheaper than Wake with easy access to hospitals like Wake Med, Duke, Cape Fear & Moore Reg. I li...

Don't worry. Try to think about it from the patients view.....their graft/fistula is their lifeline. they have been taught to protect it, washing before cannulation, no bp's, no iv sticks, they rmember how long it took for a fistula to mature or may ...

Nothing is as bad as a GI bleed IMHO. Once I had a patient with a massive GI bleed and was having trouble holding it down since he had explosive diarrhea several times that day.....At lunch I got a pack a listerine strips on the advice of a 'seasoned...

best watches 1. stretch band for easy handwashing 2. large black numbers on a white background (cause I can't see for squat) 3. sweep second hand 4. military time (if you are like me and have trouble remembering MT) 5. cheap one that can be trashed i...

when you actually have daughter, mother and father in psych unit within a one month time frame, but not all at the same time......with issues ranging from bipolar disorder to depression to schizophrenia to substance abuse......and they request the sa...

I posted this on another post about white scrubs, but I wear white nursing support hose under white scrubs, can't see panties lines and my legs don;t hurt after 12 hours on my feet.

wearing white nursing support hose is great too, for not showing anything under white pants AND my legs don't feel like white hot pokers of fire after 12 hours : )

Oh THE SMELL! My 16 y/o has the same thing......i've learned never to enter without FEBREZE......I've crawled around on hands and knees smelling carpet, smelled the sheets, under the bed, the trash can, you name it.....it's just there. Can't identify...

I know this has been addressed before but I need your educated opinion(s). I went shopping today and "invested" in a pair of Dansko's. I also tried on a pair of Quark's and loved the way they felt on my feet. I was a little concerned about the lig...

I thought of another... how about when you are in the OR and the smell of cautery smoke makes you CRAVE a BBQ sandwich. The first time this happened I thought I was nutz!

A real nurse......when husband, wife, kids, parents, family members, neighbors, etc. complain about their back ache, stomach ache, sore throat, gas pains, sore muscles, HA....will reply..."Rate your pain on a scale 1-10" I used to be quilty of tell...

Oh.....another note...... Our school has the most requested applicants for employment than any schools in the surrounding 5 counties. Employers know that our program is one of the most difficult and the nurses come out well prepared for employment. O...

I attended nursing school in a rural town at the community college. Our class started with 54 students. We lost the majority in 1st semester and then only a handful the next 2 semesters. Went into the Critical care/4th semester with 18...ended with 9...

Run don't walk to the doctor. About six weeks ago I had a "minor" scratchy throat, achy, tired.....then I broke out in red rash all over my body and in the palms of my hands.....sure enough.....scarlet fever.....I spent a miserable few days. When my ...

During school my class was plagued with stomach ulcers, depression, colds that would not go away, and during the last semester strep took over the class room with two of us having scarlet fever with strep rash and rash/blistering palms. Two classmate...

I think it is very interesting the the doc in the OP was female. I have seen behavior like this far more often from female MD's than males. Seems almost like they have something to prove to female nurses....on the flip side, they are never rude to ma...

During a rotation at the UNC Burn Center in Chapel Hill NC I heard an amazing thing from a 90% burn survivor. He said..... "Burn patients carry their scars on the outside for all the world to see. Burn nurses carry theirs on the inside where they are...

Hope you guys don't mind a girl posting.....but I thought you might appreciate this.......one of the first BIG things to purchase for my husband (who has worked two FT jobs to put me through school, who continuously cleans and NEVER complains) is a B...

While I was doing my L&D rotation I was paired with a 'slightly' ditzy classmate who sometimes spoke before thinking. Together we were hooking up a new admit to monitor for FHT's.....classmate asked.."why do you have a mole tattooed on your bel...

North Carolina $ for new grads around 18.50/hr with 3 - 4/hr shift and 10/hr WE stacked. Some specialty areas (L&D, ICU, ED) offer 1-3/hr diff too. Not as bad as some, not as good as others, but cost of living is low.

While preparing a male donor for plasma donation.....when he asked why I was stroking his arm to make the vein pop up...... "If I stroke it, it comes up faster." I thought he and everyone within earshot would fall out laughing.