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  1. Malpractice Insurance.......Is it necessary???

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have been doing my preceptorship in ER for the last part of Nursing School and on Tuesday, we had a Mother that came in with her 7 y.o. daughter and we were packed with serious and life threatening...

  2. Malpractice Insurance.......Is it necessary???

    grinnurse posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I was wondering how many GN/RN/LVN have purchased malpractice insurance on their own apart from the hosp? If you do have it on your own, do you shop around for it like "car insurance" or did the...

  3. racism in nursing

    grinnurse replied to daisywill's topic in General Students

    What exactly is going on and how are they being racist? It has been my observation in my nursing school that racism also occurs and not so much between different ethnic races but in age differences....

  4. NCLEX-RN what does it mean when?

    grinnurse replied to Nrs_angie's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I know lots of nurses that took the NCLEX and passed on the first time. Have you had to take any of the HESI computerized tests? These are supposed to be like the NCLEX test or so our instructors...

  5. Just Found Out I Failed

    grinnurse replied to Triple A's's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

  6. Malpractice Insurance.......Is it necessary???

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks so much for the info. I definately am going to get coverage. I live in a state where people love to sue anyone for anything........nevermind the fact that they were out doing street drugs the...

  7. Taking a job in a unit you don't really want

    grinnurse replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Is the hospital somewhere that you want to stay? I would think that would make a big difference. I had decided if I did not get the unit that I wanted at the hospital that I really wanted to work at...

  8. Malpractice Insurance.......Is it necessary???

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I was having a senior (my brain on nursing school) moment when I posted earlier. Found the site and didn't see where they split the cost up by specialty areas when they did the quote online. I know...

  9. Book Smart or Common Sense?

    grinnurse replied to GWENLYN18's topic in General Students

    I've seen both kinds in the past two years. I have seen excellent nursing from students that have struggled through lecture and not so much content but passing the lecture exams (referring to myself)...

  10. Malpractice Insurance.......Is it necessary???

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Can anyone send/post a weblink to them? Never heard of this before. Thanks for responding. Our school carried malpractice for us/them and one of the instructors recomended it so I thought I would...

  11. What about Internship?

    grinnurse replied to LPN2RN05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I got a packet in the mail from the hospital yesterday (for job) and it had a page that looks like it needs signature about the bonus but not what I was expecting as the "contract". It doesn't have...

  12. My Preceptorship Experience (NICU)

    grinnurse replied to RainDreamer's topic in General Students

    I have enjoyed reading your posts this morning. I start my preceptorship tomorrow and am very nervous. Hope mine goes as well as yours. Can't wait to see the last of your experience

  13. NEEDED: Career advice for new grad.

    grinnurse replied to Ali_Oop07's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I feel the same about deciding where I really want to go. I have one offer from a hosp that is 45 minutes away, the pay is decent (not as high in metropolitan area that I am close to), have a great...

  14. Any pagan nurses here?

    grinnurse replied to merei's topic in General Students

    Ditto- that's what we should all do on most things in our lives is just that--Live and Let

  15. What about Internship?

    grinnurse replied to LPN2RN05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The hospital that I am pretty certain that I am going to accept an offer at is what I would call a medium size hospital that starts out at $18/hr which is a dollar less than the major hospitals. It...

  16. Interview Questions

    grinnurse replied to ddzwalker's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    There is a sticky about questions on the General Nursing Student Discussion page about interviews. Welcome and good

  17. Therapeutic Communication

    grinnurse replied to HididiScribbler's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    This area has been one of the funniest for me in NS. We had to include on our prep sheets for clinicals on each patient parts of a TC. For the most part, the majority of the stuff we made up b/c the...

  18. Veiws On Living Wills

    grinnurse replied to nad's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The most important thing about any of these documents is to speak to who ever you want to make those decisions for you if you can't. You need to have someone whom you trust to carry out your wishes....

  19. Communicating with patients

    grinnurse replied to JamieMSU's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Like the other poster said introduce yourself as a student and when they have questions that you don't know the answer to say "I am not really sure, but, let me find out for you". The geriatric...

  20. On Alternate List - Nursing School

    grinnurse replied to kklownluv's topic in General Students

    I don't know of any people that were on the alt list for 4 year Univ. list but I was on alt list for 2 yr program at the CC. I was accepted the 1st year that I applied but had a baby just before I...

  21. Hesi Help Please!

    grinnurse replied to mrigas's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I feel for ya cause I am in the same boat. We take ours next Friday. The ways that I have prepared for them in the past was to look over that semesters lecture notes and answer questions out of the...

  22. Senioritis

    grinnurse replied to nurse1day's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am in the same boat as ya'll!! I am so sick of studying, paperwork, instructors................. Definately ready to get to May 13th and get on with it . My kids have kept me motivated these...

  23. incorporating the adpie in questions!

    grinnurse replied to 3kidsmomma's topic in General Students

    Not only does it "splain" the fried brain but also the hair turning gray and falling out, palpitations, paranoia, GERD, :barf01: insomnia , delusional and hallucinatory thinking, flattened affect,...

  24. incorporating the adpie in questions!

    grinnurse replied to 3kidsmomma's topic in General Students

    Thanks-I knew it had to be something simple but, my brain is fried at this point!!

  25. Mosby or Saunder's

    grinnurse replied to nursing 101's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Saunders is the best. I have both the Mosby and Saunders book and I prefer the Saunders out of them