blackberry74

blackberry74

Geriatrics

Member

  • Content

    36

  • Visitors

    5,736

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    2

All Content by blackberry74

  1. I want to be a travel nurse. Advise?

    blackberry74 posted a topic in Travel

    I have been in touch with Aureus staffing ever since I graduated almost a year, letting them know how my experience was going (I have been in Ortho/MegSurge for the past two years, one as a nurse tech...

  2. First day as an official RN: Reflection

    blackberry74 replied to _littlemissBSN's topic in General Nursing

    it has been my first day at work as a solo nurse myself Christmas day, which wasn't bad, but the day after was horrible. All the surgeries had been on hold for the Christmas weekend and so Tuesday was...

  3. Do you consider it helpful or not to be given a Pt’s attitude during a report?

    blackberry74 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I find it helpful. I actually find the patient is the complete opposite or there is something much deeper going on that "patient is an oddball'. Sometimes they are characters like me

  4. My first day as an RN

    blackberry74 replied to blackberry74's topic in General Nursing

    It was a great first day. It was like putting on my clinical hat and doing in-depth patient assessments in school all over again :) We have switched from McKesson to Cerner so I need to go to...

  5. My first day as an RN

    blackberry74 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello Allnurses! Today is the day I have been working towards for a very long time. I graduated in May, took my NCLEX August 23rd, got my license in the mail and my hospital offered me an RN position....

  6. Needle stick from urine collection cup.. Patient HepC positive...

    blackberry74 replied to Leeleeboo7's topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital had these for all of about 2 months and then they disappeared. Apparently people sticking themselves with them happens more than it

  7. Sweet, Honey

    blackberry74 replied to LikeTheDeadSea's topic in School

    I would rather Sweetie and Honey than the alternative of that spectrum. but seriously, I am a northerner in the South, and it happens a lot. I guess after a while it just becomes the

  8. I Passed my Hesi for Lake Sumter State college!

    blackberry74 posted a topic in HESI Entrance, Exit Exam

    Good morning everyone! I'm a little late posting this but it's been a busy month. I passed my HESI with flying colors, first time. my cumulative average was 90%. so I got: 90% in reading comprehension...

  9. Mel, Nurse

    blackberry74 replied to Davey Do's topic in Men in Nursing

    this was much needed on this site! thanks for the laughs,

  10. So what's going to happen to health care now?

    blackberry74 replied to Rocknurse's topic in General Nursing

    This was the best post I have ever read. I laughed so hard about that turkey sandwich, the costs some of these street urchins rack up though, oh

  11. Am I too old to start this?

    blackberry74 replied to mightyaphrodite's topic in General Students

    42 and on my final stretch in nursing school. You can do anything you want to. Don't let anyone decide your fate for

  12. Veteran's Day 2016 - A Salute to Military Nurses

    blackberry74 replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    I served the US Army from 92-94 as a turbine generator mechanic. Didn't become a medical professional until recently. I adore my fellow veterans and easily relate to them when I have them as patients....

  13. Are nurse's all that and a bag of chips?

    blackberry74 replied to Nash3222's topic in General Nursing

    or they ask for you to look at their rash or what could this pain be? I tell them I ain't a doc... not even a nurse yet, just a nurse tech

  14. Going Back at 40 years old...

    blackberry74 replied to kjkolesar's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Good for you! I started college courses back in 2012 at 36 years old and was paying cash for them as I worked my way out of retail and into healthcare. I got a job as a CNA, and continued plugging...

  15. My first job in my new career

    blackberry74 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello everyone! I wanted to share my excitement in my new job! I am a new Nurse Tech I at the local city hospital, 7p-7a, a limit of 24 hours a week because I am still a student. I've been a CNA for...

  16. Female vs male patients

    blackberry74 replied to qaz99's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My two cents? I'm still a fledgling student nurse tech, but I have had plenty of salty (and sweet, for that matter) men and women patients. I prefer the patients who can ambulate. This thread is a...

  17. Meaning of your username?

    blackberry74 replied to Flightless Bird's topic in General Nursing

    In Oregon along the coast the blackberries are wild and plentiful, and during the late summer I would pick gallons of them and make jam and such. It was a favorite time in my life, a lot simpler, and...

  18. "Your job is to make me happy"

    blackberry74 replied to Nurse216's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I worked with a elderly man once whose wife was certain she should have a personal nurse at the hospital. When the nurse at the hospital told her that she had more patients to attend to, the wife shot...

  19. Heroin pandemic

    blackberry74 replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Addictions

  20. I Passed my Hesi for Lake Sumter State college!

    blackberry74 replied to blackberry74's topic in HESI Entrance, Exit Exam

    Oh and yes, still working as a CNA, albiet ony 15 hours a week. Im going to apply at the hospital as a nurse tech soon though, maybe weekends, Im not sure yet. You really need to study a lot though,...

  21. I Passed my Hesi for Lake Sumter State college!

    blackberry74 replied to blackberry74's topic in HESI Entrance, Exit Exam

    Yes, I really think it does help to be a CNA. The best advise I have gotten from the second year's and from the instructors on HESI and exams in general is to read the questions thouroughly, find the...

  22. My patient committed suicide last night

    blackberry74 replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in General Nursing

    how tragic for all involved. Terribly sorry for your loss. It moves me greatly for you all to come here and share these stories with us, I am in my first year of nursing school and after studying, I...

  23. When a pt "gets" to you

    blackberry74 replied to mmc51264's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What a sad thing to happen. I am sorry for your loss. But you know what? You still have heart, and you will be just fine

  24. I Passed my Hesi for Lake Sumter State college!

    blackberry74 replied to blackberry74's topic in HESI Entrance, Exit Exam

    So...I went back 2 and a half months and retook the math. I studied during the week before as much as I could, but I wasn't overwhelmed and even had 45 min. to study before i went to take the test....

  25. How does everyone else survive while you go to school?

    blackberry74 posted a topic in General Students

    I'm jumping ahead of myself, but I like to have everything taken care of beforehand. I'm taking the Hesi in October and my prerecs will be done by the end of this semester. My student loan is in...