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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 and one as a RN) and was recently told that the t...

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 a nightmare. I was being nurse, tech, and "firema...

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 XD

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 orientation for that as I only got CNA training on Cerner ...

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. So I have been a CNA for 4 years, a nurse tech fo...

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

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 norm.

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 92% in grammar 96% in vocabulary [COLOR=#141823]a...

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

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 mylanta..

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

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. Often when people realize that I'm a veteran and ...

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 :)

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 away at prereqs until finally, I go that amazing lett...

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 three years with a home service provider so it is a...

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 pretty good thread, OP asked a question that has went...

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 I loved being productive with such a wild bounty. ...

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 back, "Well, I only have ONE husband, and I'd lik...

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, and do practice nclex questions, and really shadow...

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 action needed, and find the answer that jumps out ...

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 treat myself to real life nurse stories here in AN....

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 :)

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. This time around, it was ratios and conversions, the...

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 place, and if I'm accepted, I will have to quit working...