TXRN44

As a small town home health nurse I am in the position where I know everyone and everyone and their uncle know me and my family so since I have been on Facebook a number of years I have found myself frequently involved in care for patients either on ...

I am from Texas and also have a story similar to yours. I defaulted on $40,000 worth of student loans and was able to take the NCLEX. I did however get them out of default by having them refinanced at a much lower interest rate. I have been paying th...

I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around my patient's weight gain. 2 scales used. I have weighed myself to be sure the scales are correct and both scales are. I have seen this patient numerous times. I noticed 3+ on Friday to BLE and the Wed....

I would like to ask you, how is it possible to see more than 7 patients a day on a regular SN visit? That is just bad nursing imo. How can you do a full assessment? How can you actively engage and teach your patient? It takes me almost an hour to do ...

I work for a company that is transitioning from paper charting to computer charting. Before I would do my visit in roughly an hour, jotting down key items and filling in the Oasis key parts and then completing my narrative after seeing the patient. N...

I've been doing this for about a year now. I do rural home health and often drive 30 miles with no stores between towns to see my patients. Now my post void residual is >100 ml and my urologist says its a "nurse thing" and he sees it frequently wi...

I made the decision you did. I came from an extremely poor family and even working as a nurse extern through college, I still managed to get $58,000 in student loans. I am paying them. It is just one of those decisions that I made. They payment I mak...

Googled the "She-Wee"... LOL oh my. When you gotta go, you gotta go I guess.

I hear that A LOT from the children of elderly patients who have recently been diagnosed with whatever disease process.... Many, if not all of them are able to grasp the diagnosis and deserve to know. It is their right, however the Doctor will inevit...

In nearly every situation I encounter the children of the elderly patient are the ones told of the condition and not the patient. It maddens me.

Took the NCLEX this morning and when I try to do that "trick" it says "This candidate currently has test results that are on hold. A new registration cannot be completed at this time." Then when I go to my history it shows a successful delivery but i...

I'm having a hard time getting interviews. My resume is great, I have some experience and yet I hear crickets. I am so bored and I have dropped of my resume everywhere in the area and I am considering driving 100 miles to Houston. How long did it tak...

I have my ADN and I am about to sign up for classes to get my BSN and I see other classes offer ADN to MSN programs and I wonder which I should tackle? Any suggestions?

Not sure where to post this so steer me in the right direction. I finished ADN school in May, I have a good paying job and I want to pursue my BSN however it is $4000 per semester for 2 semesters and I need to save for a house. I know that my earning...

I work at a home health company and I am a new grad (graduated in May, passed NCLEX in June, got my first job June 21st) and I am working full time 8-4 M-F, I have a 5 year old, a husband, a life, the whole nine yards.... I have all my pre-reqs and c...

Thanks for the great advice. I have decided to take it a couple of classes at a time and stretch it out over the next couple years... I need the education hours anyways to renew my license next year.

Thank you, and I agree... I just waited so long, I am now 32 and feel so darn OLD lol. I know it is not a race, but I feel as if I am playing catch up on the ten years I let slide by without going to school. I started doing ADN pre-reqs 4 years ago, ...

$68,000.... What is sad, is that not a penny of it is from nursing! I got a crappy degree right out of high school, parents made too much money, went to school out of state, yada yada yada... Got a jobless degree and BAM, $68K after I consolidated at...

I have been working m/s for almost 2 weeks and have noticed that so many of the nurses I work with wear either the Micheal Kors watches or coach watches. You wonder how I get close enough to notice this, but if you know the watches they are unmistake...

I am a new graduate, although I have some experience with bedside nursing. I am working for a home health agency now as a case manager, and I am really afraid of the paperwork. I have not been with the case manager yet, as that comes next week, but I...

Lol... the day $300 isn't expensive to me for a watch, I will smile

I was top of my class as well and thought I would fail after I took it, but I passed the first time in 75 questions. I did the Hurst review, but the only thing that prepared me was doing over 3000 practice questions the month ahead of the test. I rea...

Exact same thing happened to me, 75 questions and a ton of SATAs and mine was on hold for a day, then I found out I passed. Mine was on hold because I took it too fast.

I am one of those people who has always thought tattoos are just trashy. It was the way I was raised and of course it isn't true of the person who has them necessarily but it does say something about their personality and their tendency to go against...

Newly graduated ADN and I am starting the RN-BSN in August. Of the three in person interviews I've had, 2 said they were looking for BSNs only and the other was not going to hire without 2 years experience. Should I look at long term care facilities ...