Lissla

I'm very much a night owl and for the next couple of weeks I'll be orienting on day shift. The thing is I never ever feel rested when I wake up no matter how many hours I sleep. Last night I got around 7 hours of sleep and felt dead tired during work...

For my facility, orienting on day is beneficial only because I might be asked to come in a little early to help with staffing problems. I work nights now but I sleep so much that I never have time to do anything else now lol

Like nutella said, dont rule out nursing homes or long term care. I had too much competition from the recent graduating nurses to land a job at a hospital. I got tired of it and went for the jobs most nurses don't want.. It's not the ideal new grad p...

I was in the same boat before I started the nursing program in 2013. I'm still very much an introvert and get shy too. It's something I'm always going to struggle with and yet today I'm an RN. I found that the program was the best decision I made for...

I'm at that time in the program where I have to think about graduation. And with that, comes pinning. I've heard from one of my instructors that she still has her pin since its a symbol for her. I've been debating if I should purchase a pin or not. I...

Yeah I definitely thought it was weird that I was being considered for "charge nurse" but it makes sense that titles kind of mean different things in LTC. I did have a feeling they were a bit desperate for an RN though. I did take the job coz for me...

So I got my RN license back in beginning of December and have since been looking for a nursing job. I didn't start getting interviews until this month and have been getting rejections left and right from all of the hospitals I applied to. Too much co...

My partner has really good insurance through his employer but was hit with a huge medical bill since his insurance wouldn't cover it. They were saying that since his care was not standard of practice and that it was only investigation (he's having so...

I took the NCLEX for the second time last Monday. I was a wreck until I got my results on Wednesday. First time through I got around 155 questions. Second time got to 89 and walked out feeling like I did okay, then psyched myself out and thought abou...

I worked during my last year of school, BSN degree. At first it was a regular retail job, random days of the week. But then it turned to a Monday to Friday job. Handled it pretty well until exams came up. Didn't have much of a social life but its doa...

We only have one option for a pin and its design doesn't appeal to me. If we don't purchase a pin we just get a ribbon. I guess I'd feel more compelled to purchase it if there was an actual meaning behind the pin instead of the college just handing i...

A lot of the students room with fellow students in the class. A few mass emailed the class a few months before classes started. There isn't any dedicated housing for students but there's apts in the area. Some of the locals rent out rooms too \: You...

I know the main campus is very competitive. But if you apply for the Hagerstown campus, you have a better chance of getting in. I'm at the Hagerstown campus and one of my fellow classmates used to be at main campus. He went for Hagerstown coz there w...

Having a professor late every time would frustrate me to no end. What happened to the idea of the importance of nurses being on time? Maybe she's testing you all to see who's brave enough to say something. The professor I had for assessment had a 3 ...

I think there's always going to be those people who can't think that fast on their feet or just don't do well in front of an audience. Me and a few fellow classmates are like that, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't be nurses. It just means we probably...

I am in the exact same boat as you except I'm 21. I dread clinicals and I do question whether this was the right choice for me. And this is all because I'm shy and I find it hard to talk sometimes with patients. Last week I had two of my clinical ins...

My community college didn't separate them. There was A&P 1, and A&P 2. The systems were divided though. I agree on taking them together and that it makes more sense that way; You can focus on everything as a whole rather than individual parts...

I don't think men being sexist to women for years justifies being sexist to men now. Men being the minority in the nursing field, can you now understand how some females feel about men being sexist towards them about almost everything else? As for b...

I was hoping someone could help me out with how to do the IVP medication problems that usually give a picture of a syringe with it. My class wasn't taught how to do them in our fundamentals class, and the semester starts tomorrow with a dosage calc. ...

Its just that the answer key says "give each calibration on the syringe over 12 seconds" and I don't understand how they got that. This probably is an easy question for most but I've only gotten through one semester so far lol, and I don't remember d...

I'm in a pharm class now.These are pretty well organized and I'm hoping they will help me out with my last exam coming next week. I just need to figure out if my printer will let me print these on cards..

I could use it as well but like you I've given up hope a long time ago. I was in a position where I would've had to drop out of my classes if I didn't get this. But it turned out for the better so I'm just glad I get to stay in my classes. To be hon...