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    About how much does a Med tech make an hour starting out?

    RNsRWe replied to mzsuccess's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    To make sure I understand you, you are currently a CNA and find THAT job mentally taxing(and physically taxing as well)? But you are currently in school for LPN...and don't find that taxing mentally...
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    Can you work straights days?

    RNsRWe replied to IcySageNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I replied to your other thread, the one in which you explained why you left the hospital and then went to a private office and now are looking to get back to the hospital. Just wanted to answer your...
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    Can you work straights days?

    RNsRWe replied to IcySageNurse's topic in General Nursing

    As I see it, your biggest problem is NOT that you've "never worked in a hospital", it's that you DID work in a hospital, but left after only a month, you were unhappy there. Or was it three weeks? You...
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    Older workers that are new grad nurses, please explain.

    RNsRWe replied to wish_me_luck's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Well, in reading your scenario, I find that there are other considerations to be made. Statistically, I (as the employer in your scene) will get nowhere near 40 years out of Jill. I probably won't...
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    Tattoos/Piercings in the workplace?

    RNsRWe replied to __patiently_waiting's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    In the course of discussion I think most people are using two different words (and meanings) interchangeably. "Professional" appearance is what was posed in the original questions, but it seems you're...
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    Does anyone else plan to stay in bedside?

    RNsRWe replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    After reading this, I did some Googling and found that while according to the NYS Labor Department there is NO minimum age for becoming certified as a CNA, in practice it's quite different. I...
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    Does anyone else plan to stay in bedside?

    RNsRWe replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a newly-produced RN, but I do know what you mean by new grads getting into nursing as a stepping stone to something else. I spend part of my day doing bedside work and part doing...
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    Does anyone else plan to stay in bedside?

    RNsRWe replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    Guessing you were a CNA at 16 ( I assume that's what you meant by "started nursing 8 years ago"--not really nursing but I get the idea :) ) I didn't think you COULD be a CNA at only 16! Learn...
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    Tattoos/Piercings in the workplace?

    RNsRWe replied to __patiently_waiting's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Strong opinions, indeed! So here's mine: I am in my forties. To some of you, that's near-dead. However, I live a 'young' life, with children at home, and am anything but a dinosaur! Why do I...
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    Oldest patient

    RNsRWe replied to MessyMomma's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ah, and with his age at death being a purported 33 years of age, that would make your patient
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    Why is the US healthcare system so full of "mini-doctors"?

    RNsRWe replied to Lvdovicvs.Angelvs's topic in General Nursing

    I smell bait being
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    Should I get a nice car as a new LPN/LVN?

    RNsRWe replied to NursingBro's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    If you have some extra funds on hand, seek out investment advice. Retirement savings. Heck, even a 'Rainy Day' fund; no one's employment is a sure thing nowadays. A new car is a very poor...
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    Oldest patient

    RNsRWe replied to MessyMomma's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow....and still accepted as an organ donor? I've had to call organ donation center many times, and typically once I got to the part about them being elderly, the questions are pretty much over. Yes,...
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    What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    RNsRWe replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

    Just going to answer on this, then let it go. Your kid with the wackadoo name will very likely show up at some point, no doubt. Kid's probably too young. My suggestion to use Google would pertain to...
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    What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    RNsRWe replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hey, ease up, wooh! Not about being the smartest, just hate seeing urban legends repeated so many times, that's all. If others don't mind, so be it. I guess I overestimated on some folks. Will drop it...
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    Finding CNE course for RN license renewal.

    RNsRWe replied to sweetlady10's topic in Texas Nursing

    Google....?
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    Maybe I'm worried too much ?

    RNsRWe replied to AslyVincent's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    If you are smart and motivated, if you dedicate a significant portion of your life to studying and make classwork, labwork and clinical time a priority, and learn from your mistakes, you will succeed....
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    What should i do with nursing?

    RNsRWe replied to PhillipJunior's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm going to let others more recently in school answer your actual question, but something you wrote concerns me: what do you know about nursing? How have you decided you want to do it....if you can...
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    Why does the VA draw blood?

    RNsRWe replied to FORTHELOVEOF!!!!'s topic in General Nursing

    So you're saying you allowed someone to draw your blood and you never thought to ask the person "hey, by the way, what's this for?" Surely you signed a consent form allowing them to take the blood; do...
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    Graduating high school early

    RNsRWe replied to WannabeNurse(:'s topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Keep in mind when stating what courses people need that the course numbers only pertain to your college. She might need ENG 104, not 111; she might need BIO 201 and 202 and the ones you mentioned...
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    Finally signing RN at the end of my signature :-)

    RNsRWe replied to PortCity_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Exactly! Thankfully no one asks me about why I signed my kids' stuff like that,on the rare occasion it happens lol....I have also been known to zip off the 'RN' when trying to get out of the grocery...
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    What's the worst you've ever been dumped on?

    RNsRWe replied to SuzieVN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I nearly blocked it out, but when I read the question, it came back to me. Myself and one other RN, the only two nurses on 11p-7a. Acute care med-surg. Out of 36 possible beds, 32 are filled. I...
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    Please help, just started job and pregnant

    RNsRWe replied to Cherrytastic's topic in United Kingdom

    I wonder if you'd do better posting this in the International Forum (UK)? Good luck to
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    Finally signing RN at the end of my signature :-)

    RNsRWe replied to PortCity_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Anything that pertains to nursing, your job, anything that you are signing BECAUSE you're an RN. Not on checks. Not on your credit card receipts. And unless you're absent-minded like me, lol, not on...
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    Cough Syrup - wow!

    RNsRWe replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    Well, thank heavens it wasn't UNskillfully combined! Anyone want to hazard a guess at to what the "number of other ingredients" might have been?