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    Is shadowing a requirement?

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

    To answer the first question in bold type, I think you may have a confusion of terms. There is no requirement for med students to "shadow" a doctor prior to going to medical school, like there is no...
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    CNA-ADN-BSN

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

    The answer to your first question is, in a word, No. Receiving a certification to work as a nurse's aide is typically a six-week course, zero college required, although it varies widely. Receiving...
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    What helps you sleep after night shift?

    RNsRWe replied to Emma_H's topic in General Nursing

    This helped you to sleep hours later? For me, any caffeine at any point within 4 hours of bedtime meant I wasn't going to sleep well, even with the Benedryl (and that includes cocoa!).....am so...
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    What helps you sleep after night shift?

    RNsRWe replied to Emma_H's topic in General Nursing

    Worked nights for years. What to do? Benadryl, and plenty of it! Blinds, shades, and blackout drapes. Put towels up over the tops of the curtain rods (hanging down the sides) to block ANY light from...
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    Please help. Got an academic dishonesty record on my transcript.

    RNsRWe replied to yvette1222's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Ah, yes, it most certainly could have been. Actually I missed the part about getting a B in the course when cheating was discovered; policy at my school (approximately a hundred years ago) would have...
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    Please help. Got an academic dishonesty record on my transcript.

    RNsRWe replied to yvette1222's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    This seems an odd statement to make. How is it that you know this? I think we can all point to the case of the CC student who was thrown out on his ear for crossing the proverbial line, as well as the...
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    Haunted Jobs?

    RNsRWe replied to green34's topic in General Nursing

    Is there some kind of weird trend where you live to turn funeral homes into ambulance stations?! Seems odd. You said a few, and then another one....that's four. What town is
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    Help!! I'm shut out of the NCLEX exam!

    RNsRWe replied to NurseCookie2013's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I think those who believe a lawyer is the answer to everything would probably enjoy being dragged to court by ALL their patients for something they charted, or didn't chart, or said, or thought they...
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    Help!! I'm shut out of the NCLEX exam!

    RNsRWe replied to NurseCookie2013's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    NurseCookie, you aren't going to like seeing this, I know you don't want to hear it, but I'm speaking the truth: nursing schools have minimum standards for a reason. There MUST be a point at which a...
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    Anyone else's local hospitals doing this?

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

    Hospitals in my area won't say this outright, they just won't hire new grads. What they WILL do is wave those stacks of applications under the noses of the experienced staff (figuratively!) to 'keep...
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    Please help. Got an academic dishonesty record on my transcript.

    RNsRWe replied to yvette1222's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    So....you "feel really bad" but it seems that this is because you got CAUGHT, not because you CHEATED. Otherwise, why so much justification? Why so many excuses WHY, instead of focusing on what you...
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    How would you describe Nursing

    RNsRWe replied to 2bRNatasha85's topic in General Nursing

    Might this be a homework assignment and YOU are supposed to be answering this question by describing nursing to your
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    The way we ask for someone's pain level?

    RNsRWe replied to cmav8's topic in General Nursing

    I know post ops are expected to have pain. So when I worked in that setting, I'd say "on a scale of one to ten, with 'one' being a small pinch and 'ten' being an anvil dropped on your head, what...
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    Teaching/Nursing

    RNsRWe replied to rmhgy5's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure you will get lots of good info from those who have "been there done that", like classicdame, but wanted to answer a couple of points you are asking about. Please be aware that there is no...
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    Baby nurses?!?!?!?

    RNsRWe replied to LandD_RN_chica's topic in General Nursing

    .....reconsidered. Back to previously-scheduled
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    Baby nurses?!?!?!?

    RNsRWe replied to LandD_RN_chica's topic in General Nursing

    More like months...it was several months back, actually. This is OLD news, and it resurfaces every so often as people "discover" it for the first time. Myself included, when I "discovered" it. Now,...
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    Baby nurses?!?!?!?

    RNsRWe replied to LandD_RN_chica's topic in General Nursing

    Someone has. I did, twice: by phone (message had to be left, not a human available) and by email. As did several others. And have yet to even get so much as an acknowledgement from the BON that...
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    "Wait for the nurse"

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

    Completely reasonable suggestion and I'm very much aware of the legalities, but nope. It was made clear to me that since it was not my area, it was none of my business. And as long as I run my unit...
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    Question about isolation precautions...

    RNsRWe replied to Dazglue's topic in General Nursing

    Hooboy, your facility has some serious issues with infection control standards compliance! Droplet and contact precaution the same thing? Hardly.
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    "Wait for the nurse"

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

    Absolutely, 100% agree. And this was part of the chat I had with administration, quite some time ago. And they shrugged, because they think they are somehow bulletproof. Of COURSE the "girls" are...
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    "Wait for the nurse"

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

    I work in a large medical practice, divided into many sub-specialties. Only my sub-unit has actual nurses, the rest of the people walking around the building in scrubs are either MAs (and I...
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    Weekend Only Shift

    RNsRWe replied to mwc1230's topic in General Nursing

    Tough one. While you're at HR, find out the policy for taking time off (NOT the once every six months). Honestly, you'd have to know what your home life and commitments are like to know if this will...
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    Forced out of job as MA

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

    No lawsuit, major or otherwise. Why does everyone think the answer to an unhappy employment termination is a lawsuit? How many times do we hear "they can't fire you for that"? Why, of course they...
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    is an associate's in nursing good enough?

    RNsRWe replied to kevinadd1's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Yeah, I picked up on this too and was about to reply when I saw your post. I wonder if she's mistaken? I remember some students thinking they could take the NCLEX-PN halfway through an ASN program,...
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    Horrible Monday, lost job, extremely late to another job interview

    RNsRWe replied to sw1242's topic in First Year After Licensure

    So if I'm understanding you correctly, you arrived on time to start a new job, but then an hour later asked to reschedule so you could be somewhere else? And this was "an awesome job" but you were...