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  1. First year nursing and EXPECTING first baby

    MIA-RN1 replied to anxiety722's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I would tell now only if you have to deal with medications or agents that might risk the health of your developing baby. Otherwise, wait a few months to get acclimated. I wouldn't want to get 'written...

  2. Preceptor Friend or Foe??

    MIA-RN1 replied to texaschick's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I love everyone at my job and I have had many of my coworkers as preceptors but one actually complained in front of me to a supervisor that its hard precepting and that she wanted to get paid extra! I...

  3. New RN precepting students!

    MIA-RN1 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Wow, this is so wild. I had a couple LPN students following me around last night! It was interesting seeing the other side of the fence. I was a little irked because the student was assigned to one...

  4. New RN precepting students!

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    well an update that I told my supervisors and they had some other concerns and made some phone calls. I found out in a roundabout way that the patients were thrilled with me. I knew one of their...

  5. Got nightmares?

    MIA-RN1 replied to RITA2007's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes and Yes! I went from NCLEX nightmares to all sorts of crazy dreams where there is some weird drama and yet I STILL HAVE TO SEE FOUR PATIENTS Yes it's always four! The other night, there was all...

  6. How to avoid the Med Surg?

    MIA-RN1 replied to combatmedic_91B's topic in First Year After Licensure

    just apply for what you want. Make yourself stand out, be special but be yourself. I was determined to only work post-partum and I got it. Because that was all I applied for! There is no sense ever...

  7. ADN or BSN

    MIA-RN1 replied to Dusty08's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi Destany. I give you lots of credit for planning your future education all ready! :) A CNA is a Certified Nurses ASsistant. There is classroom learning and a practical test. You will learn things...

  8. "Just found out somone I know was diagnosed with cancer"

    MIA-RN1 replied to Little Panda RN's topic in General Nursing

    when my husband was diagnosed w/ cancer, the best phone calls were honest and when people offered to do something for us. (Cook, watch the kids when we had appointments etc) An offer to babysit when...

  9. ? for those taking Zoloft

    MIA-RN1 replied to evbella's topic in General Nursing

    I take 50mg a day and I have had some weight gain but I don't think its due to the med. my doc told me that zoloft has a low rate of weight gain and most people who gain weight do so because they are...

  10. New RN precepting students!

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I had that same feeling about teaching. THat said, I am all for sharing information--if the source is textbook, research or evidence-based practice. Not anecdotal

  11. Anybody with familiar feelings?

    MIA-RN1 replied to Dempather's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I think its important to remember that 15 of the first 75 questions are ungraded, 'test' questions for future NCLEX exams. That thought got me thru the 48 hours of agonized waiting. Every question I...

  12. New RN precepting students!

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yeah I like the idea of nursing students too....which sounds bizarre given my

  13. New RN precepting students!

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I wasn't stressed until I realized that it was just weird. I LOVE teaching and I will teach anyone anything that I have learned. BUt it was just weird all

  14. New RN precepting students!

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    exactly! I think that it was that particular student, being way to overenthusiastic because the second night it looked like she was driving another nurse

  15. New RN precepting students!

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thank you. I was telling some others that I work with about it, since the students are coming back tomorrow and I wont be there, and they said that there is one instructor who is absolutely wonderful...

  16. New RN precepting students!

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    technically, at a teaching hospital, patients get students whether they like it or not. Technically. Me, I warned all my patients first. Plus, a patient can refuse any caregiver any

  17. New RN precepting students!

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Did I use the word incorrectly? Lol I didn't mean to but anything's likely after the workweek I"ve had :) They were assigned patients that were assigned to me, and I was showing them how to do

  18. New RN precepting students!

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes I know they didn't have a wide, classroom knowledge base--they only have 3 clinical days total on our floor and there are no hospitals in my area that offer positions for LPN's on OB floors. But...

  19. New RN precepting students!

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ok I am going to add to this thread because the students came back last night and it got worse. I would love input from more seasoned nurses. I asked what the responsibility is and I found that as...

  20. Freakishly Random

    MIA-RN1 posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    That is the best way to describe the NCLEX. I took it this morning, did 75 questions in 1h10m. I was thinking I'd see a progression of easy to hard and back again. But that wasn't the case! Only a...

  21. Freakishly Random

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    thanks everyone!

  22. Please share your embarrassing stories!

    MIA-RN1 replied to studentnurse74's topic in First Year After Licensure

    During my final semester in school I accidentally squirted an entire saline flush into my patient's lap. i got him a new gown and we had a

  23. Freakishly Random

    MIA-RN1 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    :monkeydance: I

  24. Good "Dancing/singing in your car before NCLEX" songs

    MIA-RN1 replied to JenNJFLCA's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Anything loud and upbeat or harmonizing works for me so I would have Alice Cooper on one side of a tape, and the Grateful Dead on the other, and I alternated. I heard Billion Dollar Babies, Escape,...

  25. Good "Dancing/singing in your car before NCLEX" songs

    MIA-RN1 replied to JenNJFLCA's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Adam Ant.....::drool:: He was SO hot