Schoolnursetrish39

Well my posting name is Schoolnurse Trish but I don't work in the education sector anymore as budget cuts eliminated my position I moved and I have been working in long term care.. It is a nightmare I have always worked in hospitals prior to this and...

Amen to that Medic Nurse.. when I was in nursing school. I had clinical instructors that watched us like hawks and I even had one who thought I wasn't cut out to be a nurse and had me do extra wound care when some of my classmates thougfht it was "gr...

YOu said it all in that last sentence. I have started a new position and there are a couple of residents that are prejudiced and some staff who are terrible and reading that gave me some prespective. We all have our bad days... the patients being pat...

I agree with the prior posters about the run around you get sometimes. It has taken me 3 weeks to get hired at any hospital I have worked at after an interview, I dress professional and then you have to hound HR and the Nurse manager you will have to...

Gonzo, Believe me its has nothing to do with you being a ER RN its family and you need to grieve. I lost my boyfriend to heart failure about 6 months ago.. he was coded and brought back and didn't live out the day and I just totally could not think l...

All the jobs I have had with CNA and techs and etc. I have always worked with hardworking professsional people they did theri jobs very well and under bad circumstances at times.. This new job I have in correctional nursing is that I am an RN but th...

I agree AsianMike. Thats what it is really all about, the care of our patients. Like the way you put that.

I am mostly type A but am type B too. I always get my work done though as it is unfair to the person following you if you don't. I work nights, however I have alot of paper work to finish as my 3-11 folks don't get to it... so my type A habits kick i...

I have an ADN but at my college it is an Associate of Science in Nursing to be able to transfer. Looking to get my BSN or more. :)

Because he is 40 and you are 22,???? Don't be coy What he is doing is sexual harrassment to some people and if you don't welcome it say so and if you do you better cool it at work because people will notice and it could lead to the loss of both yo...

It was hard but I don't regret going to nursing school at all. I love being a nurse. My ex-husband used to say that and then he was the one who left me for another. Sometimes I feel bad about my marriage failing in some ways, but I am a happier more ...

You are right on about that... Marie

Well thats sad some patient would say that.. in regards to the little pretend nurse vs. the real nurse.... because I know in Nursing school I hung out with all the LPN bridge students and they taught me so much. I love the LPNs I have worked with and...

Well really it was a childhood dream but as dreams go sometimes they are hard to make them come true but I did. I got married at 17 and was a military wife for about 16 years.. moving around here and there I always wanted to go back to school but be...

I went to their rival Crowder College ADN program ( even though we were a community college not a university) and we took the HESI and all of us passed in my class in 2003 with the exception of one and she had struggled throughout the program, howeve...

hi all, just wanting your thoughts on the idea of a doctor's office rn ( not a nurse practitioner) diagnosing a friend of mine who is in heart failure already due to congenital heart disease he was born with tetralogy of fallot and has had 5 open hea...

Yes sure of it, The patient was in the office and they were attempting to draw the lab work and this was when said nurse told him this when he asked what the labs being drawn were for. Her exact words were to see if he needed dialysis no explanation ...

Yes, I had to interview three times for the school nurse position I wanted, got a teaching certificate for nurses from the state of Oklahoma ,interviewed with two prinicipals and I didn't actually get hired just found this out a week ago.. intervie...

Exactly right...

I know you are fried for sure I have been there.... but as other posters said its almost mandatory everywhere. My program had us do a dosage test each week for two years I kid you not... ... each semester if you didn't pass them you got kicked out.. ...

Thats why I am taking a break from acute care for a while other than staffing agency stuff as I can... I really beleive its cattiness as you say... I wish it would quit.. whatever happened to the golden rule?

I did that when I was in nursing school until I figured darn that hot sun can't be good for that rubber tubing.. . I think its because we are so proud but you are right about the tattoo thing.... hehehe Here in Oklahoma I had a co-worker another RN...

P, I think that CLEP still exists...... My chemistry and micro was with labs,as well as biology and A&P too. I have a ex-sister-in-law who went to college in AR. (Arkansas) and they didn't even take a Chemistry in her ADN degree...I am ADN and ...

I am sorry that you are being treated that way. It is unfair to you as well as your patients. When I was working in acute care, my CNAs and techs were worth everything to me, the patients and the floor. You are our eyes and ears. I worked a cardia...

sugarbelle, i know things sometimes look unfair but as a rn who took her nursing classes as well as a chemistry class and a microbiology class after i was accepted into the program. :uhoh21: you are better off in some ways. but the rules should be ...