Awesomocity0

Awesomocity0

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  1. Should I make a stink about this?

    Awesomocity0 replied to Zooey72's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    There are a couple of lessons that can be learned here, OP, that will help you in your future endeavors. 1) If you didn't document it, you didn't do it. Takings others' assumptions for granted would...

  2. What would say to a nurse shadowing you

    Awesomocity0 replied to cloa513's topic in General Nursing

    OP is either a foreign teacher teaching English as a second language, or OP is lying about being a teacher. One of these things has to be true, otherwise God help the school system or country that...

  3. Why is there a faint pulse with severe dehydration? Wouldn't it be thready & increased?

    Awesomocity0 replied to 757RN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Thready is weak, which is the opposite of increased. Are you asking why it isn't increased and decreased at the same time? I think you may have gotten some terminology confused. Why it's weak, makes...

  4. Spiking IV fluids by PCT's

    Awesomocity0 replied to nurseajs1's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know what state you're in, but Texas has a resource guide on delegation. https://www.bon.state.tx.us/practice_delegation_resource_packet.asp Nurse educators also tend to be experts in...

  5. Pneumothorax question

    Awesomocity0 replied to Liv19's topic in Emergency

    I know that some pneumos resolve on their own, regardless of whether they're traumatic or spontaneous, so I think it'd make sense that if a small one doesn't resolve on its own, you'd get a worsening...

  6. Are You Protected Against Identity Theft? - FREE Offer for Nurses

    Awesomocity0 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I just enrolled. The biggest issue was resizing my proof so that it would fit. And then for some reason also, my gif didn't count as a valid file type, so then I had to go back and do a jpeg. Kind of...

  7. Apologies for using the term "NETY"

    Awesomocity0 replied to Perisoreus's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    ... is this true that this happens? If so, that's terrible, and it makes me really, really sad. I've never even thought of nety in reverse or the horrible justifications for it. Also, the problem...

  8. Dallas/Fort Worth Student, interested in Peds

    Awesomocity0 replied to Erikab84's topic in General Students

    At UTA, you're going to do clinicals at Children's. If you do well in clinicals and really get to know and impress the managers, there's a pretty good chance they'll offer you a residency. When I...

  9. new grad: cant find a job

    Awesomocity0 replied to 2016New's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I'm going to say this and then run and hide in a corner. I'm not saying I agree with it or advocate it. I'm just sharing what some people I've known have done. FYI, I did not do this. Some people who...

  10. Apologies for using the term "NETY"

    Awesomocity0 replied to Perisoreus's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I had to go back and look at your thread to see why you're apologizing OP, but I see how you used it incorrectly. It's using it incorrectly and the assumption that lies behind using it at all that's...

  11. Decreased pay during orientation?

    Awesomocity0 replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    Hospitals incentivize preceptors. Some do this with an increase in pay, some do it with extra PTO, etc. Precepting is hard, and (take no offense if you have) it sounds like you've never had to do it....

  12. Accelerated BSN

    Awesomocity0 replied to rjp55's topic in General Students

    Nursing schools are competitive, but they're not nearly so competitive that they would weed out applicants with stellar GPAs based on quality of schools where grades were received (excluding technical...

  13. In desperate need of advice

    Awesomocity0 replied to Little wolf's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    There are some fallacious statements in your initial post, like that 98% of people are hired guaranteed. Past statistics do not guarantee future ones. And when you factor in that more and more...

  14. 'Diagnosing' co-workers?

    Awesomocity0 posted a topic in General Nursing

    So a tech where I work was volunteering for a health fair, and she asked to borrow one of the unit's manual bp cuffs. She wanted to try it out on someone first, so she asked another tech to take his...

  15. I am a real nurse

    Awesomocity0 replied to annienurse86's topic in Psychiatric

    Never, ever equate putting a stethoscope and tasking with 'real nursing.' You don't ever have to justify your work to other specialties. I started off my career in psych nursing, then switched over to...

  16. Weirdest/most difficult thing swallowed by a patient

    Awesomocity0 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    GI nurse here. Foreign body removals for Whole chicken bones Crayons Combs Go pro camera (because who needs an egd when you can do one yourself?) Pill bottle (no pills inside; just was hoping for a...

  17. I just failed my first nursing exam

    Awesomocity0 replied to Student2017555's topic in General Students

    For anyone who says that you shouldn't save studying for the exam to mean that you didn't study before that probably misunderstood you or has forgotten what it's like to be in nursing school. You're...

  18. Preceptorship is coming up

    Awesomocity0 replied to aeris99's topic in General Students

    You might be equivocating the wrong things. I think the bigger, higher acuity hospital should be the one where you should aspire to want to work as well. They're more likely to hire new nurses/have...

  19. I'm bored

    Awesomocity0 replied to direw0lf's topic in General Students

    A lot of nursing is based on critical thinking abilities. If you came to the conclusion that all nursing work can be equivocated with all CNA work after a few weeks of the first semester, then that's...

  20. No friend in nursing school?

    Awesomocity0 replied to Student2017555's topic in General Students

    I don't think a two year age gap is going to make or break anything. Maybe it's something you did or a part of your personality that clashes with theirs. Or maybe they're just awful human beings who...

  21. Working with classes

    Awesomocity0 replied to bellavita20's topic in General Students

    OP is taking pre-reqs. No clinicals involved. It's the perfect time to jump in. Three days work + two days school = two days off. Ample for pre-req studying. And by the time you jump into real nursing...

  22. 9/11 This week as a PreRN I learned....

    Awesomocity0 replied to ladysushi's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Really?! I'm the opposite. So, two fun stories, both in the same shift of my capstone ED rotation, last rotation of nursing school (hours 240-252/300; I will never forget) 1: Preceptor: We still...

  23. And Off I Go!

    Awesomocity0 replied to fyrephish's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I've read through the advice given here, and some of it is a bit different than what I would have given, and I think some of that is dependent on your area. In my area, a lot of new nurses are second...

  24. Where to start?

    Awesomocity0 replied to ALIAYERS's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The route that a lot of us younger nurses take is just finding a university and taking all classes there. That way you have one academic adviser who will help you with all your questions - someone who...

  25. New nurse - Bedside nursing is not for me

    Awesomocity0 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Could I add also that the stress might not be actual stress. She mentioned how stream lined it felt in clinicals but now it wasn't. Any chance that the being overwhelmed bit is the part that comes...