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  1. Teaching during nursing school

    turtlesRcool replied to callinshotz's topic in General Students

    I switched careers from teaching to nursing because teaching was so all-encompassing. I was never, ever done. Nights, weekends, holidays - I was either prepping or grading or thinking about prepping...

  2. Staff Retention Policies

    turtlesRcool replied to Positive_Outlook's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, my goodness, yes! We're currently undergoing management transition in my hospital. Several well-regarded managers have left or are leaving. On one floor, the manager was amazing. Kind,...

  3. Parents keep medicating their febrile kids in the morning

    turtlesRcool replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    That would be amazeballs!!!! I almost never take sick days for myself. If I call in, you can bet it's because of a sick kid. And it really sucks to miss work when my kid is not actually sick. Like...

  4. Was I wrong?

    turtlesRcool replied to Munch's topic in General Nursing

    I'm saddened by the way some people in health care don't distinguish between addiction and physical dependence. Many people need certain medications, and even become dependent on them for life, or at...

  5. I hate nursing!!

    turtlesRcool replied to Mistb13's topic in Nursing Career

    But for most of these jobs, she's going to need more than 5 months as a new grad (which probably means more like 2 months off orientation). The nurse educators are nurses who REALLy know their stuff...

  6. ABSN or Should I not go to nursing school?

    turtlesRcool replied to wiggly201's topic in Nursing Career

    Since you failed out of an ABSN program, I'm going to echo PP's suggestion to go with a traditional program. Have you considered a community college ADN program? You don't have to do BSN right off...

  7. Commute

    turtlesRcool replied to prw1217's topic in Nursing Career

    Is there a reason the two of you can't live somewhere in the middle? A 30 minute commute for each of you seems like a fair compromise to keep you both in the jobs you

  8. Choose my Baby or my Career?

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

    I can't make a decision for you, but both of your proposed solutions seem problematic to me. I assume you work 12s now, so those three days a week you work, you barely see your child awake, if at all....

  9. Question about priming tubing

    turtlesRcool replied to aship's topic in General Nursing

    I agree it's better run as a piggyback. Unfortunately, after Hurricane Maria wiped out one of the factories in PR that makes saline, there has been a national shortage. We have very few small bags...

  10. New Grad hired in the ER, question.

    turtlesRcool replied to Alexx_xox's topic in General Nursing

    Your instructors were, pardon my bluntness, idiots. I vehemently disagree with anyone who thinks med-surg is only worthy to be a stepping stone. Med-surg is a great place to get a general overview,...

  11. New Grad hired in the ER, question.

    turtlesRcool replied to Alexx_xox's topic in General Nursing

    Back to listening (or not) to what 'experienced' nurses say... When I was in my last semester of nursing school, the manager of the floor I did my clinicals on warned us not to go right into the ED....

  12. Baltimore patient left at bus stop middle night 30 degree wearing just hospital gown

    turtlesRcool replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    One of the psych docs in our hospital sometimes uses the phrase "has capacity to make bad decisions" when evaluating certain patients. Sometimes there's a patient who is doing xyz that's not in his...

  13. If you have a BSN, would you consider LPN rather than ABSN?

    turtlesRcool replied to lolotambu's topic in General Nursing

    LPN to RN is not that simple. I know my community college allows LPNs to do a bridge course and then start at the second year of the ADN program, but that doesn't seem like it would really save you...

  14. having to decline a job because of distance

    turtlesRcool replied to KimBarbossa's topic in Nursing Career

    My advice would be to do what you can to make the job work. I'm assuming the nursing paycheck would be significantly higher than what you're making now. So suck it up and take the bus, or splurge...

  15. Special Educator Seeking a Career Change

    turtlesRcool replied to Runner84's topic in Nursing Career

    I spent 13 years teaching high school before my career switch. I researched several options near me, both accelerated BSN and community college ADN. My state's community colleges have a...

  16. Am I cut out for nursing

    turtlesRcool replied to larson1013's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    This is why we don't treat our own family members. It's pretty common for strong emotion to cloud judgment. When a loved one is the patient, it's hard to think

  17. Failing A&P 2

    turtlesRcool replied to Huck618's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I don't know if you are capable of being a nurse because I don't know what caused you to fail. I do think that if you've failed multiple times, there's something wrong. There are many reasons...

  18. Nursing pay..Check this out!

    turtlesRcool replied to FrankRN2017's topic in General Nursing

    Yup. In a nearby small city there are two hospitals. One is unionized and the other is not. One of my nursing professors used to work at the unionized hospital. She said it made her crazy to hear...

  19. Only certain departments in hospital got a pay increase?

    turtlesRcool replied to RNingBSNing's topic in General Nursing

    That is so offensive! The point of incentives is to encourage people to try harder. Incentives to prevent falls means they think you're not motivated enough to keep people safe. Basically, they're...

  20. Diabetic student not wanting to drink water

    turtlesRcool replied to Amethya's topic in School

    Just spitballing here, but if you suspect part of the issue is having a water bottle on his desk when others don't is dissuading him from drinking, maybe the answer is to get ALL the kids to have...

  21. Nursing pay..Check this out!

    turtlesRcool replied to FrankRN2017's topic in General Nursing

    This. Or think of it another way. It's not about making the same amount for each nurse regardless of location, it's about nurses enjoying roughly the same quality of life regardless of location. At...

  22. Nursing pay..Check this out!

    turtlesRcool replied to FrankRN2017's topic in General Nursing

    The cost of health care can vary from the patient in the bed by the window and the patient in the bed by the door. It all depends on what's wrong with the patient, what insurance the patient has, how...

  23. Hospital Setting - Not a good fit

    turtlesRcool replied to kschindlerRN's topic in Nursing Career

    I agree with meanmaryjean that it sounds like sleep deprivation and the schedule might be a huge part of the problem. Some people adapt better than others to working nights, and if your body is...

  24. 12 Month ADN Program-No Bachelors or Waitlist

    turtlesRcool replied to AspiringNurseP's topic in General Students

    This remind me of the old joke about the auto repair shop with the sign that reads: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two OP, a program that is good and fast will not be cheap. A program that is fast and...

  25. Discharging by Wheelchair

    turtlesRcool replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    How big is your house or apartment? Because my house is considerably smaller than my hospital. A person can be ambulatory for short distances, say the living room to the kitchen or the bedroom to the...