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  1. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    LOL! I know that feeling! Ok - I have decided something . . . we have a birthday party coming up on Tuesday, so I am going to be moderately decent (but far from perfect) until then. Then I will...

  2. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I agree Tweety - I think that I'll love being able to help out a new student if ever given that opportunity when I am in a Nursing Home. I have decided I'm going to be one of those residents who...

  3. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Hi Marla - yes, join us in purging ourselves of our unhealthy ways . . . er . . . at least fighting it united!!! Hi Happy Nurse! Hey Tweety, I don't blame you for the donuts & pizza, hard to...

  4. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Ok Tweety - I am ready to destroy the button! 1 - 2 - 3 - SMASH!!!! Hehe. Ok - my co-worker and I decided we are going to walk on our breaks, so here after I teach my first childbirth class of the...

  5. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Good deal Tweety! I am doing better today. I had some popcorn earlier, but it was one serving and light butter, so that is better than a whole bag like I was doing earlier. I am having a glass of...

  6. Nursing is like _______. One word, fill in the blank. Then explain.

    sddlnscp replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    breathing It is second-nature to many and although you have some control over it (i.e. what you are doing, where you work, etc.), you simply HAVE to do it because if you don't, you will die...

  7. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Hi everybody! RN, the whole grain pizza sounds great - yummy! Tweety, I liked the idea of sleeping for three hours - LOL - that sounds like good meditation to me! Well phooey, I don't know what...

  8. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Mmmm - your pizza sounds good tweety. I am having a hard time incorporating eating anything at all, let alone anything healthy, into my clinical days. It is really hard for me to eat at work. They...

  9. people who work full time

    sddlnscp replied to deener618's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    For those of you asking questions about online classes, it depends on how self-motivated you are. If you are a great self-starter and you can be your own boss, so to speak, then you will do ok. If...

  10. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Thanks Zoe. :) Jahra - ROFL! I just ate a side dish of chips and salsa that a co-worker brought me from lunch. I guess it's better than a whole plate, but sheesh! Hi tr - I know what you mean, it...

  11. people who work full time

    sddlnscp replied to deener618's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I too commute to full-time work (21 miles one way) and then I turn around and commute the other direction to school (50 miles one way). I also have an almost 4-year old, a 1-year old, and a husband....

  12. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Thanks Zoe and Tweety. :) Zoe - yes, I am beginning to see that perhaps my pattern never was that great to begin with, I just didn't have anything to compare it with and was rather uneducated in...

  13. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Hi guys! Sorry for the absence - business got the best of me, that's for sure! Anyway, I am back now. Might be off and on, but don't fear, I haven't abandoned you. Thanks guys for the support -...

  14. Help, fellow NICU nurses!

    sddlnscp replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Congrats Steve! It is always so scary to follow your dreams, but it is worth it! Best of luck in your new

  15. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Wow - you guys are busy! Sorry, I didn't have time to read everybody's - at work and only have a few minutes today (it's crazy around here for some reason) - so HI EVERYBODY!!!! Yesterday I had some...

  16. WannaBe NICU nurses roll call!!

    sddlnscp replied to cacori2006's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am going through nursing school with hopes of becoming a NICU nurse as well. :) I don't know what pulls me so hard in that direction, but there is something that does. (I do have two children -...

  17. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Yeay! Good successes everybody. Roy, your run/walk thing sounds awesome! I like that idea! I am really bad about cheating when I don't write down what I eat, so I thought a couple weeks of that...

  18. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Yikes with the BP, that is so gosh darned hard to control. Mine is actually staying in an acceptable range (for me) here lately, so I am happy about that. During our check-off (first one - vitals)...

  19. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Hi Roy! I can relate to the issues with shaking the weight. It seems like every time I really try to be good is when all the home-made cookies and cakes and pies come out of the woodworks too!...

  20. Help, fellow NICU nurses!

    sddlnscp replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I know just how you feel, I will eventually be leaving an office full of wonderful people and I will be leaving them in a hurting situation once I complete nursing school. I feel horribly guilty...

  21. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Good deal Tweety - I am hoping to get caught up myself today. Tomorrow we will be learning the skill of catheter insertion, so I need to be on top of my game (or at least not laying there, snoring...

  22. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    ROFL! Tweety, sometimes you just need those days! Every once in a while, when I am getting really burnt out, I give myself a day off of school work - no reading allowed! It can be so refreshing!...

  23. How Can You Bear to be a Nurse?

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks Tweety! That brought tears to my eyes and a lump to my throat.

  24. Is anyone else totally frustrated with CO nursing?

    sddlnscp replied to BeccaRN1970's topic in Colorado Nursing

    This is truly a problem in rural Colorado. I live in the rural part of the state and unfortunately, in order to find the higher paying positions and the specialty that I want to pursue I will not be...

  25. Healthier Living Support - Part III

    sddlnscp replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I don't blame you Tweety - but at least you stuck with the veggies, that is a plus! :) rn2be, enjoy your run! :) I was pretty good yesterday and proud of myself for not stress-eating before the...