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  1. I give in, I'm a COB

    jojo489 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    My med surg instructor was the crustiest old bat I've ever met, and she's still my hero. We all started the semester terrified of her. She whittled our clinical group down from 9 to 6 (3 quit because...

  2. clinicals

    jojo489 replied to futurepsychrn's topic in General Students

    Where I'm from, there are like six nursing schools in the area. So it's pretty competitive for clinical placements as they each have a running LPN and RN program in the same semesters. Whichever...

  3. Habits you picked up from work...

    jojo489 replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Not only do I sign LPN after everything, but my signature itself has become a scribbled mess. (Renewed my drivers license for the first time since before nursing school- even the lady at the DMV...

  4. Dealing with nosey nurses

    jojo489 replied to Aviationurse's topic in Agency Nurses

    Bahahaha. I think that's near the top of my favorite quotes from AN list. Thank you for that

  5. I give in, I'm a COB

    jojo489 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Haha, yes indeed my fellow

  6. I give in, I'm a COB

    jojo489 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Yep....definitely a future member here. I knew it before, but it just got reinforced.

  7. clinicals

    jojo489 replied to futurepsychrn's topic in General Students

    When you act like a child, you will get treated like one. Please, stop with the all caps and lots of exclamation points...you're reading what people are writing but you're not taking it in. You're...

  8. Where did you start?

    jojo489 replied to jojo489's topic in Nurses Rock

    Thank you all for sharing.

  9. Inquiring minds want to know.

    jojo489 replied to meanmaryjean's topic in General Nursing

    What CBlover said....and one who isn't afraid to get their hands dirty. I had a manager once, who used to come to the unit around 930 every morning. We were at the tail end of the med passes and she...

  10. I give in, I'm a COB

    jojo489 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I don't have the years in yet to say I'm a COB, but I have had several orientees that were like that. To top it all off, an LTC I worked at started hiring a bunch of RNs because they planned to...

  11. i want to be a RN. Any pointers?

    jojo489 replied to brianarod's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I actually posted my little story. I don't know how to link it, but it's in the developmental disabilities

  12. Your worst nightmare (Part deux)

    jojo489 replied to canigraduate's topic in General Nursing

    Haha, good to

  13. Your worst nightmare (Part deux)

    jojo489 replied to canigraduate's topic in General Nursing

    In my first year I had a lot of nursing related nightmares. That I medicated someone wrong and caused harm, got fired for something I did or lost my license over something. The waking up in the middle...

  14. LPN/LVN first paycheck :)

    jojo489 replied to NurseBetty_RN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I know I paid some bills and I think I went crazy buying scrubs. Yeah, that was the beginning of my scrub hoarding. Ha, now I work somewhere that I don't even need to wear

  15. Unethical?

    jojo489 replied to ahosoda's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Get a notebook and document every word said between you and she, as accurately as you can remember. That way you have that to fall back on. Keep it updated. I would revisit this with your supervisor...

  16. Unethical?

    jojo489 replied to ahosoda's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    How, exactly, did she force them to take their

  17. Yellow Gowns: Fall preventative or bandaid solution?

    jojo489 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Lol not gonna lie about it, when I first read that I envisioned patients running around in those yellow contamination gowns and I was wondering to myself how in the world them wearing that was going...

  18. accused of falsifying documentation

    jojo489 replied to Jrgt312's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe patient was on sliding scale and due to entry error got wrong dose before error was

  19. What I learned this week (7/4/15)....

    jojo489 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, and am I the only night shifter who never knows what day of the week it is? I know the date...just never the day.

  20. What I learned this week (7/4/15)....

    jojo489 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I go in for #3/6 tonight...and end it with two twelves. It just feels like every day is Wednesday and I've never been so excited for a

  21. What are the chances I committed career suicide?

    jojo489 replied to cjward3's topic in Nursing Career

    I think it'll definitely work in your favor that you've got management experience. That's always a

  22. how much RNS in total would be employed in nursing homes?

    jojo489 replied to clairef52's topic in General Nursing

    All our supervisors were RNs but we actually had a few RNs that worked the floor. They were trying to push LPNs off one of the units. We had about 180

  23. Should I purposely fail my class?

    jojo489 replied to Rilesss's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm currently an LPN going back to become an RN and I had the same problem. I signed up for a college algebra class for the summer, so it was a shortened session and I was just lost. I knew I wasn't...

  24. Written Up For Not Being Able To Take A Lunch Break

    jojo489 replied to kalikare8's topic in General Nursing

    A similar thing happened to me when I worked long term care. We didn't need to clock out for our lunch break, but when we left for the day there was a "no lunch break" option that we were always told...

  25. Strange CoWorker Stories

    jojo489 replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I worked with one nurse in LTC who was wonderful..she was sweet to the residents, very patient, and very helpful to me as I had ten thousand questions every time I worked with her. Well, one day she...