LauRN_89

4:1 for nurses. We have monitor techs but they are not watching 24/7. Each patient or family member has a button they can push to mark the video and alert staff to "seizure" activity. 9 times out of 10 the patients are faking it, though. í ½í¸‘

When you have unconsciously knocked on the fridge door before opening it.

I am staring my pre specialty fnp year this fall. From what I have heard, doing blocks king distance is doable, but expensive. Clinical would probably be near impossible to do in Nashville while living somewhere else. From what I hear it is a crazy workload those semester and clinicals are pretty much a full time job. I don't have first hand experience but I know a few people who have gone through the program. Hope that helps!

At first I thought maybe a tech, even though they should know better..nope it was an RN. Normally I shake things off and laugh about them with my co-workers, but this particular day I was fed up with multiple things that should have been done in previous shifts that weren't for whatever reason. Then I find this... @javelin: my charge nurse had sarcastically asked the nurse if we should chart output and apparently the ICU nurse said she would take care of it, lol.

I was irate earlier, but now that I have calmed down a bit and am at home in my pjs I can rant coherently... Patient transferred from the ICU. About 2 hours later I go to look in their belonging bags to see if the ICU nurse had any extra 4x4s they sent with them....no 4x4s, but there was a suction canister IN THEIR BAG with 700mls of yellow-brown sputum! Seriously people?! I don't even know what to say! I'm not the type to tattle, but I will admit I marched the whole freaking canister straight to the charge nurse.

A&p was a pre req for micro at my school

I would get in touch with you legislative rep. If you go to the ANA website they have them listed by state/county and you can email or call them.

I like plain scrubs. But the whites? Not happening...

That's good they are willing to work with you! Good luck, and congrats on the little one. :-)

I was not in your exact situation, I found out I was pregnant right after being accepted into RN school. I thought about putting it off, but ended up moving forward and I am glad I did. I know that grad school is a whole other animal from nursing school, but as a mother of two now I can tell you there will always be a reason to put it off. It truly is not easier to go to school with a toddler than with an infant. With that being said, if you feel like you will be uncomfortable spending time on your studies or having to occasionally put homework in front of family time, then it may be best to wait. No matter what there will be days when you feel like you are not being the mother/wife/student/etc that you imagined, but doubt comes with any difficult decision. I can't give you an answer because this is truly a personal decision that your husband and you need to make. This precious time with a newborn is unlike any other. However, one thing that ultimately tipped the scales for me is that someone told me that my baby will not remember how stressed and overworked I was when they were a year old, but a five year old will. Whatever you decide, I wish you the best of luck.

Hello everyone! I am going into the FNP prespecialty this fall. Anyone else going part time?

TN not TH...auto correct really bugs me sometimes...

As far as I know in TH we are not able to practice as an NP until you graduate except maybe in clinical...also, depending on what outpatient offices you are looking at, hospitals typically pay more for RNs, which could help with the cost of grad school. Since you already work there they may also be more willing to be flexible with scheduling. It's a very individual decision, though. Good luck!

The immobility is not what caused the impaired skin integrity, the surgery did. I would be thinking more about priority. My instructors used to ask us, "what will kill them first?" Hint: The reason for admission is typically the priority. Sepsis would kill them before anxiety :-) Get a good care plan book and it can help a lot. Mine had different issues/disease processes and the nursing dx that would be applicable to them. First semester is tough just because you are not used to thinking like a nurse, but you will get through it. Good luck!

MoA not MoM