flymaxwell05

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1. Question for USA RNs, who work in Hong Kong...

   flymaxwell05 posted a topic in Registration

   Hello everyone! I am a registered nurse, who is contemplating working in Hong Kong. I have visited the Hong Kong council on Nursing website and continue to pour over all the requirements, but I would really love to hear from others, who have gone thr...

2. Nursing Niceness

   flymaxwell05 replied to xdrowe's topic in General Nursing

   Ha ha, yeah, you will find all the *judgement* you want in the nursing field and beyond, because the rest of us are such angels.. Listen, none of us are perfect, everybody's got something, believe that! Some of us just have bigger closets than others...

3. Is this common?

   flymaxwell05 replied to pepino23's topic in General Nursing

   I have a friend who used the term, "watered down nursing" I think nurses lose their skills, when they cannot practice the way they were taught. Nursing sure has changed. In a dire situation, (you know, one where no *specialty* skilled nurse is around...

4. rough beginning

   flymaxwell05 replied to SN2432's topic in General Students

   Every new job is kind of scary and rough at first, but the best advice I can give you is stick around those who want to empower and not *eat* their young. Yes, unfortunately we do have older generation nurses who do. I am an older generation nurse, a...

5. From psych nursing to med surge??

   flymaxwell05 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Soooo ~ I am a psych nurse (for many years) and our hospital has decided to *partner* with a company called SUN (Serving Unmet Needs) behavioral, a for profit hospital. Eventually SUN will build their hospital on an already bought site. This hospital...

6. August 2015 Caption Contest. Win $100!

   flymaxwell05 replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   What is the time frame?

7. Recovering from a GPA score from a less than desirable school

   flymaxwell05 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello ~ and help!!!!!!!! I have a gpa score of 2.72 from the university of phoenix ~ warning do not attend this online program!! While i can take responsibility for my score, whole heartedly, they did not have my best interest at heart in the end. Ho...

8. Bedside handoff?

   flymaxwell05 replied to taimse's topic in Psychiatric

   Behavioral health settings are quite different from other settings. I have experienced almost every change which has occurred for shift change report off. Unfortunately, on psych performing bedside reporting is nearly impossible. Our patients have an...