msmona

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1. New grad fired, need much encouragement!

   msmona replied to jennykaye's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Thank you for sharing one of your most humiliating and degrading moments of your lives. These posts have given me enough encouragement to keep trying-WE ARE NOT ALONE. I do think that at least both...

2. New grad fired, need much encouragement!

   msmona replied to jennykaye's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I have had a similar nightmare first RN jobs. I was fired after 6 mos. My question is: How do I handle the questions that come up during an interview? Actually, I haven't even been able to get an...

3. What makes you nervous about or irritated with a new grad or orientee?

   msmona replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

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4. Nursing School Blues??

   msmona replied to Nili927's topic in General Students

   SOOOO GLAD for all you who shared your story. I did not pass my 3rd semester clinicals and really have been tossing a lot of stuff around in my head. Thanks for letting me know I am not alone and it...

5. I'm so ashamed...

   msmona replied to ALMED's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Re: Post by Daytonite: I'm just a student but I'm wondering- is this what they mean by nurses eating their

6. Psych Nurse ="not a REAL nurse"?

   msmona replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

   This bothered me too, thanks for puuting it so gracefully into

7. to tell or not to tell?

   msmona replied to ablynn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   I am a student in KS and our CI informs us we are NOT operating under her

8. my paper on my patient...can someone help me with it?

   msmona replied to Janinern84's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Thanks for asking that question. I have my LTC clinical tomorrow and will keep all this in mind.

9. Family Witnessing Code Activities

   msmona replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in General Nursing

   Maybe we should address this with patients at the same time we discuss advance directives and the like so the patient can decide if they would like to allow family to observe or not. Then family...

10. Rude students

    msmona replied to UnderpaidNurse's topic in General Students

    Keep advocating for the patients. I saw so much of that when my mother was ill it provoked me into nursing school! We need compassion out there so don't let 'em get to you, let 'em inspire

11. Any Tips for Teaching ECGs?

    msmona replied to VickyRN's topic in Cardiac

    What is the title of this Dale Dublin book? I can't seem to find it on the

12. Volunteer Nurses Needed for Hurricane Emergency!

    msmona replied to glascow's topic in General Nursing

    Safe to say student nurses not able to

13. Nurses and Nursing Students: what was/is your biggest pet peeve in nursing school?

    msmona replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing

    YOU are so right! But really I AM SOOOOO SORRY- IT TRUELY WAS JUST A MISTAKE AND I DON'T LIKE IT EITHER---PLEEEESE FORGIVE ME! Sometimes some of us just plain FORGET until it rings and then it is...

14. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    msmona replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    DITTO and AMEN If we don't come out and stay out the stigma will always be there. If the stigma stays, many people who would get help and would be productive are too ashamed or intimidated to get...