msmona

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 sides of the story ought to be heard or none of the ...

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 interview because I was "terminated." Unless I go t...

Oh Yes!

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 CAN be done.

My nervousness has gotten me written up- don't know how to get past this, especially now. I must now be absolutely perfect in pulling the meds (under the microscope) or be out of the program.

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

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

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

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

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 could decide if they wish to observe. I think we und...

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 you.

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

I am 50 and am doing my BSN on loans- I have less time to pay it back but it's still worth it. I wish I had done this years ago...do it while you are young. If you can't invest in yourself-who can you invest in?

Safe to say student nurses not able to assist?

Hey I just noticed you are from Manitoba! I buried my mom in "Windypeg" in 2003. Born in Montreal, raised mostly in U. S. I hadn't been back until then and reconnected to family. It was GREAT. Winnepeg is much like Kansas- no wonder my mother felt...

I've been picking away at it since I left high school but didn't really settle on nursing until last year- always intersted in the medical field though. I had the good and bad experience of taking care of my sister with terminal cancer and then my m...

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 SOOO embarrassing! That happened today so I just h...

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 what they need. GO FOR IT

I'm a 50 year old "grandma" raising my hubby's two grandkids with him.(ages 11 and 13 now). I'll be starting nursing school in the fall- hope to graduate with a BSN in 2007- at least it will be 3 years before my granddaughter! AM I CRAZY??? :ro...