HeartsOpenWide RN

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  1. Wealth is in the eye of the beholder and the pockets of a wise investor. My FIL makes $100,000/yr and file bankruptcy because my in laws have no money sense. I make under $40,000/year as an RN in...
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    What do you pack in your work bag?

    Food. Stethoscope. Everything else I keep in my locker: "Nerd Pens" (the ones with red, black, green, and blue click options), feminine stuff, hair brush, tooth brush, arnica rub, and of course...
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    Does this seem like an insane amount of prereqs?

    that's it? Consider some of those classes part of your degree. I had so many pre-reqs that I did not have to take any elective credits or anything other than what was required just for nursing to...
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    Nurses dating doctors

    Who cares? What does professional title have to do with anyone? You meet some one in the work place and fall in love? And? ...people get so up in arms about nurses dating doctors...why not doctors...
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    one semester of chemistry costs $1000?

    mmmm I think I paid $84 for the class, plus $50 for the lab kit, and I suppose the book was $100. Yeah it was a JC. Gotta love California colleges, even though the prices are going up it is still...
  6. Write him up for verbal abuse. Doctors are not immune to being written up with everyone
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    The Shortage Myth in Politics

    Maybe Meg should spend a portion of that money to keep current new grads without work for several months or more up to snuff...like training programs. They are worried about what will happen when all...
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    Why does HR mess with people's heads

    I agree. Last year before I graduated I had two interviews. I accepted a position and hospital #1 even though I still had an interview for hospital #2 (because it was a sure deal and the lack of jobs...
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    all PACU RNs Wrote up!

    maybe you should write up the anesthesiologist for not writing discharge
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    Did you do your research BEFORE you became a nurse?

    No one has the guts because it is politically incorrect to tell some one that they just can't cut it or they just aren't nursing material...we live in a society where unless you are quitting smoking,...
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    Did you do your research BEFORE you became a nurse?

    #1: those of us who graduated in the last two year, there was no shortage of nursing jobs when we started #2: everyone has a bad day a work. don't "poor baby" anyone i am sure you have had your fair...
  12. I will let you know when I find out. It finally feels like it is getting better, but every once in awhile I find myself feeling like a total idiot; but is it is better than when I started last year. I...
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    meds you've never heard of?

    Forget studying medications. If you are going to fail you are going to fail, a few medication questions is not going to shut your machine off with a failure. Learn the important core part of the...
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    Do Nurses Get Traffic Tickets?

    I was in scrubs and even pulled my stethoscope out of my glove box and held it over my steering wheel while I pulled out my registration, and I still got my ticket for going 12 miles over. I even have...
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    Is anyone else's school increasing tuition?

    I am in California. I graduated last year. They raised tuition every semester when I was in nursing school and continue to do so. In fact, believe they doubled it right after I graduated. If this is...
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    Please be honest!

    I make 25.55 after my night differential and I am in Northern California; I make 0.05 more than my friend that is a office manager at Lithia Motors...I do NOT do it for the money, what money? NO ONE...
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    Need help with a decision!!

    Pull your covers over your head, roll over and keep dreaming; or get checked for Schizophrenia because you are
  18. What is the name of the TEAS study guide? The next testing time is Nove 30th, do you think I have enough time to study for it? (I am also a full time student)
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    For those who did Hurst review....

    I took the HURST Review three times. Once the summer before my senior year, the winter before my last semester, and the week after graduation. I made 100's of flash cards and studied the HURST way for...
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    dear patients, please quit saying that to me

    Get over it. You will enjoy it later, trust me. I am 5"1' , 29 and can get away with 23 and have gotten comments my entire life from everyone. When I was 26 flying home from a trip to N.Y. the Flight...
  21. Scam I'd say. My MIL was thinking about becoming one and her friend who use to be one and is now out of work talked her out of it; they are outsourcing it all to other countries for pennies on the...
  22. If some one directly asks to be sent to so and so's room then we will transfer them unless they specifically ask for no calls. If some one calls and ask if Jane Doe is there and/or indicates they are...
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    Even the media doesn't consider us "nurses"?!

    Typically lay people call RNs nurses. At least you were mentioned, some people do not even know what an LPN/LVN is. I don't think they were separating you from "nurses" I think they were separating...
  24. We have these boards but we just use first and last initials. And no, no one can just call and ask if some one is admitted. Your hospital is committing a
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    Is having a ADN useless these days?

    The extra nursing course are not just theory classes. We were finished with theory my first semester of my 3 year BSN. And even if it were just theory classes, business theory it like apples to...