Infofreak411

I work alongside nurses and am in the process of becoming a nurse myself. While I have great respect for the profession and my coworkers as well as a passion for it (hence my reason for going to RN school), I've noticed nurses (many but not all)...

I know on the psych floor the psychiatric technicians work under a RN and LPN and assist them with different duties.. What actually is it that the techs do and assist the nurses with?

For those of you that didn't work during nursing school and are single with no one to support you how did you pay for your bills and expenses? I'm taking the prereqs now and applying and this is my biggest worry as everyone said I will have to signi...

It seems Zofran is the standard antiemetic choice these days for multiple implications (ie post op nausea, opioid administration etc) and while it seems to work amazingly for some people it seems to be a hit or miss for others. Sometimes it works oth...

As someone who is entering the field of nursing with the goal of ultimately becoming a nurse practicioner after gaining experience, I have noticed a lot of "turf wars" and arguing going on between nurse practitioners and physicians. Nurses said doct...

You always hear especially now a days of people coming in to the field of nursing in leaps and bounds but you never hear of people trying to get out of nursing... At least where I work. So do you know anybody that left the field or went back to scho...

Yes, the nursing model is said to be more hollistic.

I a firm believer that learning something in a classroom environment is totally different than actually applying it. I have an interest in nursing, and have had it for some time. I like learning all of the nursing/ medical theories, am a pharmacology...

They asked in front of me actually

Well I agree you have too much to do, in fact I do the same thing. We actually had a consulting firm come on and asked why the the techs were the ones running around doing everything while some of the nurses sat at the station on their cell phones. S...

Deliberately offensive? How so?

Out of curiosity, individuals that tend to have a paradoxical reaction to Benadryl where is makes them hyper instead of sedate them... is there one route of administration that tends to give that reaction more than others? If a patient has that react...

So in an allergic reaction, what can you take? Do all antihistamines do that to you?

I was thinking of bar tending during nursing school so that way I have the flexibility of working different shifts and make good money in tips while doing so. I guess the only concern is not having benefits.. Any thoughts?

Any nurses you know or even you yourself who have left the field? You often hear of nurses being unhappy with their jobs so they switch to a different specialty of nursing which suites them better (for example, bedside to case management) but you n...

Accounting to nursing is a big change... What made you want to get into nursing?

I wouldn't consider a BSN a lowly degree lol

Any nurses you know left the field to become some form of a therapist such as a clinical social worker, psychologist or Occupational therapist? You see people from these fields enter nursing but never the other way around.

Right, that's what I see a lot of too. But I mean people leaving the actual field all together

That's great that you have the memories! What do you do now?

How about nurses turning into therapists or getting into other fields outside of nursing? You always hear or nurses getting burnt out and switching to another nursing specialty that fits their interest, but you never hear of them going into other fie...

What made you decide to leave the education world to get into nursing? Was it pay, working conditions, low satisfaction, etc? What aspects do u like better of either profession and was your teaching degree of any use in nursing?

Very interesting. Yeah it's sad how little you get paid for a masters. Now when you say if you can handle teaching, then you can handle nursing... Do you find teaching to be much more difficult than nursing?

I'm well aware that I will have to cut back to at most 3 days awake while I am in the program. I live alone and just get by (like only 100-200 a month extra depending on overtime). I don't have a spouse to help out and my parents live too far away to...

Anyone? Lol