NurseSpeedy ADN, LPN, RN

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    Should I take notes during Nursing Orientation?

    NurseSpeedy replied to lindseyilowe's topic in General Nursing

    Take notes. Use them later to make yourself a cheat sheet. I recently went back to acute care after many years and was met with a computer. Very rude awakening. Those notes saved my ass with figuring...
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    How to NOT impress the DON!

    NurseSpeedy replied to Cricket183's topic in General Nursing

    haha! I think you've topped it for comedy relief! That's
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    affordable apartment with rn salary

    NurseSpeedy replied to direw0lf's topic in General Students

    New RNs make about that where I'm at...I don't know if any apartment that costs $3k here...even a two bedroom condo on one of the countries most popular beaches is less than half
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    March 2018 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

    NurseSpeedy replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    Purple elephants, pink bunnies...., great now our frequent flyer ETOH detoxer is seeing green leprechauns...better share the darn pot of gold with your nurse
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    March 2018 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

    NurseSpeedy replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    Why do I always get scheduled during a full
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    Paying cash for lpn school?

    NurseSpeedy replied to EMAJA2718's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It will be RARE to find a hospital in the Tampa area that will hire an LPN for acute care. Most have mandated an RN by a certain year (which may have passed by now) for their current LPNs IF they...
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    Paying cash for lpn school?

    NurseSpeedy replied to EMAJA2718's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Buyer be ware of Florida nursing schools lacking accreditation. I have known students who got royally screwed by them...and these were govt aide eligible schools too...weeks before graduation and the...
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    Forced to do 12 hr shifts

    NurseSpeedy replied to pensivern's topic in General Nursing

    Speaking from experience here, only attempt to drive to work with no sleep if you are 100% positive you won't finally fizzle out when you are on your way to work. Scared the crap out of me while...
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    Lost in Translation

    NurseSpeedy replied to purplewaves45's topic in School

    Now you KNOW some super concerned, hypochondriac parent is bound to think there's something wrong with their child's heart and "it's all your darn school's
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    Parent off the hook

    NurseSpeedy replied to MrNurse(x2)'s topic in School

    My daughter's school doesn't have an onsite school nurse. They have a secretary who tells sick children to go have a seat in her 'clinic'. She asks what's wrong and takes their temp. Then, no matter...
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    Parent off the hook

    NurseSpeedy replied to MrNurse(x2)'s topic in School

    Yikes. It takes a lot of motivation to self teach as an adult college student...the motivation usually being a very costly tuition for the class that the student is paying for themselves. I cannot see...
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    Lost in Translation

    NurseSpeedy replied to purplewaves45's topic in School

    No, never dull at all. I worked at a hospital that had an involuntary psych wing so we got a lot of patient's on our medical floors before they were cleared to go to psych. My TB guy was enjoying his...
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    Lost in Translation

    NurseSpeedy replied to purplewaves45's topic in School

    Well that was sure one heck of a doozy "cold" now wasn't it? My last TB patient was also a psych patient. I went in to give him his TB meds (and a little haldol)...he didn't refer to them as...
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    Lost in Translation

    NurseSpeedy replied to purplewaves45's topic in School

    Well, I think when it comes to pediatrics I'm a little slow with catching on to the verbiage. My child is seven. Ever since she was four there would be the occasion that she would start complaining of...
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    Do you have a previous bachelors degree before going into nursing? (RPN/RN/LPN)

    NurseSpeedy replied to suits2scrubz's topic in General Nursing

    Um....24 will not make you the OLD one, that one made me laugh. Especially for an LPN program. I had much older classmates for m LPN program than my RN Bridge. The traditional RN program had students...
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    How do new grad Nurses that don't have BSN manage to survive this job market ?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Wannabenurseneko's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Location, location, location. It's all about supply and demand. If there's a lot of BSN applicants, then the employer has their pick of who they want to hire. If there aren't, well, they can either...
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    I was found out!

    NurseSpeedy replied to cwilliams032's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if it had anything to do with user name choice along with the post content. If your user name has anything to do with your name and/or strong, noticeable character traits, you will...
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    Having to teach yourself?

    NurseSpeedy replied to JJL618's topic in General Students

    I'm not sure how your school is but most are testing to what is needed to know for NCLEX. Here's some hints that I figured out and another school's clinical instructor told her students that I was...
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    To wash or not to wash?

    NurseSpeedy replied to sunflower3,RPN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, dear God I hope I never end up in the hospital you mentioned....the ones around here are so crazy about getting sued for skin breakdown that they have a wound care nurse consult the minute a...
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    Opinion about a nurse's erros

    NurseSpeedy replied to PNPss's topic in Advanced Practice

    You have no idea how many times I get an excuse like that when I show up with a scale! (My patients are adults and many of them like to eat). My thoughts are that they are here because they cannot...
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    Opinion about a nurse's erros

    NurseSpeedy replied to PNPss's topic in Advanced Practice

    Sometimes I wonder if there's any way that there's something wrong with the scale itself. My daughter goes to the same doctor as me (family practice). Her pediatrician retired and she's generally...
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    Nursing nightmares.

    NurseSpeedy replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

    Recurrent nightmares...I think we all have the one about an assigned patient that we don't remember until shift change. That one is horrible. There's the one with the beeping iv pump that I cannot...
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    Thoughts on Covering Own Shift

    NurseSpeedy replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    I had a manager of an ice cream shop try this with me when I was a teenager calling out because I was literally vomiting over the toilet bowl with a stomach virus several hours before my shift. Me:...
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    Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    NurseSpeedy replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    I had a nurse manager (just below the DON at a small community hospital) get so fed up with nurses saying they couldn't get to work because of the weather BEFORE hurricanes (which were maybe a...
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    Magnet behind nurses station?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Pharmahaulic's topic in General Nursing

    So, another instructor giving a crazy 'research' assignment to a student that should be using their time studying for a test? I had one of those for my LPN. We learned to never ask her a question in...