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I can't believe these people... at my job "oh sorry I didn't have time to chart" doesn't cut it. Charting is a REQUIREMENT and if we don't do it to the letter we get written up and even fired. I'm supposed to leave at 7:15 and I stay until after 8:00...

I asked to move to day shift and I was moved IMMEDIATELY, no more night shifts ever. I love working nights but I can't handle what it's doing to the rest of my life. So my first day shift is tomorrow. I graduated in May and aside from orientation I'v...

I've only been working as a nurse for 5 months at the moment, so any change I might make would be far in the future... but I've been thinking a lot about ER lately. I work on an ortho/trauma floor, and I really love the trauma, but I want to see it w...

Just wondering how full lab tubes really need to be. I usually try to get mine about halfway (unless it's a blue top), but the other day I saw a more experienced nurse sending off blood with hardly anything in the tube, and I really was expecting the...

I finally got my first nursing job! I start July 24th in an ortho/trauma unit at a hospital I am extremely unfamiliar with. I know it's a great hospital, I'm not worried about that, but I had hoped to get my first job at the hospital I did clinicals ...

My school required an NCLEX prep course BUT we knew about this requirement from day one of semester one, and it was only a 3 day course. And yes we did have to pay for it, $425. I know a lot of other people are saying just do it and get it over with...

So I'm in my last semester of nursing school (for the second time), and apparently my clinical instructor thinks I'm not cut out to work in a hospital, and I'm pretty sure the only way she's going to allow me to pass is if I shift my focus towards ot...

Can anyone give me a list of all the types of code status? I get DNR, DNI, comfort measures, full code... But I've recently started seeing things like code A and code B in clinicals, what specifically do those mean?

For some reason I quit getting notifications for this post, I'm sorry. But for those asking about the saline thing, we were in post conference and she had us all in a circle and she was pretending to be a patient sent home with a PICC line and having...

It really is everything you hear. BUT if nursing is what you really want to do it WILL be worth it. You just have to keep your focus on that goal.

It's my second time because I failed clinically last semester. Yes, she will fail me if she thinks I'm not competent. She thinks I can't handle a high stress environment. The only negative feedback I've ever gotten in previous semesters was that I ne...

Okay so I'll try to keep what could be a very long story as concise as possible. I started what should have been my last semester of AD nursing school on August 22nd, but on August 6th my life changed in a big way, and not for the better, and I didn...

First of all, as for the cliques, it really sucks but it's very common. You just have to really work to overlook it and be the more mature one. Now on to grades. In my program they say that quizzes should give you some ideas of what you need to focu...

Personally, I wouldn't recommend it. I don't know about your school, but at mine micro is one of the most hated classes by everyone. Most people choose to take it in summer so that they will be able to take it just by itself and focus just on that, b...

A man being a nurse is a plus for me. If you're a nurse it automatically means you're smart (even the easiest nursing school in the world still requires serious intelligence!), it means you have determination, it means you're goal oriented, it means ...

Don't worry, if your school gives a crap about NCLEX pass rates, it'll get plenty hard. (Final semester student and drowning)

If I were you I would take the opportunity to start over. Especially if you've only invested a year in it. I'm in an ADN program and only about a month and two tests into what should be my last semester, but I'm already pretty sure I'll be repeating ...

I'm about to go into my last semester of nursing, graduating in December... And I don't feel ready. I just can't quit worrying about EVERYTHING! I worry that I won't be competent, that I'll hurt somebody, about the criticisms of annoyed experienced n...

How kind of you.

I'm sorry you're feeling the stress too but I appreciate that you understand! Instead of just telling me to stop doing what I asked HOW to stop lol I just wonder if this is a common feeling at this point. I feel like it might help us to know how oth...

Oh my word... No. No you are not wrong. She is though. If you're not in the same class then showing her how to study effectively is all you can do, and if she chooses not to apply it that's her problem. It sounds to me like she just wants somebody to...

I have dogs, cats, and horses. Nursing school has just about killed me, yet I've never once considered getting rid of any of my pets for even a second. They are my therapy. They are what gets me through, and I took them on for life, not just while it...

I took saying that he was spared another payment to mean that he passed... ?

I am in my 4 week rotation of mental health nursing and I need help desperately. We keep one patient through the whole rotation, plus have others that we don't keep the whole time. I have 3 dx for my care plan, since it's the same patient each week, ...

So I'm finishing my next to last semester of nursing school in 2 weeks, and occasionally other students ask what field of nursing I'm interested in pursuing, and whenever I tell them my interests they basically tell me I'm not good enough to do anyth...