Haarlem BSN, RN

Hi all, I'm trying to endorse my CA license to Puerto Rico and work there. The CA BRN said that they sent my documents to the Board of Puerto Rico, two different times. Both times the letter did not arrive and this has been going on since J...

Hi, does anyone know how I can work in Puerto Rico as a Californian nurse? I heard that if you endorse your license to Florida, you can work in PR as well. Anyone have any information about this? Thank you!

Hi everyone, I just accepted a job in a Corrections setting, it was one of the only job opportunities I was given, now with the COVID situation. This is contract type of work for a registry. Since early last year, I have planned to become pregnant th...

Thanks so much, that puts my worries a bit at ease -pregnancy is such a vulnerable state

Hi all, just wanted to open a thread to communicate about Stanford's New Grad RN Residency program. The application period closed on 6/29, and looking at earlier threads, Stanford starts calling for interviews after about a month. One of my friends u...

No change in status either, still "in review" and last updated 7/7! Wondering whether they'll send any notification/update at all next week

Hi darlingdt! I also applied for the El Camino Fall Cohort.. let's hope they update our statuses soon! :)

I'm a senior nursing student and I had a bad experience being a patient last year. I went for a septoplasty & graft placement for my nose. I was under general anesthesia, which I had never had before. When waking up in the PACU, my mind was the f...

It's stories like these that scare me so much to work in a hospital (I'm graduating this coming March).. I've experienced a lower level of chaos during my preceptorship and was very much overwhelmed, with less going on than what you described.

I definitely see how taking Fentanyl could warp your thoughts (I took it before going under, it felt like my head was spinning!), the thing is I had no pain at all in the PACU and did not take any pain med. I was just a bit drowsy from the anesthesia...

Sorry about the replies not being addressed to the particular person - I'm pretty new & believed that "reply" would address it to the person I clicked reply for. I also can't edit them anymore. That being said, I appreciate all of your responses....

It sounds so unbelievable when I read my own thread, but it is true. This is why I was stuck on this incident for so long. She definitely could've put things in different words, but the entire afternoon she had this attitude. I just realized she also...

Sorry you experienced that, I also take this experience into my practice. It was actually hard to let this one go because I couldn't speak up for myself, that's probably why. But this topic has helped me gain insight in why certain things were said a...

Yeah I would also observe for a second what's going on, but I wouldn't delay it so much so another nurse will actually step in. She definitely didn't seem very happy that this happened while she was doing something else, I remember now her making a c...

I don't think she was throwing my nurse under the bus, rather, she just told us the truth - that he was allowed in as soon as I woke up - why 'lie'? Other nurses were nearby and it may have confused them as to when family is allowed in. I wasn't a sp...

I also did not know this. The person we spoke to just before leaving maybe have gotten it wrong, about when my hb was allowed in. My nurse probably called him in when it was time. You guys have made me feel better about this experience. :)

Thanks for explaining this - I did not know this about nursing in the PACU. However, whether the feeling of being unable to breathe is psychological or physiological, it's still real for the patient and they cannot make out which one it is. I persona...

@JKL33 I guess I hope I will do more for my patient should they ever feel that way. And it's true that someone may catch me on a really bad day and may think I shouldn't be a nurse - thanks for providing insight. I will do my best to try to prevent t...

You would think that it's a human trait to try to help another person when they are in distress, even if you don't know what to do, even if it's just showing empathy and supporting words. I just hate that she chose nursing as her profession if this i...

I wish I did. My husband, out of his own initiative, told me that he thought she had a very distant/aloof demeanor. My nurse did not even call my husband in until the last 10-15minutes in the PACU. I had been there for 2 hours. When he asked at the n...

I thought someone in this thread said that the Concord location graduates earlier. Is that true?

Wow, thanks for letting me know. That sounds really nuts indeed.. 5 weeks!? I wonder how much you'll really retain after cramming the material.

The 2 midterms sound pretty good but the '5 week craze' kind of scares me. I wonder if it's the same in SJSU. Do students there form study groups?

Hi! Thank so much for your insight. I definitely considered the quarter system, which I have had no experience with yet. Do you feel overwhelmed or is it doable? With challenging subjects like Patho or Pharmacology I feel that it might be too short.....

I'm really torn now between SJSU and CSUEB. I live in SF and both locations are pretty much equally distant. Anyone any thoughts?