Mavnurse17 BSN, RN

I feel that even state boards in the US can be predatory. Sometimes I peruse my state's disciplinary reports (they publish those for the public... not sure if other states do that too) and recently I saw a school nurse have their license revoked for...

Welcome! As is tradition on our board, "One of us! One of us!" Just a forewarning that this specialty is wayyyy different than inpatient experience, but I'm sure you know that already. However, your inpatient experience will be very valuable....

More and more nurses are leaving the bedside due to raising job-demands and stress. I made it 13 months before I made my departure from the hospital. I work in the community setting at a school now. Not sure if it's my permanent 'home' in nursing ...

Took and passed NCLEX on the first try in 75 questions back in May 2017. I LOVED UWorld and used it exclusively. One of my NCLEX questions even closely mirrored a question I had on one of the practice tests ? I can't remember what my practice test ...

Just some anecdote here-- I don't work at the bedside anymore, but at my old facility we couldn't do anything medication or procedure related without communication from the provider first. We couldn't even access the Pyxis for something as simple as...

This is bizarre to me. On the unit I worked on, everyone took turns floating based on when they floated last. So say you float one shift, you don't get floated again until everyone else has floated. New grads didn't float until after 6 months of i...

I work at the high school level and there are a lot of students with mental health disruptions. I will be called to a bathroom where a student is having a full-blown panic attack. My question is, what do you guys say to students who are having...

I have dreams sometimes that I get to 0700 and realize I forgot to give a single medication all night ?

Can I sort of branch off here and ask a question r/t? I feel like I think in black and white when it comes to EMS calls. I know a sore throat doesn't need EMS and I know that cardiac arrest does needs EMS. But there are some gray areas where I...

Interesting topic. I've thought about this a lot as I'm a brand new parent of nearly 5 months. For reference, I've been a nurse for 4 years now and I'm in my mid-20's. I think being a mom was always something I thought about eventually being w...

I am super impressed that you toggle all of that (seemingly successfully given the circumstances) as a NEW GRAD. And I'm pleasantly surprised here that everyone agrees this is an egregious assignment. My first job out of school was on a cardiov...

Communication in a multi-disciplinary team is a whole other language in itself. You don't think it'd be beneficial for there to be at least one lesson over what to expect and how to effectively communicate in these teams before a new grad hits the f...

Yep, tried all this. We had an incident in the bathroom last week and the girl was sitting in a chair someone had rolled in for her; I kneeled down next to her and told her to deep breathe-- even demonstrated for her. She didn't even look at me. S...

I think there absolutely needs to be some sort of lecture about communication in healthcare-- not necessarily how to work on yourself as an individual re: communication skills. When they taught us SBAR they said "make sure you give a really good bac...

Just need a safe space to place my frustration and growing sadness. This week is teacher's appreciation week, and I get it... teachers greatly outnumber us in the building. Teachers are getting lunches, picnics, gifts, etc. every day this week. ...

I am at the HS level and deal with this on a daily basis. Kids will come to me for their attendance slip after they've already texted/called parents to get them. I have them sit in the front office and the parent will have to sign them out as a per...

I often daydream about what I'd like to do in these scenarios. Most recently the thought I have is to pull up the BON website and ask the teacher/administrator/TA/whoever what their RN license number is. When they'd stare at me blankly or say "what...

One of the counselors on my campus calls me "Nurse." "Hey, Nurse." It's taken me everything not to respond "Hey, Counselor." I saw you use this analogy a long time ago on this board and I have used it in my real life conversations ever sin...

It's my personal opinion that my experience as a school nurse has been less than positive not because of students, but because of the adults. At least at my school, teachers and staff believe they have ready access to medical care because ther...

Some shifts you do all the right things to keep the patient comfortable while still being safe, and it's still not enough for them. I reflect on a night that I was a "super nurse" for my bed-bound, total care elderly patient. I don't remember w...

Thank you for your apologies, and I accept them. I apologize too if I came off brash in my replies. To reiterate my point, I guess I just don't believe it takes having intimate knowledge of a person's job duties to celebrate and appreciate them...

Teachers don't educate us one every dimension of their profession. Using that logic, why should we recognize Teacher's Appreciation week? I'm having trouble understanding why you believe it's impossible to celebrate someone unless you know what...

Thank you for putting this more eloquently than perhaps I did, LOL. Not to mention, our entire building has essentially been demolished and re-built in phases this school year, so we were moved from our previously spacious and appropriate room...

Hey! Thanks for patronizing me and the point of my OP. I understand your sentiment about educating in public health, but we do that anyway. Why should I have to do something, like hang up a poster or make a school-wide announcement, in order to re...

I'm coming up on my 4th graduation anniversary, which is a drop in the bucket in terms of an adult career, but I often find myself thinking "wow, I don't love nursing as much as I thought I did." I stay in it because I don't have the time or money t...