Jensmom7 BSN, RN

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    "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    My school is on my resumé (go Billikens!!) but it really hasn't ever been a topic of
  2. Jensmom7

    "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    Transcript?? Seriously? I walked into HR, filled out an application, was invited then and there to interview with the head nurse of the just about to be opened Pediatric unit, we talked for about 45...
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    "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    Things may have changed in almost 40 years, but when I interviewed for my first Nursing job, the subject of where I went to school and what my grades were never came
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    What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    Collard greens are fun to suction out too. Nice and slimy, almost whole, because that patient's husband didn't believe it when he was told his wife wasn't responsive enough to be given solid food, and...
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    Now you're just splitting
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    What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    Was working in the ER when a burn victim came in. Third degree over at least 50% of her body. To me it smelled just like fried pork. I couldn't eat any meat for awhile after that
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    But that's the thing. There have been myriad links in this thread to science based evidence that the "Vaccines cause Autism" theory IS incorrect. The few links you've provided are, for the most...
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    What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    Ahhahaha me too! Mucus. Makes. Me. Gag. Which is probably why, after I have an asthma attack and start hurging up mucus plugs, I usually also
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    "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    * Don't go into your first job thinking you know everything about being a nurse. You know squat. * Do things the way your preceptor shows you. Even if you know another way. Unless the way your...
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    The film: Vaxxed.

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  11. Me me me!! To this day, I still have to have the pillowcases on my own pillows facing away from the door. It just doesn't feel right the other way lol. And I will occasionally do the washcloth to mitt...
  12. Go to your state's BON website and check out the disciplinary action age. Defaulting on school loans and child support are big reasons for the Board to deny issuing a license. That being said, OP is...
  13. Short answer? They don't. If you're lucky, at some point during your MedSurg rotation, you might get a chance to watch one surgery. But you won't be in the front row, and you most certainly won't be...
  14. Lol alien Special
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    4/2 WILTW: Disney Edition

    Sorry about the interview-I've had a few of those over the years. We have a joke in Chicago: If you don't like the weather here, just wait 10 minutes. It will
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    It was just a matter of time....

    Ok, the first time I clicked on this thread, I left after the first three sentences of your original post. Why? No paragraphs. Then, for some reason I came back, slogged through your post that...
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    How to survive the semester with borderline grades

    Stay off of social media (delete the apps temporarily if you have to), turn off your phone while you're studying, study in blocks of time, go someplace quiet (the library if you have to). As you've...
  18. We're laughing about all this stuff, but I had an instructor wwaaayyyy back in the 70s who told us that we left ONE WRINKLE in a bottom sheet, we would be held personally responsible if that patient...
  19. You aren't going to get much support from any of us in here who worked with unit secretaries who really DID keep the place running smoothly. Also, I never had a secretary tell me what to do. Alert me...
  20. By Oliver Sacks! Awesome read, by the inspiration for "Awakenings", one of my favorite Robin Williams
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    Aspiring Nurse

    So, take a good look the post I quoted. It clearly demonstrates that you really don't want honest answers from people who have actually spent years, and sometimes decades, as actual practicing nurses....
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    Forgot to write correct time for job interview

    Don't make any excuses, don't say "I'm an idiot, I forgot what time my interview is", just call and say "I have an interview on _____, and I'm calling to confirm the time." No one will think badly of...
  23. I was actually able to keep a straight face while reading this...until the "camel toe". Then I totally lost it. Laughed until I cried. Now a restaurant full of strangers thinks I'm clearly
  24. Then she lives under a rock. I haven't worked in a hospital in over 10 years and I know what a bladder scan is. SO much better than a straight cath for residual. Less chance of getting clocked by a...
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    How often does this happen

    That was my first thought, that she meant "intern", not internal med doc. However, since she seems to have abandoned this thread as she did the others she started, I fear we will never