SkateBetty

SkateBetty

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  1. Anyone Doing Rn Program That Had A Hard Time In H.s Math??

    SkateBetty replied to wannabaRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I was a failure in math and science as a kid, and never went past Algebra I (which I passed with a D). I also dropped Chemistry with a pass as a young adult when I took my first pre-req for nursing...

  2. What makes you like your job...

    SkateBetty replied to willdgate's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hey there miss Kitty! It's nice to see a little feedback from you on your trauma experiences, and your thoughts on trauma patients. For the others, I empathize with her as a trauma step-down nurse,...

  3. Anyone pushing 50 and a recent grad??

    SkateBetty replied to TCooper's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Same here! To the OP, I think now-days employers look for a youthful and energetic person of whatever age. At 45 I can really hustle, and for lots of us fifty is the new thirty. (I was out-run by...

  4. Ultrasound vs. Nursing

    SkateBetty replied to Yannie021's topic in General Nursing

    Are you sure? I know a PICU nurse in FL who is planning to switch to US because she can make more money, and it's way less

  5. Who does the patient assignments on your unit?

    SkateBetty replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I'm not sure, really. I have not yet worked outside my own dept., and my two friends in another department says it's done there by the charge. I am seeing by the replies there is a reason the...

  6. Who does the patient assignments on your unit?

    SkateBetty replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    Our charge nurses stay pretty busy with assisting the staff nurses, taking calls from the supervisor for new admissions, arranging transfers off the unit, grabbing things from central supply for us,...

  7. Never understood nursing

    SkateBetty replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, this is one question, among many, the OP hasn't answered

  8. Never understood nursing

    SkateBetty replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

    What could you possibly be talking about? The question of the IV is not technical in nature but has to do with which medicines may be given once it's

  9. Never understood nursing

    SkateBetty replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

    OK, so it wasn't my last post. I don't mean written up by you, I mean by the charge nurse or nursing

  10. Never understood nursing

    SkateBetty replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

    When I first read the title I thought it was going to be a question of the role and purpose of the nurse. "Never understood nurses" seems fitting! OP - I think I would take your post more seriously...

  11. Myers-Briggs Type

    SkateBetty replied to piscesguy's topic in General Nursing

    Oh WOW, I just took the short test, and got exactly what I did when I took it in 1990 or so...ESTJ! I guess there's no question about it. It was just as fun and interesting as it was over 15 years...

  12. Never understood nursing

    SkateBetty replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, there is. I thought about mentioning it very early in this thread. Many months ago I visited the PA forum to compare NPs to PAs. Not surprisingly I found quite a bit of hatred towards...

  13. Never understood nursing

    SkateBetty replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

    Thank

  14. Never understood nursing

    SkateBetty replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

    "He never painted the entire profession as "unprofessional, uncaring, etc"" No? "I have never seen a profession where so many are hateful, unprofessional, uncaring about their responsibilities...

  15. Never understood nursing

    SkateBetty replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

    I re-read your post a couple of times, and I have to admit it bothers me. First, I have learned, over 45 years, to take people one at at time, and that means folks of all occupations including...

  16. Madison vs. Milwaukee

    SkateBetty posted a topic in General Nursing

    Please, WI nurses, can you verify information I heard while in vacation in Milwaukee this week, that nurses in Madison are making up to 10K more/year than nurses in Milwaukee? What about the Appleton...

  17. Madison vs. Milwaukee

    SkateBetty replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm. Doesn't that seem

  18. Madison vs. Milwaukee

    SkateBetty replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure it's nice up there too. We enjoyed our vacation to WI so much, and even made it to Sheboygan for the 'Brat Fest'. :biere: We realize after visiting Appleton that although I should be...

  19. 7000 fatal med errors last year-where are theses nurses?

    SkateBetty replied to supportneeded's topic in General Nursing

    Oh wow, you broke my heart with this one. I am a new nurse (6 mo.), and this story is really sobering. I'll be anxiously awaiting other replies in hopes there are others to help support you. Is it...

  20. Scrubs...Pointless Unless We Leave Them At Work

    SkateBetty posted a topic in General Nursing

    Angie O'Plasty got me thinking about this with the Bird Flu post. Although we are talking about contact-type transmission with the scrubs question, what good are scrubs unless we do what they did in...

  21. HX of the Cap, Pin and Lamp......

    SkateBetty replied to atina's topic in General Nursing

    THE PINNING CEREMONY Dr. Susan Opas, a professor at UCLA's School of Nursing in Los Angeles, provides a rich historical report of the nursing pin and the pinning ceremony in an article from December...

  22. Bird Flu pandemic and you.

    SkateBetty replied to Dinith88's topic in General Nursing

    We could probably anticipate a lot by looking at how health care professionals behaved during the early years of AIDS. I have to admit my job, though important to me, is nothing compared to the value...

  23. Andrea Yates R.N.

    SkateBetty posted a topic in General Nursing

    Did you know that Andrea Yates, the woman who is now being re-tried for drowning her 5 children in Texas was a nurse? I just thought it was

  24. New nurses in Med/Surg a must?

    SkateBetty replied to writrix's topic in General Nursing

    NO! That idea came from some ancient line of bullhonkey from a bunch of decrepid nurses who drank urine to test for glucose, and still think you have to torture students and eat your young new nurses...

  25. Best places to settle down/relocate

    SkateBetty replied to lannisz's topic in General Nursing

    I bought a book called Cities Ranked and Rated, which rates 400 cities in the U.S. and Canada. Although you said rural, this book tells you everything about everywhere you'd consider, with lots of...