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kkbb MSN, RN

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  1. Not a Near Death Experience: A Shared Death Experience

    kkbb replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    What an amazing and touching story. I believe that there is so much we do not understand. My mom and I were on a road trip many years ago. As we drove home she told me about the odd dream she had...

  2. Long Term Care Stigma

    kkbb replied to TruvyNurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    People like to judge others for no reason. I am sorry, I don't know if you have kids, but you see judgment all the time in parenting. It is all stupid really. People need care, so why should we...

  3. Sent home from clinical :(

    kkbb replied to marin8campy's topic in General Students

    I agree with the others that the $400 is odd and concerning. At my school we were not to start clinicals until we were about halfway through our assessment class. How can you create a care plan...

  4. Are you required to do nights when you do your practicum?

    kkbb replied to sarahamelia's topic in General Students

    All of our clinicals were during the day, and could be any day Monday through Saturday. We had no choices as to where we were placed, we were just assigned based on previous clinical performance,...

  5. Pre-nursing: How to answer NCLEX q's before RN school (or mastering them)

    kkbb replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Why will things be different when you start nursing school? If your current habits are bad, I would assume that these same habits would continue. But as far as NCLEX questions go...at this point...

  6. How did you get your RN Residency?

    kkbb replied to Aloysia's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Throughout school I would research the local hospitals about which ones had residency programs. I wrote down when some started and when applications were due. During my final semester I had my...

  7. Running into former patients

    kkbb replied to Volley88's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a MA in Internal Medicine I would run into patients all the time at the store. I would never initiate any contact, but should they come to me I would say hello and maybe a few pleasantries...

  8. Would You do This Commute?

    kkbb replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    My commute is 30 miles one way if I take the shortest route with lots of lights or 40 miles if I take the all highway route (only 3 lights that way). But the distance doesn't bother me....it is a...

  9. Nursing school Q: 1 min/1 question?

    kkbb replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    I had classes with pre-lecture quizzes (worth 10% of our final grade). We grabbed the scantron sheet on our way into class, and then right at the start of class, our professor would put the first...

  10. Mom Wants to go to Nursing School

    kkbb replied to NOLAMOM's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    My kids were 8 and 2 when I started nursing school. Nursing school (as a general statement) became increasingly difficult and time consuming throughout the program. There were weeks I felt like I...

  11. Starting nursing school at 37...

    kkbb replied to LindsayRadun's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I graduated in April and will start my first job as a RN in about a month. I turn 40 in

  12. Any value to paramedic school prior to nursing school in my situation

    kkbb replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am in metro Phoenix area and interviewed for a job in April (a few weeks before graduation) and accepted the job offer about a week after I graduated. Of the people in my cohort that have passed...

  13. Fainting as a pre-nursing student

    kkbb replied to celouk's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I was thinking the same thing. I saw a few surgeries during nursing school and was totally fine. I don't know if I would be fine watching anything to do with BKA on my brother. For the record, for...

  14. Being called a baby nurse

    kkbb replied to NurseA1987's topic in General Nursing

    It think it depends on who is calling me a baby nurse. I call a former instructor "Mama Nurse" and she calls all her students "Baby Nurse" and I take no offense. In the case of it being someone...

  15. 2017 Mayo Clinic Nurse Residency

    kkbb replied to JeniV's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Shrug, I sent you a PM to find us on Facebook.

  16. Too much...

    kkbb replied to mrs.olare2019's topic in General Students

    Be polite, and calm, but if she comes up to you tell her that you are not going to discuss this and walk away. My favorite saying covers your situation...not my circus, not my monkeys. Don't have a...

  17. I'm not sure I'm cut out for this

    kkbb replied to ItsThatJenGirl's topic in General Nursing

    As a heads up, you will have classmates in nursing school tell you that they don't know how you do it with kids. The thing is, the people telling me this where being honest and didn't know how I did...

  18. Tough predicament, need guidance

    kkbb replied to OsceanSN2018's topic in General Students

    The school I went to went into probation about the time that I started there. I read the official documentation that the BON put out that showed exactly what the complaints were. I went to the...

  19. PVC'S and SVT leading up to NCLEX

    kkbb replied to HopefulGradNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    We did ATI throughout school and I received a 98% and 99% likelihood of passing the NCLEX on the first try. For UWorld I was at 85th percentile for questions and received "highly likely" to pass on...

  20. Planners: Digital vs. Paper

    kkbb replied to AnnPerkins's topic in General Students

    If you are already a tech person you might prefer to keep it that way. I am a paper person, but that is just how I like to operate. If you want to try paper there are a few things to consider: what...

  21. Parents aren't supportive of a Nursing career

    kkbb replied to Sam101's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    As a mom to a son I will tell you this, I can only hope that one day my son grows to be brave like you. It is hard to take a stand against family and to fight for what we believe in and want to be....

  22. Mayo Residency 2017

    kkbb replied to BrittanyAlyson13's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Aggie1, I sent you a

  23. I am ashamed in myself

    kkbb replied to KariT's topic in General Students

    ^^^^^^THIS!!! It doesn't matter how the teacher grades, or if it is at a liberal arts school. Your dedication to learning the material is all on you. And I have seen students pass nursing classes...

  24. Might get kicked out of program...

    kkbb replied to qteebug's topic in General Students

    Maybe I missed this part, but were you administering medications without your nurse or clinical instructor there with you? Perhaps it is different with other schools, but at my school that was a big...

  25. SEVERE Anxiety about the NCLEX

    kkbb replied to Mcastle124's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Hard to say, honestly. There is a world of difference in doing questions at home versus the real deal. Also, UWorld is not adaptive so there is a blend of question levels unlike the NCLEX. UWorld...