carti BSN, RN

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    Why is it "legal" for patient to decline male nurses?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    It's a form of discrimination so obviously I'm going to speak up about this problem. You telling me " Just deal with it" is what they used to tell minorities back in the day when they would argue for...
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    Why is it "legal" for patient to decline male nurses?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    I'm sorry for your experience, but then again you can say the SAME thing for any ethnicity/gender/race. If my sister was raped by a black man, would it be ok if everywhere she went to declined to have...
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    Why is it "legal" for patient to decline male nurses?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    23. Usually the older crowd have backwards way of thinking, as it's been throughout the entire U.S. History so I can see where people who say " Deal with it" come
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    Why is it "legal" for patient to decline male nurses?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    "It's ok to be racist/sexist to someone from the opposite race/sex somehow caused you any problems" This is your logic. I can't argue with
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    Why is it "legal" for patient to decline male nurses?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    The problem is, my preceptor told me as a future Male nurse, you are going to get used to patients refusing care by men. This is such a 1930's way of thinking; they said the same thing to black people...
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    Why is it "legal" for patient to decline male nurses?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    This makes NO sense. SO if a patient was robbed by 3 Latino's at a parking lot outside of Walmart 3 years ago, they have the right to decline any care by a Latinx nurse? This makes no sense, and you...
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    Do I have time to take 'fun' classes when in nursing school?

    carti replied to PresentPerfect's topic in General Students

    I'm currently in a 2 year BSN program ( 4 years total if you count the time for prereq), and I'm currently taking a Chemistry 2 course (pre med) in my senior semester. My 2 cents? The beginning of...
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    Least "demanding" nursing Jobs?

    carti posted a topic in General Students

    I'm about to apply for my last semester senior course where we pick our top choices in which we wanna work at. long story short: I plan on taking the remainder of my medical school pre-reqs when I...
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    PEDS/OB- not passing

    carti replied to amynursing's topic in General Students

    stop re-writing everything down, it's a waste of time. make sure you are understanding why certain nursing interventions are done and for what reason. if you are re-writing everything, you aren't...
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    Least "demanding" nursing Jobs?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    eh. I'm just looking for a certain nursing job that is slow paced, not a big learning curve - I really don't understand what is "not serious" about
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    Least "demanding" nursing Jobs?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    eh. please spare me the moral bs if you will. Obviously I need a job so saying unemployment is my best bet is ridiculous. If you don't have any helpful input, just leave this thread and stop replying...
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    Least "demanding" nursing Jobs?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    this is probably something I'm gonna end up doing, just need a decent job to pay my rent for about 6 months if my FAFSA runs out. When you mean private duty, do you mean Home Health jobs? Seems like...
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    First injection mistake

    carti replied to Newstudent4's topic in General Students

    nope nothing is gonna happen. If you forgot to clean their skin before an injection, make sure you do it again next time. if it makes you feel better, I see nurses that I shadow at clinical forget to...
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    Least "demanding" nursing Jobs?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    I'm 1 semester away from graduating my BSN program. Anyone would be a fool to drop out and waste my last 4 years of school. To add, I recently decided to take this pathway, I didn't join nursing...
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    How to ask questions the right way

    carti replied to babychickens's topic in General Students

    what do you mean by "required"? Pretty much anything the nurse does/sees should be charted. if you see the nurse charting something your unfamiliar with, then just ask her " Hey, I don't know what...
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    Least "demanding" nursing Jobs?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    Thank you. As for PACU, this was from experience form my classmates not myself. But I've been to Post Partum shifts which were probably the most laid back 12 hour shifts I had. Do you know of any...
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    Least "demanding" nursing Jobs?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    you literally cannot tell me there are certain nursing jobs than are at the same "stress" demand as others like medsurge/ICU. It doesn't even have to be a hospital job, it could be at a clinic or an...
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    Where Do I Want to Work?

    carti replied to almostanRN0321's topic in General Students

    Psych is cool because I got to poke the brains out of mentally unstable people. I figuired at the end of the day, I would soon get bored of that and couldn't see myself working there. Not to mention,...
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    IVs and Tattoos

    carti replied to memyers's topic in General Students

    I've seen this in the ICU and it sucks when you have an ex rockstar tatted up entirely. best bet is to get a machine that can see the veins through the skin; I don't know if your hospital has one of...
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    Classes that Just Bug You...

    carti replied to missnursingstudent19's topic in General Students

    Peds - sorry I honestly don't give a damn about if a child can build 4 blocks or 6 blocks by the age of 2 1/2 years. big deal if I give a 3 year old a reading book instead of a push pull toy. Having...
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    Prepping for nursing school

    carti replied to clf1926's topic in General Students

    i dont know why you'd buy a book to do NCLEX questions if you have no idea "how to nurse" lol. That's like me buying an USMLE prep book to study right now even though I am not in med school honestly...
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    bsn waste without license?

    carti replied to burtonmarg's topic in General Students

    you're telling me you wasted 4 years of your life for a BSN degree, and you don't wanna take a 5 hour test to get your RN license? no way this is real life, you must be
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    Worried First Day of Clinical

    carti replied to bt123's topic in General Students

    lol your at clinical. do whatever you want and learn. your not going to kill a patient in a medsurge floor unless your actively trying
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    Chemistry - how much is used in school?

    carti replied to stormii's topic in General Students

    I feel like the only Chemistry I used in nursing school was in relation to Acid/Base imbalances. Even then, I could have learned that in 3-4 hours if I had never taken chemistry in my
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    How to remember PEDS key milestones and toys?

    carti posted a topic in General Students

    I certainly don't want to kill a kid patient because a give him a hand puppet instead of a thick crayon. I just feel like it's impossible to know milestones for a baby when he's 1 month, 2 months, 3...