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We solved that problem at my wife's hospital after numerous thefts from the fridge in the break room. My wife would go by Chic Fil A before work and get 2 grilled chicken sandwiches. One she would eat before work and save the other in the fridge until her break later than night. The thief had taken her chicken sandwich before so we knew they probably liked them and would take one again. I took a needle and drew up some Wicked Nightmare Extract(be warned it really is your worst nightmare), and injected it into the middle of the grilled chicken breast. Then she took it to work and just put it in the fridge. First day nothing happened and neither the second day either. She was then off for a few days and went back to work which I again injected another chicken breast and she put it in the fridge that night. About 7 hours later she went to check and it was gone but didn't seem like anyone was complaining. She asked around and found out a tech had to go home cause they said they weren't feeling well about an hour earlier. Someone said she was crying and had spent about 20 minutes in the bathroom before they left. They knew who it was then, the food stopped disappearing for a while but has started to disappear again although that tech no longer is on that floor so it has to be someone else now. They will learn soon enough! Amazon.com : Hotter Than Ghost Pepper Scorpion Habanero Hot Sauce Wicked Nightmare Extract : Grocery & Gourmet Food

My wife went through this exact same anxiety when she was in school. We have 2 colleges here, LSUA and NSU within driving distance. LSUA is a community college and many nurses go through their ADN program. My wife talked to the NSU counselor first and was told that most hospitals prefer the BSN degree these days. She was even told that the 2 big area hospitals were encouraging their ADN's to go back and get their BSN. So based on that one interview my wife decided to go get her BSN at NSU. Well after she graduated 3 years later we found out it isn't so!! Neither area hospital cared if she had the BSN or the ADN degree. They hired the LSUA grad and the NSU grads both starting at nearly the same pay. You know how much more money my wife got for having an BSN? Exactly .25 cents more per hour! The other hospital in town doesn't even give a difference at all, they start everyone the same. The only reason to go after a BSN is if you want to work in management one day or pursue your NP or advanced education. If your just happy being an RN the rest of your life, then you don't need a BSN degree. Also consider the cost because it sometimes can be significant. Using my wife as an example, NSU cost more to attend than the community college. My wife graduated with over 40k dollars in student loan debt. We currently pay $310 a month to pay that back and will be paying it back for many years. Alternatively a new nurse at her hospital who graduated from LSUA only had 22k in student loan debt and she gets the same benefits and might as well say the same salary as someone who spent more time in college and spent a lot more money. There are ADN nurses on my wifes floor that have been there for 7-8 years and they make really good money. One guy works 3 days a week at her hospital and 1 day a week PRN at the other hospital in town and he made 109k last year. He told her several times he ain't never going back to school. My wife wants to go into Hospice and possibly become an NP at some point in the future, so she is glad she has her BSN, but many are happy with their ADN and don't look back. As far as jobs go, it really just depends on your area. In our vicinity with an ADN/ASN right out of school you can get on here immediately. Her hospital is hurting bad for nurses. We wanted to move to Southern Georgia where she grew up but looking there even with 2 years of experience she had trouble getting leads for jobs. So, area will determine how difficult it will be for you personally. Call the local hospital and ask for the Human Resources department. Talk to one of the nurse recruiters and ask her/him straight up if they are hiring many ADN's out of school. Don't listen to the school professors or counselors!! They want to push you into a BSN because it's more money in their pocket!(at least in our experience)

My wife has been a nurse now for 2 years and I can tell you that she too was going to ICU when she started. She later changed to the step down unit. She had the same shock as you at first!! What your saying about some of the Dr's was her biggest adjustment. She went into nursing because she has a strong passion to help people. She has decided to go into hospice soon if that tells you how compassionate she is. So, when she went to work as a new nurse and she heard Dr's saying negative things in a patients room in front of their family it really made her upset. She heard a Dr. say in front of the patients family "well even if we give him xxxxx medication, it probably won't be worth the effort because he isn't going to make it more than a week." Yes, a Dr. actually said that and it nearly brought her to tears. To my wife it seemed like the Dr. was insensitive and didn't even want to try to save this guy. Later after being on the job a couple of years she has learned that more times than not, the Dr. was right. My wife learned that most newer Dr's are driven in med school to be as truthful as possible and not to sugarcoat details even in front of family. it wasn't always that way, most old school Dr's were hesitant to tell family that it was going south. Not these days, most Dr's she works with have a very "matter of fact" attitude. Not all but more than a few. Just wait till you see a Dr. sling a clipboard across the room or one night a Dr. got scolded by a nurse because he ordered some medication which she felt would be harmful to the patient so she made a point of telling the Dr. that she was not going to administer it. He ripped a phone off the wall and slung it across the room, lol. What's worse is the hospital brought the nurse and him into arbitration and the hospital stood behind the Dr., and told her she should have followed his orders. They stated that he had conferred with the patients main Dr. and they both agreed on that medication earlier in the day. So, she essentially had the medical opinions of 2 doctors against her own beliefs. After a while you get used to it and you learn to just go with the flow to make your life easier. My wife has a 5-6 patient ratio on her current floor, so it is super busy most nights. The hospital sent a memo out last year stating they were going to a 4 patient max ratio but they can't hire enough nurses to make it work. Her hospital is severely shorthanded most weeks. They try offering triple win pay which is an extra $8 an hour and last week they were so short they offered double base pay. Still it doesn't work cause a lot of nurses there are older and don't want any overtime. My wife won't work overtime because it just isn't worth getting burned out in her opinion. We have a problem with a lot of nurses graduating local colleges and then leaving for bigger cities. I probably didn't help you any, but just wanted to let you know that your not the only one who is shocked by Doctors attitudes. She's come home and told me a lot of horror stories over the last 2 years. We also have parties at our house where I'll do a fish fry and her nursing friends will come over and they all talk about this Dr. or that Dr., lol

Hello, I have a few questions and wanted some opinions, so please read and reply if you have the time. I have been in a wheelchair for about 13 years now. I can stand for several minutes at a time but other than that I pretty much have to be in the chair to get from place to place. About 10 years ago I met a lovely lady and we fell in love and have been together ever since. At 34 years old she decided to go back to college and three years later she received her BSN degree. She has now been a nurse at a local hospital for 2 years. While she was in school I would help her study nearly every night. I learned a lot through reading her nursing books and grading her practice tests, etc. I made her flash cards, read chapters to her, etc. I enjoyed learning and thought even then that I might enjoy the nursing profession if I weren't in the chair. The problem is boredom on my part, especially at night when she works. I have not worked in 13 years and I am really bordering on depression because I have come to hate TV, staring at these 4 walls, etc. I want to get out and interact with people and get out of this house. I used to work in Corporate management in Chicago before a bad car accident put me in the wheelchair and I spent a couple years re-learning how to do things. I have sat here in my living room for the last 2 years watching my wife go to work every weekend and do her 12-14 hour shifts. I have researched nursing and NP schools for many months. My wife went to NSU and they have a great program but there is another school within driving distance that also offers a BSN program. I'm not positive but if I applied to both schools I'm hoping one of them would be willing to work with me as far as me taking nursing and being in a wheelchair. I think I could stand or kneel on the floor long enough to get the CPR certification. As far as re-positioning a patient, my father was recently in the hospital to have a pacemaker put in and me and my wife had no problem re-positioning him. I just stood up out of my chair and I stood on one side of the bed while she stood on the other. We grabbed the sheet under him and both pulled up and sat him higher in the bed. If I am able to do these things, I'm thinking maybe I have some chance to make it? I am in a unique position because I really don't need to graduate and start making money. So I was thinking if I could graduate with a BSN, I'd like to find a school that would let me jump straight into a Masters program and become an NP. I'm thinking about 6 years of college would keep my mind busy and occupied. Not sure how tough finding a job would be after that point, but at least I wouldn't have wasted my time watching TV for the next 6 years. You think I'd have trouble being in a chair and completing school? What about jumping from BSN straight into an NP program?