3ringnursing BSN

Perhaps give orthotic insoles a try? No matter your age, you may need a nursing job you are on your feet less time. If you can afford a jacuzzi I suggest you buy one. I had to steal from my retirement account to get one, but it was one of the best pu...

She can do it Emergent, I really think she can. I've been in recovery for as long as I've been a RN. You are right - that is a lot of life changes at once (part of what caused my melt down too was many life changes all at once: new grad, new job, n...

Sleeping during the day is hard. Life happens for most of the population during daylight hours. We live across the street from an elementary school that used it's intercom freely during school hours, plus an air force base is close enough to hear Re...

Often times if you've been doing this a while the significance that this patient is a person - someone's child, sibling, spouse/lover, or friend isn't always thought about. But every patient is that, and a lot more! We at least owe them a nod of one ...

It took approximately 2 months for me - possibly 1.5 months (it was so long ago). I got a letter that a complaint had been filed against my RN license. When I called the SBON they refused to tell me what the complaint was regarding until I confessed....

You are amazing! I can always count on free smiles from you Davy Do!!! (((And yes I do, I ride my horsie to work!!!)))

I know I'm not the highest paid nurse on the block, but I also fill my gas tank 4 times a year. Plus, it's the shortest commute I've ever had.

The VA moves at it's own pace, and nothing can make it hurry up. When I worked there I referred to it as "The Planet VA", as it truly is a universe unto itself. You're correct about the union too - about 15 years ago I had a dispute (I had rather hai...

Okay, I'll dish ... I graduated in December 1993, but took 10 years off of paid nursing due to illness (I volunteered to keep my license active though). So I've been a nurse for 24 years, but only 14 of them paid. I did mainly adult ICU in the past, ...

Sometimes we make mistakes and become terrified. That fear can pave the way for behavior we later regret. In hindsight this is obvious, but at the time when the whine of panic is loudly drowning out all rational thought bad choices can be made. I'm ...

This isn't actually a technical tip, but more of life advice ... what you just described is everyone's initial reaction to starting a new career, especially CNA (or PCT, LPN, RN ...). That type of job requires getting used to tasks you are asked to p...

Thank God someone saw sense. Finally. What a harrowing ordeal you just went through - unfortunately, having had my own brushes with the SBON I know exactly what that felt like. I'm routing for you and your new career! I hope you stay the same forth...

Some female nurses (and some male nurses too) have found that acting in a manner viewed as aggressive by management can lead to a whole lot of trouble with one's job and perhaps license, and typically does not lead to the desired result. I cry in an...

I love your new avatar picture - is that a Davey Do original?

Then I would have had super cheap Mexican food (extra spicy) and wash it down with a bottle of Mg+ citrate!

I used to be passively aggressive in the only way meek, repentant, chastised and exposed drug addict me could: on the days my color was "randomly" called I'd eat a can of cream of asparagus soup for breakfast. By midmorning when I arrived to drop my...

Don't forget cheap Mexican food!

Maybe he actually meant he was from Europe - you know, from in the continent?

You can't learn everything in nursing school - there is too much material. The real learning starts on the job. Relax.

Okay did I ever tell you the story of a PCT I worked with like ... a really, really long time ago? He worked at a car dealership years before (like a really, really time time before that). So the boss would select one of the workers to get to drive ...

I learned many things in my time in CANDO, but one of them was humility. I learned I was an adult that had to ask permission for many things while under the wing of the SBON's diversion option program, but I never had a false UDS. Others I knew claim...

It's uncanny how much "Flo" sounds like someone I work with too. My "Flo" is a know-it-all, and someone who HAS to be right no matter what - always. If proven wrong she admits nothing, but if right ... well, you may never hear the end of it. And if ...

Felt like I lived it with you. Shudder ... it's always worse when our kids are sick or hurt - we wish we could take it for them and it's even more painful when we can't. No one told me how hard being a parent really would be. Toughest job you'll eve...

I graduated in Dec 1993: not once were we ever drug tested in my BSN program. I had a UDS once for pre-employment screening for a job while in nursing school (3rd semester) and got a job offer from the same place after graduating and continued o...

We still did those drills (at least on the east coast) in the early 1970's Nixon administration era up to 1st grade. Wow ... I haven't thought of that in years! Holy Janie Mac Batman!