Rionoir ADN, RN

First of all, let's be clear, RN to BSN is just some hoop that you have to jump through and not a step of your nursing career that anyone cares about too much aside from the fact that you did it. anyway, my experience at Capella is that the cour...

Ask your classmates what psych meds they are currently taking to get through nursing school. I guarantee 90% of them will list at least one. 🤣 I had a couple terrible instructors as well - it's always the ones with the least amount of actual nursing ...

12 hour shifts is literally the best part of being a nurse 🤷‍♂️😅

NICU, and any specialty with kids, is almost always going to pay less because a lot of people want to work with babies and kiddos and they know they don't have to pay as much. If you don't absolutely feel like you MUST work NICU or with children, the...

ADA only requires reasonable accommodations to help you attend classes - extra time to take tests if you have severe test anxiety, an elevator to get to your class if you can't use stairs, etc. It really doesn't cover anything if you physically can't...

2 months is nothing, even for an experienced nurse switching to med surg for the first time. I have seen ICU nurses float to med surg and get taken down a few pegs by the end of their shift. Now can we talk about this FOUR YEAR CONTRACT?! Who t...

There's certainly a thousand other options besides 12-hour night shift nursing to consider before throwing up your hands and saying "Maybe I just shouldn't be a nurse cuz I hate my current job!" 🤷‍♂️ I got my dream job in ICU straight out of school, ...

Having a policy on moonlighting isn't that unusual. However, if someone thought I was going to run all my shifts at another job past them before taking them they can... do things I won't write here. 😅

I just came back to a M-F with no holidays job and already miss my 12s. I miss the frequent MTW one week and WThF the next week schedule. I never minded working a holiday rotation or the occasional weekend, although we had weekend shift people and d...

If former patients weren't allowed to work in mental health facilities, they'd have very little staff.

If the ED environment appeals to you, then by all means go that route. However, ICU will prepare you to be more independent and give you a broader skillset than ED. There's nothing wrong with trying both though - the best part of nursing is trying ou...

I'm surprised that's even an option - pool usually requires several years of experience.

I'll say it again in case I wasn't clear - it sure seems like it happens to certain people on a daily basis and to other people almost never over the course of nearly 5 decades. I have only taken a very remedial statistics course, but I'm pretty sure...

I dunno, that's a tricky situation. Some people deserve the dressing down they get once in a while for being lazy and/or ignoring things they shouldn't. Maybe look to see if the other nurses are smirking first before inserting yourself. 😆

I think they meant "stupidity" instead of "freak accident" 🤣

One of the first tip offs that someone is full of it is if they point out the fact that they are acting strangely while acting strangely. Just saying... 😉

How do you like that unit? I was considering going to a unit like that since I've kind of flip flopped between psych and med surg.

Tell me you live in California without telling me you live in California...

It's not only your experience, don't let the aggressive gay minority gaslight you into thinking we have a second-class existence. See my previous post, but I have somehow gone nearly 50 years of life without once experiencing the things some of these...

Thank you for the thorough list of things that you feel gives me no right to comment on a discussion board post, but for the record I am gay, and married, and live in suburbia Wisconsin with no issues whatsoever from any of my soccer mom and redneck ...

The great thing about psych is 90% of your coworkers have mental health struggles that they wear on their sleeves and you never have to worry about telling a coworker that you're having a panic attack, or depressed, or bipolar, or whatever else you'r...

I've always had a pretty good work ethic, but have sadly come to realize that getting a new job is much easier to get a nice raise, get a sign-on bonus, get paid out for your PTO at the old place, etc. I just recently came back to an old employer and...

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Cartagena, Colombia is in zero ways safer than Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Largely depends on where you live. In Wisconsin, absolutely no problem being competitive for any critical care position as an ADN as the main tech schools here are probably tougher than the BSN programs are. In California... LOL

You'll get plenty of psych experience in the ED. Detox, OD, first breaks, suicide attempts, anyone the police pick up - they all go through the ED. Sometimes psych facilities use local hospitals for medical clearance - at one psych facility I worked ...