0.5GPA

0.5GPA ADN, CNA

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  1. Nurses make me sick

    0.5GPA replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in General Nursing

    I LOVE free food. I don’t consider it to be a slight like some people do. I work on a COVID unit and understand it is what it is. I work on my stomach. LOL I wonder what is acceptable for...

  2. Is it appropriate to "show off" that you are a Nurse on social media?

    0.5GPA replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    I don’t agree with it but I’m sure as a student I’ve done it. I do not talk about my job or profession on social media. I don’t want people knowing my business and I don’t want to make my...

  3. What should I wear to pick up paperwork on my day off?

    0.5GPA replied to medapop's topic in General Nursing

    This I don’t know what your work is like but some places might try that old “hey your dressed to work want to make some money since your here?” I just dress like I normally do when I’m...

  4. Am I a coward for going on FMLA due to COVID?

    0.5GPA replied to ML1376's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If you have respiratory health problems then you have a much higher chance of dying if you get this virus. I was reading the other day on Nbcnews about a nurse who had a history of asthma who recently...

  5. Frustrating Nurse Family Members

    0.5GPA replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    Well she was kind of honest. Cardiologists do deal with pipes.

  6. OB Unit for Male Student

    0.5GPA replied to nurse2bguy555's topic in General Students

    Well I NOT a doctor so I couldn’t say. I’m not an OB again can’t say. Those patients have EVERY RIGHT not to have me in there. Or do you not believe patient should be able to say what goes on...

  7. OB Unit for Male Student

    0.5GPA replied to nurse2bguy555's topic in General Students

    I’m a male and recently finished my program. I didn’t have to do anything extra for my OB rotations. In fact, that wasn’t never mentioned. the only issue I did have wasn’t school related but...

  8. Millennial Nurses Have Issues

    0.5GPA replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

    As a Millennial I feel that most people in my age and younger don’t stay at a job forever because there is no reason too. Largely the idea of a person starting at a company young and then staying...

  9. Forced Organ Donations from Living Donors???!!!!

    0.5GPA replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    My point was most places seem prisoners as less than human. Protesting something is less “bad” by most standards. To treat that heavy handed you know prisoners are getting a bad deal. also this is...

  10. Forced Organ Donations from Living Donors???!!!!

    0.5GPA replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    I’m glad they value prisoners lives with ethics and integrity. Free speech and right to protest not so much. It find it hard to believe that if a government would work that hard to stop a protest by...

  11. Do you think nurses aren’t taught enough about general emergencies/basic info about emergency medicine?

    0.5GPA replied to stacylethani's topic in General Nursing

    Do you mean like in terms of if I’m at the park and encounter someone having a stroke/seizure/MI/serious Injury with lots of blood loss? Yes in general I think so. I’d like to know more about that...

  12. Background Check Reveals Arrest. Application to Sit Boards Denied

    0.5GPA replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Rn to LPN? That is weird I am assuming you mean the other way

  13. The nurse in the morgue – Part 3 of my interview with a forensic nurse

    0.5GPA replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    Nah on smells and stuff I’d think the worst like you said would be children. I am a new parent (well now a 10 month old) and it put me at a different mind set with children. I don’t know if I...

  14. The nurse in the morgue – Part 3 of my interview with a forensic nurse

    0.5GPA replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    Neat! Many moons ago I wanted to be a forensic pathologist but didn’t want to go to med school blah blah blah. I read it is also the medical specialty with the oldest age of retirement so there is...

  15. How often do you wash your scrubs? :)

    0.5GPA replied to RNinheart's topic in General Nursing

    I have three sets of scrubs so that gets me through the week (3 12hr shifts) but I usually wash my clothes as soon as I get

  16. Exit interview survey, tell the truth, lie or ignore

    0.5GPA replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    In my experience I always lie. I do not feel that those interviews can be trusted. If it is computer it can be

  17. And The Reason Nurses Don't Get Fired

    0.5GPA replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    ^^^^THAT sounds like the idea for the next greatest TV show drama about nurses. (Down to the hair/eyes and laugh) This nurse Is loud, crazy and plays by her own rules! Melissa Methmouth stars in...

  18. Should I divorce my husband

    0.5GPA replied to gonzo1's topic in General Nursing

    If you think that is good grounds to divorce someone for something that trivial I would HATE to see when he really does something bone headed. That will someday happen! I’m a guy I know ? bonehead...

  19. Lost Integrity: When Nursing Students Cheat

    0.5GPA replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Students

    I don’t how you could cheat on a test. At my school you can’t wear hoodies, jackets or anything like that during an exam. No watches, hats etc You have to show you have empty pockets before you...

  20. Playing Cards

    0.5GPA replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I like trolling I may get on that. (I don’t live in

  21. RN school while in High School?

    0.5GPA replied to AFJ32780's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe if the student can prove they are nursing material but I think for most kids it’s a bad idea. Same age group that can not figure out that tide pods are for clothes not eating are not (to me)...

  22. Alexa, I need to go to the bathroom???

    0.5GPA replied to drkshadez's topic in General Nursing

    I remember watching the CBS national news just the other day and they had a story about how people at these companies (like Amazon) will actually listen to the recordings that Alexa makes. Not just...

  23. PARTING GIFT

    0.5GPA replied to RNfindingherway's topic in General Nursing

    ^^^^^This^^^^^^ everyone loves cupcakes

  24. CNA to RN

    0.5GPA replied to Mary3010's topic in General Nursing

    I don’t know about quicker but I feel it should be mandatory for aspiring RNs to do CNA work for a year or two. reasions are I feel it helps building an understanding of what CNAs go through every...

  25. Why are nurses the only profession that cannot accept gifts?

    0.5GPA replied to RockinNurse2018's topic in General Nursing

    My expirence has been individually it can be "wrong" but as a group not so much. Example: a card or a cake (my old unit got a lot of baked goods it was great) given to a person individually was...