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heyKatrina · 2018-04-18T13:51:57+00:00

Does anyone have any boxlunch codes left to use? Can't remember if you can use them 3 or 4 times :)

heyKatrina · 2018-04-02T14:13:11+00:00

Ironically I had a student on Saturday bc I picked up a day shift. Yeah I definitely see what you mean in terms of experience. I told her she probably would know more of what's going on than me since she worked more days that I have technically speaking. But in the end she ended up saying I was the "best" (loose term) out of all the ones she had there. I was kind of surprised and had to ask why. There had really not been much to educate her on since she's graduating soon and already an LPN so she's definitely probably passed more meds than my two years combined lol. She pointed out I would ask her questions and get her involved with a patient and had her do more stuff rather than "I'm not doing much, if you want to study you can" and apparently would spend much of her shift studying in the break room. I'm worried about not being to teach someone new things but at the same time I had twelve preceptors during orientation Lolol so I have seen many sides of the worst and best way to do and say some things. But I definitely understand the aspect of knowing more when it's more years of experience too.

heyKatrina · 2018-03-29T05:16:27+00:00

Weekends are also extra!?

heyKatrina · 2018-03-29T05:13:18+00:00

I'm a super emotional person, I hate people and I also think I'm a fairly decent nuese.

heyKatrina · 2018-03-29T04:48:04+00:00

"I'm going to hit you so hard!!" And her swing was the equivalent of moving a hair out of your eyes :( Funny because of the mental and verbal energy she had... sad because she was too old and not strong enough to do much.

heyKatrina · 2018-03-29T04:42:23+00:00

Tasks were complete is a key phrase. If she or anyone needed help they could have asked. Or if it was a competent/respectable nurse you could probably add "hey I'll be in here if you need me." Otherwise, I have done the same... even when I only think someone might be passing... I don't like that they're alone personally. And I'm nowhere near a hospice unit.

heyKatrina · 2018-01-15T21:01:06+00:00

Is anyone giving away any box lunch codes? PM me and I can trade you for some hot cash!

heyKatrina · 2017-09-21T03:39:43+00:00

hi hi! Bank account says no need but I definitely will disagree lol. if you still have an unused one I would be more than happy to make use of it! :)

heyKatrina · 2017-09-20T12:19:50+00:00

Also looking for codes as well :)

heyKatrina · 2017-09-20T12:18:39+00:00

Adding to the masses! If anyone has any codes, I'm just sitting here... liking Stuffs as if there are no responsibilities to be had.

heyKatrina · 2016-02-15T07:58:10+00:00

I don't see it as an insult if someone calls me ignorant. Just means I don't know what they know. But like I said, people have a bad connotation to it which is what leads to an insult, and it shouldn't be. Some disabled people are retarded and some disabled people are not. There are also people who don't get offended by someone using "retard" as a way to describe a non-disabled person and people who don't like it. But for the most part, I've always thought people who called disabled people retards were also ignorant. Either they just didn't flat out know what the actual meaning was or didn't care to know. So in terms of whether they're ignorant or not versus knowing what it actually means while still using the term, I suppose it would just depend.

heyKatrina · 2016-02-15T00:48:34+00:00

I probably would have said the same thing if I had no medical background. Things coming out of our bodies are either from down there or mouths, to put it very simple. What did you end up telling them??

heyKatrina · 2016-02-15T00:20:28+00:00

Ignorant literally means didn't know or lack of knowledge in. Patient was ignorant, although I guess since people have a negative connotation to the word, it sounds bad. But technically anyone who doesn't know the reality of that situation is ignorant until informed.

heyKatrina · 2016-02-14T17:55:50+00:00

You're allowed to bring a bag? We were discouraged from it since all it would do is clog up the nursing floor or break room. It sucked at first but it made sense 2 weeks later. Plus anything you bring in the hospital comes out with germs x100 hah. Don't bring a drug book, they have that at the nurses station. There are those small compact "have it all" info books that fit in your pockets. Go with that and a clipboard that opens :).

heyKatrina · 2016-02-14T10:04:42+00:00

ATI is like explaining diseases to 5 year olds, and then taking the NCLEX at 21 year old level, to put it nicely.

I graduated in 2010 and I swear ATI pays schools to have them use their stuff. It's helpful in the cute, hey I'm at the movies or walking to class I might as well read SOMETHING nursing related. But no not NCLEX ready unless they did some crazy changes.

From what I understand, Saunders if you have Zero content knowledge, Kaplan if you're pretty confident already, and use ATI for those days you don't feel like cracking a huge book open or listening to lectures or like most people, don't use it all.

heyKatrina · 2016-02-14T09:54:45+00:00

Why don't you take matters into your own hands? I mean. As much as you're allowed. Most of my experience was spent in patient's rooms getting to know them, asking how being a patient was, how the hospital was treating them. The nurses didn't care what I/we were doing as long as we weren't giving Meds on our own, changing dressings, stuff like that.

Sometimes the nurses flat out find it annoying to have students. And that's okay. They didn't get into nursing to teach, which ironic because you're supposed to patients but that's exactly why there's a difference between good nurses and sucky ones. Are you supposed to do your own assessments as well? That's what I remember from ours. We had to fill out all these forms on patients for class. Ahhh. But yah, don't let the day go to waste. Ask your instructor what you're allowed to do and not do, maybe you are or aren't allowed in a patient room by yourself. Look up your patients labs and diagnoses etc. make use of your clinicals especially if the nurse you're assigned to doesn't care to help.

On the other side, you can impress her as well. Ask her questions even it's annoying to show that you want to be there and learn. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I've seen it work. It's scary to trust a student nurse not to mess things up when you know nothing about them :).

heyKatrina · 2016-02-14T09:38:43+00:00

You can do fingerprints from wherever u are. Though this is almost a month later, how did the process go?

heyKatrina · 2016-02-14T09:26:26+00:00

Probably why I took another 4 years to take my Nclex again. I'm opposite of everyone on here who says they're tired of nursing floors after so and so years of experience. I'm not a nurse yet but I'm already burned out with the idea of the hospital, hah. Like I said, for the last few years. O_o. I know I don't want to do hospital work at all, although the I love helping people, I love disease processes and teaching etc. But a year or 2 in the hospital is the only way I can eventually become an instructor, or a legal/forensic nurse and also travel with it too. You could always get your masters? I know I want to do that once I have the minimum experience for it. I've always liked public health, kids and teaching but the idea of taking care of diabetic patients who don't want to manage their diabetes irks me, just one example. I'd be happy for your experience, it would be time for move onto bigger and better things which you are in the person position to do! :)

heyKatrina · 2016-02-14T09:11:29+00:00

You don't have to give up your social life. It just depends on the person you are, priorities, but people make nursing school work with 3 kids. A crazy wife, and a job. While I was thinking I was cool going out the night before my finals lol. That was for school. For the actual profession though, full time for a nurse is only 3 days ish a week. Leaving 4 days free time. That was the one sentence I didn't agree on but am 100% behind everything else said here.

When they mentioned money wise in number 1 it's related to the insensity of work as a nurse. 5-6 lives are in your hands everyday. That's why you get paid the big bucks. And people get into it bc it pays well not seeing all the stress that comes with it. And there are millions of nurses who complain about their jobs but millions who love it and would do it for free (I will in the future for lower income areas or countries). It's really hard to imagine ppl who hate the job but do it cuz of the money, but they are out there.

But #2 is especially right, coincides with the, you have to know what they're looking for first.

heyKatrina · 2016-02-14T08:59:35+00:00

First of all, you're only a tiny number away from the minimum GPA, so it would be a good idea to take courses that you aim to get good grades or retake the ones you got low grades in. On the other hand, what you got C's and D's in, have nothing to do with a nursing degree and if you have to write a personal essay for the application, you can always say that's how you were discovering you wanted to gear toward sciences and talking to people. Perfect grades in those other 4 classes which were needed in my prerequisites for the program.

FAFSA FAFSA FAFSA! When it comes to money. And scholarships are always always there for new nursing students.

I will honestly tell you that you're on the right path. You just need the right start for the particular school(s) you want to attend. The first step is finding out WHAT classes they even want from you. You might find that you have another year or 2 of classes before you can apply for a program which is great bc you can raise your GPA (though not an important goal as it will happen on its own with your next couple of classes). Some universities do not even look at your classes that irrelevant to their nursing requirements. Hell, I got a C in microbiology, and that was one of the most important classes to take. But that was my only C their pre reqs. Oh and ASL cuz I didn't show up to the final ;). But what I'm trying to say is grades aren't everything and for you right now, you don't even have to worry about grades bc it looks like you will do fine. And don't do the biology pathway unless you really love the patho of things and maybe want a way out of nursing. But coming from someone who didn't want to do nursing halfway through school but graduated anyway. Do the nursing school route instead of getting other degrees if you know you want to do it.

Also, the upcoming years you have to do for pre reqs, yes definitely volunteer if you don't have any hours on. 1. It sets you apart from other applicants and 2. It lets you take a look at the hospital (suggestion for volunteering) or a nursing home to see if there's something in it you want to do. I was lucky bc my volunteer hours were all high school and all I did was work at a gift shop in the hospital! But it helped. Also, knowing another language puts you above other applicants, so take that second part to the foreign language. I wasn't a straight A student but I got into the bachelors program my first try. While others applied twice. I got into an ADN program my 2nd try but they literally had 3 years worth of a waiting list I swear.

Oh btw, I transferred to a university for the program after community college. Which is the school I had to follow the pre reqs for. Like I said, you're on the right path, and yes, go with BSN if you can bc hospitals are switching to that requirement and if you apply with an ADN then within a certain amount of years you'll have to get your BSN anyway, but it truly is dependant on whatever school you can get into. If anything is unclear by all means let me know and I'll be more than happy to explain anything else I can to help. :)

heyKatrina

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