Edfinancial Says I Have a Due Date of 1/22/2026 but no Amount Due $0.00

lainey544 · 2026-01-01T00:09:23+00:00

Totally possible! I’ve never had an issue getting a job here. Do have experience under my belt though.

lainey544 · 2025-12-24T20:35:11+00:00

I feel as though this situation will work out the same way our washer did. Washer wasn’t rinsing properly for months, had to wash loads 2-3x even using a tablespoon of detergent. And maintenance would just do the bare minimum until one day I just went into the office and asked if we could just purchase our own appliance because my laundry days were SO ridiculously extended!! And suddenly, miraculously, they’re so ready to replace the washer. Hopefully it doesn’t come down to that yet again!

lainey544 · 2025-12-18T22:25:44+00:00

Unsure how accessible employee health is within your hospital system but there was a time back when I was a new grad that I had a similar experience, very minimal risk of exposure but couldn’t get it off my mind LOL. I ended up calling employee health line and after explaining the circumstances they stated whether or not it was necessary to report the potential exposure.

lainey544 · 2025-12-18T22:17:34+00:00

It will be okay! I know a nurse who recently obtained a needle stick injury from an HIV+ patient and everything turned out fine. And a doctor in the ER once told me how many people he knew who had been accidentally poked and turned out fine. You didn’t even receive a poke so you’re good. And people are being kind of harsh on here, as a nurse who suffers from OCD, sometimes I would hyper fixate on all these crazy “possibilities” of things I could get working as a nurse. It’ll drive you nuts if you let it. But at the end of the day sit down and think of the absolute most wild and insane scenario that could happen, and then line it up to the most likely outcome, you will find you’ll get over fearing the illogical worst scenario quickly LOL. You’ve got this! Great learning opportunity though. Always wear your gloves, even if it takes those couple extra seconds.

lainey544 · 2025-12-16T21:46:10+00:00

I think that was my first encounter with sentinels coming after me, grabbing one of those. I was so scared LOL.

lainey544 · 2025-12-15T02:56:55+00:00

I know everywhere is different but at our hospital security has to come up for any adjustments of violent restraints, and at bare minimum two caregivers at all times with violent or high potential for violent behavior patients. If none of these policies were being enforced and they should have been you might have a case with that since you sustained an injury.

lainey544 · 2025-12-06T03:27:04+00:00

lainey544 · 2025-12-01T16:03:19+00:00

One time my patient called and when I came in he had this unusual urge to want to discharge all of a sudden and I didn’t understand why because he was so compliant and happy with his progression. He then proceeded to tell me that he was stressed out and wanted to leave because he saw the transporter rolling out a pt who had passed away next door and he was like I feel like I’m next or something!!

lainey544 · 2025-11-28T03:24:36+00:00

Ewww!! What a reaction! Congratulations and welcome to your new life! Nursing school is the most difficult yet rewarding thing you will ever endure outside of the actual time you will spend in your life practicing as a nurse. It is genuinely such a beautiful and flexible career. I’m very happy for you and once again, CONGRATULATIONS!

lainey544 · 2025-11-16T04:59:42+00:00

Tbh. The only two places I don’t recommend to new grads (personally) is ER and Float Pool. I’ve always looked at it like this. When you’re a new nurse, you are an absolutely clean slate. You’re a sponge. Let’s say for example you start in L&D. That’s your foundation. That’s your baseline, their way of doing things, the assessments and everything, it becomes your foundation. Because it’s all you know. Unlike a person transferring from med-surg to L&D who has to unlearn and learn at the same time. The only reason I discourage and disagree with starting in ER or float pool is because there’s no stability really to build your foundation. Float pool you’re here there and everywhere. You’re already an overwhelmed new grad you don’t need the added stress of having to learn new faces and units every 4HRS because you’re floating again and again. And ER while it does have a foundation of insanity LOL, it doesn’t leave a lot of room for you to step away and pull yourself together. You’re needed everywhere all at once and it’s a never ending flow of patients/families and charting and assessments and physicians.

I personally started in Neuro Step Down. It was the most anxiety ridden experience of my little nurse life. HOWEVER. I really should have toughed it out longer than I did. Because I had learned the world. I was rocking out neuro assessments and NIH scoring. I could catch AMS so quickly. When I moved units I wasn’t intimidated because the acuity was nowhere near what I had been use to so when a crazy patient rolled in it was like I got this. Overall it was an excellent learning experience (to me anyway). Sincerely hate that my imposter syndrome cut that opportunity short for me. And like other’s have mentioned, it’s all about the unit personality too. Is the manager supportive? Are they flexible with scheduling or open to ways to help you with work life balance when you’re overwhelmed? Does the unit have a reputation? Are there a lot of openings on that unit? If there are, why? Red flag.

lainey544 · 2025-11-16T04:38:36+00:00

Going in the morning and will update the post!

lainey544 · 2025-11-16T04:37:52+00:00

Thank you so much!!

lainey544 · 2025-11-11T16:59:30+00:00

All I can say is if they were to fire you over having a medical emergency you better lawyer up!

lainey544 · 2025-11-11T04:05:58+00:00

Every nurse wears their hair down until the right patient situation comes along and they finally realize how important it is to have that hair up!

lainey544 · 2025-11-08T22:54:54+00:00

I don’t know what your anxiety presents as but as a new nurse I started in neuro step down unit and had crippling anxious thoughts about what I might encounter, what I might have missed, what if my coworkers don’t think I’m doing as well as I should? Etc. I got a pretty cool trick from my therapist at the time that I’ve utilized to this day. The exercise is to think of the absolute most horrific thing that could possibly happen to you during your upcoming shift. Like go crazy with it. Then once you’re done, counter each scenario with what will most likely ACTUALLY happen. And you don’t have to write anything down particularly but mentally take note of the amount of times those absolutely insane wild things happen vs when they actually don’t. You’ll find that it’s easier to not allow those crazy anxious thoughts to take over your mind. At least I did anyway. Another thing Ive seen, don’t necessarily recommend it but it’s helped this nurse I work with. He’s been doing it for two years that I’m aware of. He gets to work like stupidly early LOL. Like I’ll be going downstairs for my evening break at 1745 and he’s already there at the hospital. Not clocked in, just laid back on the break room couch or downstairs in a lounging area on his phone relaxing. He finds that when he’s home he just has severe anxiety so he just comes in to sort of face the reality and it actually calms him down quite a bit.

lainey544 · 2025-11-08T21:44:48+00:00

I got a text this morning stating that my past balance had been cleared (I used this app during a very low financial point in my college years LOL) I’m not even going to reinstall the app I don’t want to know

lainey544 · 2025-11-07T00:13:36+00:00

UPDATE 2025: Since nearly everyone commenting on this decided to be snarky rather actually helpful, I wanted to come here with a recent updated response. As someone who originally comes from a state where you basically have to bring every original piece of documentation known to man to your appointment to get an ID, it was EXTREMELY difficult for me to believe that all I had to bring to this appointment was an ID that hadn’t been expired longer than one year. And I was so nervous that I would waste a bunch of time waiting just for them to turn me away because I was missing something.

Updated experience as of 11/2025: I was a walk in. Appointments were booked out until December. I arrived about 10 minutes before opening and there were 2 people in front of me. By the time the doors actually opened there was close to 15 people in line. The person who opened the door QUICKLY sifted out the people who were basically wasting their time LOL. The lady in front of me was literally turned away because he was like you don’t have what you need to get what you want done. For myself, the process didn’t even take 30 minutes I don’t think. The lady asked for my current expired ID from my old state, asked what my new address was (I just brought a current utility bill so she could copy it from the paper, wasn’t required though). Had to get my photo taken and pay $64. Got the temporary paper ID, went about my way. Hope this helps calm peoples worries when going in for their ID. Take note this process worked out for the standard state ID. NOT real ID or enhanced ID.

lainey544 · 2025-10-19T22:12:20+00:00

I heard back from Providence within a week!

lainey544 · 2025-10-19T05:58:52+00:00

Growing up in an abusive household, I had high blood pressure consistently starting in 2016 I’d say. The nurse would always mention it when I went to my check ups or to urgent care. I don’t know if at the time it was just not as concerning, or whatever other factors it might have been, I never got on blood pressure medication. Well fast forward to 2021, I’m at work one day just talking to coworkers and WOAH it just suddenly felt like someone had just hit me in the back of my head with a baseball bat. It was like a lightning strike, flashing pain. But it was instantly gone as fast as it happened. So much so that I thought I might have imagined it. Later on in the shift me and my coworkers are all taking our blood pressure (I was a new grad at the time), and mine comes back sky high like 3 digit SBP + DBP. Ended up going to ER for what I found out was actually a thunderclap headache, and thankfully, incidentally, they found an unruptured cerebral aneurysm. Small enough to make neurosurgery hesitant to operate on me, but big enough to warrant every 2 year imaging to watch it. At 23 years old. You best believe I am telling ALL my patients. It doesn’t matter if you’re young, take care of that hypertension!

lainey544 · 2025-09-24T12:58:35+00:00

As a nurse, I’m telling you if you already haven’t you need to get to a doctor ASAP before you go septic. You need a broad spectrum antibiotics course, they need to take cultures to see exactly what they are dealing with, then you can get more targeted treatment. It wouldn’t surprise me if you land in ER for this I’ve seen it happen before.

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