amberdragonfly ASN

amberdragonfly has 6 years experience as a ASN.

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1. Mandatory Hurricane Evacuation - Can I be Forced to Work?

   amberdragonfly replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in Career Support

   "waiver was denied to stay per Governor." I took this to mean that the hospital was directly ordered by the governor to evacuate regardless of wishing to stay open. I would think that that would supercede any policies previously in place; and given s...

2. Crap! Am I a crusty old bat nurse?? Carrying pens...

   amberdragonfly replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   Soon to graduate student nurse here...we ALWAYS have pens and I can't imagine trying to get through a shift without. I keep 2 different colored pens and a permanent marker on me.

3. Am I wrong from refusing to help a friend?

   amberdragonfly replied to Neywel120's topic in General Students

   Omg, I just looked this up and its very similar to the same technique I've been using for years to take care of the house as well as school work and home projects. I find it extremely effective when I need to buckle down and get a good chunk of work ...

4. Request not to be placed at certain clinical site

   amberdragonfly replied to sheirry's topic in General Students

   I agree with pretty much everyone so far. Unless it was a serious infraction that got you escorted out, I wouldn't be pushy about it. If it's not a situation that has you banned from but whole hospital, perhaps mention that you used to work there, an...

5. CTCCNP 2016 Applicants

   amberdragonfly replied to Ariana214's topic in Connecticut

   I went to the Capital orientation in June, and the class and lab schedule seems fine: class is Monday and Friday 9-11, but lab is 8-330 Tuesday and Wednesday. The problem is, we don't know what we're going to be getting assigned yet for clinical rota...

6. Am I wrong from refusing to help a friend?

   amberdragonfly replied to Neywel120's topic in General Students

   This is exactly what happened to me. I did well enough in high school, took advanced classes, and my test scores were always high. I retained all the info from class and took great notes, and generally just always understood everything, so I hardly e...

7. CTCCNP 2016 Applicants

   amberdragonfly replied to Ariana214's topic in Connecticut

   Yeah, you'll find out all this info that's specific to your school program when you go to orientation. I don't know if your program is different than ours, but for us labs are like classes as we have no choice in the matter. We all attend class and ...

8. CTCCNP 2016 Applicants

   amberdragonfly replied to Ariana214's topic in Connecticut

   At our Capital orientation our instructor had worked out the schedule for the whole semester (tests included) and gave us all a copy. If you're at a different school your times and days may be very different. We have class Mondays and Fridays 9a-10:5...

9. CTCCNP 2016 Applicants

   amberdragonfly replied to Ariana214's topic in Connecticut

   What school are you going to? At the Capital orientation, if I recall correctly, she said the clinical assignments wouldn't be made until we'd already been in lab for a few weeks...so not til mid/late September.

10. Nursing Schools Not Responding to Email

    amberdragonfly replied to Ramennoodles's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Yes, definitely give them a call. Who knows, maybe there's technical issue on their end or your email address is triggering a spam filter and they're not seeing them. Regardless, it will show drive and determination to call them, or to even go and sh...

11. Teaching a CNA how to chart

    amberdragonfly replied to NurseNicolexo's topic in General Nursing

    13 years as a CNA and I've never had to write progress notes. Mostly my charting has been in the form of flow sheets where we had to check off and initial how patients performed transfers and ADLs through the day (Extensive assist of 2, limited assi...

12. CTCCNP 2016 Applicants

    amberdragonfly replied to Ariana214's topic in Connecticut

    It was May 1st.

13. CTCCNP 2016 Applicants

    amberdragonfly replied to Ariana214's topic in Connecticut

    I just registered for class!!! I didn't have to meet with an advisor since I've taken all my pre and co requisites . . . I just had to fax in a waiver request (yesterday) so they could evaluate my transcripts, and they just called me to give the ...

14. CTCCNP 2016 Applicants

    amberdragonfly replied to Ariana214's topic in Connecticut

15. CTCCNP 2016 Applicants

    amberdragonfly replied to Ariana214's topic in Connecticut

    As I told another person, I have an android phone and the apps I used were "TEAS V Exam Prep 2016" by Pocket Prep, Inc and "TEAS V Mastery" by Higher Learning Technologies, Inc. They were great because they also tracked how well you do in each ca...