furgas

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1. Anyone 40 Or Older Starting A Lvn Program??

   furgas replied to shalamar's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   I turn 46 in September, graduate in April, '09. Most of my classmates are early 20's, but I get along with all of them just great. Guess I'm not just a middle aged guy starting a new career after all. I was an aerospace machinist for the last 20 year...

2. What color are your school's scrubs?

   furgas replied to picurn10's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   In Arizona we wear black pants and a charcoal polo with a black jacket for when it gets cold. Black....in Arizona, go figure

3. Lpn/lvn

   furgas replied to leeleekc's topic in Arizona

   Texas is where our corp. headquarters is located. Go to the website and look under locations, find the Tucson location, give them a call and ask for HR. I think that would be quicker than going through corporate.

4. Relocation to Tucson

   furgas replied to SinOmonGrl63's topic in Arizona

   I too moved here from Huntington Beach about 3 years ago. I am currently a nursing student who also works for an LTAC (long term acute care) hospital in Tucson. There is no shortage of work here in Tucson, plenty of hospitals to choose from and a gre...

5. Lpn/lvn

   furgas replied to leeleekc's topic in Arizona

   I work for an LTAC (long term acute care) hospital in Tucson. You can google "Cornerstone Healthcare Group" to find the website. We are currently looking for LPN's. It's a small hospital but a great place to work, also check into Kindred, Healthsouth...

6. Maggot Debridement Therapy

   furgas replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

   I am a wound care tech and a nursing student. I work for an LTAC (long term acute care) hospital. We use MDT quite often, not every wound is a candidate but on the ones that are the time spent preparing the wound for a graft is considerably shortened...

7. What do you do right now?

   furgas replied to sassiebaz's topic in Arizona

   I am a wound care tech and a moniter tech for an LTAC (long term acute care hospital) in Arizona. I have a start date of April 1, 08 for the LPN program at the community college and I will attempt to maintain 36 hours at work in order to keep my insu...

8. Calling All CNA's!

   furgas replied to nightingale's topic in CNA/MA

   Hello all, my name is John and I am a National Certified Patient Care Technician as well as a CNA here in the state of Arizona.:flamesonb I currently work in a Long Term Acute Care Hospital as a PCT. I recently accepted a position at St. Josephs Hosp...

9. Giving Each Other Bed Baths??!!

   furgas replied to kcrn2b's topic in General Students

   bed baths? no sweat! in my pct course we drew each others blood and performed ekg's on each other (male and female). at least they allowed us to use the dummys for catherization.

10. How is living in Long Beach??

    furgas replied to babynurse06's topic in California

    congrats on the job!! I have lived in Huntington almost 20 years, and it is among the safest in that area. look into Sunset Beach, it's at the north end of Huntington, before Seal Beach. you can get a studio apt for around 900. a mo. and the best par...

11. How is living in Long Beach??

    furgas replied to babynurse06's topic in California

    I lived in So Cal all my life (Huntington Beach) I'm sure you will love it there. Frankly, the rent's are so out of control there, buying a decent house in a "good" area is next to impossible, so we moved to Arizona, where you can still buy a house, ...

12. stinking of cigarette smoke

    furgas replied to sisterfaye's topic in General Nursing

    My wife and I smoked many years. 18 mo's ago she was hit by a drunk driver, resulting in a TBI. When she was released from rehab and came home she was no longer smoking. I would go outside, out of site and smoke. I tried not to smoke at work, not alw...