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1. HIPAA Help?

   slou! posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am an ex-nursing student (I was a nursing student for 2 years but changed it to special education, that's another whole story :)) but if I learned anything in nursing school, it's how strict the HIPAA laws are. Someone was telling me a story about ...

2. When Is Everyone's Finals/Last Day Of Semester?

   slou! replied to slou!'s topic in Pre-Nursing

   Congratulations to everyone who is done/almost done! And to everyone who isn't I hope we all do well on our upcoming finals! I am so looking forward to having a nice break, but in a way I wish we didn't have one because I'm afraid I am not going to b...

3. When Is Everyone's Finals/Last Day Of Semester?

   slou! posted a topic in Pre-Nursing

   I feel like I am the last one in school! All of my friends are taking finals this week or last, and are either home or going home next week! My sister is coming home Wednesday and my other sister is done on the 15th! I am not done until the 20th! Oh ...

4. Dissecting a sheep's brain?

   slou! replied to Logos's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Thank you so much for posting these! During junior high my school was awesome about giving everyone a choice about dissections from the start. If we didn't want to, there was a computer version to do. High school was kind of a hassle but they let me ...

5. why so mean?

   slou! replied to johnsonprn2's topic in CNA/MA

   Wow, don't complain about being short staffed when you have an attitude like THIS towards new CNAs/students!

6. Dissecting a sheep's brain?

   slou! replied to Logos's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Ugh, I am NOT looking forward to doing this. Not because I don't think I can handle seeing an animals insides or will be grossed out, but I am really against dissection of animals and animal cruelty.. This really sucks!

7. Community College Selection Process-What A Joke!

   slou! replied to Tim1957's topic in California

   "If doctors, like airline pilots, died with their clients they would take a lot more care with the orders they issued." That quote right there reminds me of how I got over my fear of flying! The pilot doesn't want the plane to crash JUST as much as y...

8. Nursing school or become a teacher?

   slou! replied to busylady61's topic in General Nursing

   My friend is a teacher and HATES it. She said she would like to do nursing, but obviously is going to wait it out and make sure a, she really wants to do nursing and b, gives teaching some time. She used to waitress before hand and actually made the ...

9. Excuses for Missing Work

   slou! replied to kmchugh's topic in Humor

   Oh my gosh I don't think I could ever climb over the stall wall, I can barely jump a fence! I work in retail (I'm still a student) and once a girl I worked with called out because her daughter is sick. She has one daughter. No lie, 5 minutes later ...

10. Most RN's first borns?

    slou! replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

    I am the baby of the family, the 3rd born. I am not a nurse yet because I'm still in school. Alcoholism runs in the family. But my family wasn't dysfunctional though. Anyway, me and my sisters are all going to school for jobs in healthcare (Physical ...

11. Our Lady of Lourdes Nursing School

    slou! replied to SerenityR.N.'s topic in New Jersey

    I was this close to going there, but I was offered a really good scholarship at my school so I didn't. But, I heard it is a pretty good program. One of my friends is doing this program.

12. Learning Disabled Students

    slou! replied to dmarie (GA)'s topic in General Nursing

    Wow, I have a learning disability and I am shocked at peoples attitude's of those with learning disabilities! Especially because the term "learning disability" is SO broad. There are so many different kinds of learning disabilities. I have dyslexia. ...

13. Hospital pay for you to become a Nurse?

    slou! replied to jrubbi's topic in Pennsylvania

    Does anyone know if there are hospitals who will pay for your education AFTER you are a registered nurse? Or generally do they have a program and you have to go through it? I'm not looking for example (I still have 3.5 years!) but just wondering if h...

14. Do CNA's Make better RN's? HELP!!

    slou! replied to jdarcy's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I posted something like this about a month ago, and generally the answer was yes, go for it! Not saying that people are aren't CNAs are BAD nurses and not saying they are better, but I just got a lot of answers saying that since you will be above a C...

15. Do you have to write a lot of papers?

    slou! replied to tofutti's topic in General Students

    Well I am only a freshman so I am not in the "nursing school" part yet, but so far I have written 6 papers. And my English professor asked me what my major was and I told her nursing, and she said "Oh you will be writing a TON of papers then!" I don'...