jcarew

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1. Indiana towns and cities

   jcarew replied to DRenfro's topic in Indiana

   Hi, I have lived in Indianapolis all my life. The best areas are the outer suburbs especially Carmel, Fishers, hendricks County (newly built up) or south to greenwood and southport. The best schools are up north though in Hancock county (Fishers an...

2. patient satisfaction

   jcarew replied to RNLex's topic in Emergency

   :chuckle :chuckle I had to laugh...sorry. I work in a large private catholic hospital in a good area of my city. Translation - money talks. If you pm i will tell you the exact location. Its an awesome place to work. Before I started nursing scho...

3. After I graduate can I start right off in the ER?

   jcarew replied to sphz9471's topic in Emergency

   Hello, I am a SNE in the ER. I will graduate May of 07. I really am hooked on ER. Now that I have read these posts though I am beginning to wonder if I should stay until graduation. What is your advice? Should I stay and get a year as a SNE in E...

4. patient satisfaction

   jcarew replied to RNLex's topic in Emergency

   Hi, New SNE in ER. Our hospital is trying to get Magnet status so there is a big push to overstaff nurses. I worked last Monday and for about half of the day we had 0-1 patients. Also, the docs see the patient within 30 minutes of getting a room. ...

5. ? for current nursing students

   jcarew replied to FNPhopeful's topic in General Students

   Hi, I am a nursing student in Indiana at a community college. There are 70 of us total. Therefore, we had no choice of class time or clinical time. We were told there would be no acceptions. I think if your school is bigger and there are more off...

6. Returning To school at 44?

   jcarew replied to creekside10's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Hi and welcome, I am a second year ASN student and will turn 40 this year. I have a 16 year old disabled son and daughters 13 and 8. Oh and I am divorced. Trust me, you can do it. There are alot of us older nursing students out there. Just remem...

7. Magnet Hospital?

   jcarew replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, The hospital I work at is moving towards Magnet status. They call it nursing at a higher level. I don't know all the specifics, but it has to do mostly with nursing. For example, a magnet hospital has a RN for every patient (no lpns or lpn is ...

8. I didn't get all this education to wipe behinds!

   jcarew replied to SeekingNur's topic in General Nursing

   Just wanted to add something to my last post. In our hospital (and many magnet hospitals) the nurse to patient ratio is low. Yesterday in the ER we had 4 rooms assigned to us and at any on time we only had 2 patients. The most I seen any nurse hav...

9. Best hospital dept. for a nurse assistant / student?

   jcarew replied to babybusterbrown's topic in Career Support

   Hi, I just started as a student nurse extern in the ER. I believe that ICU or ER would be the best depts. These two have a variety of patients. Especially ER, from colds, MI, car accidents, to cancer. I am hoping the wide variety will prepare me ...

10. I didn't get all this education to wipe behinds!

    jcarew replied to SeekingNur's topic in General Nursing

    Hello, I am a student nurse extern and know that we have to wipe butts sometimes. However, we should realize that the current flow is to the magnet status hospitals. For example our school is weeding out LPN program because most of our hospitals wi...

11. NET test advice?

    jcarew replied to Worthless_Nut's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Hi, I took the NET 3 years ago. Know your percentages and fractions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read as many technical medical books and get used to the terms and style. That is my best advice. I took the test without knowing and didn't know what to...

12. What Nursing school are you in? Show your pride!

    jcarew replied to straba's topic in General Students

    HI, Ivy Tech Indy w00t w00t!!!

13. What is "scrubbing" what is "circulating"

    jcarew replied to Darth Nightingale's topic in Operating Room

    HI, Here is a simple answer. The scrub nurse is sterile and assists the surgeon with all items and duties that require sterile hands. The circulating nurse is not sterile. So all duties once the surgery has started that require non-sterilie hands ...

14. Someone tell me its OK to have a 3.5GPA instead of a 4.0

    jcarew replied to onehusbandsevenkids's topic in General Students

    Hi, When we did our orientation for nursing school, we were told to give up on the 4.0. Our grading scale is also 93-100 and no one gets an A on every test. Some tests only have 0-1 people getting an A out of the whole class. My advice is give up ...

15. I'm 42 and I'm new here !!

    jcarew replied to Rine's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Hi, Welcome! I am 39 years old and a second year ASN student. I understand the feeling. I started a summer externship and only 3 out of 33 of us were over 25. I have found though that the younger nurses were good kids and had no trouble after a s...