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1. Should I take a job in Nursing home

   piquant replied to Sanhect1's topic in Geriatric

   I had 3 days orientation in an LTC setting too and it was a nightmare on my first day on my own. But I got through it just fine, after a couple of weeks bombarding my coworkers with lots of questions and getting to know the patients and their usual c...

2. advice on first time acute care travel experience please!

   piquant replied to stellabear's topic in Travel

   Wow! Thats what im worried about my SNF experience too...there's really more action going on in an acute care setting and to adjust from a sub to acute can be nervewracking. I would suggest for you to stick it out. A med surg experience will land you...

3. Leaving my LTC job

   piquant replied to CalidreamerRN's topic in Professionalism

   How long did you last? Haha! I was in the same position too and two weeks into it I was dreading every day I had to come to work..it was thaaat bad but lo and behold...I stuck it out and I was fine...I got used to all the issues around. I can name a ...

4. Dealing with well-meaning but stupid questions?

   piquant replied to feelslikefire's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I took biology as my first course and back then people would say why not nursing? like if you don't make it to med school then you have a good career to fall back on? well...i didnt push through with a med degree and took nursing as my second course ...

5. No one wants to hire a entry level nurse in Nevada, what should I do?

   piquant replied to sheenmarie26's topic in Job Hunt

   Hi sheenmarie! I feel your pain! Here in cali, the minimum reqt is usually one yr to 2yrs acute experience. There are new grad programs but I believe you need to be a fresh grad or at least 1yr since you were in school to get in. Competition is very ...

6. Employment process at The Medical City (Ortigas Ave.)

   piquant replied to gfunk_107's topic in Philippines

   hello! has anyone ever tried calling them to ask for the psyche results? I remember when we had pur psyche exam that the results are going to come out a week later. It's been 5months already. any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

7. The Medical City

   piquant replied to *EosinophiL*'s topic in Philippines

   I took the exam same day as yours, November 6. I haven't received any call or text. I tried to call them once and they can't say whether I passed or not. They just asked me to wait for their text. I am tempted to check with them personally. The wait ...

8. Filipino Nurses who passed the NCLEX without the help of Review Center

   piquant replied to nursemich's topic in Philippines

   1. What are the materials that you used? Saunders Nclex 2. How many hours per day did you study? how many questions did u answer per day? 12 hours. With many breaks in between. 3. How many days or months in total you studied before taking the exam? ...

9. The Medical City

   piquant replied to *EosinophiL*'s topic in Philippines

   What about those who took the psych exam Nov 6 2010. Has anybody received a call or text that they made it to the next step? Can someone give us feedback please? Thanks!!

10. The Medical City

    piquant replied to *EosinophiL*'s topic in Philippines

    i took the psych exam Nov 6 and I never received a call or a text from them. Does that mean that I failed?

11. The Medical City

    piquant replied to *EosinophiL*'s topic in Philippines

    i still have not received any text from Medical City regarding the results of the psych exam last Nov 6. any feedback? thanks!

12. Lung Center of the Philippines: Basic Skills Training

    piquant replied to prongs's topic in Philippines

    Minimum of 1. Maximum of 5. But in some 'benign' wards, you can have as much as 7patients. It's easy if you have all your patients in one room but more often than not, they're in several rooms. Each ward only has 2 or 3 sets of BP app,Stet and Pulse ...

13. Lung Center of the Philippines: Basic Skills Training

    piquant replied to prongs's topic in Philippines

    The nice thing about LCP is that you are basically hands-on with the patients, you can do IV insertion, vital signs, meds, IV fluid regulation, cleaning the chest tube sites, changing CTT bottles, etc. Didactic part is mostly about Respiratory Syst...

14. When will i practice my profession???

    piquant replied to glassdollvn's topic in International

    i've been asking myself the same question. it's been a year since I graduated and until now I haven't had any training/volunteer experience yet (on May I will be on BST)..then after that I'm thinking what's next. the cycle just goes on. maybe we need...

15. Victor R. Potenciano Medical Center (Polymedic)

    piquant replied to tron22's topic in International

    those who have gone through the hiring process/training...the works..please update us...does it really take that long for them to contact their applicants for exam or interview? thanks