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1. Palliative Care Specialty Questions

   skinnedknees posted a topic in Hospice

   Hi, Is there a difference between palliative care nursing and hospice care nursing? Can anyone point me in the direction of online certification/specialty programs? I did some research into certs., but found it rather confusing. It seemed to me that ...

2. Interveiw Questions for Internship? Help!

   skinnedknees replied to skinnedknees's topic in New Nurse

   thanks sbryramrn. what types of insight questions did they ask? can you give me an example or two? i'm going to spend some time digging around online to see what i can find for prep. i haven't interveiwed for a job in over a decade! lol! (been ...

3. Interveiw Questions for Internship? Help!

   skinnedknees posted a topic in New Nurse

   i'm going to be interveiwing soon for an acute care rn internship with a local hospital. i will be a new grad when the internship starts in june. i interveiw before a panal. i'm terrified! the director of nursing at my college told me that they will...

4. Stethoscope Earpiece Amplifiers?

   skinnedknees replied to skinnedknees's topic in General Nursing

   I have/use a Littmann.

5. Stethoscope Earpiece Amplifiers?

   skinnedknees posted a topic in General Nursing

   i've been told that earpiece amplifiers exisit, but i can't find them. the only thing that i've seen are entire stethoscope sytems between $300-400. i sometimes have trouble hearing the first beat in bps and was told that these might help. any sugg...

6. Things you would LOVE to say to your nursing instructors...

   skinnedknees replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in General Students

   Please treat me fairly and with respect. Remember: I PAY YOUR SALARY! I wonder if the "nursing shortage" is actually caused from the student level? Plastic Faux-people don't come close to the real thing...no matter how many thousands of dollars the...

7. First time clinicals question!

   skinnedknees replied to EnkeliRN's topic in General Students

   i'm in a two-year rn program that i just started last fall (07). the first quarter of the program we had clinicals in a ltc facility. we were each responsible for total care of a patient each week. in addition to the basic cna dudites we also trie...

8. different reasons for why we are not allowed to wear scrubs

   skinnedknees replied to jov's topic in General Students

   we have to wear white scrub sets that cost $75 a set!!!! they are ordered with our school patches from dove apparal. they are very stiff and square (unisex). i feel like a fridgedair! the faculty did research and cited that patients have more co...

9. Healthy women schedule C-sections to prevent vaginal stretching

   skinnedknees replied to rph3664's topic in Ob/Gyn

   my take on this is that there are two lives involved in the process, not just mom. this topic has concerned me for a long time. i even wrote an ethics research paper on the subject. i'm a nursing student, but one of my prime areas of interest is wom...

10. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

    skinnedknees replied to Brian's topic in Relations

    hi, i just finished my first quarter of a nursing program. every instructor that i've had has stated in class that nurses eat their young. i'd never heard of that before. it didn't seem congruent with the nature of the profession, but if they tell...

11. Discouraged in clinical

    skinnedknees replied to ally21's topic in General Students

    omg that is so not ok! i hate how nurses eat their young before they even take the boards! there was a woman that i go to school with that had a similar problem. she ended up meeting with the instructor in her office. i spoke with the student abou...

12. What if you have a bachelor's degree in another discipline and are getting a ADN?

    skinnedknees replied to AZO49008's topic in ADN/BSN

    i have a b.a in english/education and am in an "adn" program however to get my bsn all i need to do is take a couple more classes (statistics, nutrition, organic chem). we live in a small community and one of the state universities offers a distance...

13. What will you do the day AFTER finals???

    skinnedknees replied to krenee's topic in General Students

    clean my house

14. Finals! (Help!!)

    skinnedknees replied to southernbelle08's topic in General Students

    i guess it would depend if the final was comprehensive and if your instructors gave you test focuses. sleep & study your notes!! i had a comprehensive theory final yesterday morning including a crash course in pharm. & med. math (i'm horr...

15. How many hours a week do you study/prep?

    skinnedknees replied to xoyw01's topic in General Students

    hi! the school i attend has pretty high grading standards. an 80% is passing; 79% is not. another student in the program was dismissed from the entire program after her first quarter for earning a 79.4% in her theory class. i just finsihed my firs...