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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...