msdeannah

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1. Salary for Homecare RN

   msdeannah replied to RNratched's topic in North Carolina

   can anyone else recommend any home care agencies? And are they all paying per visit in NC? This is different for me. I'll be moving from CT and I'm paid hourly.

2. ADN Rn relocating to Charlotte area from NY

   msdeannah replied to klaloan's topic in North Carolina

   Ok here is a question. I am a RN thinking of relocating from Connecticut. I have 2 years hospital experience and 1 year home care (which I love) My question is what realistic salary can I expect. I make 32.50 an hour in home care and when I left the ...

3. First semester in CT Community College program

   msdeannah replied to jrinct's topic in Connecticut

   Matt Just finished the second semester and let me tell you the OB content is ridiculous. Our first lecture alone had 218 slides and that was just on pregnancy. When you combine pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum I believe we had over 1000 slides a...

4. BHSN-Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing Fall 2011

   msdeannah replied to BA_anthropology's topic in Connecticut

   no I actually decided on capital. I'm in my second semester. Capital was closer and they gave me a scholarship so it was the better choice for me. Congrats to you ladybug on getting in.

5. BHSN-Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing Fall 2011

   msdeannah replied to BA_anthropology's topic in Connecticut

   Hi wannabe. It took them along time to send out notifications to some people last year. Thats just the way they do things I guess. Some people had gotten notice that they got in, waitlisted, or rejected long before I got my acceptance. I was ac...

6. Ready to Apply CT Community Colleges- Nursing Program 2010

   msdeannah replied to orourkco's topic in Connecticut

   If I am not mistaken the waitlist is program wide. When your number comes up you may be offered a spot at whatever school has an opening. Thats what we were told last year anyway. Maybe things have changed... Congrats to everyone who got in... Ca...

7. BHSN-Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing Fall 2011

   msdeannah replied to BA_anthropology's topic in Connecticut

   Oh yeah. I tried the livescribe pen. I got tons of feedback and the recording quality was very poor. I do have a rather large class and we are in an auditorium so that may have contributed to the poor quality. In the end I traded it in for a 50.00...

8. BHSN-Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing Fall 2011

   msdeannah replied to BA_anthropology's topic in Connecticut

   Hi I'm in my second semester at Capital and we have clinicals tuesday and wednesdays from 7-1:30pm. So I don't think you will be getting twice as much clinical time as the CC. We start of in the lab for the first couple of weeks but then we are in ...

9. You know you're in nursing school when....

   msdeannah replied to Valasca's topic in General Students

   you know you're in nursing school when..... in one week you can pass a med calc exam, foley validation, iv validation, and take the first exam which covered at least 200 pages of labor and delivery. Right before you try to relax... your remember abo...

10. Please Share Your 5 Most Effective Study Strategies

    msdeannah replied to jd2nurse's topic in General Students

    1. Flashcards are huge. You can't critical think if you don't know concepts and terms. I use Iflipr and put the flashcards on my ipod touch and take theme everywhere. 2. Study groups. Small works better for me. One of my instructors put it great....

11. You know you're a student nurse when...

    msdeannah replied to knittingmonster's topic in General Students

    Mine is risk for impaired skin integrity r/t excessive time spent in one spot studying.

12. Careplan for....

    msdeannah replied to CrunchyMama's topic in General Students

    activity intolerance???

13. family is too grossed out to hear about my clinicals

    msdeannah posted a topic in General Students

    Ok is it just me? When I go home from clinicals all I wanna do is talk about the new stuff I learned. My family and friends now just refuse to listen to me. I'm totally excited to say I saw a the insertion of a ng tube, or a patient with a stoma a...

14. only in nursing school

    msdeannah replied to fiveofpeep's topic in General Students

    Only in nursing school can your clinical instructor show up 1 hour and twenty minutes late and 1. we wait for instead of leaving 2. we call her at home and woke her up 3. have her make us stay 1 hour and twenty minutes late to make sure we actually ...

15. Can nurses have piercings?

    msdeannah replied to toninz's topic in General Students

    I don't believe the point of this post was for anyone to voice their personal oppinion about someone's choices to have a piercing. My school has a no piercing policy. Just 1 pair of studs and wedding rings. My tongue piercing is still pretty new s...