mjvarno

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1. Please help I really need advice don't judge please

   mjvarno replied to NichelleNurse2b's topic in Washington

   Hello and good luck in applying to schools. I graduated from UW last June and when talking to other students of cc programs Ive come to the conclusion that UWs program isnt as difficult. The staff have great attitudes and are very helpful and they ...

2. New Grad Jobs ?!

   mjvarno replied to jmking's topic in Washington

   What about all the other hospitals, is there a reason you didnt contact, UW, Harborview, Overlake, VM, and Swedish Cherry Hill - Ballard - or First Hill?

3. Requirments for graduate nursing increasing?

   mjvarno replied to pdaddy's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, actually in my state (WA) The public universities are only offering a Masters in Public Health and Psych nursing. Everything else you need a PhD to be a NP. They also said that the rest of the country was going to follow suit by 2012. So if...

4. Accelerated BSN Program That Accepts 3.0 in Last 60 Hours

   mjvarno replied to GaMommy81's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Check out AZ State, North AZ State

5. Hyperventilation

   mjvarno replied to LuvScrubs2's topic in Student Assist

   Hyperventilating causes the blood pH to go up. High pH reduces the level of available Ca in the blood. Hypocalcemia causes Trousseau's or better known as carpopedal spasms.

6. Hypertonic Solutions

   mjvarno replied to His_girl's topic in General Students

   you give hypertonic sol. to Pts with edema or CHF

7. Uw & Wsu Bsn Applicants 2009

   mjvarno replied to 2bcurious's topic in Washington

   when I applied 2 years ago there was 354 applicants and 90 were accepted at UW, there were 350 applicants at BCC and they took 40. All of the programs in this area have this many applicants. Just call the schools and ask how many applied last year...

8. Is this normal ??????

   mjvarno replied to Joebrown's topic in New Nurse

   Ive been out of school 6 months and I dont feel like a nurse either. I know itll come in time, but there are times when I just sit back at work and think "How did this happen?"

9. Anyone else start in tele?

   mjvarno replied to MOGA's topic in Cardiac

   I started as a new grad 6 mo ago on a tele unit, and I LOVE it. Before I started I did by an EKG Made Easy book to get the basics and I reread the cardiac chapters in some of my school books just to refresh. It helped alot, I felt I had an edge on ...

10. Uw & Wsu Bsn Applicants 2009

    mjvarno replied to 2bcurious's topic in Washington

    UW looks for leadership qualities, they arent particular in what, just show them that youve taken the initiative in a project. Also, UW doesnt do interviews, if you make it past the app process there's a proctored essay. Honestly though, all of the...

11. Private nursing schools anyone ?

    mjvarno replied to Shar81's topic in Washington

    Hello I moved here also after completing some of my prereqs out of state (AZ). When I was looking into nursing programs I looked at them all ADN, private, and UW. What I found was that all of the programs are competitive. Private (Seattle Pacific,...

12. Not Sure?!?!?!

    mjvarno replied to Nothing2nurse's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Dont feel bad, I wasnt a very good student in high school. Lucky to get C's, but I found that when I took nursing classes (something that interested me) my grades improved dramatically. My advice is to find out what its going to take to get into th...

13. 41 and going into NURSING? HELP

    mjvarno replied to lasalp's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Youre 41 not 101. You will still work 20+ years by the time you graduate. I went back to school at 36 and am now a new RN at 41. I can only promise you one thing....if you do this.... you wont ever regret it.

14. Maricopa community colleges-full time job-Which program to do?

    mjvarno replied to NUR151's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Hello I used to live in AZ and was planning on applying to nursing programs there. Since, I've moved to a different state and finished nursing school. As I recall they had it set up that you filled out one application for all the community colleges...

15. 1st Job in Nursing Questions

    mjvarno replied to nurse.t's topic in New Nurse

    Hello, It sounds like you were working for a really bad facility. Please dont make a decision about your career on your experiences on one job. There are plenty of good facilities out there that you would probably be happy with. Also, kudos to you...