carmen7

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1. Should I quit my job before nursing school?

   carmen7 replied to TrinaCNA's topic in General Nursing

   During nursing school I worked about 16-20 hours per week. Nursing school is very demanding and it was difficult to juggle both at the same time. I also know people who worked, had one or two kids AND went to nursing school. Although it was very dema...

2. CRNE feb 2009

   carmen7 replied to ol221's topic in CRNE

   Congratulations Bullkin!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats awesome. I also live in Ontario and am waiting for my results. They are being mailed to the parents house so I have to wait till they get off work to check the mail and see if they are in. I hope so....I cant...

3. CRNE feb 2009

   carmen7 replied to ol221's topic in CRNE

   I think the reason that the person may want to know the pass score for the exam is because it can help to gauge the difficulty of the exam that we wrote in comparison to past exams. Ie/ in the past the pass score has been 146; if the pass score for t...

4. IV piggyback question

   carmen7 replied to carmen7's topic in New Nurse

   Thanks for the info. This has helped to clear things up for me :)

5. IV piggyback question

   carmen7 replied to carmen7's topic in New Nurse

   The patient had a saline lok that was only accessed to administer the IV antibiotics. So what I understand from your answer is that piggy back would not be necessary?

6. IV piggyback question

   carmen7 posted a topic in New Nurse

   Hi, I just started working on a medical/nephrology unit. One of my patients had a NS lok and also had two IV antibiotics ordered during the course of the day. Looking at the pump I realized that the nurses had been running the cipro through a primary...

7. CRNE feb 2009

   carmen7 replied to ol221's topic in CRNE

   I am also waiting for my results in Ontario. Looking at past threads it seems that us lucky people from Ontario tend to get our results last...usually a week to ten days after those west of us. I would probably expect to see them early next week. To...

8. CRNE feb 2009

   carmen7 replied to ol221's topic in CRNE

   I also wrote the exam earlier this month. I left the exam feeling unsure as to how I did. For a lot of the questions I could narrow it down to two answers and then had to make an educated guess. Now, as I wait for the result I am starting to work at ...

9. Crne feb 2009 exam

   carmen7 replied to Ymanuel's topic in International

   Hi everyone, I just wrote the CRNE a few days ago and is wondering how everyone felt about the exam. Personally, I dont know what to think, and have no idea how I did. I don't feel like I bombed it but I dont feel like I aced it either. On a lot of t...