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1. Glucometer Quality documentation

   ken-pin posted a topic in Home Health

   My company recently drafted a glucometer quality control log for in-home checks. It requires the nurse to run a control solution before doing a finger stick when new lots of test strips or a new glucometer is used. The log sheet requires that the VNA...

2. Accelerated bachelor programs?

   ken-pin replied to GT50's topic in Massachusetts

   Summer, To respond to your follow up questions, I took a grad level patho course at MGH Inst. the summer before classes started at Curry. Then I kinda put them on the spot by asking them to take the credits. At first they hemmed and hawed, but I pers...

3. Accelerated bachelor programs?

   ken-pin replied to GT50's topic in Massachusetts

   Hi Summer. Congrats !! Getting into a BSN program is very competitive these days:roll I'm very glad to hear that they started your reading assignments at orientation. I was pretty obsessed with getting A's so I spent alot more time reading the text...

4. Accelerated bachelor programs?

   ken-pin replied to GT50's topic in Massachusetts

   All in all...I was very pleased with Curry's ACCEL program. I was extremely well prepared for the NCLEX....75 questions and I was done. Since graduating, I've worked at MGH and Lahey with new grads from all over the area and I honestly feel that I'm ...

5. Thinking of not accepting my nursing acceptance.

   ken-pin replied to nurse051's topic in General Nursing

   "give us tricker problems and some stuff we have not been told we needed to know how to do" Hmmm, I read the above statement you wrote a couple of times and smiled from ear to ear :) Because ... unless you want to be a Wallmart greeter, just about e...

6. Quick advice

   ken-pin posted a topic in CRNA

   I'm a recent honors BSN grad about to enter the work force. Naturally, I need to get into a crit care unit to get the necessary experience for grad school. My dilema: Today I verbally accepted an offer in a tele unit from a major 500+ bed Level II te...

7. pin ?

   ken-pin replied to ken-pin's topic in Men

   I think I'll pass on the pin and the ceremony. My diploma and nursing license will do very nicely as momentos thank you. Same goes for the Sigma Theta Tau jewelry/accessories, except for a ring..everything's feminine. Now, if they had a nice buck-kni...

8. pin ?

   ken-pin posted a topic in Men

   I'm about to graduate this spring and have to decide whether to buy a school pin or not. Honestly......what % of guys actually wear their pin? Where do they wear it? Am I supposed to go to the pinning ceremony even if I don't order one? That whole j...

9. DOCTORATE as Required Entry Level for Advance Practice Nurses?

   ken-pin replied to VickyRN's topic in Activism

   I see this as a way for hospitals and third party payers to increase advanced degree nurses' role in primary care and push MDs into more specialized work, to cut costs. They can pay the DNSc more than the MSN to give incentive to go for the doctorate...

10. Manditory NCLEX prep courses

    ken-pin replied to ken-pin's topic in General Students

    I'm still fuming. :angryfire After waiting a month to finally recieve an itemized invoice for Fall semester, I learned that my BSN program is charging us over $300 for a three day no-credit NCLEX test prep love fest before spring semester starts. ...

11. Manditory NCLEX prep courses

    ken-pin posted a topic in General Students

    I'm still fuming. :angryfire After waiting a month to finally recieve an itemized invoice for Fall semester, I learned that my BSN program is charging us over $300 for a three day no-credit NCLEX test prep love fest before spring semester starts. ...

12. A Nurse's Lifestyle

    ken-pin replied to Lauren3249's topic in General Nursing

    Lauren wrote So, my question is: as a nurse what kind of lifestyle can you afford? What kind of home do you live in? Honey, let me tell you something. No matter what you do for work, the lifestyle you have, the home you live in and the car you driv...

13. Here's what AAs really think of CRNAs

    ken-pin replied to Athlein1's topic in CRNA

    What a refreshing post....a joy to read! As a future CRNA, hopefully anyways, thanks so much for your keen and sometimes funny insight. It has that beautiful ring of truth to it. -ken

14. Accelerated bachelor programs?

    ken-pin replied to GT50's topic in Massachusetts

    GT-50 I just started in the program at Curry last week as a member of their first ACCEL class. Including me, there's five guys in a class made up of 32 students. As a pre-med major many years ago, I had fortunately already taken all the prerequisi...