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1. help me understand early signs of emphysema

   21police posted a topic in Pulmonary

   a family member thinks she may have it and is going through the testing now. She is 29 and just had a baby. She has been smoking for 19 years now and is calling her doc on Monday. She quit again 3 days ago again. I hope this is it for her. Regardles...

2. how is MPI in Malden for the LPN Program

   21police replied to mlg8's topic in Massachusetts

   You can still go, they have numerous start times throughout the year now. It was a problem for the students with kids, I don't have children yet which is why it wasn't a problem for me. But again just something else to consider is all. The cost of th...

3. how is MPI in Malden for the LPN Program

   21police replied to mlg8's topic in Massachusetts

   herein lies the problem they will tell you one thing and then change it last minute, if you have the flexiblity like I do then no problem. For the majority of the year we had class at night and clinical during the days on thur, fri but we did have on...

4. how is MPI in Malden for the LPN Program

   21police replied to mlg8's topic in Massachusetts

   I am currently in this program I only have 8 more weeks. I am not a huge fan of some of the teachers or the director of the program. This is not to say the program is a complete sham. There are some amazing teachers still there and part of your educa...

5. Clincals coming up for my pysch rotation

   21police replied to 21police's topic in Psychiatric

   Thanks everyone!!!! And DaveyDo I've done that with dementia pts just on the advice of my instructor and was able to calm down and befriend many a pt this way. I do try and orient during the conversation, but listening and asking open ended questions...

6. Clincals coming up for my pysch rotation

   21police posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Hi All!!!! I have my psych rotation coming up next week, I was looking for advice for it. Any reading I can do in the meantime, articles and such. All I have is my nursing book. I'm so excited for this clinical I really really want to go into pediat...

7. LPN school questions

   21police replied to 21police's topic in General Students

   On top of all the other stressors I have going on right now I am 2000.00 short for the rest of the year. I have federal loans in place but it will only cover so much of the tuition the remainder was 3000.00 I have managed to pay of a bit of it. I hav...

8. LPN school questions

   21police posted a topic in General Students

   I am currently in LPN school, and am doing very well straight A's woohoo!!!! I have a few questions about it, I'm in my second of 3 semesters, almost done yay! But we're just now finding out that we won't have a maternity rotation. Which is quite ups...

9. heart fluttering

   21police replied to 21police's topic in General Nursing

   not a problem I didn't see that, but thank you :) I guess I should actually read the TOS, as you can tell I usually don't lol

10. heart fluttering

    21police replied to 21police's topic in General Nursing

    oh and I've made an appt with PCP but it won't be until the 29th

11. heart fluttering

    21police posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was wondering what you wonderful nurses would do, I am having irregular heart rate with a flutter and chest pain, as well as shortness of breath. This has happened on and off for about 2 weeks now. Last week I went to my local ER they took an EKG a...

12. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    21police replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

    i'm just in nursing school so i feel wierd posting this, but there is a certain form of psoriasis that can absolutly produce these same symptoms and its extremely deadly its called erythrodermic psoriasis below is a description. erythrodermic eryt...

13. LPN to RN BSN advice

    21police replied to 21police's topic in LPN-RN

    Thanks so much for the reply! I am not pregnant now, but right after LPN school we would like to start trying, as of right now we have an ok support system. Immediatly after LPN school I would like to find a job then just start working on my pre-reqs...

14. BSN vs. MSN in Boston?

    21police posted a topic in Massachusetts

    I'm currently in LPN school, I will be finished in Dec. I would love to go on to become an RN. I'm wondering for what I want to do, which would be a better option, I would love to teach CNA's or LPN's PT at one point or another and I would love to go...

15. LPN to RN BSN advice

    21police posted a topic in LPN-RN

    I'm a SPN currently and finish in January, yay! I want to continue my education afterwards possibly for an MSN or BSN. I guess I was wondering how difficult it would be to do either with a new baby? Also how much more difficult are the classes, I've ...