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  1. Areas of Nursing where would I work as a new Nurse?

    Sam-- Insert evil laugh. I'll deal with it when I have the experience or knowledge to do so.
  2. Areas of Nursing where would I work as a new Nurse?

    My take on this is likely different than most. I'll be happy to work anywhere I can be useful, and feel I'm doing smth. worthwhile.
  3. Anywhere I can be useful, and feel I'm doing something worthwhile. I've been hither and thither, and almost got to yon, once.
  4. Any difference between TEAS test for LPN and RN?

    There's no difference in the test itself. The only differences are in how schools use the results. All schools, s'far as I've ever heard, require some minimum score; and often, a fairly higher score is needed to get admitted. It's common for an LPN p...
  5. what books are good for Teas study

    Nikki-- Can't address the McGraw, as I haven't seen it or used it. ATI's own Study Guide is an excellent base for the exam--provided, this isn't one's first exposure to A&P, Microbiology, & what's called College Algebra. Use everything in the...
  6. Floating but not hire-able

    Seems to me, to be an available warm breathing body (OK--RN, if you like), to float to a unit in need, does not equate to qualification as a permanent member of such a unit. Or, maybe it's just me.
  7. Online Organic Chemistry

    Strife-- Agree with wish_me_luck (and elkpark's advice, suggestions, should never be overlooked) . . . Organic chemistry on-line? No classroom interaction with instructor & other students? No office hours available? No lab? Likely to be unproduc...
  8. Kudos for working the holidays!

    Rather a long time ago, as a clerk in the Nursing Dept. Office (when such things existed) (largish university hospital); single, unattached to anything or anyone, no pets, etc.; I always volunteered to work holidays. It was wonderful. Volunteering go...
  9. Need help with schedule! Help me!

    Lachell-- In my experience, faced with the choice you pose, I'd say--It hardly matters, at all. Either choice is likely to turn out much the same. But for the substance of things--A&P, properly approached & prepared for, does not really invol...
  10. How I Passed the TEAS Exam

    Rainbowv-- CONGRATULATIONS upon outstanding!! results of your preparation & efforts. (Or, exemplary, if you prefer.) And thank you, from (or for) all of us, for your mind-blowing super-analysis of the depth & breadth of the exam. If only all ...
  11. How many of of you are BLS certified?

    IMHO-- BLS/CPR continues to be watered down by AHA. Perhaps simplification is a good thing, for the general public. For nursing students, EMTs of all stripes, YMCA lifeguards . . wouldn't you want to know what they could teach you, in a day? Oh--you ...
  12. Is taking A& P 1 and general psychology too much?

    Gen Psych--piece of cake, espec. b/c they made me take Developmental Psych. FIRST. (Who can explain this? Not the school. Quien sabe?) A&P, not so much. Still, not bad at all. (But I'd had some exposure, 10 years before, to A&P.)
  13. College Algebra

    pg80-- College algebra could be helpful, but it depends on where you are coming from--i.e., where you've been. Algebra will expose you to several modes of conceptual abstract thinking, which could be broadly, but not necessarily specifically, useful....
  14. Academics or work experience...what counts most?

    kitty-g-- It depends entirely upon your (Nursing) school. The logical school, for where I once worked, had as its only prereqs, certain required courses & GPA. They said they looked at nothing more, nothing else. And, from my observations about w...
  15. Has Anyone Taken Biomedical Ethics?

    x_f-- My impression, from readings on AN, is that the transmission of Biomedical Ethics varies all over the lot. It was a prereq, where I was doing prereqs, so I took it. Doesn't seem to be a prereq where NS starts next month. Where, and when, I took...