you take a specialty track in school, but the state (of Texas anyway) only recognizes that specialty if you pass the specialty certification exam :) If you want additional specialties, then you go back for more school and take more cert exams
Technotart replied to Boink's topic in Pre-Nursing
If only kkx81 would respond as to what they are using to get it to type I would then believe he/she isn't bluffing. If there was any easy way to do this, I would have figured it out! The speech to text ware available to most of us does not do medic...
Hey now - Dallas has Parkland, UT Southwestern, OT & PT Schools, and whole host of other places! Houston is not on the exclusive list ya know! We may not have MD Anderson, but there are PLENTY of great clinical sites in Dallas!
Technotart replied to Boink's topic in Pre-Nursing
You cant get dragon to type your notes unless you can take dragon in on your laptop and have your prof do a 15 min training session with the software - and even then - when you take into account all the noise and stuff - it just doesnt work well. Dra...
I have ordered multiple items from allheart - including a very expensive diagnostic set, uniforms, shoes, a littman.... Never a problem with any order over the years, great customer service - and the prices on their Welch-Allyn even beat the WA manuf...
AT every interview I have ever been to they have GIVEN you a calculator to do the test!!!!!!!!! In a nursing unit you are EXPECTED, and need, to keep a calculator in your pocket!
You mentioned an interest in teaching - what a VALUABLE and INSIGHTFUL experience for you as you move forward to teach new nurses in the future. It stinks you had to go through it the way you did - similar things happened to me in my first two jobs r...
That and most NP programs require 2 years of FULLTIME nursing experience in order to be considered for admission. Math: 36 hours a week x 52 weeks a year x 2 years = 3744 clinical hours Most PA's actually have some background such as EMT or medic or...
Technotart replied to VANCIALA's topic in New Nurse
Not ALL of them are actually listed - UT Arlington doesn't appear in several places for instance, and I suspect a few others. For the lastest list, check with the BNE in your state.
http://www.burrpatt.com/NursingPins/nursingpins.asp and you could call jostens or balfour or art carved too - they do that kinda stuff - they just don't really advertise it. Unless they have previously done pins for your school it's unlikely you coul...
Technotart replied to BeenThereDoneThat74's topic in General Nursing
The funny thing - you KNOW these patients have these infections!! This is an opportunity to protect yourself! The patients who dont have them - might have something and you just dont know it yet - to me the risk there is far greater. We don't delib...