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1. Grieving Families...

   wms posted a topic in New Nurse

   Just wanted to get some advice and see how other new nurses handle grieving families and loved ones. I work in a smaller emergency room, Trauma II level with 3 fast trak beds, 12 rooms and 4 trauma rooms. Last week we had three codes in one night, ...

2. Thinking of moving to Clarksville..any advice really appreciated

   wms posted a topic in Tennessee

   Hi!! I am finishing my last year in a BSN program at Goshen College in Indiana, my husband and I have been hearing some great things about clarksville and the opportunities that may be there. Can anyone tell me about them? He works for an Excavating...

3. Should BSNs be paid more?

   wms replied to edcampbe's topic in General Nursing

   I just left a parttime LPN program and have started a full-time BSN program. The reasons for this vary, most importantly is that I want to be a NICU nurse and you have to be a BSN in my area to be hired. The reason that I felt that I had to reply to...

4. PSB Test for the Practical Nursing program

   wms replied to new_mom26's topic in Indiana

   HI, I took the PSB two years ago but I don't think that it has changed much. Focus your math on algebra and math basics. Science was all over the place, like what color does copper change to when it gets wet?-- Green duh. The other portions are Read...

5. Suggestions please!

   wms replied to alexillytom's topic in General Students

   OK, seriously, I know that you are very excited and that you want to jump right in which is awesome BUT- Enjoy your summer, most nursing schools have classes in the summer too, so this might be your last one for a while. I am enjoying my first break...

6. What squicks you out?

   wms replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

   Ok, for me the worst ever has got to be when I was in school and observed a surgery. It was a reverse-colostomy procedure for a guy who had broken a beer bottle up his butt!!! Between the smell from the colostomy and the cauterization I thought I w...

7. Started Volunteering in the ER on Monday

   wms replied to Doug85's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Hey Jhawk- Find out what "escorting services" means (if you don't already know for sure at that particular facility) In the E.R. that I tech. in, we have Pt. liason escorts who have a really cool summer job. They take all of the pt.s from triage to...

8. ER the T.V. Show

   wms replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

   I love E.R. the tv show, I love Trauma, Life in the ER, and I love the ER that I work in. And one of my new fav's that is always Tivo'd is HOUSE! House, is soo interesting and I have actually looked up some of the more esoteric diseases that he com...

9. Do you get nervous before going to clinical?

   wms replied to Catys_With_Me's topic in General Students

10. Anyone familiar with St. Joseph's or Memorial?

    wms replied to Nellie Nurse's topic in Indiana

    Well, I could be wrong, but I know that both my mother and her best-friend have both told me that Mem. is on a hiring freeze. My mom's friend is the computer trainer for every employee in the hospital who ever would have access to a computer, so she...

11. Anyone familiar with St. Joseph's or Memorial?

    wms replied to Nellie Nurse's topic in Indiana

    Hi Nellie, I actually can tell you alot about both hospitals. I live in the area, work in another area hospital, and my mom has been a NICU nurse at Memorial for 36 yrs. She loves it, it is my goal to eventually get into Memorial. At the hospital I...

12. Computer Charting -- Do you like it or hate it?

    wms replied to live4today's topic in General Nursing

    We just changed to the EMR charting, lots of problems. Hopefully most of them will iron out, in the meantime we are dbl. charting, computer and paper. UGH. Plus, one of the most common probs. we have is with the nurses and the unit secretaries rec...

13. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    wms replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    You know you are a mom in nursing school when.. You assess your baby's diaper for color, size and consistency You have a "no blood, no foul" rule for every arguement between your two and four yr olds. When said two and four yr olds are bored, you giv...

14. I Passed Boards!!!!!

    wms replied to JB CC-RN's topic in General Students

    Congratulations! Way to Go, you should shout it to the world! I'm hoping to in 1 1/2 yrs!! :balloons: :biggringi

15. Do Any of You Have Kids?

    wms replied to cdietrich404's topic in General Students

    Yep, I've got kids!! Two great little toddlers, my sons 4 and my daughter is 2. I stay home during the day, go to class and clinicals from 6-9p during the week and on the weekends I work in the ER from 8p-4a. So trust me I know with a lot of help fr...