Ginyer

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1. the caribbean

   Ginyer posted a topic in International

   My husband and I are moving to St. Maarten in the Caribbean for him to go to med school soon and I was looking into going through a travel company to work there. I read the thread about the virgin islands and I have a feeling it would be about the s...

2. 75 questions & passed...types of ?'s I had

   Ginyer posted a topic in NCLEX

   I was freaking out when I took my test... I had mostly questions with the word priority in them ... such as which patient do you see first, with a patient with this diagnosis which symptom would be a priority to look further into... I had lower lev...

3. Nclex results?? what does "delivery successful" mean?

   Ginyer replied to tinacolada305's topic in LPN/LVN

   Well reading your post totally calmed me.... I was freaking out because my state board web site was still showing the expiration date of my temp license and some students that passed had their names show up on the state board website earlier than the...

4. new orleans nursing students

   Ginyer replied to Ginyer's topic in General Nursing

   Jen the last I heard was that we have no available real estate here; however, my roommate has family who found an apartment a couple of days ago and I also have heard of people who are still finding houses to buy...most apartments and rental houses a...

5. Education One Loan from BankOne

   Ginyer replied to rhapsodyRN's topic in General Students

   There are multiple students in my class who have had serious problems with that particular loan thru Bank One. Im in the same boat you are with our tuition cost at 3500 a semester before fees and books and supplies. The best loan that I have found...

6. new orleans nursing students

   Ginyer posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm sorry if a thread like this has already been done. I live in Baton Rouge (60 miles west of N.O.) and just got power back and internet up. The schools here are starting back tomorrow so we just had to skip one week of clinical. The director of ...

7. Peds clinicals

   Ginyer replied to Ginyer's topic in General Students

   Hi guys, thanks for all the advice. Our instructors gave us a lot of those same tips so they must help. I'm really looking forward to these clinicals. I'm a little terrified, but hopefully everything will go smoothly. I have psych clinicals the s...

8. ? on wearing uniforms

   Ginyer replied to DBev93's topic in General Students

   We wear scrubs during clinicals only thank goodness. We do have a dress code in class but just the basics, no short shorts or short skirts...nothing that shows your stomach

9. Peds clinicals

   Ginyer posted a topic in General Students

   I start my clinicals in peds next week and was looking for any advice that may be helpful with these little patients. We're learning the basics of communicating with them and their families and the differences in skills and procedures compared to t...

10. anyone have zcoil shoes?

    Ginyer replied to kats's topic in General Students

    On the General nursing board there is a post about shoes and a lot of people talked about their z-coils. More nurses had negative comments than positive because of tripping, sprained ankles and getting them hooked on wires and tubes and other things...

11. fellow nurse techs

    Ginyer posted a topic in General Students

    I was just offered a job as a nurse tech in PACU yesterday so I'm pretty excited. They told me that since I'm in recovery and the patients are sleeping I'll get to utilize a lot more of my skills in this department. He said I'll start IV's, hang fl...

12. First clinicals--how was it?

    Ginyer replied to veggiegarden's topic in General Students

    School started Jan 5 or something, clinicals started middle of March. From now on we'll have a week or two of class each semester before clinicals start. So we had quite some time.

13. How much of a time commitment??

    Ginyer replied to labcat01's topic in General Students

    First let me start by saying that more than half of the people in my class have children, mostly young children. Some classmates have 3 to 5. So it's definately possible. Every school is pretty different as far as schedules go, class time and clin...

14. Did you get in on your 1st application?

    Ginyer replied to gentlemother's topic in General Students

    Hey, ok I took my prereq's at LSU and the Lake as well. I never applied at the Lake because I had so many problems with the school that I decided I didn't want to go to nursing school there. I'm currently at the General which was the best decision...

15. Did you get in on your 1st application?

    Ginyer replied to gentlemother's topic in General Students

    What school(s) are you applying to? Ginyer