TheNewDino

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1. Parents as Scholars or Aspire ???

   TheNewDino posted a topic in Maine

   has anyone or is anyone using help from the Parents as Scholars program or anything like that? i need some more info on it. i'd like to go back to school, i was gonna wait until my daughter was in school becuase i can't aford daycare, but if i can d...

2. Gonna be a mom, HELP!

   TheNewDino posted a topic in General Students

   i have a million questions, here's my story; ok so i have a problem. this morning i used first response and found out i was pregnant (or at least there's a 99% chance that i am). i had suspected something was up: maybe since i've been ultra hungr...

3. Scrub pants with longer inseam

   TheNewDino replied to TheNewDino's topic in General Nursing

   I think large might be too big, i'm averaged sized (5'8" 140lbs) but thanks for all the advice

4. Scrub pants with longer inseam

   TheNewDino posted a topic in General Nursing

   maybe i'm picky , but i'd like to be comfortable i'm used to wearing 34-35" lowrise bootcut jeans or pj pants, but i'll obviously have to switch to scrubs for nursing. for clinicals (sat & sundays) while in school i need white scrubs, i got so ...

5. Jobs While Student!!!!!!

   TheNewDino replied to Blue_eyes's topic in Pre-Nursing

   eh, i thought our alfredo sucked. i hardly ever did the sauce station, so i don't remember, plus it's been about 6 months since i worked there. all can tell you is lots and lots of butter and heavy cream

6. Jobs While Student!!!!!!

   TheNewDino replied to Blue_eyes's topic in Pre-Nursing

   well my job isn't horrible but it makes you and your car smell - guess i'm not pimpin lol. i'm a line cook and have been working in kitchens for 3 years - i think it was worse when i worked at the olive garden (garlic), it's not so much from eating ...

7. Skilled Nursing (LTC)

   TheNewDino replied to nurseangel78's topic in General Nursing

   i'm confused. i recently started a cna class and i was told if a resident refuses treatment (of any sort), legally you have to respect their wishes, and that missing one shower isn't gonna kill them cuase it's not like their rolling in dirt, lol. a...

8. Study Tips

   TheNewDino posted a topic in General Students

   Okay so my first class went great, turns out it was only orientation with a little intro lecture and video on additions and vitals - yay no quiz . The classes aren't as long as I was told and it's only in 10 weeks, I'm going to be working as a CNA...

9. medical insurance

   TheNewDino replied to button2cute's topic in General Nursing

   i don't have insurance. i was off my fathers at 19 and didn't get any until this january but it took out nearly 40 a week and i quit my job, haven't had insurance since. won't until i start work after school as a cna. and i don't quilify for medica...

10. Tattoos and nursing

    TheNewDino replied to PrincessJessica's topic in General Nursing

    probably becuase most of us - if not all, went to someplace clean and reputable. i've got 4 tattoos, none of them inapropriate, and i'm training to be a cna at a facility where you're aloud to show them - one of the cna's, i was told, as two full a...

11. PDAs

    TheNewDino replied to sanrionjb's topic in Post Graduate

    I have the dell axim 50 and i guess you could call it a recording software. there isn't a specific program for it, but if you go into notepad you can make a recording that saves on it there. mine stoped recording when my memory ran out - which wasn...

12. why are cna's treated like they are stupid and replaceable?

    TheNewDino replied to Purple Princess's topic in Geriatric

    every state is different for hourse and class time requirements. though i agree, the lpn is not a step above cna. if you look at it like a ladder. i don't know what it is called, but a year after being a cna (in maine) you can take the cna somethin...

13. Thinking about quiting my job

    TheNewDino replied to TheNewDino's topic in Pre-Nursing

    i was worried they'd be mad becuase they were so short handded but they understood my needs and were nice about it. i'm not quiting just yet. i told them i can follow through with next weeks schedual but from now on i can only hand weekends (which w...

14. Nursing at SMCC

    TheNewDino posted a topic in Maine

    anyone here taken (or plans on taking) the associate degree nursing program at southern maine community college? what was your experience? i'm enrolled right now in a cna course, but would like to take the nursing program next fall. ~michelle

15. Help defining vocab words/studying

    TheNewDino replied to TheNewDino's topic in General Students

    i'm in a cna class. we got the book on the 7th and in it was the first assignment. section 1: units 1-4 and then just review section 2: units 5-6. at our orientation she said every class she will give us an asignment to read for homework and the ...