Squidelle

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1. Montefiore school of nursing jan 2017

   Squidelle replied to diva12's topic in School Programs

   I don't have a copy of the syllabus so surely you'll get a more detailed answer eventually but I can tell you that breaking out your Brunner and Suddarth and starting on fluid and electrolytes will take you far, then move on to renal and GI

2. Fired from my first RN job after only 2 weeks.

   Squidelle replied to Mountainrnbsn's topic in New Nurse

   This was an opportunity to use your oh so superior skills to provide useful feedback or use your judgement and keep it moving. You were ambivalent just last year about whether you would be prepared following orientation to a new specialty but OP and...

3. Associate degree new grad working in nursing home

   Squidelle replied to kerrysilo's topic in New York

   My school doesn't have anything like that, unfortunately. I have been searching night and day and applying to anything that is a possibility. I tweak my cover letter depending on the position. I received a few calls this morning but I am still trying...

4. Associate degree new grad working in nursing home

   Squidelle replied to kerrysilo's topic in New York

   Would you mind sharing any tips on places to apply. I am worried that without a Bsn and no nursing experience I won't find anything. I have applied to over 300 postings over the past week and I am preparing myself in case I don't hear back.

5. Montefiore school of nursing jan 2017

   Squidelle replied to diva12's topic in School Programs

   The day schedule is 3 days per week: 1 day of lecture and another with lecture and lab, and 1 day of clinical. Lab is taught in 2 sections one from 8-10am before lecture and the other from 1-3 which is after lecture. Clinical was on Wednesday durin...

6. Rookie mistakes in dialysis

   Squidelle replied to thelittlenurs's topic in Urology

   Epogen shouldn't be given if you have uncontrolled HTN. Pts BP will understandably be high before HD especially since lots of times BP meds are held until after HD.

7. Montefiore school of nursing jan 2017

   Squidelle replied to diva12's topic in School Programs

   I assume this is for me...if not a little more insight won't hurt haha. I'm looking back now on the late night that I sat up taking a break from working on finals for my last semester for my BA degree and found this school online and I must say the t...

8. RN to MSN, skip the BSN?

   Squidelle replied to sbostonRN's topic in General Students

   My comment above is for you oops!

9. RN to MSN, skip the BSN?

   Squidelle replied to sbostonRN's topic in General Students

   I have no idea if you'll see this because this post is old but I'm in the exact same situation and would like to know what you ended up doing. I got a BA in Sociology last year and I'll be graduating in May from an ADN program.

10. Montefiore school of nursing jan 2017

    Squidelle replied to diva12's topic in School Programs

    They usually accept around 35 but it can be more my class was 38 when we started :)

11. Psych nursing question

    Squidelle replied to Squidelle's topic in General Students

    thank you soooo much. I see it now

12. Psych nursing question

    Squidelle replied to Squidelle's topic in General Students

    Wait,what? The nurse isn't acting as a substitute for anyone and the definition of surrogate says nothing about caring

13. Psych nursing question

    Squidelle posted a topic in General Students

    Just looking for some insight on a practice question because as I was doing them I noticed a few where the answers were super outlandish to me.Which would you choose? I chose A but the answer key says it's B

14. Is it normal that my school doesn't teach us IVs?

    Squidelle replied to Annie_1101's topic in General Students

    I learned how to insert and d/c a foley during my first semester

15. Montefiore School of Nursing Spring 2016 Applicants

    Squidelle replied to guest800983's topic in New York

    Monday lecture:9-1 tuesday lab A:8-10 lab B:1-3 you choose a section tuesday lecture: 10-1 Wednesday:clinical 6:45-4