paulaking1978

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1. Any Advice for starting new job in the ER??

   paulaking1978 replied to paulaking1978's topic in Emergency

   Thank you for your advice!! I have 2 youg children of my own, and was a little worried with the Pediatric aspect of the Er. I know as a mother how I feel when my children are sick. And working with this population in the Er is what makes me somewh...

2. Any Advice for starting new job in the ER??

   paulaking1978 replied to paulaking1978's topic in Emergency

   This is all great advice!! Keep em coming!! LOL Whether good or bad, I want to hear it all!! Only way I will know!!

3. Any Advice for starting new job in the ER??

   paulaking1978 replied to paulaking1978's topic in Emergency

   Thanks for the replies!!

4. Any Advice for starting new job in the ER??

   paulaking1978 posted a topic in Emergency

   I currently work on a heart and vascular intermediate care unit and have been a nurse for 1 year. We do take ICU pt's at times. My main concern is the change in atmosphere. What to expect? How to deal with pediatric population/and families of. An...

5. Suggestion for new nursing students (Spring 2008)

   paulaking1978 replied to MiaKeaRN's topic in General Students

   I think I would make sure that is the school policy....and you may want to ask the instructor is she/he would mind if you could record. That is strange, I have never heard of a school not allowing for recording lectures???

6. Suggestion for new nursing students (Spring 2008)

   paulaking1978 replied to MiaKeaRN's topic in General Students

   Reading is definetly important to stay on top of. Especially to get an idea of what the next lecture is going to be covering. Taping your lectures isn't a bad idea either. I would listen to them about a day after the original lecture and rewrite/ty...

7. How many hours a week do you study/prep?

   paulaking1978 replied to xoyw01's topic in General Students

   :yeah:congrats on your acceptence. hopefully you have all your pre-reqs out of the way, which helps tremendously. if you have 23hrs oligation to class/clinical/lab etc., then you should dedicate at least 23hrs of studying. this is what i was told by ...

8. What will you do the day AFTER finals???

   paulaking1978 replied to krenee's topic in General Students

   After finals.......I will purposefully stop by the liquor store, buy a 5th of 151, a 2 liter of diet coke, go home, watch Clark Grizwold string his Xmas lights all over his house, watch cousin Eddie empty the crapper in the sewer drain, and drink til...

9. Students

   paulaking1978 replied to irishnurse67's topic in General Students

   :lol2:What were you allowed to do as a student when you were in nursing school during ur first year? Did you know to answer phones and call lights your first semester? This is my first semester of nursing school, and when I am in a clinical setting...

10. anyone have to take HESI at the end of each semester???

    paulaking1978 replied to wan2banrseNms's topic in General Students

    This is the end my first semester in nursing school. We are taking a Hesi exam next week :uhoh21:. We were told by our instructor that there was no certain way to study for the exam, other than go over every thing since the beginning :icon_questio...

11. Who Would Like To Be Part Of The Lose Weight And Get Healthy Team?!

    paulaking1978 replied to Batman24's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I am definetly in.......I just had a baby in October 2006.....and due to the fact that I craved any type of sweat I could get my hands on, I gained 60 lbs....WOW......Plus I quit smoking about 3 months before I got pregnant....which made everything d...

12. Any Northeastern KY nurses?????

    paulaking1978 replied to paulaking1978's topic in Kentucky

    So you had to be on call to work ICU....I had thought about trying to get on at kd after I finished school....and had thought about ICU..... when u hired in you had to sign a 2 year contract?.....I am new to how they hire....i was going to try to do ...

13. Any Northeastern KY nurses?????

    paulaking1978 replied to paulaking1978's topic in Kentucky

    Which part did you work at KD......Any certain reason why you left?

14. PDA?????? Can someone tell me ............

    paulaking1978 posted a topic in General Students

    .........if these are useful for nursing school....how much did you pay for one,......what kind of software does yours have......and what have you purchased that helps with nursing school>>>>>>>>. I have been out of school for...

15. Online Microbiology course.....?

    paulaking1978 posted a topic in Pre-Nursing

    Has anyone taken Microbiology on-line and if so, through which school? And how was the course, easy, hard, ?????