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1. Tuition Reimbursement How-To

   comm replied to FutureNurseInfo's topic in General Nursing

   Each place that offers a form of reimbursement is going to be different other than the fact they will all require you to work there for a set amount of time and will usually pay it off gradually over time. During that Time you will still be accruing ...

2. It seems like everyone but nurses make more money

   comm replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

   For the amount of schooling and experience that is required to be a nurse the money is great. I understand that there's a huge variation of skill with nurses but just to graduate nursing school and get into a job is really nothing special and it can ...

3. Why no sticks after mastectomy

   comm replied to wannadowell's topic in Student Assist

   Yes, this should be higher up on the reply chain. People take suggestions as absolutes far to often and tend to not even do their own thinking. Everything is a weighted risk as you said. Great post.

4. Do you use a DVT/PE Risk Assessment Tool?

   comm replied to november17's topic in General Nursing

   I'm a bit confused, According to this assessment tool, every 75+ yr old person would be on lovenox because they have a risk score of 3. Regardless of if they have no other risks, their age alone dictates lovenox injections? That cannot be right.

5. 9 rights of medications

   comm replied to Jonesskky RN's topic in Medications

   omg thank you thank you so much for being a sane person.

6. 9 rights of medications

   comm replied to Jonesskky RN's topic in Medications

   How about we stick to the original 5 of route dose med patient and time. The point of the list was to be succinct, the more complicated it gets the more errors are made in remembering it. like adding to many parts to a mnemonic. There could be pages...

7. Since when is strep throat swabbed in the NOSE??

   comm replied to Italianprincess's topic in Pediatric

   Since your baby was being tested for RSV and Influenza, these are both tested by nasal swabbing. Streptococcus is a rare thing for your baby to have, but it is also shed by nasal secretions. While it is true that most of the time the testing is done ...

8. More combat medics are men than women during war time..

   comm replied to Dunno?'s topic in Men

   I'm currently an RN about to finish my BSN. I went to the recruiter to find out about becoming a combat medic and the guy told me that dentist, doctors and RN's couldn't be combat medics because they were over qualified. This was a navy recruiter, an...