BWright81188

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1. New Grad RN with bad back. Is APN a safer option?

   BWright81188 replied to BWright81188's topic in Advanced

   (See the post above) my original post was long enough, so I didn't want to go into detail about why I actually want to do advanced practice nursing. Long story short, it's been a goal of mine since before nursing school, and grew as I gained more exp...

2. New Grad RN with bad back. Is APN a safer option?

   BWright81188 replied to BWright81188's topic in Advanced

   Thanks for the advice! I worked (and currently work) with NPs, interviewed one before nursing school and shadowed several during, and have met with program directors and deans from different grad schools to discuss my options. I feel confident in my ...

3. Should I complete the program or shoud I leave?

   BWright81188 replied to summer2000's topic in General Students

   Long reply here, sorry. I just graduated this September, so the wounds and pains of nursing school are still fresh ;-). I was a former EMT/ED tech, I had straight As, and I was feeling as stressed and low as you in an accelerated program. It's absol...

4. New Grad RN with bad back. Is APN a safer option?

   BWright81188 replied to BWright81188's topic in Advanced

   Thanks for your response! Walking is fine with me. It was actually highly advised by my surgeon. It's prolonged sitting and frequent bending/twisting/lifting that get me. I can overcome the sitting at my current work place by charting standing up, bu...

5. New Grad RN with bad back. Is APN a safer option?

   BWright81188 posted a topic in Advanced

   Hello! I am a 27 y/o former firefighter-EMT and ED tech, now new grad RN. As a tech and a firefighter, I worked for companies that didn't exactly have cultures of back safety. As a result, I was straining my lumbar muscles about once every 2 months. ...

6. No worries USA. Only healthcare workers will be exposed to ebola.

   BWright81188 replied to Raviepoo's topic in COVID

   I would have liked to have been the flight nurse from Africa to Atlanta. I bet he/she got paid a TON! Not that money matters in this context, but it makes you wonder what they paid him/her just for that trip alone :)

7. Is my school the only one?

   BWright81188 replied to aspiringrn1987's topic in General Students

   I was on the waiting list for an ADN nursing school at a community college in California. They had the same situation. I was under the impression that many of the community college nursing programs in the Bay Area and central California were like thi...

8. Do you think MacBook 11inch would be good for Nursing School? Or is it too small?

   BWright81188 replied to NRRN,IWP's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Oh, you already have one! I missed that detail, sorry. I wouldn't purchase more memory until you know you're about to run out, and even then you can always back everything up onto an external hard drive or a cloud. As far as Microsoft goes, I think t...

9. Do you think MacBook 11inch would be good for Nursing School? Or is it too small?

   BWright81188 replied to NRRN,IWP's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I have the 11" MacBook Pro, basic model, and I use it for everything! All of my textbooks are ebooks (we used Elsevier Pageburst, which works really well with Mac IMO) and our program is set up so that most of our lectures are online, then we go to c...

10. What is the problem with nursing school?

    BWright81188 replied to joe007's topic in General Students

    If you want to stay in nursing, maybe working in a research setting would be more appropriate for you. Higher education might be required, but it sounds like additional schooling wouldn't bother you.

11. Fake crying and bad acting in the ER

    BWright81188 replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    Where in my post did I bash a nurse?! It was my fiancé's fault for downplaying his pain during triage and ACTING like it wasn't a big deal to appease his mother. I was giving an example of how acting like he WASN'T in pain only made things worse for ...

12. Fake crying and bad acting in the ER

    BWright81188 replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    When my fiancé fell through a roof and landed on his back, he tried to laugh and joke around in triage so that his mom wouldn't cry or worry. Because of this, he ended up waiting hours in the lobby, despite the mechanism of injury. When he finally go...

13. Oregon Health and Science University 2014 cohort

    BWright81188 replied to TtotheAna's topic in Oregon

    Add the Facebook group! We're only missing 4 students from the group if you two add!! It's called "OHSU Accelerated BSN Program-Ashland Campus-Class of 2015".

14. Oregon Health and Science University 2014 cohort

    BWright81188 replied to TtotheAna's topic in Oregon

    Me! There is an ohsu absn ashland class of 2015 Facebook group! Add yourself! -Bri-

15. No more glucose checks by CNAs/PCTs

    BWright81188 replied to Paws2people's topic in Relations

    Oh wait I see your point regarding the automatic upload of the results. Another possibility might be if one doesn't clean the surface of the finger in the first place, the results are skewed! These are certainly all possibilities, which is why I beli...