I work for home based primary care and I make home visits on a monthly basis. Our program now may include following our patients to the end of life even if they are on hospice. There has been recent discussion about our program's RN case manager to m...
Hi, I've been an RN Case Manager for Home Based Primary Care for 2 years now. Looking for career advice. My passion for wound care motivated me to become a nurse and get my BSN. Our home care program does not deal with stage 3 and above wounds due to...
Hi, I've been an RN Case Manager for Home Based Primary Care for 2 years now. While I love working with adult geriatric population and hrs (m-f 8-4:30), my real passion is for wound care. I LOVE all wounds, and ostomies. From the minute I decided to ...
Hi I just wanted some feedback from graduates of this program to find out some more information regarding exactly how long the program takes, where clinical sites are, how many students are in this program, etc since orientation doesn't start until ...
ostomyrn2b09 replied to cameron764's topic in General Nursing
I just graduated in Dec 09 and I am considering LTC myself...Can you tell me more about your job? How is it different from a hospital job? Are you able to practice all of your nursing skills? Thanks!
Hi I will be starting clinicals the first week of feb! does anyone have any tips or advice on how to make a patient feel comfortable for bed baths??? or any tips when u did ur first patient bed bath? how long did it take you? or how to get over my fe...
ostomyrn2b09 replied to maggiefromsf's topic in California
Hi I am in the first semester at ccsf and i am having a blast! It took me a year to get in. Hang in there! Don't give up, it is definetly worth the wait! Good luck! CCSF is one the top if not the best nursing program in sf! Jackie
ostomyrn2b09 replied to ostomyrn2b09's topic in Student Assist
Hi everyone thanks so much for all of your great input!! I finally did it!!! I was so proud of myself!! It wasn't as bad as I thought!! Yea it was uncomfortable at first, but the patients really do appreciate it!!! You just have to suck it up and do ...
Yea it has been a year long wait, but I have finally been accepted into nursing school at city college of sf!!! I am so excited, scared, nervous, and ready for the long and stressful journey ahead! Is anyone else going here for spring 08? Any graduat...
ostomyrn2b09 replied to ostomyrn2b09's topic in California
Tonya, I think I might just get a pair of keds...i dunno i am going to wait and see what everyone else is getting...i cant wait! well see u at orientation! jackie
Hi, I am a prenursing student and I was thinking about becoming a school nurse...but I want to hear from experienced school nurses about their experiences...does pay differ because you aren't working in a hospital?? I would like to be an afterschool ...
I am so stressed out about applying to nursing school in the fall of oct 06. I live in california and it just seems like every nursing school I research they are all impacted. I think I am going to have to apply to like ten schools to increase my cha...
hi everyone i am obsessed with this website, but i am starting to have reservations about going to nursing school. i have applied to around 10 adn programs for fall 07. i already have 2 assoc. degrees and i just got a great full time job as a clerk w...
ostomyrn2b09 replied to ostomyrn2b09's topic in Career Support
Thank you to everyone who has replied to my post!!! How do you know that you wanted to be a nurse? Are there tell tale signs?? I am very interested in medicine and I have completed all of the prereqs...the OR dept or Peds really interests me...If I c...
Hi everyone I am obsessed with this website, but I am starting to have reservations about going to nursing school. I have applied to around 10 adn programs for fall 07. I already have 2 assoc. degrees and I just got a great full time job as a clerk w...
I am from Cali and I am sick of the city. I learned about Winter Park, CO on a tv show and I absolutely fell in love. That is exactly where I would want to live. Ski in the winter, and mountain bike in the summer. Perfect!!! How close is the nearest ...
Hi I am from Cali and I am sick of the city. After I graduate from nursing school, I would love to live near a ski resort up in the mountains where I can go skiing in the winter, and then mountain biking in the summer...Are there any great locations ...
Hi everyone! Well I live in Sacramento, Ca and I am sick of the city. I just moved from San Francisco and I need a change. After I graduate nursing school I would love to live in the mountains. I want it to snow in the winter, and be sunny in the sum...
ostomyrn2b09 replied to 3KittiesRN's topic in Missouri
Hi I am from California and I am obsessed with Spain. I researched nursing schools and SLU's international nursing degree sounds perfect. I would love to attend school in Madrid! Are nursing programs in Missouri just as impacted as they are in Califo...
ostomyrn2b09 replied to AshNeha113's topic in Pre-Nursing
YEP, I already looked into that...they never tell you the cost until after you have met with an advisor, and then you have to take a test...and you aren't even guaranteed to get into the program...out of the thousands of applicants that apply..they o...
I am a prenursing student waiting to get into the program. I just wanted to know what study habits is everyone using? Flashcards? Typing up notes? rewriting notes? study groups? Does everyone study like 3 hours a day to keep up on the material? Pleas...
Hi I am prenursing student from Cali and I am really interested in surgery. At first I wanted to become a coroner, but I didn't want to go to school forever. Are there nurses who help the coroner perform autopsies? Are there nurses who help the surge...