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danh3190

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  1. Anyone Starting At UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing?

    danh3190 replied to ChristineN's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    If I remember correctly, when I was applying to schools I had transcripts sent out to all the schools I was interested in early in the process. Of course it is more expensive that way, but it's more...

  2. UPMC Shadyside

    danh3190 replied to kel3678's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Don't know anything about Citizen's School of Nursing. I'm graduating from Shadyside in a few weeks. I was in a similar situation, having been accepted at two schools. What I considered was 1....

  3. Er Nurse

    danh3190 replied to rouge79's topic in First Year After Licensure

    A number of my classmates are going to start in the ER. I think the advice about getting a job as a tech while in school is good. If you can get an ER tech job, even better. I applied at a number of...

  4. Any nurses with chemistry or biochem degrees?

    danh3190 replied to AtomicWoman's topic in General Nursing

    I have a BS and MS in chemistry and worked many years in an R&D lab. I hope to be a GN in 48 days. I didn't actually look for a job related to chemistry since I owe two years to the hospital...

  5. Nursing Layoffs!!

    danh3190 replied to Bklyngurl's topic in New York Nursing

    I'm sorry to hear that happened, but the same happens in the business world too. At least nurses have a good chance at finding some sort of work locally, even if it isn't exactly what they

  6. Anyone Starting At UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing?

    danh3190 replied to ChristineN's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    As I remember, I was surprised that there was less biology and more general science than I'd expected. However it's been 2 years since I took the test and I've taken LOTS of tests since then, so my...

  7. Are 2 year nurses getting phased out?

    danh3190 replied to mack7580's topic in General Nursing

    Even if it were going to happen in our lifetime, I'd still rather get a 2 year RN then go the RN to BSN route to finish my education while earning

  8. OB Rotation is Hell

    danh3190 replied to Cartman1532's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Finished the OB rotation today. I actually enjoyed it a lot although it was often boring for the students, standing around waiting for nature and pitocin to take its course. We weren't really...

  9. Anyone Starting At UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing?

    danh3190 replied to ChristineN's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Congratulations from another June '08 grad. Hope you have a great time. It's hard work but a lot of

  10. Anyone familiar with Miralax prep?

    danh3190 replied to NewWayofLife's topic in Gastroenterology

    I did the Miralax prep when I had my colonoscopy and had no trouble with it at

  11. OB Rotation is Hell

    danh3190 replied to Cartman1532's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I start the OB/Peds rotation on Feb 25. Don't know whether to dread it or

  12. failed out of nursing school.... now what?

    danh3190 replied to leelife's topic in First Year After Licensure

    One classmate enrolled in an LPN program after her 2nd fail. I think her plan is to get the LPN and work then try to get into an LPN to RN

  13. Why did you pick the nursing school you did?

    danh3190 replied to Mnstn's topic in General Students

    1. NCLEX pass rate 2. Cost I was lucky to get admitted to two diploma programs with similar NCLEX pass rates about the same distance from my house. I chose the one I'm in because they had a Loan...

  14. Rudeness from EMTs and Paramedics

    danh3190 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm not blaming the nurses, because they have to follow their protocols, but many times I wish the nurses were allowed to send the patient to the hospital without family permission and a MD order....

  15. Do you have to be "smart" to make it through Nursing school?

    danh3190 replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    i agree with the above. however, in my program at least, you do have to have a certain amount of test taking

  16. Rudeness from EMTs and Paramedics

    danh3190 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm a paramedic who's done a lot of nursing home calls over the last 27 years. I hope the nurses don't think I'm grilling them when I ask a bunch of questions, but when I turn up in the ER with a...

  17. Do nurses, DR's, health care workers get randomly drug tested?

    danh3190 replied to Imissthefall's topic in General Nursing

    My employer in my previous life (a paint manufacturer) instituted mandatory random drug testing for all its employees. We never did figure out why. The other problem was that instead of UA, they...

  18. Has ACLS been 'dumbed down'?

    danh3190 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I remember the days in the mid 80s when you'd come out of your mega-code sweating, and they had the slide show test of your monitor strip reading (a second or two per strip). I agree that that was...

  19. Age you will/were graduated?

    danh3190 replied to sweetiez's topic in General Students

    I'm 56, so I've been older than most if not all of my instructors. Strange feeling. I'm glad they don't make us call them Mrs. X or Miss Y

  20. Acls

    danh3190 replied to SDS_RN's topic in Emergency

    I didn't think it was that hard. Where I take it they send you the algorithms to study beforehand, and I'd recommend that. Some appear intimidating, but if you look at them they do make sense....

  21. Any RN's gone the Paramedic route prior to Nursing?

    danh3190 replied to MedicGirl33's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    In answer to the original question, I've been a paramedic for many years prior to going to nursing school. Although not everything is applicable to nursing the EMS experience teaches you critical...

  22. Any RN's gone the Paramedic route prior to Nursing?

    danh3190 replied to MedicGirl33's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Actually if I remember my EVOC course correctly, in PA ambulances are not allowed to exceed the speed limit even with lights and sirens. What they can do is go through a red light after coming to a...

  23. Giving gifts to instructor?

    danh3190 replied to EwokRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    But the instructor should be required to get your assignments before the clinical, grade your papers, and work hard to enhance your experience as part of the job. Even so that's not why I have a...

  24. Rounding up grades

    danh3190 replied to kakalika's topic in General Students

    We don't round up either. At the beginning of each class we learn how many total points there are and we know that 92% of that number of points is an "A". Since my coursework is usually better than...

  25. Age you will/were graduated?

    danh3190 replied to sweetiez's topic in General Students

    A couple of reasons. I love taking care of people so want to continue in that area. Probably the main one is that I'm really tired of the heavy lifting and carrying. A lot of the time it's just me...