danh3190

danh3190

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  1. shoes and uniform question

    danh3190 replied to tigress_8207's topic in Male Nursing Students

    We wear all white at our school. We have to buy certain approved scrub tops and pants for the males and females. We have a choice about what shoes to buy and all white athletic shoes are OK (I love...

  2. Male Nurses: Why no escort?

    danh3190 replied to pmcd8243's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. How can you afford it? I know I'd rather have a chaperone present when I'm with a female patient but that wouldn't be fair to the hospital. What about male aides helping a woman to the bathroom...

  3. Anyone Starting At UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing?

    danh3190 replied to ChristineN's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I think this link will get you to the outline of the curriculum. It's a 4 year program. Post #76 above from JennHeidKamp says a little more about what the hours are. As you can see from this thread...

  4. Anyone Starting At UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing?

    danh3190 replied to ChristineN's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Good

  5. Concept Maps?

    danh3190 replied to Lylesmom's topic in General Students

    They're talking about doing them in our school and our clinical instructor had some of us do them. I can see positives and negatives in both standard Care Plans and the Concept Maps. She didn't give...

  6. starting a nursing career at 55??

    danh3190 replied to deb2mirabelle's topic in General Nursing

    I hope it's do-able since I'll be 56 when I graduate and 56 or 57 by the time I pass the

  7. S.Arrythmia Vs PACs

    danh3190 replied to cardiac.cure03's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Sinus arrhythmia isn't that uncommon in kids. Usually it's regularly irregular, i.e. it speeds up and slows down and speeds up etc. A lot of time the change in rate is tied to respiratory rate but I...

  8. Nurse tracking devices

    danh3190 replied to PattonD's topic in Ob/Gyn

    That would be so nice to put on our Clinical Instructors'

  9. why are some students getting 2 patients?

    danh3190 replied to lpnhell's topic in General Students

    You get to PICK patients? In our clinical we show up Tuesday noon, are told by the instructor who our patient is. We go over the chart and examine the patient. Then we go home and write the care...

  10. sexual jokes in the workplace

    danh3190 replied to penguin2's topic in General Nursing

    As mentioned above, even if nobody were offended by the comment it would still be troublesome. What if somebody were later terminated for some other reason and decided they wanted to cause trouble....

  11. I'm in at Shadyside!!!!!!!

    danh3190 replied to mommyjskns's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Congratulations! Are you going to be in the Evening/Weekend Class?

  12. Clean vs Aseptic IV Starts

    danh3190 posted a topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    I'm a nursing student and long time paramedic. When they taught us to start IVs way back in the '80s we were taught to prep the site with betadine/alcohol or just alcohol then we weren't allowed to...

  13. how would you feel as a pt?

    danh3190 replied to crissrn27's topic in General Nursing

    If I were a patient I'd probably make some sort of sarcastic remark about how stupid it was that the poor nurse had to say such stupid lines. Then we could both have a laugh about

  14. White see through pants and you.

    danh3190 replied to Thedreamer's topic in Men in Nursing

    Last semester before they allowed us in the hospital for our first clinicals, they made us wear our uniforms to class a couple times, just to make sure we looked okay in them. They specifically...

  15. Nurses: Failure rate of courses perplexing - Jackson Clarion Ledger

    danh3190 replied to Nursing News's topic in General Nursing

    I thought this line was interesting: "Alcorn State University reported only 21 of 91 nursing students passed a comprehensive exam, which will jeopardize their graduation in May. That runs counter to...

  16. UPMC Shadyside

    danh3190 replied to kel3678's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    No, there are no dorms. Some of the people have apartments in the Shadyside area, but many live at home. The school is physically located on one floor of Motor Square Garden about 1/2 mile or so...

  17. Child Abuse Clearances

    danh3190 replied to Sarah LnDHopes's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I just got my child abuse clearance back, 16 days after I mailed it. That's a little faster than last year. The PA State Police clearance only took about a week or so. So you've got a good chance...

  18. Child Abuse Clearances

    danh3190 replied to Sarah LnDHopes's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I got my PA state police criminal clearance back in about 10 days. Unfortunately last year the Child Abuse clearance took a lot longer, I think maybe 3 weeks. I had a residence out of state in 1975,...

  19. Anyone Starting At UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing?

    danh3190 replied to ChristineN's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    One of my classmates said she didn't get a response until she followed up by phone also. The faculty strongly discouraged us fulltime day students from working fulltime while in school, though...

  20. does being a paramedic complement an EDRN?

    danh3190 replied to bjr3645's topic in Emergency

    Wow. It's so nice to hear somebody say something nice about paramedics. Thank

  21. UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing - Evening/Weekend Program

    danh3190 replied to Nadster's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I didn't remember for sure, so I dug out my acceptance letter. There are no folds in it, so it must have come in a big envelope. I seem to remember there was some other stuff in the envelope also....

  22. Pittsburgh nursing student

    danh3190 replied to momx4's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    DorselM, I'm one semester ahead of you at Shadyside SON. We just did our first SIM lab in Nursing 102. It was a lot of fun and I felt it was useful as

  23. Anyone Starting At UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing?

    danh3190 replied to ChristineN's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    As for the loan forgiveness program, they just give you the paperwork at your orientation and it's up to you if you want to sign it or not. So it's not like a loan that you have to get approval for....

  24. Anyone Starting At UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing?

    danh3190 replied to ChristineN's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    We lost some in our first couple semesters in the daylight program, but nothing like half. As ChristineN points out we still have 113 day students going into the 200 level classes. I think we...

  25. Microbio: Unknowns

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

    Yeah, that's how we felt too. A lot of my classmates didn't like the labs until we did the