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Hello friends, Could you help me to figure out whether to enroll to take organic chemistry or biochemistry as a prerequisite before applying to CRNA school. If it is organic chemistry which online course would you recommend.... like WSU, Eastern...

Advice for those taking NCLEX. Don't buy all these prep books and try to study. I passed on my first try. after graduating from nursing school I purchased Mosby's prep book with the test sample book. Get a calendar and assign 3-4 days for 1-3 chapter...

Hello, I am a 36 year old male considering a career change and considering Sprott Shaw for the LPN program. Sprott Shaw offers me a January start date which is important to me, but not at the cost of a valuable program. Is it respected in t...

So.... just got out of A & P today and I'm kinda distressed. I was told that LPNs aren't not allowed to work in hospitals in NJ so I would have to go work in Penn if I wanted a hospital experience. I understand that since a LPNs scope of practice...

Is there something in particular that you are so amazed about?

Good to know!

For the longest time I felt so evil for thinking #13... now I know I'm joining the right profession hahaha.

Well I'm def. going for my higher education, its just right now I wanted to make a little more money to be able to afford going to school for my RN. My dream is to someday be a NP

Okay... I'm going to go back to class on Monday and request that my peer be given a drug test. (jk, if it's one thing I've learned so far since starting school is that it's NOT a competition and if one of us fail, it's because we didn't work hard eno...

You know it's actually funny. I'm from South Jersey and know all those hospitals very well. I knew I had to be misunderstanding something. This girl was trying to make it sound like it was ILLEGAL!

As a direct care staff who does pretty much everything a CNA does execpt for handing out medications.... I have to report BM's, any incidents even if their was only a potential for injury... I have to keep repositioning logs up to date, write activ...

That brings up and interesting point.... I think I tolerate my clients better because they can't help it. I think when I become a nurse, there will have to be some adjustment made because I know some pt. can be royal pitha... but hopefully that will ...

I sometimes get annoyed with the indivduals but I never show it and I usualy end up laughing about it later. Despite any griping I may have posted on this forum, I do enjoy my job as a direct care staff.

A recent medscape article "oldies are goodies" talks about the value of "older" nurses (age 45 and up) and how to best retain them. the article suggests that According to this article, I'm an older nurse (age 45). Personally, I like working t...

Over the last couple of weeks I have been receiving emails in my Yahoo bulk mail box with subject lines that refer to various medications, such as Alazopram, Percocet, Ativan etc. I normally just empty the bulk box because the mail there is usually j...

All the oldies must be working dayshift! (LOL) Or . . maybe the thought of having choices is so foreign . . and unlikely . . why answer?

Thanks for all the replies so far! I am very well aware of email safety and virus issues. My husband is a software engineer and we have every form of virus protection, firewalls etc., known to mankind on my computer! What I would really like to know...

My manager is not the easy-going type. He is very uptight especially about budget related issues. Though he encouraged an open door policy upon my hire, he rarely interacts with staff on a day to day basis. In the 10 months I have been there I have p...

I'd like to hear from those of you who have transferred jobs within the same hospital system. What was your experience like?? Yesterday I attended an RN open house at a regional facility that is owned by the system I currently work for. I work I...

Has anyone out there ever been told/taught that after inserting a foley, if the patient output exceeds 350 ml in a short period of time (say 10 minutes) then the catheter should be clamped for 10 minutes and reopened as not to cause the bladder to pr...

Thanks for the advice! I was able to print off a copy of the transfer policy and procedure from our intranet website at work. After reading through pages and pages regarding every possible scenario in transfer of benefits and PTO, I did come to the a...

One detail to add: I requested that the regional facility not contact my nurse manager (or other references) at this time. I explained that I have not as yet informed the NM because I'm in the process of exploring work options closer to home, and fel...

Does your facility allow you to have designations other than RN on your name badge (such as RN, BSN/ RN, ccrn etc.)? our hospital does not allow this and it is a thorn in the side of some of the RN's I work with. there are a couple of nurses I know w...

THANK YOU! Not all LVN's are dimwits! I work with many RN's who are very unsafe in their practice and come to the LVN's with questions all shift long. I can't tell you how many times I've seen RN's talk about how smart some of the LVN's are. It all d...

Ok, I'm going to get on my soap box here..... I am an LVN, and have worked in ICU/CCU...taking my OWN patient load and doing my own IV pushes, IV meds, drips, calling docs, everything. I had no RN working with my patient's and sure never had an RN d...