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I think it is just using food or sugar rubbed on the fingers. at our hospital we are taught to scrub fingers really well because of the false high readings. I would guess that he probably did something like that, although it is disconcerting that he ...

I would say the least physical would be psych - if you work in a VA you probably have a great psych facility there, most do!

I loved my psych rotation, we did our teaching in the inpatient lock down highest level acuity unit. we decided to do our class on art. I talked about some artists who had been diagnosed with significant mental disorders (schizophrenia and bipolar si...

could you not use the left hand?

did you try to find a job before you left? the bay area is especially saturated with nurses, there are several schools in the area that graduate nurses 2x a year. there are people in this area that have been looking for 18 months. I graduated from an...

have you looked at their website for more information? I think you should at least have done that before attending any college. just fyi - there is NO school that will guarentee employment after graduation, if you are attending a school that does the...

HAHA! we had a little girl the other day who I was doing a straight cath on, her anatomy was a little different, her labia minora looked almost fused together, I asked the MD if she wanted to take a look, she was like "sure, but I wouldn't know how t...

agreed, totally different. I work in the ED. 99% of my day is looking at people with stomach aches, headaches, "back pain", and various other NON emergent problems. car accidents and falls. as pp said, things don't run that smoothly. you are just sta...

I hope you start getting enough sleep! when I was working 7p-7a I came home home and took a lunesta if I had to go back that night. I need need need my sleep and, for me, it worked, I got a full 7-8 hours of sleep before going back to work. I'm worki...

kf15 so sorry to hear about your experience in the ED! that is not my experience, either, and I hope that is true for others on here. I am a new grad started in the ED and also love it. every day I learn something. every day I see a disease or proced...

I got a call around 3pm. odd because last night my wife had a dream I got my acceptance today and I was taking a nap when they called and thought about the other person who had a call around 3 yesterday! I also had my home number on my application, s...

I have been reading this thread over the past weeks because I've been waiting, too, I'm writing under my wife's user name now. just wanted to say not to give up hope! I got a call today for the SF cohort! apparently they had my OLD cell phone number ...

I think you have a good base, and I think that by the time you actually become a nurse you will have a great base! I believe that as people in recovery, we have insight into some things that normies don't. I work in the ED. yesterday I had a patient ...

I think most nursing school clinicals are similar, we had 2 semesters of med-surg, psych, OB, pediatrics, public health, and our final semester. I don't know if any school that would have a standard ER rotation, you may request that for your final pr...

Donna how did they notify you? congrats!!

I love our volunteers, too, but I don't think they are premed students. they make beds, restock, transport, pass trays, and help out in any other way they can

thanks donna. i'll sleep more restful tonight

i'm number 8 for the case management. is anyone else on the waitlist and have you heard anything. i emailed Anne Seed to see if i should repeat the NET as well after receiving that info. . i hope she is ok with that question. during my interview it w...

donna have you heard anything

I am in Northern Cali but I think things are similar up here. I was lucky, I graduated in December and got a job at the hospital I precepted at in the department I love but I was in a program where local hospitals paid our tuition in exchange for a 2...

what kind of mistakes have you found?

sorry you guys....i'm expecting the bad news today as well. what does worry me though is that i applied really late. i think interviews were already done. hope my stuff isn't in the mailmans locker...good luck all see you soon in RN school!!

no, it was Che, she was great and spent a ton of time going over my transcripts, seeing what I needed and going over my grades and GPA and talking a LOT about the program and how it works, what it entails, etc

who was in the interview? I am curious because the counselor I talked to spent about an hour with me going over the program and what it was about, going over my grades and classes, and everything else. since I went in basically at the deadline I'm wo...

I am just starting out, but during my preceptorship in my last semester I had a great experience in the ED, a woman came in a couple weeks after giving birth who had an abscess on her labia. she was in HUGE amounts of pain, couldn't walk because it w...