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  1. What MD speciality do you find the most difficult to work with?

    amyk_ncsu replied to nurturing_angel's topic in General Nursing

    I've met many many orthopedic surgeons on a professional level as well as on a patient level. About half of them are arrogant and the other half are some of the most compassionate docs I've met. I...

  2. Outsourcing nursing home patients.

    amyk_ncsu replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think she got the overseas nursing home bit from The Onion. The childcare outsourcing part did come from there though. Or am I missing

  3. Will working at a Dr.'s office help you during Nursing school??

    amyk_ncsu replied to nursngstudent05's topic in General Nursing

    Awesome, you'll probably learn more than most people doing the same job. You sound just like me... learn quick and learn lots. For example, I have learned how to set up patients on the table, how...

  4. Will working at a Dr.'s office help you during Nursing school??

    amyk_ncsu replied to nursngstudent05's topic in General Nursing

    I am currently working in a doctors office and currently in nursing school. Actually I'm at work right now, haha. Anyways, I think it depends on what kind of practice you are working in as to...

  5. Nurses: what's your Myers-Briggs classification??

    amyk_ncsu replied to Diary/Dairy's topic in General Nursing

    I'm an INTJ based on one website... I took the real myers briggs test a few years ago when getting my psych degree, but can't remember what it scored me

  6. NC Hospitals

    amyk_ncsu replied to rebecrsgnc's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I don't have much relevant information, but I plan on applying for a new grad position in a peds ICU at Wake Med when I graduate. I have heard wonderful things about how Wake Med treats their...

  7. In this place....

    amyk_ncsu replied to la bellota's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, I am almost crying. Absolutely beautiful story. I hope that I can be even half as compassionate a nurse as you will be.

  8. I'm new...

    amyk_ncsu replied to Hanabna's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    A lot of CNA/PCT courses are a couple of months long. You could always take that now and not wait until after the first semester of nursing school. I took the course three evenings a week for a...

  9. Exaggerations about nursing school

    amyk_ncsu replied to RNDreamer's topic in General Students

    They told us that it would be very very very hard to keep a job while in school. I have not only kept my job, but I still have enough free time during the week to not go

  10. low overall gpa, high prereq gpa?

    amyk_ncsu replied to shehak20000's topic in General Students

    I can't tell you not to worry too much, but I can say from experience that it is still possible for you to get in with a 2.6 gpa. My gpa (though I hate to admit this) was around 2.6 or 2.7 when I...

  11. Just bombed my first Peds exam

    amyk_ncsu replied to neej29's topic in General Students

    Our first peds exam was last week, and it was pretty much the same. A lot of non-specific material that wasn't lectured on. At least it was a learning experience and we all know how to study better...

  12. Hepatitis B, need help

    amyk_ncsu replied to kg14's topic in General Nursing

    My dr's office sent the lab results to my house and they said positive HBV (or something to that effect), which was a little scary at first. I can see how this can easily be misintrepreted as a...

  13. Age you will/were graduated?

    amyk_ncsu replied to sweetiez's topic in General Students

    I will be 25 when I graduate December 08. Sometimes I wish I had gone in right out of high school and I would have been 21, but I'm not always sure I would have made it being that

  14. portacath access

    amyk_ncsu posted a topic in General Students

    Does anyone know if students can access implanted port catheters? I realize that policies may vary between facilities, but my patient tomorrow has one, and I am unsure of whether or not I will be...

  15. portacath access

    amyk_ncsu replied to amyk_ncsu's topic in General Students

    Don't worry, I'm not going to be unsafe. I am currently under the impression that it is already accessed and prn adapted, so my questions are answered. I was just confused on the term "accessed." I...

  16. portacath access

    amyk_ncsu replied to amyk_ncsu's topic in General Students

    Completely, thank you! In reasearching how to do this, I found a lot of info on how to access it, but nothing really about it being able to have a prn adaptor. I didn't know that an adaptor was...

  17. portacath access

    amyk_ncsu replied to amyk_ncsu's topic in General Students

    Thanks! Its a 10 month old kid, and he doesn't have any continuous fluids running, and no PIV, but several antibiotics are ordered, so you can see why I was trying to figure this out. Could he have...

  18. Who does blood sugar checks where you work?

    amyk_ncsu replied to ginger58's topic in General Nursing

    I am also a student and at our hospital the CNA's do the accuchecks. For our assigned patients, we do total patient care... all tasks for both the RN and CNA, including

  19. What would you change about your scrubs?

    amyk_ncsu replied to daisygirl_001's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I would like to see more pants available online in extra-extra long or UN-hemmed so I can hem them to my precise length. I find pleanty of comfortable pants, but they dont fit in length. I cannot...

  20. BON wants my adoption decree!

    amyk_ncsu replied to brookorrn's topic in General Nursing

    Same for me. You would have no clue I was adopted just by looking at my birth certificate. Do they ask if you are adopted when you apply for your

  21. How do you learn to give injections?

    amyk_ncsu replied to tigress_8207's topic in General Students

    We first practiced in class on the pads with goo in them. They were supposed to feel like the real thing. In clinicals last semester I had to give Lovenox to every patient I had (post-op orthopedic)...

  22. How Nursing Students spend their summers?

    amyk_ncsu replied to Krither's topic in General Students

    you mean its summertime right now? i had no

  23. A school with no wait list-Have you heard of it?

    amyk_ncsu replied to Nurse-One's topic in General Students

    ^ I'm not saying your are incorrect, but the three programs I applied to were all ADN programs and none had wait lists, including one that is a CC. They were all based on points and/or

  24. A school with no wait list-Have you heard of it?

    amyk_ncsu replied to Nurse-One's topic in General Students

    I haven't heard of that particular school, but it sounds like a lot of extra work/cost to get what you could get locally. I haven't run across a school that has a waiting list. I got into three...

  25. Good website for Nursing Gear?

    amyk_ncsu replied to GottaGetIn's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have ordered stuff from allheart many times, and have had a problem about 75% of the time. Once I ordered a couple of pairs of pants and sent them back for an exchange, and they sent the same exact...