DesertRain

DesertRain

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  1. Nevada Lowest Paying Nurses?????

    DesertRain replied to buffalowing81's topic in Nevada Nursing

    Yeah there is definitely a link between salary and cost of living anywhere in the country. Nurses will make more in a city that costs more, but in the end, it all equivalates. So Sally, RN in San...

  2. I HATE this!!!!

    DesertRain replied to BellaBloo's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Med School in total would equivalate to 2 extra years post Masters if you add them up. She never said she was concerned about the money. The girl I know that works for the Pharmaceutical company makes...

  3. Fingerprinting has taken over 4 months!

    DesertRain posted a topic in Nevada Nursing

    I am trying to get my CNA license to put towards my application for the ADN program for fall at CCSN, the deadline is June 1st and until now the BoN has not received my fingerprints yet. I did them...

  4. Totally Dejected........2 year waiting list!!!!!!!!!

    DesertRain replied to livinglighthouse's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    This is a great suggestion. A lot of students at my CC will take the CNA program or Phlebotomy or EMT programs if they are not accepted. By the time they get to NS, they have a lot of health care...

  5. Tears Of Joy!!!!!! I Got In!!!!!!!!!

    DesertRain replied to stpauligirl's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am so happy for

  6. I HATE this!!!!

    DesertRain replied to BellaBloo's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Do you ever watch House? Dr. House lacks the emotion but has great intelligence. Why not do Med School? I know that doctor's have direct patient interaction as well but nurses are the first hand to be...

  7. I'm D-O-N-E !! Semester & Prereq's YAY!!

    DesertRain posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I just wanted to say today was my last final (communications class) and my A&P II and Medical Terminology final were on Tuesday. And with that....I am done done done. YIPPEE! All my prereqs are...

  8. I'm D-O-N-E !! Semester & Prereq's YAY!!

    DesertRain replied to DesertRain's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm so jealous of you pool-havers. I think that's why I want to be a nurse. LOL, so I can afford a pool. It's been 105 degrees here in Las Vegas lately, and all I have in my backyard is a big fat bull...

  9. Fingerprinting has taken over 4 months!

    DesertRain replied to DesertRain's topic in Nevada Nursing

    Uhhh that totally sucks! Most people this day and age really encourage male nurses. In my Sociology class we talked about how men in female dominated fields tend to succeed more than females. Maybe...

  10. I'm D-O-N-E !! Semester & Prereq's YAY!!

    DesertRain replied to DesertRain's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Laura, I was going to take 4 classes towards my BSN this summer too! Haha what a coincidence. But then I realized, I need a break, I can't imagine trecking through the summer and I need to just relax...

  11. Fingerprinting has taken over 4 months!

    DesertRain replied to DesertRain's topic in Nevada Nursing

    So I got to talk to about 4 different people from the Criminal History Repository and the BoN in Reno and in Las Vegas and turns out that they had received my fingerprints at one, the letters were...

  12. Advantage w/ other certs and/or licenses?

    DesertRain replied to Dornase Alpha's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I think you will have a wide array of medical knowledge that will definitely benefit you if anything. I'm not sure how it all works, but personally an RN with all that under her belt is quite...

  13. What is everyone dissecting for Anatomy Lab?

    DesertRain replied to 2008nurse2b's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    In A&P I we dissected a sheep brain and a sheep eye. In A&P II we dissected a sheep pluck (to look at lungs and heart) and a sheep heart. I think my school has some kind of sheep discount....

  14. I'm still waiting

    DesertRain replied to shippoRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    So did the person in the NY forum say they got accepted and they turned it down or did they get turned down? I'm still with that whole, no news=good news thing. I know a lot of schools will...

  15. I'm still waiting

    DesertRain replied to shippoRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Are you able to call them? I just talked to the health advisor at my school today to ask when they start informing people of acceptance and he said july. I told him I may be going to Hawaii in July...

  16. I'm still waiting

    DesertRain replied to shippoRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Mistiqx, I had no idea you hadn't heard back from them yet! That's got to be stressful. Don't let it get the best of you. You will be a nurse and you will look back on these times and think, "gosh I...

  17. I HATE this!!!!

    DesertRain replied to BellaBloo's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I had a girl like that in my class too. She had never physically seen a member in real life before and when we got to the actual direct patient contact part of our clinicals, she freaked out when she...

  18. Well gosh-darned it! That dang BP!

    DesertRain replied to couldntbhappier's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    To graduate my CNA class, one of my skills was BP, the other was catheter care. The catheter care went through smoothly. When it was time for the BP I wasn't nervous, I mean I thought I had my skills...

  19. I HATE this!!!!

    DesertRain replied to BellaBloo's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I thought that I would hate it and find it disgusting too. I also hated the LTC environment initially. But then the poop and the pee and the vomit and emptying colostomy's etc etc is meaningless to...

  20. Preparing for Applying for Nursing Program?

    DesertRain replied to TnKzMom's topic in Nevada Nursing

    woogy, i did post something on here and in the pre-nursing board on that day and then they did some updates and low and behold, my posts disappear? but yes i did inquire about that. which st. rose did...

  21. First timer here. PAX-RN question (be kind :)

    DesertRain replied to bossfrog's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Hey Jason, First of all let me just say that I commend you on your decision to pursue Nursing. Second of all, this is definitely the right place to come to with questions and support. Third of all, I...

  22. Pharmacology

    DesertRain posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Does anyone know of a book like a cliff notes type of book (lol) I can buy to get a head start on Pharmacology? I want to start reviewing this already so that it's not so foreign to me when actual...

  23. Something that I'm so SICK of hearing...

    DesertRain replied to missymarie26's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    This post really touched me. I swear I can relate to your every word! The one piece of advice that I pass along to people who are just starting prereqs and thinking about NS is this, always take what...

  24. Volunteer CNA?

    DesertRain posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Is there anyway someone could volunteer as a CNA? I was thinking that that probably poses some liability problems, but I cannot take on an actual employed, paid job at this time and was wondering if...

  25. anyone else finished but can't apply?

    DesertRain replied to catzy5's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    A friend of mine will be in his mid 40's by the time he finishes his RN. That's not my point, my point is, he just told me today that his dad (I assume has at least got to be in his 60's) just went...