gauge14iv

gauge14iv MSN, APRN, NP

ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP

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  1. El Centro students Spring '06

    gauge14iv replied to AllyRN82's topic in Texas Nursing

    The only semester that will crawl by is the very last one - and it will take f o r e v e

  2. Tarrant County College?

    gauge14iv replied to momto2beauties's topic in Texas Nursing

    Just be sure they have your cell phone number!!! I was an alternate too - so I made plans to take a few more courses towards my BS and resigned myself to applying for the following semester. I got...

  3. Group One background checks in Texas

    gauge14iv replied to edgreen's topic in Texas Nursing

    I know a lot of people think that Group One is only in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas - but they aren't - they are all over Texas AND they are growing across the country. Just because you don't work...

  4. Group One background checks in Texas

    gauge14iv replied to edgreen's topic in Texas Nursing

    Why don't you actually JOIN so you get updated? You know - they help both members and non-members alike. But I could not believe such a small percentage of RN's in Texas were members of their own...

  5. Group One background checks in Texas

    gauge14iv replied to edgreen's topic in Texas Nursing

    How can TNA have a "record" that matters to an andividual if that individual has never bothered to get involved? I spoke with someone at TNA this am about Group One - these ARE things that are being...

  6. Group One background checks in Texas

    gauge14iv replied to edgreen's topic in Texas Nursing

    I do have one more thing I'd like to add to this thread. I am not a fan of complaining without offering solutions. It peeves me to no end to hear people whine and moan and complain who then do...

  7. Tarrant County College?

    gauge14iv replied to momto2beauties's topic in Texas Nursing

    Congrats Brealynn! :balloons: :balloons: I have been following you all! Now I will be waiting to hear about the others

  8. Group One background checks in Texas

    gauge14iv replied to edgreen's topic in Texas Nursing

    The use of Group One blacklisting in a Safe Harbor situation should go against whistleblower protections...it would seem. A nurse who is advocating for patient safety and does so through the proper...

  9. What is this called? (stupid question)

    gauge14iv replied to mommy2boys's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The plastic little tubby types that fit in the toilet just do not offer anywhere near the same relief that the surgigators do. Totally different! I think I cried all the way through every one of the...

  10. extra clothes

    gauge14iv replied to nursecher's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Seems like it would be cheaper to use a patch that could be placed on a certain uniform - then at least the patch could be removed and the uniform worn later! AND they wouldnt be 73 darn dollars!!!!...

  11. North Lake/El Centro - Fall '06!

    gauge14iv replied to Fun2's topic in General Students

    well...he is in the process of making some decisions - something major changed since he applied so we will see. So just hold off buying one

  12. PDA becoming a necessity pdq :)

    gauge14iv replied to ree-nee's topic in Texas Nursing

    You don't use it to store personal info about the patient - you use it to store your drug ref book, your lab manual and other references on. From a standpoint of home health however or say NP or MD -...

  13. North Lake/El Centro - Fall '06!

    gauge14iv replied to Fun2's topic in General Students

    I have a lab handbook here for you if you want it. It's Davis - might be a year or two old, but I bought another one that they required as part of my program so I don't need it. Lab info doesn't...

  14. North Lake/El Centro - Fall '06!

    gauge14iv replied to Fun2's topic in General Students

    Mosby's Clinical Nursing is a great book for care plan writing! I used it when I went through my ADN program, used a newer version in my BS program and still use it in my MS

  15. Group One background checks in Texas

    gauge14iv replied to edgreen's topic in Texas Nursing

    Even smarter!!! A temporary situation and you are going to base a permanant career choice on it. Frankly - I wouldn't give it a second thought - I'd do what I had always dreamed of doing and I...

  16. Group One background checks in Texas

    gauge14iv replied to edgreen's topic in Texas Nursing

    Criminals cannot be licensed in Texas IF the BNE is aware they are criminals without a long and arduous investigation process depending on the type and level of crime. However - some people commit...

  17. Group One background checks in Texas

    gauge14iv replied to edgreen's topic in Texas Nursing

    It was orginally designed with the concept that they could keep people with criminal backgrounds out of the facilities - good intent. And I believe it is still used this way. However, certain...

  18. Group One background checks in Texas

    gauge14iv replied to edgreen's topic in Texas Nursing

    http://www.dfwhc.org/groupone/Fair+Credit+Reporting+Act/ If they are experts in the FCRA, then to counter them, you must be too. And the list posted earlier by another poster was highly...

  19. Group One background checks in Texas

    gauge14iv replied to edgreen's topic in Texas Nursing

    You can complain and you can go work in some other city and you can stay out of nursing or whatever you decide to do, but this *IS* a growing practice, it *IS* spreading - and not just in healthcare...

  20. Lactaction consultant on my 3rd baby

    gauge14iv replied to abckidsmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Actually there are many more than 7 believe it or not. What shocked me when I started studying this is how many pages they all contain! And how much physiology and endocrinology is actually involved -...

  21. Lactaction consultant on my 3rd baby

    gauge14iv replied to abckidsmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Yeah the sidelying thing is outright not true and I have 7 (count em) lactation textbooks to prove it. As the others have said (and as I said to the LC who was entirely put out that I didn't want to...

  22. Group One background checks in Texas

    gauge14iv replied to edgreen's topic in Texas Nursing

    So you would let them keep you out of nursing? Way to show

  23. Dallas Hospitals!!!!!

    gauge14iv replied to TCUFrogs!'s topic in Texas Nursing

    Not to discourage but ALL nursing schools are going to be

  24. How long before NPs will be able to do surgery solo?

    gauge14iv replied to platon20's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The original post carries the faint whiff of

  25. Good vibes and prayers for Fun2Care!

    gauge14iv replied to Race Mom's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    And when is that party at