CT Pixie BSN, RN

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    Cover Letters. Neccesary or waste of time?

    CT Pixie replied to BostonRN13's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I always send one. I get a little rattled when there is no place to attach or create a cover letter. As the other poster stated, just by glancing at my resume' you don't really get the whole picture...
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    Help i missed my license renewal

    CT Pixie replied to sharocookiesnbdva's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    maybe posting to the Arkansas AN site would generate more answers. other than contact your BON ASAP, I really have no knowledge of the workings of the Arkanasas
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    Pearson Vue Trick and Official Results.

    CT Pixie replied to sunshinee's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    If you are asking if your 'quick results' w/Pearson Vue will be held up b/c Monday is a Federal holiday, the answer is no, you can still get your results on a holiday. Several of my friends 48 hr mark...
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    Nclex whiteboard limit decision tree

    CT Pixie replied to asdfg12345's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    If I'm not mistaken, if you need another white board (they don't allow you to erase anything on the white board), they will take the 'old' one
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    LPN TO RN BRIDGE

    CT Pixie replied to fairyluv's topic in LPN to RN

    It depends on the State you are in. From what I've read, some states don't have a bridge program. My State has a select few schools that have an LPN to RN bridge program. The entire program is...
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    A patient expired! Cannot figure it out why!

    CT Pixie replied to NP2B2016's topic in General Nursing

    Hip surgery and unexpected death, to me screams fat emboli from the hip fracture going to the lungs. I'm with the others most likely
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    Duck Dynasty Fever ?

    CT Pixie replied to ISeeYou3100's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    hahaha DD cups, leave it to a man to notice
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    Duck Dynasty Fever ?

    CT Pixie replied to ISeeYou3100's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I actually like the name Jase. It was a name we were considering for our last born, but 'he' turned out to be a 'she'. This was years before DD. I actually prefer Jase to Jasen/Jason
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    Duck Dynasty Fever ?

    CT Pixie replied to ISeeYou3100's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Really? Which ones Bortaz? I'm a big Game of Thrones fan but I can't think of one name I'd use for my child (save the more traditional and common ones like Rob, Will,
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    Sequential Order Questions

    CT Pixie replied to snmzelle's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    When I said, "I think they are looking for the order you do each step for each procedure/treatment they listed (separately)." I meant 'they' as in the original poster, not as in NCLEX. i'm thinking...
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    Oldest in cohort...feeling out of place

    CT Pixie replied to melc0305's topic in General Students

    I was a few months away from the oldest cohort in my LPN program(I started a month before turning 38). I was a few years from the oldest cohort in my RN program. But I was the oldest female in the RN...
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    Calculations

    CT Pixie replied to BrandyGuynn's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    kg to lbs c to f mcg to mg or g or any variation of that oz to mL L to
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    Sequential Order Questions

    CT Pixie replied to snmzelle's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I think they are looking for the order you do each step for each procedure/treatment they listed
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    Sequential Order Questions

    CT Pixie replied to snmzelle's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I would assume in your nursing text books. Thats where I learned the
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    Disposing of medication rolls with patient names

    CT Pixie replied to QABSN's topic in General Nursing

    This is exactly what we do in my facility. Tear of the top w/pt info and throw it in the locked bin for shredding. Anything that can't be shredded, the info gets blacked
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    Most commonly seen diagnoses at SNF/LTC?

    CT Pixie replied to JPN_RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    DM, COPD, HTN, CHF, ESRD, dementia, Alzheimer's, lots of cardiac
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    How old were you when you started Nursing School?

    CT Pixie replied to NursingStudentMomof3's topic in General Students

    Started my LPN program a month before I turned 38 graduated and licensed a few months after turning 39 My children were 5 and 15 when I started. Started my LPN to RN program a few months after turning...
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    I screwed up - Missing Nclex appointment

    CT Pixie replied to equalme's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    If you've already got it scheduled and you will have to pay the fee to PearsonVue and possibly your BON if you don't test on Monday, why not just test and see what happens. You may be more ready than...
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    Superstitions???

    CT Pixie replied to BeansMama's topic in General Students

    I used the same pen/pencil for tests and quizzes in my RN program (thankfully they lasted me the entire program because I only used them for that). The two times I forgot my 'special' pen I did very...
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    What did/do you dissect in A&P lab?

    CT Pixie replied to __patiently_waiting's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Fetal pig in A&P for community college, as well as cow eye, sheep brain. In my RN program A&P we didn't dissect anything
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    Which of the sciences did you find hardest?

    CT Pixie replied to mmcc26's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    OMG! Chem! Hated it, still really don't 'get' it fully. Thanfully I had a chem professor that loved his job (chemistry) and teaching about it. Without him, I would have never passed it and certainly...
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    OMG! *I* cannot pronounce death but a paramedic can????

    CT Pixie replied to nervousnurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    In my State an RN in LTC/SNF can pronounce a patient as long as they are a DNR. LPN's cannot. A DNR patient will/must have CPT initiated and continued until the ambulance arrives, they then take over....
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    Please tell me why you dreamed of being a nurse from a young age

    CT Pixie replied to avhoney's topic in General Nursing

    Like NurseDirtyBird, I would read things on the human body and medically related books for 'fun' even when in grammar school. I was always drawn to any television program that was even remotely...
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    NCLEX PN AND PEARSON VUE Registration!!!!

    CT Pixie replied to studentkt88's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Our State BON had instructions to apply to Pearson Vue prior to applying to the State BON. I did both at the same time as my application to Pearson Vue was done online and my State BON application was...
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    Funniest or worst PDN notes.

    CT Pixie replied to KATRN78's topic in Private Duty

    We were taught not to use appears or seems also. We were taught to write what exactly causes us to think this. IE: Pt appears tired vs pt rubbing eyes, yawning, heavy eyes blah blah