djewel6

djewel6 has 4 years experience and specializes in ER, Long Term Care, Asst Living.

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1. I took NCLEX-PN and had only 85 questions!

   djewel6 replied to RLA87's topic in NCLEX

   Im stressing myself took my NCLEX-PN on Thursday morning. (I ended up almost not making my appt due to the main road being closed due to a major wreck) what shoulda taken me little over an hour to get to took me 3 hrs (yeah I allowed plenty of time t...

2. Medical Careers Institute in VA Beach

   djewel6 replied to capribry's topic in Virginia

   The cost for ADN starting in Jan is 33.6K which is 10K more then the LPN program but it also has 50% more credits. Its 15 months of very intense work btu I can tell you it does appear VA Beach has their act together. They have really awesome equiptme...

3. Medical Careers institute

   djewel6 replied to LuvWounds's topic in Virginia

   Interesting as my wife and I are transfering from LPN here in Roanoke to RN at MCI in VA Beach. Ive heard some oddball issues at NN which I cant put my finger on from what I can see the only campus worth anything is Va Beach. Hell were paying the sam...

4. ECPI/MCI LPN Program - anyone?

   djewel6 replied to kaseysmom's topic in Virginia

   Well I can agree with the drama issues. Then again my wife and I are 4 terms in and were going to switch from nights to day class to finish actually a month sooner (We'd already lost 1 really good instructor) plus the instructor who took over when we...

5. Calling yourself a "nurse"

   djewel6 replied to Jamie2887's topic in General Nursing

   Sadly that seems to be the rule rather then the norm in some facilities Ive seen in VA and NC where I or my wife have worked. To me its nothing more then the facility attempting to perpetrate a fraud on the residents/patients/family of patients to ma...

6. Calling yourself a "nurse"

   djewel6 replied to Jamie2887's topic in General Nursing

   Whats even more confusing is at least in my case Im nearly uncomfortable even treading the thin line by calling myself a student nurse. Yes we are 1/2 through LPN school at this point but to me Im not a nurse yet although they call us student nurses....

7. HELP!!!! It seems they lied about accreditation

   djewel6 posted a topic in Career Support

   My wife and I are both attending ECPI-MCI here in VA and its come to our attn along with several of our classmates they lied and claimed to be accredited when they arent. They arent listed on NLN and the one agency they claim accredited them ABHES on...

8. Pt demanded a stronger pain med

   djewel6 replied to AstrosFan's topic in Emergency

   Please dont mis-interpret what I said as being callous or negative. I indeed am an advocate for pain management however it seems that alot of people view the ER as their own personal dispensary for Contolled Substances. Having been in a situation wh...

9. Pt demanded a stronger pain med

   djewel6 replied to AstrosFan's topic in Emergency

   I saw plenty of that when I worked at an ER on the Coast of NC as a PCT. The amazing thing is the ER docs in a couple cases let loose on one patient in a very nice manner. They were being such pain in the butts he gave them a 4 pack of what we prescr...

10. Highest BP you have ever seen on a pt

    djewel6 replied to nckayaker's topic in Emergency

    240/210 on a patient I had in the field while I was working EMS back in 1997.

11. Dating for Men in Nursing/Nursing School

    djewel6 replied to Raymond CA's topic in Male Students

    From my own personal experience I have to agree. Ive had friends (female) who have gone through Nursing School and I believe the statistics are like 60-70% of marriages will fail/end in divorce during Nursing School (That statistic may in fact be low...

12. Male CNA's or STNA's?

    djewel6 replied to jazz404's topic in CNA/MA

    Well being a Male CNA I can speak directly to the issue. Its not viewed the same as it used to be in fact some facilities and even Hospital Units prefer males (Pysch, ER/ED). Ive worked both in Long Term Care and Hospital settings, even Home Health, ...