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I am going to have to respectfully disagree with everyone who is telling you not to go for this position. I worked a front-desk position at a physicians office while in nursing school and several years prior. This gave me invaluable experience that h...

Just got my acceptance letter for Southside Regional Medical Center for Spring 2010!! Anyone else get good news!!???

Where would one go to report issues occuring in a Nursing program if all options have been exhausted. For example; complaints with the Dean have been met with "Oh I'm sorry." I would prefer not to disclose any more details since I hope to resolve the...

So I am attending a 18-month RN diploma program at a local community hospital. The hospital, like many in our area, offers a full tuition waiver to anyone willing to sign a contract with them. They will cover 4-semesters of tuitions, state board fees...

-Frequent breaks...pretty please! -Make it fun! We have one instructor that uses all kinds of games to teach us things. I have yet to forget anything she taught in those or struggle with her test questions. -Ditto the group work. There are usually on...

TPN is delivered through a central venous catheter to prevent irritation to peripheral veins. We were told that TPN is not meant for long-term therapy.

You can plan on having classes Mon-Thus from 8:30-3:30. This varies from day-day. Sometimes we get done at 12, sometimes 10, sometimes we get stuck a little later than 3:30. Once you start clinicals you have to be at the hospital at 6:45am, then you ...

Congrats!:yeah:I'll see you at Friends and Family Night in a couple months!

I'll try to answer everyones questions at once....but thank you all for your excellent advice! red2003xlt- Yes, there is a buyout option if you decide to decline employment or do not work the total 3 years. If the hospital hs no positions open suitab...

Thanks MissBecky, I do intend to go back for my bachelors after I have been working for a year. Our program is switching to an ADN next year, not sure if we will be grandfathered in or not. Currently our program is already completing the course-load ...

Good Luck! Hope to see you this fall!

Hi there! I'm a first semester nursing student (finals next week)! I had my first patient on contact precautions yesterday for staph and it got me to thinking. I was just wondering what most of you do when you get home from work to prevent transmitti...

I'm just finishing up my first semester in NS (10 days to go!!). I would highly recommend the following: 1. Get organized, your car, your house, everything! I have a big planner that I write everything in. It keeps me alive! 2. Review A&P....you ...

I'm afraid I'm with Lauraecompton, if there is anyway possible you can start sooner I would highly recommend it. I am currently in my first semester of school and oh how I wish I had started sooner when I had the opportunity. I have put it off for th...

I will speak for myself here but.... I was in your same situation and when I spoke to the financial aid counselor at my school I was told not to input my stepfathers info since he had not legally adopted me. The FAFSA states to not put info of a lega...

I've got one even better....A young (20ish) Pt. comes in with positive flu test 3 days ago, has been on Tamiflu since then with Tylenol q4 hours. Still running a fever of 102, body aches, chills, sweating, dehydrated, hasn't eaten anything in 48 hour...

So I was recently pondering how I am going to pay for my nursing education...I thought I had it all worked out. I planned on using loans, grants and scholarships to pay tuition. I have been strongly advised by my school to not work while in the progr...

Thanks so much for your reply! I know this is a very tough personal decision I am trying to make. It is just very frustrating that the school is not offering any good advice at this point!! They tell us not to work more than 15 hours a week or "you w...

Hi there, I'm really hoping to get some advice from you wiser, more-experienced people out there. I have recently been accepted into a nursing program and I will be (god-willing) starting in January. Lately however, it has come to my attention that m...

Thanks so much guys!! I think I just need to talk less and listen more. I try to hard to reason with these difficult people and I think that just makes them angrier. Probably because they know I'm right LOL!!! It doesn't help that the doc has these "...

I've just got to the point where I feel that I am confindent/mature enough to complete a nursing program (it's been a 3-year journey). I am finishing my last pre-req this semester and set to (hopefully) start clinicals at a local hospital diploma pro...

Anyone have any visible tattoos?? How do other people (managers, pts etc.) react to them? I have a very visible tattoo on my forearm that I am worried will cause me problems later. I've never had any negative reactions to it I'm just afraid people wi...

Today I've finally put in my two weeks at my current job with MR children. I've gotten so fed up with being forced to do things I am not certified to do that today when my sup told me to lie to a parent I just had it. I'm still in the application pro...

Thanks everyone!! I'm calling around to the local nursing homes today to see what I can find out on that end!! I'm gonna follow up on all those links as well!! Thanks!

Thanks everyone! I plan on getting a review guide and studying a little every day. I'm already doing this with A&P...I've enlarged lots of diagrams and posted them on my fridge so I see them every day. And by BIO I mean just regular BIO..my progr...