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  1. MN license post NCLEX

    harvestmoon replied to harvestmoon's topic in General Nursing

    So, on COVID MNBON seems to be just as speedy. Tested Friday at 0800 and had a license Monday

  2. type of nurse?

    harvestmoon posted a topic in General Students

    I'm 58 this year and I have all my prereqs done but at this point in life I wonder if RN is really reasonable. I will have to stop working to get my ADN and I've been working as a phlebotomist for a...

  3. type of nurse?

    harvestmoon replied to harvestmoon's topic in General Students

    Took NCLEX 2 days ago. Looks like I'm an RN. Working as a nursing assistant and putting out resumes in COVID era, I'm not expecting a whole lot. Happy to have a job and

  4. Super Lost finding a Nursing School.. HELP!

    harvestmoon replied to Slcali's topic in Chamberlain College

    MN MANE schools do not require a CNA. I think MCTC does though. There is no in/out state tuition at the CC level. Compared to CA, MN is incredibly cheap in real estate (rental market in MSP is tough...

  5. As a Nurse, is it normal to be pushed around doing different jobs at the place you work?

    harvestmoon replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    so before I got into health care I was a sous. One day we were so understaffed that the VP of the hotel came down to the kitchen and told me he was at my disposal. He prepped, washed dishes, ran to...

  6. Straight Into Mental Health Nursing?

    harvestmoon replied to slove2718's topic in General Nursing

    I can only speak to this part of your post, having taking the NCLEX yesterday and celebrating 60 years on the Earth in a few

  7. New Grad struggling to land hospital job!! Advice needed!

    harvestmoon replied to nurseynurse21's topic in General Nursing

    I decided to work as an NA in Med Surg. I personally don't think working home health as a new grad RN is in my (or the patient's) best interests. I figure this gets my foot in the door and I have a...

  8. Aspen university or western govenors for BSN-MSN

    harvestmoon replied to CjoRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    The fastest I've seen for WGU is 40 days and 3 months is the next fastest. Very encouraging, especially these

  9. Regionally-accredited RN to BSN with no in-person clinicals/preceptorship or group work?

    harvestmoon replied to joyfulwellrichwise's topic in Online Distance Learning

    This is no longer the case (WGU work

  10. Difficulty landing hospital job as New Grad RN

    harvestmoon replied to MuasRN's topic in General Nursing

    I just graduated also (from a MANE program) and our instructors told us to seriously consider working as nursing assistants until the RN jobs roll in. I don't know where in MN you are but there are...

  11. type of nurse?

    harvestmoon replied to harvestmoon's topic in General Students

    thank

  12. type of nurse?

    harvestmoon replied to harvestmoon's topic in General Students

    update from May 2020, ADN

  13. Would you help out at a hospital as a nursing student?

    harvestmoon replied to kitttyy's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Not without health insurance. I would only do it on a limited basis, ensure any sickness would not preclude my graduation from school, and with appropriate

  14. Pearson closes testing centers in US and Canada

    harvestmoon replied to Brightlight77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    That's the way I'm reading the

  15. Any RN student clinicals cancelled because of COVID-19?

    harvestmoon replied to llg's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Crickets on academic end - they're supposed to be figuring that out in the next (now 2) weeks and just started that process today. I don't expect to hear anything until Friday. But honestly,...

  16. Acute COVID, What We're Seeing

    harvestmoon replied to MunoRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    the myocarditis / EF aspect of the virus has been making the rounds of the medicine board on reddit for (what seems like) a week

  17. Any RN student clinicals cancelled because of COVID-19?

    harvestmoon replied to llg's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Minneapolis - all hospitals. I had planned to sit for NCLEX in June so this really kinda sucks, but I'm alive and healthy and not intubated in the ICU, so I got that going for

  18. Any RN student clinicals cancelled because of COVID-19?

    harvestmoon replied to llg's topic in Disaster Preparation

    today was supposed to be our last day of Spring break. we now have school completely suspended (not just online but no school whatsoever) for 2 weeks. I know all our hospitals where we had been...

  19. What Is One’s Opinion If You See A Man Wearing a Dansko Shoes?

    harvestmoon replied to Ben_Dover's topic in General Nursing

    I honestly would either be checking them out (cute or not) and that's about it. I used to be a line cook so I'm very familiar with men in Danskos but honestly they look nothing like "female" shoes to...

  20. MINNESOTA ER Nurses

    harvestmoon replied to RNWillmeng's topic in Emergency

    minnesota nice means passive agressive to your face and talking behind your back. it is based on false fronts. it isn't meant to be sinister - it is just that they can't manage to be blunt to your...

  21. pvcs bigemy medsurg

    harvestmoon replied to pvcsbig's topic in General Nursing

    FWIW I had a 48-hour Holter recently with low of 32, runs of SVT to 130, bigimeny and trigimeny consistently and PCP said Cards said it was

  22. Code Blue: Just Trying Figure Out What Happened?

    harvestmoon replied to Binz's topic in General Nursing

    We are browsing after a full day of cramming for finals. ? brains are quite full at this

  23. Case Study(CSI): Stomach flu? Anxiety? What's Going on Here?

    harvestmoon replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical Care

    So in clinicals (so far just TCU, next semester we do acute care) I see Zofran all the time FWIW. I"m in the USA midwest. It is used prophylatically I think but when I had hyperemesis with my last...

  24. Case Study(CSI): Stomach flu? Anxiety? What's Going on Here?

    harvestmoon replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical Care

    OMG I'm an idiot. I thought she had come to UC, not PCP. thanks... ok, i just read over the presentation again and the labs and am missing the thyroid (due to presentation wide eyes and tachy) and...

  25. Case Study(CSI): Stomach flu? Anxiety? What's Going on Here?

    harvestmoon replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical Care

    I'm just a nursing student but I would ask for serial EKGs and trops (x3) and see how they trend, give Zofran and check for edema (HTN? vs HF), listen to lungs (L HF), draw the rainbow (coag, lytes,...