Luvelyone

Luvelyone

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  1. Nursing shortage by state?

    here is the link from modrn magazine website.
  2. State of nursing career in america?

    i am still a student but i would just say this; if the only reason you are considering nursing is for the salary, don't. you have to love helping people. there are other professionals where you can...
  3. nursing care of adults iv was the course that caused the most people to flunk out. the instructor does not give out handouts and does not teach by the textbook. she gives frequent exams that are all...
  4. there is supposed to be this huge nursing shortage but i surely can't tell. i am in the rn program at my school and after the first year of clinicals, you qualify to sit for the pn examination and...
  5. Nursing Shortage? Yeah right...

    now that you explain it that way, it makes a little more sense to
  6. Nursing Shortage? Yeah right...

    here is something that i do not understand: knowing that our local hospital has an rn shortage and knowing that a few of the local school allow students to graduate & get their lpn after the first...
  7. i can remember on one of my med surg clinical rotations, i was assigned an 86 year old patient that had chf and pneumonia. i did my assessment around 3 pm. the patient had very labored breathing, 86%...
  8. Try this for Stressfull

    congratulations on the new baby and passing
  9. omg! i so know how you feel! i spend my entire day reading posts here, studying for next semester online and looking for jobs (just got my lpn)...i sit in front of a computer at work all day, answer...
  10. When to dismiss your doctor!

    i found this interesting link for an article on when is a good time to begin looking for another doctor. just thought i would share it. http://body.aol.com/health/10-signs-to-dismiss-your-doctor...
  11. Flip, Turn, Crush & Smear

    i called one of my classmates and she said the same thing as someone above....that we can crush pills still in the packet but that she also remembers us being told that the pill crushers were removed...
  12. Flip, Turn, Crush & Smear

    that's interesting. in my nursing program, we are being told not to crush pulls, and the pill crusher in the med room was removed. supposedly it is a jcaho violation...just
  13. Nursing Shortage? Yeah right...

    that's a thought. we only have 5 acute hospitals in our state, besides a few rehab, long term, and mental health facilites...and there are 5 schools cranking out rns and an additional 4 places...
  14. since i am not working as a lpn this summer :angryfire , i decided to spend a few hours per week studying for my fall classes as i have heard my med/surg iv instructor fails the most people out of the...
  15. Say What??????!!!!!!!!!!

    ok...this one almost made me pee my pants...you would have owed me a $2.95 dry cleaning fee.
  16. does anybody NOT like nicu???

    i have never worked nicu but did part of my maternity i clinical rotation in the nicu. i hated every minute of it. all those babies on all the tubes and machine... i spent 4 hours rocking a heroin...
  17. Help Figuring Out ABGs!!!

    that's are really easy way to remember it.
  18. Moving to Baltimore--quiet/safe areas to live?

    if your husband is going to be at ft. meade, check into the odenton area. it's really a nice area and very close to arundel mills - a huge shopping mall where the majority of the stores are outlets....
  19. Moving to Baltimore--quiet/safe areas to live?

    I moved to Delaware from Owings Mills. Check there. You'll love the area, the mall, and you can park at the subway station and catch the train all the way to Hopkins as it has it's own subway stop. I...
  20. What do you do with DISRUPTIVE classmates?

    yes. change your seat. we had one of those in my med/surg classes that was a "me too". every disease we discussed, someone in her family had or she had. and the teachers continually allowed her to...
  21. Any BSN programs during evenings or weekends?

    i go to a night/weekend nursing program in dover, delaware. as a single mom, i couldn't afford to go to school full time and not work. now, i am able to do
  22. DTCC Student

    congratulations....how was nur271? who did you
  23. Second-career? what was the first?

    You never lied on that one! I am so sick of working in an office with catty people!
  24. Plus size nursing students

    i had the same fear (i wear an 18) because my school "required" us to get all of our scrubs from a local store that they had chosed. i was relieved when i found that the store sold scrubs up to size...
  25. Second-career? what was the first?

    i work for the government (enough said). i will be going into my final year of the rn program in the fall; will graduate may 2008. i can't