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  1. Anyone working in NIH in Bethesda, MD?

    chaxanmom replied to neatnurse30's topic in Maryland Nursing

    I'm doing a clinical rotation there and I am working as a summer IRTA scholar this coming summer. I've got a couple friends working there who've been there forever. One is a PI (principal...

  2. Indiana State University BSN Thread for Current Students

    chaxanmom replied to chaxanmom's topic in Indiana State University

    Aww you are so sweet. Thank you.

  3. Indiana State University BSN Thread for Current Students

    chaxanmom replied to chaxanmom's topic in Indiana State University

    I'm doing 12 hour shifts simply because it's easier to plan and it limits how many hours of morning childcare I need to arrange. Baltimore is an hour away from me and finding a babysitter willing to...

  4. Indiana State University BSN Thread for Current Students

    chaxanmom replied to chaxanmom's topic in Indiana State University

    I don't know that there is any incentive other than that its a benefit to nursing in general. I didn't have a wait list or anything. I did notify Hopkins a few months before my semester started but...

  5. Indiana State University BSN Thread for Current Students

    chaxanmom replied to chaxanmom's topic in Indiana State University

    I don't think Brenda is at that point yet but it's gone fine for me. You send the information to the contract guy and he takes care of the contract part then you contact the hospital to arrange for a...

  6. Indiana State University BSN Thread for Current Students

    chaxanmom replied to chaxanmom's topic in Indiana State University

    I don't think the post was directed at you. :) Brenda has been posting her progress all along and I think she was just adding her thoughts to that.

  7. Indiana State University BSN Thread for Current Students

    chaxanmom replied to chaxanmom's topic in Indiana State University

    Most of your answers (probably all) can be found in the ISU threads already in existence. However, I did want to mention that I'm a military spouse too. My husband is stationed in Phillie and I'm in...

  8. Indiana State University BSN Thread for Current Students

    chaxanmom replied to chaxanmom's topic in Indiana State University

    Which challenge test did you take? Did you use the study guide? I read through each of them in about 2 weeks then took the tests so it can be done. I got A's except for the peds one. That one was...

  9. Questions about hopkins

    chaxanmom replied to NYRN05's topic in Maryland Nursing

    I was told the other night when I was there that they are in a hiring freeze. At least the department of surgery is. New grads have to do either day/night rotation or all nights. I'm not sure what...

  10. Indiana State University LPN-BSN, Recommended or not??

    chaxanmom replied to carrie42's topic in Indiana State University

    So exactly what is the school not doing that it is being paid to do? It is being paid to negotiate contracts with clinical sites that you submit info for. No more, no less. I'm still not sure where...

  11. Indiana State University BSN Thread for Current Students

    chaxanmom replied to chaxanmom's topic in Indiana State University

    I had a 4.0 when I applied to the program, I submitted my application with everything done but was just waiting on the results of that test (takes about 6 weeks). I talked to them and said I was...

  12. Indiana State University BSN Thread for Current Students

    chaxanmom replied to chaxanmom's topic in Indiana State University

    Dantes offers the equivalent but you have to do a 3-5 minute impromptu speech on whatever topic they give you and have 10 minutes to prepare. You speak it into a microphone and if you are even a...

  13. Indiana State University BSN Thread for Current Students

    chaxanmom replied to chaxanmom's topic in Indiana State University

    They do need to be taken in order but you have to take all your 300s before you can start 400s. Last semester I took 324, 318, and PE. This semester I'm taking 424, 450, and Comm 101 (you are supposed...

  14. Indiana State University LPN-BSN, Recommended or not??

    chaxanmom replied to carrie42's topic in Indiana State University

    That is not true that they do nothing to help with clinical sites. You decide where you want to go and they arrange the contract. Look, it's a school with students all over the country. Do people...

  15. Indiana State????

    chaxanmom replied to independent29's topic in Online Distance Learning

    ISU will do the legal legwork and get the contract established. When that is done you contact the facility to make arrangements for a preceptor. I wouldn't say you do ALL the legwork but its about...

  16. Indiana State University LPN-BSN, Recommended or not??

    chaxanmom replied to carrie42's topic in Indiana State University

    There are several of us here that are current students and have posted pretty extensively about it. :) In order to avoid being redundant and posting the same stuff over and over and over I'll just...

  17. Questions about Hopkins

    chaxanmom replied to AZN2009's topic in Maryland Nursing

    Just wanted to add that the bad neighborhood aspect of Hopkins hasn't been any big deal to me thus far. If you park at Orleans or McEldery (sp??) garages you can get into the hospital via skyways and...

  18. Scared to death of doing a foley insertion.

    chaxanmom replied to Koyaanisqatsi-RN's topic in General Students

    Put in a flexiseal. After that a foley will be a piece of

  19. New LPN Graduates in trouble

    chaxanmom replied to pri1mo's topic in Maryland Nursing

    I had the same problem going back to work as an LPN after 10 years off. My solution was to go back for my BSN. Perhaps taking a refresher course would make you more marketable? That was my plan had I...

  20. New grads working part-time or PRN??

    chaxanmom posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Is anyone planning on doing this? I've been a SAHM for 10 years and am just now getting back into nursing and finishing my BSN. I'm having some second thoughts about going back to full-time right away...

  21. Job crunch for new grads

    chaxanmom replied to pinkiepie_RN's topic in Maryland Nursing

    This isn't really widely known but NIH has a new grad program as well in the Clinical Center. It's highly competitive and right now just open for oncology/med-surg but they do hire new grad BSNs (with...

  22. ISU FAQ thread

    chaxanmom replied to chaxanmom's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Nope, they didn't give me a hard time. I took those three plus nursing research my first semester. You never know when they will change rules though so that may or may not be ok for fall 09. You'd...

  23. Indiana State University BSN Thread for Current Students

    chaxanmom replied to chaxanmom's topic in Indiana State University

    Just an FYI...with the goal of trying to make the ISU threads a bit easier to navigate we split them into an FAQ thread and a thread for current ISU students to discuss the program itself (once you...

  24. I think I may go get my food stamp when I graduate

    chaxanmom replied to wshy_no1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Where I live you certainly couldn't live off that. It would be difficult in several areas of the

  25. Question on Academic Honors

    chaxanmom replied to BabyLady's topic in General Students

    Oh that's a good idea to put the standard in there. I did my pre-reqs at a school whose requirement for Dean's List was 3.5 but at the school I transferred to for nursing it's a 3.75. I made the...