RNDude

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  1. I Found A Ns With Noo Waiting List

    RNDude replied to ladycool's topic in US Territories, Puerto Rico

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you shouldn't PM people. I just think a thread about a nursng school with no wait would be more useful if it actually contained the name of the school, or a

  2. I Found A Ns With Noo Waiting List

    RNDude replied to ladycool's topic in US Territories, Puerto Rico

    Could you please post a link for anyone interested to follow, or at least a school name? Leaving that to private messages kind of defeats the purpose of an open forum.

  3. Finding a job a New Grad, Help!!

    RNDude replied to pupnurse's topic in California Nursing

    The best thing you can do, in my opinion, is start attending nursing career fairs in your area (Advance & Nursing Spectrum). You'll meet the recruiters there and get dates for open house events...

  4. SciAm article: BiDil and ethnic drugs

    RNDude replied to diamondmeadows's topic in General Nursing

    The social concerns are valid. Regardless, it's realistic that genetic differences between people make them respond to drugs differently. Racial categories have not proven to be very reliable...

  5. Holy Cross in Mission Hills, CA

    RNDude replied to Michellex1013's topic in California Nursing

    Providence Holy Cross is well respected in the area. I know someone who works there and loves the place. Mission Hills has a lot of areas I would not recommend living in. Fortunately, Holy Cross is...

  6. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    RNDude replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    Please, please tell me this was just an attempt at humor in poor taste and not a serious brainstorm of someone taking care of

  7. Worried re Insurance/cobra woes. Advice?

    RNDude replied to nurseaboveboard's topic in General Nursing

    Have you tried getting quotes for your own insurance policy instead of COBRA? That's what I did, for about half the

  8. Northridge hospital medical center

    RNDude replied to flyingfish2u's topic in California Nursing

    Yes, they are union. They train new grads using the impressive Versant RN Residency program, which is making a big investment in new employees. If you consider the hourly wage low for new grads (I...

  9. Anyone graduate from ANTELOPE VALLEY COLLEGE

    RNDude replied to S-Rank's topic in California Nursing

    Antelope Valley College has a great program, with a wait shorter than most in the region. For me it was worth commuting an hour each way to go to that particular ADN program. If you look at the BRN...

  10. FollowUp to "Was I Out Of Line?" - Walking C Spine Injuries

    RNDude replied to TrudyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Anecdotally, I heard of a trail mortorbiker who fractured his c-spine in a high-g landing. Supposedly, he parked his bike gently against a tree and walked for a short distance before the fracture...

  11. NYC: To Join a Union or NOT?

    RNDude replied to nyforlove's topic in General Nursing

    If I may make I suggestion, you may wish to edit your post to remove the email address, and request that the poster who quoted you do the same. Spammers have automated programs ("robots") that scour...

  12. Male RN gets to pay more?

    RNDude replied to churro's topic in General Nursing

    It is illegal for a company to have a policy of paying or promoting on the basis of sex. However, male workers still often get paid more doing the same jobs through hidden biases and indirect effects...

  13. Migraines! How do you deal with this?

    RNDude replied to preciousbaby621's topic in General Nursing

    My aura starts out as a dark spot in my visual field, exactly like the spot you see if you accidentally look at a bright light (in fact a spot caused by an actual bright light can make me panic that...

  14. Nursing and migraines

    RNDude replied to Hoosiernurse's topic in General Nursing

    I got through nursing school myself with classic migraines (migraine with aura) that I get a few times a year. There were occasional accommodations that were made for me, such as making up some...

  15. Who watches your kids during summer hours?

    RNDude replied to lizzyberry's topic in General Nursing

    There is a project for creating a parents' guide for scheduling childcare help with each other in a coop arrangement. It seems to me that in a large shiftworker facility like a hospital, there are...

  16. How soon did it took you to find a job?

    RNDude replied to azabache21's topic in First Year After Licensure

    While I can respect your approach, it's worth pointing out that many hospitals have elaborate new grad paid training programs (weeks to months at full nursing pay rates) that start shortly after...

  17. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    RNDude replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a first-semester nursing student, I found a patient sitting on her dislodged Foley (ex-Foley-ated?) . The nurse I informed yanked it out from under the patient's bottom and put it right...

  18. So I lost it? Am I out of Line?

    RNDude replied to fizz2Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Are you implying that your hospital doesn't consider drpped meds

  19. Can a MD take the NCLEX?

    RNDude replied to JohnJeff's topic in International Nursing

    Nope, sorry. Although it is common for MDs from the Philippines and elsewhere to come here to work as nurses, they must first graduate from a nursing school that qualifies them to apply for the...

  20. voice recorder

    RNDude replied to us4halls's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Uh, sorry for the confusion, but, are you saying you love using a tape recorder instead of the Olympus, or are you calling the Olympus itself a "tape recorder?" (It's not, there's not tape--that's...

  21. Would Love To See A Forum With Scenerios For Icu

    RNDude replied to Freshman RN's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe you could start a thread and post the first one in the Critical Care Forum on

  22. voice recorder

    RNDude replied to us4halls's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I tried two models, the Panasonic RR-US380 and the Olympus VN-960PC. The Olympus gave me better audio results, by far, and is the one that I kept to record lectures throughout nursing school. Both...

  23. I think Ive met that ONE person....

    RNDude replied to TraumaGirl1018's topic in General Nursing

    After becoming friends, did you ever discuss your first impressions of her? I'm not suggesting you do if you haven't, just wondering how that went if you

  24. PDA/Cell Combos OK??

    RNDude replied to jadedgreeneyes's topic in General Nursing

    Besides a PDA being much less useful if it doesn't have Internet access all the time, as it would if it were your cell phone as well (think of your home computer without Internet access), having two...

  25. PDA/Cell Combos OK??

    RNDude replied to jadedgreeneyes's topic in General Nursing

    I used a PDA/phone combo throughout my nursing program (PPC-6600, then PPC-6700). It was very useful to have, but not so much for the reasons I had originally expected. I had planned to get a lot of...