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  1. Who else is excited about starting grad school?!!

    krisssy replied to christvs's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I have a new XL Dell with Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word is a must. I go to school online,so I didn't need a lap top. It may be different for on campus programs. I borrowed my sons's laptop when I...

  2. Who else is excited about starting grad school?!!

    krisssy replied to christvs's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I just completed my first course in graduate school. It was a theory course, and I loved it. The reading and posting was so interesting. We worked in small internet groups. It was a lot of work,...

  3. choosing a specialty and personality type?

    krisssy replied to TRousse's topic in Nursing Career

    Is anyone an ISFJ? If so, what kind of nursing do you do? Like the last poster, I keep changing my mind. I like so many different areas. There is so much open to nurses now. Thanks.

  4. choosing a specialty and personality type?

    krisssy replied to TRousse's topic in Nursing Career

    Even though I am an ISFJ, I like to do what you like to do. If you like philosophical discussions, go for your MS in nursing. That's what I am doing, and I love the online discussions in the theory...

  5. choosing a specialty and personality type?

    krisssy replied to TRousse's topic in Nursing Career

    I am ISFJ. I was a nurse, an elementary school teacher, then nurse. Why did you leave teaching?

  6. NP w/no desire for RN?

    krisssy replied to Pinoy2.0's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hi! I have been reading all your posts. I am curious. In my case, do you think I can go to nurse practitioner school for Psych? My experience : graduated with a BSN in 1969-I am a certified RN in...

  7. NP w/no desire for RN?

    krisssy replied to Pinoy2.0's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This is a most interesting debate. I am an RN with only two years of experience as a school nurse teacher. When they did away with school nurse teachers, they did away with the pay too. So school...

  8. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    krisssy replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    You must take care of yourself before you can help others. Can you apply for social security disability and then get medicare? You can get ss disability for mental illness, and then you get Medicare...

  9. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    krisssy replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Experience will make a big difference. I felt the same way in nursing school. I would post this in a different area where you will get more answers from experienced nurses. You don't need to have...

  10. graduate school for nurses

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Post Graduate Students

    HI, Perhaps you could get your masters in one followed by a post master program in the other. I am very pleased with my school too. (University of Missouri-Columbia) My advisor is wonderful. She...

  11. Diploma Program ?

    krisssy replied to SueNYC's topic in New York Nursing

    You know how things keep fading out and coming back? It happens in education a lot. For instance, phonics and the whole language approach keep changing places in the realm of what is better at the...

  12. graduate school for nurses

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Post Graduate Students

    How many courses at a time did you take? I am only in my first semester. I have to take graduate statistics this summer and then research in the fall. So far I have just taken theory this...

  13. graduate school for nurses

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Hi, I am also taking an online graduate program. My specialty is psych. I am almost finished with my first course-theory. I enjoyed learning about what different theorists had to say. I hope I can...

  14. Diploma Program ?

    krisssy replied to SueNYC's topic in New York Nursing

    Years ago, they had diploma programs where you would live at the hospital and get a diploma in three years. I guess they still have some, but most nursing schools used to be like that. The hands on...

  15. NP w/no desire for RN?

    krisssy replied to Pinoy2.0's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    After reading all this for months, I think I have made my decision . I am enrolled in graduate school for an MS in nursing and loving it. I am going to be living in Fla. for the winters and NY...

  16. Long Island Nurses Please Read!

    krisssy posted a topic in New York Nursing

    Hi, Does anyone know of a reentry or residency program for an inexperienced nurse? I graduated a long time ago, and my only experience is as a school nurse teacher. I also took a refresher course at...

  17. Long Island Nurses Please Read!

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in New York Nursing

    Suzanne, Yes I have a current RN in the state of NY. I also have a BSN, and I am working toward an MSN. I took the refresher course at Molloy College a few years ago. I did well, but I need more...

  18. My friend is in trouble. Any diabetic nurse educators out there?

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in General Nursing

    The article that I just described says the same thing about words like non compliant. I will get back to you about what they said exactly later.

  19. My friend is in trouble. Any diabetic nurse educators out there?

    krisssy posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am looking for a diabetic educator or anyone else familiar in the care of diabetus. I have a very close friend of 58 who has tyoe 2 diabetus. She has had it for many years. She is overweight, and...

  20. My friend is in trouble. Any diabetic nurse educators out there?

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in General Nursing

    Oh thank you so much for asking. My friend decided to take the Byetta. It has helped in that she feels better when she awakens in the morning. But, it has not helped with her diet problems at all....

  21. graduate school for nurses

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I am attending Missouri University online graduate school, and I like it very much. There is no thesis.

  22. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    krisssy replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    my point was that i have not been taught anything about rodgers or watson in my theory course. i am now reading about pender's health promotion model. "the movement to greater responsibility and...

  23. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    krisssy replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    First of all, I have not come across a nursing theorist who promotes gnosticism, mysticism, religion, the 60's drug culture or anything like that since beginning my graduate nursing theories course...

  24. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    krisssy replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I would like to bring this thread up again. I was reading it before I started my graduate theory course. I have, somewhat, of a different perspective now. I have been taking this course since Jan.,...

  25. NP w/no desire for RN?

    krisssy replied to Pinoy2.0's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    that sounds like a great plan. i used to be a teacher, and that's what we did. we got our bachelor's degree and then went on to get our master's and then specialty degrees while we were working. we...