SummitRN BSN, RN

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    What specialty?

    SummitRN replied to cnastriving2brn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I wanted to do ICU or ER. While in nursing school, I actually learned that there were a ton of other interesting specialties that I would enjoy doing. However, I also learned that I liked ICU and ER...
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    Alternative Therapies with Western medical model

    SummitRN replied to boywork's topic in Patient Education

    What do you call Alternative Medicine that has many double-blind studies strongly supporting its effectiveness published in highly respected peer reviewed journals? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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    Should You Commute To Nursing School?

    SummitRN replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    My commute was 1.25-2hrs each way depending. The trick is to make your commute time
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    If you weren't a nurse, what would you have become?

    SummitRN replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    If motivated, I'd have finished engineering, not liked it as a job, and gone to med school. Otherwise: Paramedic +
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    I want to be a nurse with a 9-5 job w/ weekends and holidays off

    SummitRN replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    There was a job like that posted. Must have experience, BSN, bilingual... paid $22.50/hr in a community where the median single-family home price is
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    Tips on Choosing First Patient

    SummitRN replied to zTracks's topic in General Students

    It is your first patient. Just pick one. You will probably learn just as much from any your first
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    nurses and EMT's

    SummitRN replied to phieud's topic in Emergency

    An EMT could be a highschool dropout who went through a 2 week shake-and-bake EMT course, and is driving the dialysis van, and doesn't know what a fistula is. An EMT could have a BS in Biology, took...
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    Nursing: Then and Now

    SummitRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    OP thanks for the post. I'm glad I'm not living in the NOW. THEN doesn't stack up to NOW in any respect except the quality of the people who did the
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    Pay Grade: Having an AS vs. a BS

    SummitRN replied to MsAlba's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Where I worked, the difference was about $1.50/hr for new nurses... if the ADN/ASN could get a job... and then the ADN/ASN would not see the major pay raise most BSNs received after 2 years... unless...
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    Hourly wage with "normal" hours (South)

    SummitRN replied to oldeddieboy's topic in General Nursing

    Nobody makes 100K on a day shift with no OT unless they live in places like parts of CA or NYC where a a studio apartment is $4K/mo. It's all about cost of living, not your salary
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    How to fail clinical

    SummitRN replied to cnmbfa's topic in General Students

    Don't show up for your Mental Health rotation at the VA dressed like this: You'll definitely fail clinical... unless you get choked out from behind first. On a serious note, a nursing school dressed...
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    Your Starting Salary?

    SummitRN replied to x_factor's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Denver new grads are making $21.50-$24/hr + dif in the hospitals, which comes out to 40-45K before the $1.50-$3/hr dif. ... that is for those who can get a
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    Coffee Is My Medicine

    SummitRN replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    I have some blood in my caffeine
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    ER Tech

    SummitRN replied to qxvu85's topic in General Students

    Programs like this have a poor reputation and tend to teach "cook book medicine" and "teach the test." They do not have good outcomes for students who were not already higher level medical providers....
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    Does where you go to school matter?

    SummitRN replied to tortorRN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    It matters for your first job and maybe for your second job if you have a short tenure at your first. These are the hardest jobs to get and can shape the direction of your career for years. So, yes,...
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    APA Format and You...

    SummitRN replied to RainbowDash's topic in General Students

    Do you have a RUNNING HEAD? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Better go catch
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    "IVP during a contraction to reduce drug transport across the placenta"

    SummitRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Theory (as presented by my friend's CNM prof): Reduced blood-flow to the placenta during a contraction means that less undesirable drug X will be delivered to the fetus than if you give the IVP not...
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    ER Tech

    SummitRN replied to qxvu85's topic in General Students

    Absolutely not. The education is very different. No state lets nursing students challenge for an EMT cert. Some states may allow RNs (not students) who are also EMTs to challenge or bridge to...
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    All of a sudden an ASN is no good anymore

    SummitRN replied to pattyslattery's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I'd wager that the OP's problem with getting a job is attitude, not a lack of
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    Obstetrics Clinicals SCARE me so much im considering dropping out :(

    SummitRN replied to canadiandude's topic in Male Nursing Students

    It will work out dude... just watch out, sometimes after the baby pops out, there's a giant vacuum that sucks unsuspecting nursing students into the uterus. Make sure you have a good grip on something...
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    There is always one..

    SummitRN replied to wbrown06's topic in General Students

    LCinTraining is spot on. Back to the topic: The professor needs to handle the situation appropriately, discussing the issue with the student after class and suggesting they defer stories and...
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    Help Wanted: 2 years and still no good job.

    SummitRN replied to Violet_roses's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Good luck. Around here the hospitals are laying off LPNs and even the RN med surg jobs want 2 years acute care experience
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    You're Hired!: The New World Of Hiring Nurses??

    SummitRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    3 Positions get posted. The problem they have is how to cut down 500 resumes to 9 to interview. Toss out the ADN new grads, they still have 400. So then they throw out the BSN new grads, they have...
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    Denver School of Nursing is now NLNAC Accredited!

    SummitRN replied to Nursedenver's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Correct. DSN is NOT regionally accredited by HLC. They are still a
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    How to summarize clinical exp on resume.

    SummitRN replied to gloryfied's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Rotation Type - Hours - Class - Hospital For Example: MICU - 400 hours - Junior Practicum - Sacred Heart Hospital IF YOU ARE A NEW GRAD, all the hiring managers want to know where you rotated because...