SummitRN BSN, RN

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    attending vs resident PhD

    SummitRN replied to ading's topic in General Nursing

    Or
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    Needle Chest Decompression?

    SummitRN replied to mwboswell's topic in Emergency

    Perhaps useful in a disaster EDcapacity overload
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    "I didn't go to school to do X" the new mentality in nursing?

    SummitRN replied to Good Morning, Gil's topic in General Nursing

    I think the "I didn't go to school to do X" mentality is as equally dumb as the "I'll do whatever extra non-nursing task management decides to dump on nursing" mentality. Both attitudes can interfere...
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    How do you deal with feces???

    SummitRN replied to JLWilliams11's topic in General Students

    Repeat after me: "Poop is my new best friend. Poop loves me! I love poop!" Seriously, gloves, gum, and
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    How hard is nursing school for a student who is average or below in math & science?

    SummitRN replied to kelkel587's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    SCIENCE: Nursing is very logical and scientific. You need to be excellent at your Bio, A&P, Micro, and Patho. A knowledge of basic chem will help you immensely. I never see physics mentioned, but...
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    Gave my son an Epi Pen!

    SummitRN replied to Nire83's topic in General Nursing

    If I see a ped with facial swelling when the face was not the site of the allergen exposure, I'm definitely thinking 911 and do they have an
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    Petition to forgive student loan debt!

    SummitRN replied to Devie06's topic in General Students

    Well, I guess the logical extension of a movement to forgive all student loans naturally lends itself to attracting communist agitators wishing to foment the world wide workers revolution. It's always...
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    Petition to forgive student loan debt!

    SummitRN replied to Devie06's topic in General Students

    Your idealistic version of communism cannot exist on a large scale, only small communes that can selectively choose and expel members. That is what Marx never understood. We live in the real world and...
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    Petition to forgive student loan debt!

    SummitRN replied to Devie06's topic in General Students

    Sorry, but Marx was wrong. Communism doesn't work. Please feel free to move to the workers paradise of North Korea if you want to see for
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    Petition to forgive student loan debt!

    SummitRN replied to Devie06's topic in General Students

    This is beyond stupid; it's economic suicide, not a stimulus. Luckily, it will never happen. People make choices and must pay for them
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    How many credits will you have toward your degree?

    SummitRN replied to Despareux's topic in General Students

    Close to 250 over 10 years. Moral of the story: transferring schools multiple times and changing majors multiple times both suck. Taking cheap community college courses for fun is
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    What is the passing score for your school?

    SummitRN replied to KaylaRN2013's topic in General Students

    It is silly to compare grade scales between institutions because exams etc are not the same unless your school uses a standardized test like HESI or ATI. Then you can only compare with other schools...
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    Critical Incident Stress Debriefing

    SummitRN replied to LegzRN's topic in Emergency

    I've researched this subject a good deal. EBP does not support the formal CISD model as applied to the first responder or medical professional. It started as a "this is a theory that sounds good so...
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    on the job psych testing

    SummitRN replied to onlytimeforme's topic in General Nursing

    Many major players in many industries are now drinking the MMPI koolaid from Target to Halliburton to Marriott to
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    New grad salaries in the Denver area

    SummitRN replied to NO1_2NV's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Nurses with one year of experience working in Denver for less than 45K/yr... meanwhile hospitals continue to demand BSNs.
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    New grad salaries in the Denver area

    SummitRN replied to NO1_2NV's topic in Colorado Nursing

    These are some ridiculously low salaries unless there is a $3-5/hr raise after the first
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    Unsafe Practices

    SummitRN replied to **LaurelRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    Why is this happening? Shouldn't be too hard to show with evidence that this is a bad idea, but hospitals that have those ratios probably don't want to support such
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    Private school for BSN

    SummitRN replied to JonB04's topic in General Students

    PRIVATE FOR-PROFIT SCHOOL? RUN AWAY! 95% of these schools give you a huge debt load and then leave you in a situation where finding a job is harder than it would have been to get into a public school...
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    When a nursing home shuts down.

    SummitRN replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    CLOSE! I Am Not A
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    Relocating to Colorado, advice with schools needed?!

    SummitRN replied to FumblingThrough's topic in Colorado Nursing

    The community colleges have pretty universal prereqs. Most are on a waitlist system (2-3 years). Some are merit based admissions which are very competitive. The BSN programs each have their own set of...
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    When a nursing home shuts down.

    SummitRN replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    The unemployment and PTO things are probably not legal. Contact your state DOL and unemployment office. Severance, unless under contract, they can probably withhold.
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    work while in traditional program in UC denver?

    SummitRN replied to nursestobe's topic in Colorado Nursing

    You can ABSOLUTELY work part time without difficulty. I work part time at two jobs and FT over the summer. I know some folks who successfully worked full time during a traditional program and others...
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    Which temp is more accurate Oral vs Tympanic??

    SummitRN replied to SonorityGenius's topic in General Nursing

    Tympanics are good for trends, not absolute numbers. Old WEMS joke: pen makes a good rectal thermometer. If you can get that close to your patients rectum with the pen, they have hypothermia or...
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    Nonprofit HealthONE, largest CO hospital group, bought by largest US for-profit, HCA

    SummitRN posted a topic in Colorado Nursing

    So, as I understood it, HealthONE, the largest hospital consortium in CO, was controlled by non-profit CHF, but HCA, the largest for-profit hospital corp in the USA, bought them out of their share....
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    Pharm Math Req in your school

    SummitRN replied to exit96's topic in General Students

    I didn't say in your head. I said without a calculator. Nobody has to do it in their head, but you ought to be able to do it with a pen an paper. And in a nice quiet classroom, yes I can do it in my...