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I work for Walgreens infusion and they are a great company to work for. I had to take around $5 pay cut/hr from the hospital but it is totally worth it. if you like home health and do not mind driving all day long it might be for you.

RN*mommy, which class are you talking about?

you had such a rough start....you poor thing.....I had a nursing student the other day that got to observe similar situation except that no one died.....I had a pt in one room that was shivering/shaking really hard so I told her: let's go back to bas...

BostonNurse2876 You did it! Congratz!

bostonnurse2876 , no i really kept to myself. i met with one of the other ladies on friday morning cause we exchanged a couple of emails but not once testing started. i passed all labs on friday so i just ate and tried to sleep....after saturday i wa...

This is my journal for CPNE 11/18-20/11 in Utica, NY I never understood it when people would write that it is therapeutic to write a journal. When I first passed i thought "I never want to think about it" but truth to be told I have been thinking abo...

Had to quote it all because I loved it all!!!

I agree with you on everything you said. I wasn't impressed with their stuff. Personally I used Lisa Larends notes they are $60 for all the nursing tests and even though she makes up her own abbreviations after you figure them out it was pretty much ...

I couldn't disagree more. The Ec do not know anything about you and it clearly stated that you shouldn't talk about personal stuff with them. The go in on Friday and choose appropriate pt for us. I am a experienced med-surg nurse and was petrified of...

I was not aware that there is any school in the US that gets you from zero to RN on line. As far as I know you have to be at least and LPN, paramedic or respiratory therapist all of which have at least 1000hr clinical experience. Correct me if I am w...

BostonNurse2876, in regards to bringing to mnemonics into the room with you...yes! and you can look at them as often as you want. I told my patient that I want to give them excellent care and do not want to forget anything so I will be looking at my ...

Passed in Utica 11/20/11 (18th edition) you can contact me for any questions. I also posted my CPNE experience here somewhere. Tali

I hate to get in this battle but as an EC graduate I have to say that A) you have to have some clinical experience to be able to do the program (either have 1000 clinical hours from LPN school or paramedic or respiratory therapist), they do not just ...

I just graduated with Excelsior. I do not know what you mean by quality education. They are one of the few distance learning school that are accredited in the US. For me, being able to study around my busy work/kids schedule was important. I couldn't...

BostonNurse, when are you going?

camartinez, I didn't choose Utica really just the region without specific preference to a site. I figured that no specific site has greater chance of passing (think of it this way, if normally sites have 63% pass and one had 85%, you know they will i...

Cobweb, thanks from me too. I just talked and verified everything you said. I will have to pass the boards and get a few electives under my belt before I sign on to the BSN.

I too am interested in any info about the BSN from EC. They gave me 12 semester credits for my Hebrew so I do not want to go with another school and have to take a bunch of art classes.

Thank you Beachnurse84 and LunahRN......LunahRN, I owe you my IVP lab.....!

what is EPN?

What a disappointing post! Why do you want to be in the health care field? To interact with doctors and other health care professionals or take care of people. Cleaning poop and lifting is part of it. If your grandma was in the hospital or nursing ho...

I use it all the time in my charting. I think it is how you use it not using it in general that is the issue. I will never chart 'pt c/o all day of a back pain' I will say 'c/o back pain while in bed, pt enc to be in chair, back rub given'.

I would not worry. There is so much nursing school does not teach you. In regards to IV set up: when you get a job you will have some orientation period and your preceptor should teach you that, also, different hospital use different pumps (IV, feedi...

This isn't so terrible just so so annoying. I work on a surgical unit and always so busy. I am running the entire time (I work 12 hr shifts). SO when the call light goes off and the request is: "can you plug my cell phone" "bring me my cell phone" I ...

This is a true proof that to make a wonderful nurse (and an aide of course) you just need to love people. That is it. Yes, you need to study and know your stuff, but to be a good care giver you need to be able to just love them and not judge them or ...