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phlox

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  1. Refresher Course and TPAPN?

    phlox posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    I am an RN and have been out of nursing for well over a decade so need a refresher course. I left nursing by my own free will because I was diagnosed in 1996 as bipolar and was hospitalized and was...

  2. Refresher Course and TPAPN?

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Thanks Jack. A lot of my energy come from my mania, which is not always a bad part of Bipolar Disorder. Often, it is just the kick in the pants a person needs. But most of all I am getting energy...

  3. What age will you retire?

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in General Nursing

    How wonderful to start a thread and then to come back the next day and have so many responses! What great (and humorous) answers! I am planning on living to 100 :) My family is long-lived and I feel...

  4. What age will you retire?

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in General Nursing

    I have been at home on the farm working my butt off. I mean true blood, sweat and tears. Not relaxing, but surviving. Raising our own meat, veggies, milk, eggs, honey and so forth. Doing the...

  5. Refresher Course and TPAPN?

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Thanks ariel. I plan on taking my refresher from phesonline which is approved by the Texas BON. And Jack, I re-read the list of materials you suggested and really appreciate the help. I am feeling...

  6. Online classes for RN prerequisites at HCC, LS, others?

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in Texas Nursing

    Thanks for the comment. I feel so dumb about all of this because I went to school back in the day. Heck, I started college back in 1974, the first hand held calculator hand just been invented by...

  7. Online classes for RN prerequisites at HCC, LS, others?

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in Texas Nursing

    Ok, I am looking at the HCC website and it seems like she could take A&P as an online course. Now, I took A&P I and II at San Jacinto in summer school back many years ago, and it was a very...

  8. LVN pay at Houston hospitals

    phlox posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    This is for someone else. Thanks for any info about pay and which hospitals still hire

  9. LVN pay at Houston hospitals

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in Texas Nursing

    Thank yall. I am posting all over the place on this forum. I'm trying to get a handle on things. Both my 26 yr old daughter and my 21 year old nephew are wanting to go into nursing and I am trying...

  10. Help me help my daughter get her LVN in Houston

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in Texas Nursing

    This thread is now about another RN program (HCC) so I am starting a new one...I hope that is

  11. Help me help my daughter get her LVN in Houston

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in Texas Nursing

    ZiggysGal THANK YOU! That is so much help. I imagine that she needs to get started on prerequisites as soon as possible, like this fall

  12. Help me help my daughter get her LVN in Houston

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in Texas Nursing

    Me again. So she applies for fafsa now and also applies to LoneStar, and a meeting with advisors there. Then she would have to take prerequisits, and maybe get in by fall of 2011? Can you give me...

  13. Help me help my daughter get her LVN in Houston

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in Texas Nursing

    Thank yall :) EmBemap, we are looking at LoneStar. So my daughter can apply for fafsa now and if she can get into the ADN program, it would pay her living expenses as well? She is 26 years old and...

  14. Meds and memory -- bipolar school

    phlox replied to jt2007's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I am Bipolar and take Lamictal along with other meds. I use pen and paper to help me remember things in the past and do it again now, at home. I have been out of nursing awhile but believe that the...

  15. NEED EMPLOYMENT

    phlox replied to coladot's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I feel your pain. I am a Bipolar RN and am not presently working because I had a breakdown in 1996. I am doing very well now and am eager to go back to work. I, too, am on a drug cocktail, finally...

  16. is working in the hospital really easier than LTC???

    phlox replied to ez2000's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked in both and have found that I need the rush of adrenaline I get from the ER or emergency surgery. LTC is too slow and predictable for me. I like a lower nurse to patient ratio. I also...

  17. Help me help my daughter get her LVN in Houston

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in Texas Nursing

    ok...don't help

  18. Houston area nursing schools, how are they ranked?

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Thanks

  19. Houston area nursing schools, how are they ranked?

    phlox posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Could those of you in the Houston area rank the Nursing programs in the Houston area by difficulty, reputation, quality, etc. I got my ADN at San Jac in 1990 but am investigating choices for my...

  20. Scrubs

    phlox replied to KYCNM's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    THANK YOU! I went to nursing school at San Jacinto near Houston and I will forever hear Mrs. Luna telling stories of filthy and digusting things that happen in the hospital. It was drilled into our...

  21. What is the funniest thing a patient has ever said to you?

    phlox replied to carolmaccas66's topic in General Nursing

    "I've got a risen on my

  22. Emergency C-section questions

    phlox replied to peachmouse's topic in General Students

    Oh, my, how can you do this without a real patient? I had 4 c-sections myself and then scrubbed and circulated for c-sections as my job for 2 years while I was in nursing school. You really need...

  23. Almost 30 & starting Pre-Nursing. How long is school?

    phlox replied to wifeandmommyof3's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I was an older student when I got my ADN. Most of my previous college classes did not transfer because it had so long since I had taken them, back in the 70s at Texas A&M. I took History in the...

  24. Lonestar LVN school, help me help future students, my daughter and my nephew

    phlox replied to phlox's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    ok, I found this...duh...it answers a few of my questions... Additional Nursing Program

  25. New grad fired 2x- now what?!

    phlox replied to heartbrokenRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Had I or a co-worker made the med errors you did, I would expect me or them to be fired, to be completely honest. Med errors can harm or kill. Can you take another class on math and meds? or find a...