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Hello! my hospice organization has decided to accept an infant with trisomy 18. The baby is fairly stable at this point only needing 1/2 LPM via NC and has orogastric feeds every 3 hours. The baby has some cardiac defects of VSD and PAD. Also has hy...

Thank you so much for the responses! Unfortunately in our organization we do not have any nurses with peds experience. I have a little from working as an Ed tech for a few months and my internship in the picu while in school. I was the only nurse wi...

I gradated in May 2010, passed my boards in August and got a position in September at a SNF. I have found the biggest thing is to network and you actually have to go in to the places, not just apply online. You need to get your face out there so th...

I have several nursing school books that are specific to the Maricopa Community Colleges Nursing School Program. Some are in perfect, like new condition and some are well loved and have writing in them and post it flags and highlighting, but all are ...

Thank you, I know I'm going to need it. The little peds experience that I do have was in the ER and I definitely think that will help out.

I am a new grad with little peds experience and I was just hired as a elementary school nurse. So it is possible.

I just got an email with an acceptance letter to Estrella Mountain C.C.!!!! I start in fall 2008 and I am so excited!!! Has anyone else gotten accepted into this program??? I believe this is the first "official" class to start from Block 1 at Estr...

Hey there fellow Maricopa Community College Nursing students!!! I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post this here, but I'm hoping I am! I'm looking to buy a one or two more sets of scrubs for my last year of school at the Maricopa Community Colleges . ...

trina0606 how did your first day go? was it everything you expected? less? how do you like your teachers? my day was pretty good, i'm way nervous because our first 2 blocks were nothing like block 3 is going to be!!! i've got my a game on for s...

My bad, I am not sure how to edit my responses... I will be more cautious next time.

Depends on what type of student you are.. if you carry your books to class, I would suggest a rolling cart of some type, here are a few links to the ones I've seen in class: This one has the organizer with it, kind of nice for all your pens/pencils a...

I remember that day, they had us buy all our books at once... it was just a little over a 1000 dollars and then you have to buy the lab bag too. You'd think they'd at least make the bag cute or better looking for 100 dollars. Yes, you really do use...

Yes, she is mainly powerpoints. We had another instructor along with our main instructor for our Block 1 and the other instructor pretty much dominated the way the class was taught. As you saw, She is very soft spoken and didn't seem to get much sa...

Good Luck!!! I'm starting block 3 on Monday and am excited to be almost done!!! one of your teachers for block 1 and most likely you will enjoy her. Wait till you hear her laugh, it will crack you up!

lol, disorganization is putting it politely. i did pretty well for block 2 and did fairly well on the hesi considering the educatoin we received. they are doing a remediation this summer for everyone in our class because a lot of students didn't do s...

If you don't mind me asking, where do you work at? I am very interested in taking the Kaplan class and to have it payed for would be awesome! Thanks, Amber

I'm glad it is going well. I started in August and all the kinks were still not ironed out, but I guess we were the guinea pigs as this was both our teachers first time teaching Block I and they were kind of thrown into the position. It has already b...

You started school this week correct? How is it going?

So I have an interview in about three weeks with St Joe's for their Nurse Extern position. I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on questions or anything for that matter. I've never personally worked in a hospital and I don't want that to ...

I was not aware that there was a commitment afterwards, but I don't think that is going to deter me away from still trying. Externing there will help me get more experience with what I am doing in class and also like you said, if I like it there the...

The externship doesn't start until January 5th I believe, they just require that you be done with block I by December 31st. I guess they start interviewing quite early, it was a total fluke that I found the job posting, but definitely a good one :-)

Congrats Stacy!!! First off, I just want to tell you to RELAX!!! I know its hard to do, but honestly there isn't much you can do before school starts. If anything, I would suggest brushing up on your A&P and Biology. What is your schedule like ...

Yeah I thought today was pretty unorganized, but I don't think there was much the teachers could do about it. Guess we just have to roll with the punches like she said! I too wish we had our books, I wonder why it took so long to get them in and le...

I went ahead and got the tote, but then was told that we might not even need the thing, so I'll pry end up returning it! I think the only thing we will honestly need of our own is a stethoscope, so that is all I bought besides my scrubs. Guess we'l...

So what did you two think of the orientation?? Are you ready for Monday? I bought the tote and it didn't have the stethescope or BP Cuff inside of it and when I emailed Clarissa to find out what exactly we needed she said that we might not even need...