Dental Hygienist

Has anyone applied to MHCC's nursing program before? This is my first year applying. I wonder when we will be notified if we have been invited to an interview or not? Has anyone been on the interview before? Or any nursing school interview for that ...

Count me in the club too! I'm a RDH who graduated in 2004 and decided to go back to nursing school to expand my career opportunities and for many of the reasons others have described. I actually got accepted to a local nursing program and was suppose...

I don't know a whole lot about long term care but I can tell you what the problem is here, it's money. Plaque like you've described (which is actually calculus or tartar) will need professional removal. Medicare does offer some nominal reimbursemen...

This is a very good, logical train of thought, and I appreciate your clear thinking. Yes, water fluoridation works (i.e. reduces tooth decay) So, I supposed we could work towards improving the system except right now we are basically experimenting wi...

I have a friend who is a Jehova's Witness and we have spoken on this matter of conscience several times. She would actually love to be a nurse so that she could become a CRNA, but she has decided to abandon that dream because she knows that in nursin...

I would like to add a few facts and opinions. First off, I voted: "YES" that I think fluoridated WATER is bad for us. But, I think that what happens is people get kind of lazy with their fact-checking and story telling and pretty soon you have thousa...

i will be attending: mt hood cc jan 2009, adn (will continue my bsn thru ocne) my prerequisite gpa is: 3.91 my thoughts on prerequisite courses: i took most of my pre-reqs between 1999 and 2001 in preparation for dental hygiene school. i just needed ...

I am not a nurse yet (soon to be nursing student. YAY! I got in), but I can feel for ya. 8 years ago I was stuck between becoming a nurse or a dental hygienist. I wanted to be a nurse but I didn't think my "weak stomach" could handle it and I viewe...

Nice to meet you Spotty44!!! Can't wait to meet you face to face. Yeah....I'm dreading how to break this to my employer. It is further complicated by the fact that I (we) don't start till Jan 2009....so I really need to continue to work full-time and...

I got into MHCC for Winter of 2009 as well. :yeah:WooHoo!!! I was really nervous because it was the only school I applied to but Hooray!!! Too bad I have to wait 7 months before I can start school though. Anyone else on this message board planning t...

I think if you crunch the numbers you'll still find out that you come out ahead (financially) going to community college...even WITH the longer program. Even if you later choose to do a ADN-BSN bridge you'll still be ahead financially...however mon...

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Not to be a butt-head about details...but I don't even see how it is possible that there will be 1500 new grads this spring....do you mean ANY general college graduates or just nursing grads? ....because last I checked there are only 7 nursing schoo...

Not quite $70K...I was about $500 shy last year...but the point is that it's still NOT a lot of money for an american adult trying to live an adult life in a big city with student loans, a mortgage, health insurance, saving for retirement, etc.... It...

In Oregon most of the schools use an interview/points based process as far as I know. The exception is PCC (portland community college) which uses a lottery until 2010 as the previous poster mentioned. I know for sure that Mt Hood Community College ...

Hi there....I am only mildly familiar with a doula. In general terms, what services do they provide? Are they a patient advocate? Post-partem support? Also...how are they paid or contracted? Hourly, weekly, per birth, per service level etc. Seems ver...

Mostly the public has no idea that dental hygienists make good money, which is fine with me...but it seems like those that do know feel compelled to comment on it. Yeah, it bugs me. It doesn't exactly make me mad or offend me but more like makes me w...

Gosh...pulling the doctor card makes me want to barf. Recently the dentist I work for had to go out of town for a few ways to be at the hospital with his dying grandmother. The grandma (RIP) was 88 years old...from what I understood she was basicall...

I'm not a nurse (yet) but I have to deal with issues of protecting my dental hygiene license even when dentists and office managers tell me to do things that are illegal. It is a tricky situation for sure...of course the obvious answer is "Don't do ...

Plagiarism/Ghostwriting is so obviously wrong it is maddening. I am almost speechless. News flash, Word Perfect: Nursing school is supposed to be hard and overwhelming at times. That is no excuse for CHEATING!!! The program directors KNOW exactly w...

I can tell you about housing, but not about nursing jobs as I am a (hopeful) nursing student. Housing prices are reasonable for the west coast. 3 years ago we bought our 3 bed 2 bath home on 2+ acres about 40 mins from downtown portland for $230k My ...

Just had my MHCC interview today!!! There were supposed to be 10 in our group but only 6 showed up....HEY fine with me, better odds, right?:nuke: Overall, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It felt VERY long and we even got done about a half...

I've enjoyed reading all these yukky stories so far, but this was the first one to actually make me physically dry heave. I'm still gagging as I write this... Kudos....this story is in 1st place for me (so far)

I got an interview too at Mt. Hood!! Woo Hoo! Other than what they explained in the letter I don't have a lot of insight since this will be my first ever nursing school interview...however I did interview twice for the Mt. Hood CC dental Hygiene prog...

In general, yep you can deduct these things, IF you meet certain minimum requirements. You have to itemize (so for example fill out a 1040 and attach a schedule A) And, then the total amount of your work related expenses (plus a couple of other appl...