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  1. Question About Full Time vs. Part Time

    pnkrocdevil posted a topic in Nursing Career

    Hi everyone! I'm hoping to get some insight to this general hospital employment question. I will be a new grad as of next week (yay), with no hospital experience except for clinicals. I am fortunate...

  2. Interventions for Impaired Parenting Dx

    pnkrocdevil replied to pnkrocdevil's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thank you so much Daytonite for your help! I'm still going in 100 different directions with this careplan. As I said my pt. wasn't sick anymore when I began taking care of her. The only reason I am...

  3. Interventions for Impaired Parenting Dx

    pnkrocdevil posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I have been racking my brain for the last 2 days trying to come up with feasible, pertinent nursing interventions for for a diagnosis of Impaired parenting r/t young parental age AEB mother is 17, and...

  4. Tattoo Cover Makeup?

    pnkrocdevil replied to hiddencatRN's topic in General Students

    During my clinicals we had to cover our tattoos up with bandages. For 8 weeks I looked like I had attempted suicide d/t the bandages I had on both of my wrists. Another girl had a large tattoo on the...

  5. What To Do...lpn Or Rn

    pnkrocdevil replied to spoiledbrat0627's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Ivy Tech doesn't have wait lists. They accept students to RN and LPN in fall and spring semesters. They award you points for your pre-req's and TEAS score and admit the top scores each semester. You...

  6. Brown Mackie Merrillville

    pnkrocdevil replied to tggrwilliams04's topic in Indiana Nursing

    I would be wary of this school. I just started my clinicals and the director of the unit we are in said she won't hire any Brown Mackie graduates. She also added that she doesn't even allow Brown...

  7. Alternate for nursing program question . . .

    pnkrocdevil replied to tlofflan's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Nursenessa, I just started the Gary ASN this semester. Let me tell you, Gary takes their sweet old time getting those letters out. Don't drive yourself nuts, I did this summer. They were supposed to...

  8. Anyone @ Ivy Tech Gary??

    pnkrocdevil replied to WendiAnnn's topic in Indiana Nursing

    I'm at Ivy Tech Gary. I'm about the only one though. I just started the ASN program

  9. Appalled by lack of respect and tact from hospital staff...Very long post

    pnkrocdevil posted a topic in Indiana Nursing

    I'm having a difficult time right now understanding why some healthcare workers remain in a hospital setting when they are no longer (or never were to begin with) compassionate. On Sunday evening my...

  10. Appalled by lack of respect and tact from hospital staff...Very long post

    pnkrocdevil replied to pnkrocdevil's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Sorry I haven't updated...Trying to get everything set before school starts (just had orientation last week so we only have 3 weeks for physical/labs/cpr/uniforms etc) and I'm leaving for Mexico next...

  11. Appalled by lack of respect and tact from hospital staff...Very long post

    pnkrocdevil replied to pnkrocdevil's topic in Indiana Nursing

    The ups and downs when it comes to the care of elderly patients is enough to make anyone crazy. Things aren't looking as great as I initially expected, and am very frustrated with the hospital admin....

  12. Appalled by lack of respect and tact from hospital staff...Very long post

    pnkrocdevil replied to pnkrocdevil's topic in Indiana Nursing

    You were right canoehead! My grandmother's prognosis has changed drastically. Yesterday morning they said they would be preparing to discharge her to a care facility because they felt she would not...

  13. Grrr. Ivy Tech: SO confused!

    pnkrocdevil replied to dizze98765's topic in Indiana Nursing

    I would not recommend either of those programs to anyone, as they are not accredited by the NLNAC. Completion of an accredited program is often the first thing that potential employers look at....

  14. Last pre-req class tomorrow!

    pnkrocdevil replied to 2bNurse Elizabeth's topic in Indiana Nursing

    2BNURSE, I didn't think MAT 118 was too difficult. I also took it in the accelerated 8 week format. Just a lot of memorizing formulas for things like interest on loans and mortgages, probability of...

  15. Last pre-req class tomorrow!

    pnkrocdevil replied to 2bNurse Elizabeth's topic in Indiana Nursing

    I just finished my online MAT 118 too last Friday! Did you by any chance have Karen Howard for your instructor? I loved that class and am such a dork now figuring out mortgages and things. Although I...

  16. Surgeon/nurses never told me how to pack fiance's wound. Need help please!

    pnkrocdevil posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    Hi, I'm just a pre-nursing student here so I need some instructions (that the hospital staff didn't explain to me) on how to pack a wound. My fiance just had surgery today to remove the remains of a...

  17. Teas Test

    pnkrocdevil replied to Nervous Nursey2b's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I was in the same situation the first time I took the TEAS. I did very well in all other sections except science and scored an 89.4. In addition to the the ATI guide I bought a guide from Kaplan...

  18. Junior in college...should I go to Ivy Tech or apply for BSN?

    pnkrocdevil replied to jetaimeparis's topic in Indiana Nursing

    :yeahthat: While I was researching this same question when I started school I also found another advantage to starting with ADN the doing RN to BSN is tuition reimbursement. Many of the hospitals...

  19. Yehawwwwwwwwwwww! I'm in!!!!!!

    pnkrocdevil replied to Innurse78's topic in Indiana Nursing

    The Indiana S.B.O.N needs to post the figures from 2007. The current ones are from 2006. That may be why you were told a different figure. When I went to my info session 2 months ago they told me the...

  20. Yehawwwwwwwwwwww! I'm in!!!!!!

    pnkrocdevil replied to Innurse78's topic in Indiana Nursing

    You can find pass rates on the Indiana State Board of Nursing site. Just choose program type and click on pass rates.

  21. Yehawwwwwwwwwwww! I'm in!!!!!!

    pnkrocdevil replied to Innurse78's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Kate, I live in NW Indiana so the campuses by me are Valpo and Gary. I have already put in my app for Gary even though I'm retaking the TEAS. They just told me to bring my new scores up to the office....

  22. Yehawwwwwwwwwwww! I'm in!!!!!!

    pnkrocdevil replied to Innurse78's topic in Indiana Nursing

    The campus I go to scores the same way. I have 212 right now and am re-taking the TEAS on Friday (89.4 my first try) to hopefully get a few more points. Congrats on the 93.5, actually I believe they...

  23. Yehawwwwwwwwwwww! I'm in!!!!!!

    pnkrocdevil replied to Innurse78's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Good luck to you Kate! I'll be thinking about you in the months to come. Let me know what

  24. Yehawwwwwwwwwwww! I'm in!!!!!!

    pnkrocdevil replied to Innurse78's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Congrats! I just turned in my app. today for the traditional ASN Gary. So now I get to sit and sweat it out until the end of

  25. Score to get in and program mean??

    pnkrocdevil replied to rockexrolloh's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Also Rockexrolloh, If you look on your score sheet it will say program type and have ADN next to it. That is what they are referring to in the program-mean score, not institution. Mine has the same...