SmackerNurse

I am PRN and we work when we want to work. I make my own schedule with my patients. If a SOC comes in and needs to be opened on a holiday, our scheduler will find a nurse to do the SOC that is willing to work on the holiday. Since we are contingen...

Ohio university has a great RN to BSN program. Pain free transfer from WCCCD...I recommend taking all of the gen ed classes you can at WCCCD now...chem 105, statistics, history, philosphy, foreign language, etc...then all you will have is the nine nu...

Just seen the email. smh This should have been said at the beginning of the week at the very least. Time to jump on the treadmill and step up our game. )

So true, so true! This was one lesson I learned even before I became an RN. I was working as a nurse-extern at the time. It seemed like every time I received report I was told, "this one is mean and grouchy" or "this one gave me hell all day, bewa...

You are so correct! Nurses are not being paid more for getting a higher education and that is wrong. When the nursing profession decided to up the anti for the nursing profession by trying to make BSN entry level...they did not think this out very w...

Hope3456 hit the nail on the head. Just like the saying, "no one can love you until you love yourself first," it is the same for nursing. Others will not respect us until we can respect ourselves and each other. When patients, doctors and other per...

First, congratulations on the pregnancy! What a blessing! Second, why are they not shielding you to begin with? At my facility everyone is either cleared from the x-ray or shielded if stepping away is not an option. It is hospital policy! Being e...

I have a friend who was awarded a failing grade, (needed a 75 and her final grade in the class was 74.8) and when we recalculated her grade she actually earned a 78.4. The instructor calculated her grade incorrectly and when my friend went to her ab...

I didnt have any issues with the assignment. As I stated before I thought it was pretty straight forward. My grades were submitted today too...definitely on the right track :) Glad everything worked out for you as well. Oh and thanks for clarifying a...

The email you are referring to here. ) I didn't have any issues with the assignment, thank goodness.

I understand, when I was planning on attending WCCCD for my ADN I had a lot of folks telling me not to go there. I choose WCCCD for one reason and one reason only, they did NOT have a wait list and I did not want to wait 2-3 years longer to start nu...

You are welcome, Wen. I can tell you this, WCCCD nursing instructors care deeply about their students success. There is always one bad apple in every school, but I found that the majority of their instructors sincerely cared for their students. Th...

Thank you so much! This is so helpful. I am not planning on applying until the beginning of next year, but I wanted to get a head start now so that I can be prepared.

I am looking at Walden for FNP. To those of you in the program; how did you find clinical locations and preceptors that are required? I seen that you have to give a list of prospects for the admission process and am concerned how to go about finding...

I am taking this class too. Seems pretty straight forward, although I didn't receive the email from the professor even though I have already submitted the first assignment. If someone could please forward it to me. I will pm you my email addy. Thank...

I graduated from WCCCD and I know several of my classmates who were hired at DMC, Childrens, and HFHS. I even know of a couple graduates that were hired at the VA so the rumor that government facilities wont hire WCCCD students is false as well. My...

I was able to switch into professor "male" a week before class started. There was one spot that opened up and I grabbed it. Did the happy dance too. lol Can someone PM me the link to the facebook page. I don't think the one I am on is the same on...

Ok so I am one of the unlucky souls who has to take Prof. for Junior Comp. Anyone else take this prof. in the past and do you have any suggestions as to how to make it through the class successfully. Is calling her mandatory for assignments or just ...

Thank you RNinC for the wonderful advice. I appreciate your input. This helped me a lot. :-)

I am taking this class Fall 1. It seems ok so far...nothing too involved...we shall see. Just curious, RNINME...what has changed with the classes? Have they changed that much with the switch from quarters to semesters and the combining of classes?

I inquired about the MSN program and received an email stating that due to changes in the requirements for Ohio, that only Ohio residents of Ohio can receive their Master's degree from an online program. I have not researched this at all to know the...

Great!!!! Start with the lecture and lab book and read those first! Ask a current student on here if they can tell you the chapters to read first because they don't always go in order! Too bad you don't know what teacher's you will have...That woul...

LOL yes she is working in the ICU downtown! She is an awesome nurse! It's just funny how far we come from start to finish. You will see what I mean...that first semester is a bear, but you get used to it and it makes the other three/four semesters ...

Hey rbrandnew, Thanks for reposting my post ) You are doing yourself a huge favor reviewing medical terminology. It is invaluable to the new nursing student. I have a funny story for you...during med-surg 1, I was studying with a really good frie...

You are very welcome!!! One more pointer, after you complete your first semester start looking for and applying for Nurse Extern or Nurse Tech positions. It is an important step to getting your foot in the door to get a position in a hospital as an ...