running_nurse

running_nurse has 9 years experience and specializes in Pediatrics.

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1. Anyone get into an NP program with the minimum GPA?

   running_nurse replied to sMoLsNurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   My undergrad GPA was not spectacular. It wasn't awful, but in retrospect, I could have done better. I think anxiety about my grades kept me from going back for my MSN earlier. After 5 years of...

2. Medical missions

   running_nurse replied to jules fnp's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I went on a medical mission in Guatemala last summer. The group was Refuge International. I was a PNP student at the time, and our school took NP students as well as SRNAs. Most of us worked in the...

3. Applying to NP school with a C in anatomy?

   running_nurse replied to priorities2's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   I had a few C's in undergrad. I actually didn't pass anatomy and ended up fulfilling the requirement at the community college. When I applied to NP school (the same school where I went to...

4. Comparing Cleveland Clinic ICUs

   running_nurse replied to workingforaliving's topic in General Nursing

   Yup, what Shannon said too....I worked at Metro for 3 years, and it was

5. Comparing Cleveland Clinic ICUs

   running_nurse replied to workingforaliving's topic in General Nursing

   If you live on the West Side, I would skip Hillcrest altogether. You can get the same experience at Fairview or Lakewood. It's a pain to get to Hillcrest from the West Side, and the intersection of...

6. Policy on draining Peritoneal Dialysis to toilet?

   running_nurse replied to miss_vtRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   I work in Peds and we don't have many PD patients. HOWEVER. When we a PD patient in the hospital (usually a new PD patient), we come in and do the set up and take down. Not sure what system they...

7. Nurses and social networking sites (Facebook, Myspace, etc)

   running_nurse replied to running_nurse's topic in General Nursing

   Oh yes. One of my closest friends is a HS english teacher. She had Facebook for maybe a week and deleted it entirely. Even with privacy settings she hated that her students would find her and send...

8. Nurses and social networking sites (Facebook, Myspace, etc)

   running_nurse posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi Everyone. I just wanted to get other people's views on something. I graduated from nursing school 5 years ago and like almost everyone (including my mother now...) I have a Facebook page. It is...

9. Nurse to nurse fighting/do we need a code of conduct?

   running_nurse replied to nannymcpheeRN's topic in PACU

   I had one particular day from #&!@ in which a "veteran" nurse chewed me out. In front of my coworkers AND the patients. I had walked into a mess, both of my patients needed CT scans, I needed...

10. Any runners???

    running_nurse replied to CardioTrans's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Nice work to those of you starting out...keep it

11. Any runners???

    running_nurse replied to CardioTrans's topic in Health, Stress Management

    See my username? I run anywhere from 25-45 miles a week...currently in training for the Chicago Marathon. I loooove running. Most coworkers just think I'm

12. List of hospitals that hire new grads in picu

    running_nurse replied to chickidee717's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I worked in the PICU @ Metro Health Medical Center in Cleveland right out of school. I also know someone who worked in PICU @ The Cleveland Clinic right out of school as

13. what do nurses hate about doctors?

    running_nurse replied to futureMD's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses don't sleep at night. Required to stay awake on the night shift. Docs get call rooms and sleep when they can. Just a helpful piece of

14. Canker Sores/Stress

    running_nurse replied to 2bmalenurse007's topic in General Nursing

    I have suffered with canker sores since my childhood, generally a handful of times/year. I recently started a new job in March, and by April my mouth was FULL of cankers - and they all clustered...

15. Customer Service and 24 hour visitation

    running_nurse replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    um..........NO