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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 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...

  8. 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...

  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

  16. Customer Service and 24 hour visitation

    running_nurse replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    While I find ALL of this ridiculous, the thing that got me FUMING MAD was the MASSAGES?!?!?!?!??!?! Are you kidding me? If I had been told that while working in the hospital I would have to MASSAGE MY...

  17. Stylish hospital gowns

    running_nurse replied to quetepye's topic in General Nursing

    I worked at a hospital last summer that unveiled the "new trendy patient friendly gowns" last summer. Seriously, you would have thought a celebrity was coming, it was such an event. Whlie they...

  18. Relocating to Cleveland to work at Cleveland Clinic

    running_nurse replied to Flagger03's topic in Ohio Nursing

    I live downtown and LOVE it!!!!!!!!!!!!! then i just realized you said suburbs :) all the above mentioned were good. Lakewood is great, I lived in the Coventry area after school and found that to...

  19. UH New Grad Rate?

    running_nurse replied to acbeauty's topic in Ohio Nursing

    I'm a nurse in Cleveland and only did my clinicals at UH, but I do believe the nurses are paid salary, not hourly. Somehow they figure out shift diff and everything in. I think only their ED is paid...

  20. Is anyone else terrified of needles??

    running_nurse replied to amber84's topic in General Nursing

    You'll be fine. In my teenage years when I knew I wanted to be a nurse, I watched them draw blood when I had mono - almost passed out. I had my tonsils out and watched them put the IV in - almost...

  21. Loving HH!!!

    running_nurse posted a topic in Home Health

    Since most of my friends from college not nurses or are currently not practicing b/c they are raising families...I just wanted to say I freaking loooooooove my HH job!! Since my tiresome nightshifts...

  22. didn't pass second semester

    running_nurse replied to nrsman1's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't exactly failed a semester but during my 2nd year there were a group of us who didn't pass anatomy 1st semester (passing is C or above). The 6 of us were told we would not be able to take our...

  23. Returning blood waste back into a PICC

    running_nurse replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    In PICU we ALWAYS returned our blood unless it started to clot. If you have a 8kg baby who is getting multible labs q 4 hours and it's only access is A-line/Central line, we still needed to draw at...

  24. Per diem HH pay??

    running_nurse replied to nursegail78's topic in General Nursing

    from my perspective, i think it's pretty good. im an "internal" HH employee and i work as an RN clinical supervisor. when i was part time i was paid well with no reimbursement for gas/mileage. now i...

  25. When it's the visitor who needs the ER....

    running_nurse replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in General Nursing

    I agree with what you did as well. Although, in my old job we were told differently. In the PACU family members would drop like flies (although they INSISTED on coming in as soon as the surgery was...