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  1. Interview on 1-6-05 For GN Position in ED.

    Jen2 posted a topic in Emergency

    Hello. I entered nursing school with the sole purpose to become a nurse in the ED. During my schooling I kept an open mind to other areas of nursing also. Almost everyone including my instructors...

  2. Meet the Fockers

    Jen2 replied to MikeyBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I am in nursing school and my boyfriend who is a male and is a nurse does not like to go to the movies at all. However, he loved the first one so much that he shocked me when he told me that he...

  3. what do you use: notebooks/binders/other??

    Jen2 replied to Maycee's topic in General Students

    I buy a 3" binder and with divider tabs I label the first one with syllabus and put my syllabus behind that. I then use a divider for each instructor that I have and put all of her lecture notes...

  4. Couldn't tell who was a doctor or nurse!

    Jen2 replied to smk1's topic in General Nursing

    Sharon, I really like that badge. I also don't think that housekeeping, cafeteria workers, secretaries, etc, should be wearing scrubs. In the hospital that I signed a contract to work in when I...

  5. Phasing out LPN's.

    Jen2 replied to BJ, LPN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I am still a nursing student in an ADN program (graduating in May) and the fact that UAP can pass out meds sickens me. I as a student am not even allowed to get into the med cart with out my...

  6. I am worth less for Christmas?!?!?

    Jen2 replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    I completely agree with you! When I was working in a doctors office I was actually told that I had to come in and answer phones on christmas day because, "I was the only one that didn't have...

  7. what are your goals for next semester?

    Jen2 replied to cingulargirl21's topic in General Students

    #1 Pass the stupid math exam that we have to take on the first day of classes every semester. #2 Take advantage of the great new gym at my college that is free to students and loose those 10 pounds...

  8. Your perception of student nurses when they visit your hospital?

    Jen2 replied to avery's topic in General Nursing

    I am still a student and have had some wonderful experiences with nurses and horrible experiences. One of the greatest experiences involved me finding blood in my paitent's stool, when I told the RN,...

  9. Capping ceremony

    Jen2 replied to Truly_Blessed's topic in General Students

    That's great that you get such a ceremony. My class will be the first class in 50 years that has never had a pinning ceremony. They just stopped doing it and despite our petition and everything they...

  10. Huge Dilema RE: Nursing School Long!

    Jen2 replied to Jen2's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone for your replies. I don't plan on saying anything because it's just going to open up a big old can of worms. Those students had no idea that they were studying the exact test, so...

  11. Huge Dilema RE: Nursing School Long!

    Jen2 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello! I decided to post this in the general nurse forum in hopes to get more responses and to also get some much needed professional opinions on this. Here it goes: Last week we had our first test...

  12. Do you use powder on your patients?

    Jen2 replied to mamaof3's topic in General Nursing

    We were taught to never use powder due to resp reasons and allergies. They taught us in nursing school to use a very light dusting of corn starch for bedpans. I dunno, I've never had a pt ask me to...

  13. Nursing school = Acne?

    Jen2 replied to cherokeesummer's topic in General Students

    Hey guys I have been using that Neutrogena on the spot acne treatment and it works really well if anyone is

  14. Nursing school = Acne?

    Jen2 replied to cherokeesummer's topic in General Students

    I am ordering my Pro-Active right

  15. Questions for Nurses who are married to Nurses!

    Jen2 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello Everyone! I have been dating a wonderful gentleman that is a nurse for about a year and a half now. I will graduate from nursing school in May, 2005. Our relationship has been becomming more...

  16. Boring Part Of BSN

    Jen2 replied to freelancer's topic in General Students

    Freelancer, just keep an open mind about it. I have no intentions on going into community nursing, but it is so cool. I loved the teaching aspect of community nursing. Wellness is so important and...

  17. MA's Calling Themselves Nurses?

    Jen2 replied to Sheri257's topic in General Nursing

    Whoa Nellie! I am a former MA that graduated with an AS degree in Medical Assisting and now I am in my last year of an ADN program. Let me tell you the schooling is so different. In the MA program...

  18. Questions for Nurses who are married to Nurses!

    Jen2 replied to Jen2's topic in General Nursing

    My husband and I are both nurses. We meet while working as LPN's at the same hospital. Then he pushed and pushed for me to go back to school. He is so wonderful. I worked part-time and bridged while...

  19. Boring Part Of BSN

    Jen2 replied to freelancer's topic in General Students

    I am in a ADN program and I had to do a 4 week rotation in community nursing. I found it to be an easy rotaion and it broke everything up for me very nicely. I had a hectic 4 week OR rotation that I...

  20. MA's Calling Themselves Nurses?

    Jen2 replied to Sheri257's topic in General Nursing

    FYI an example of how dangerouse the public thinking someone is a nurse could be: I was working as a phlebotomist a few years ago and was at the sink in the patients room washing my hands. The...

  21. Instructors Who WON'T Let You Record Lectures?

    Jen2 replied to Sheri257's topic in General Students

    What irks me is that I am a paying customer for that lecture, 4,800 a semester to be exact. If I want to tape it I should be

  22. Instructors Who WON'T Let You Record Lectures?

    Jen2 replied to Sheri257's topic in General Students

    My school tried to give us the HIPPA rap about recording also and we have yet to discuss a pt's name in class. Why couldn't they tell us to shut off the recorder if they are going to discuss a pt's...

  23. Instructors Who WON'T Let You Record Lectures?

    Jen2 replied to Sheri257's topic in General Students

    In our nursing program we are not allowed to tape any lectures at all. If caught we could get kicked out of the program. I firmly believe it is because when one of those test questions pop up that...

  24. Questions for Nurses who are married to Nurses!

    Jen2 replied to Jen2's topic in General Nursing

    Bluesky, thanks for posting that. I wish you luck on NCLEX, although it sounds as if you did just fine. Only 75 questions thats

  25. MA's Calling Themselves Nurses?

    Jen2 replied to Sheri257's topic in General Nursing

    Actually I never once called myself a nurse when I was an MA and corrected everyone that did. However, I was doing things that I should not have been doing, but I didn't know any better. I started...