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I'm currently in this program. Definitely a golden opportunity. Nothing beats an option with free tuition and full-time salary as a full-time student. Your costs are living expenses, moving, and different state licensures required for clinicals. Her...

Thanks for the input VHA-RN. Contacted her to start the process.

Hey all, just an update. I got accepted into the VA component of USAGPAN. Now I have to find a sponsoring VA for EISP scholarship since my current VA facility doesn't have a CRNA need. Anyone have any helpful insight into this process?

Grants Colby21! What kind of interview questions did they ask you?

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us as long as we have the courage to follow our dreams". So don't discredit yourself until you've actually tried. You got through your pre-requisites already d...

Hey Ya'll, I'm applying for USAGPAN 2017 in a civilian capacity as an employee of the Veterans Affairs. From my understanding, they only accept 4 VA employees into the program. Anyone have any insight into the VA competition board ;-). I received my ...

I'm a Navy reservist so I can weigh in on some of your questions. I have my BSN, so where does that put me?? That's good because you need at least a BSN to commission. I am married and have 4 children and really don't want to relocate. how does tha...

You can't practice as a registered nurse as enlisted. You'll take an ASVAB, select a rating (job specialty), boot camp, A school/C school. If he wants to stick to healthcare as enlisted, he'll be a hospital corpsman (HM). If he wants to practice at h...

Hi nurseJinicu, For Reserves, you'll go to Direct Commission Officer Indoctrination Course (DCOIC), two weeks in Rhode Island. They don't do official PRT at this course but they'll do a simulation of it by the book so you know what to do in your dril...

Good Afternoon, I'm currently a Nurse Corps reservist. You'll need a BSN to be commissioned as an officer plus civilian experience of 1-2 years to be considered. When you are commissioned, they fill a billet whether it be med/surg, psych, or critical...

Navy Reserves: 8 years total commitment. At least 3 years as a selected reservist and 5 years IRR. If you are non-prior service, you can't get deployed until after 2 years. After DCO/ODS which will be your first 2 week annual training, you can sign u...

Reserves are basically a supplementary force and reservists, at times, have no prior military experience going in. The drills are designed for you to learn the military way. You'll most likely not do anything related to your specialty during drills. ...

1) If you serve as an active duty nurse with a 4 year commitment, can you go to school at the same time for your MSN during those 4 years or do you have to finish your term then go back to school? 2) If the Air Force pays 100% of your MSN, do you ow...

ignore my last post, just re-read your question -_-. i'm assuming it's because of the half-life of chemotherapeutics? you wouldn't want to be killing actively proliferating neutrophils

The sooner the better? chemotherapy reduces your neutrophil count (causing neutropenia), thus weakening your immune system. since it's a colony stimulating factor, it'll help with production of neutrophil and will "decrease" your chance of getting an...

Is the brain death patient being comfort cared or are they still keeping life support? If its comfort care, decreased CO and ineffective airway clearance would not be your priority diagnosis but more on psycho social relating to the family, pain mana...

1) Don't ever leave pt.'s bedside when draining from a ventriculostomy/lumbar drainage. 2) when docs schedule for out of unit tests such as CT scan, try to consolidate all other tests they may want, specially on unstable patients. 3) always get an ek...

Think of the Whitehouse and all its staff. The people who needs to be there have badges and everyone recognizes them as such. When a suspicious guy comes in, no badges or anything or a type of foreign substance in the body showing its "antigen", the ...

Also P-R interval and QRS duration may be within the normal duration value but since you mentioned that she had irregular pulse, this would be indicated with irregular rhythm on the EKG by measuring the R to R interval which is the peak of the QRS to...

QRS duration of 86 ms is actually .086 which is within normal duration. A T-wave inversion on an EKG strip indicates ischemia on a portion of the myocardium. (T -waves can be flattened which may also may indicate ischemia or an R-on-T phenomenon in w...

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I think having an exam per 10-15 chapters is actually reasonable. I started on sept 2, first exam on sept 26..and we only have 3 exams for the semester, all comprehensive. I counted 68 chapters that we have covered from my syllabus prior to exam 1 ra...

I believe that means you did better than 85% of the applicants and you're in the top 15% scorer for the exam! =D Congrats!

Hey There, I'm currently a student at a cc taking the pre-requisite programs to enter rutgers bsn program. I'm pretty sure they have 3 separate programs, one in camden, new brunswick, and newark. I'll be entering the BSN program in Camden this Fall 0...

I know the feeling of waiting for that acceptance/rejection letter. I was going through anxiety while enduring the wait my self. I only applied to two nursing schools because I can't travel that far since I have a sibling to take care of. I graduate...