NurseSpanky replied to goodrust's topic in Operating Room
Interesting enough, I was in your same shoe 4 years ago. I was an ortho rep with a decade of experience in the OR. I had a rapid reduction of business and decided to cut my losses and go back to school to be an OR nurse. It has been an interesting jo...
I had a pair of Danskos that I wore out in the OR. Loved them. Tried to replace them but noticed they didnt fit the same. After some checking I found out that Dansko used to be produced by Sanita but were now made in China. Big difference in fitting ...
I was in Ortho sales for a decade. I went into the OR and helped the OR staff install my implants. My formal training to that point was as a mortician of all things! It was alot of self learning. The training program was limited. You learn by doing. ...
I'm a CNA, Nursing Student and free lance embalmer. I love Aviator, 5.11 pants and Nurse Joe camo scrubs for something different. The best deal for 5.11 online is through LA police gear. Not much higher than cost.
A lot of schools have different requirments and give points for classes already taken. I applied last year for Fall 2009 and didn't get in. With my life experiance the Director of the department told me I would have no problem getting in. Oh well!! ...
NurseSpanky replied to Audreyfay's topic in Orthopaedic
I'm not an Ortho Nurse, I'm actually am applying for a CNA position in Ortho tomorrow and was trying to bone up on the issues of the Ortho Floor. I am a pre nursing student after leaving a decade long career in ortho sales. I hadSupartz which is a c...
I am a prenursing student taking a technical writing class for my pre reqs. I worked as an Orthopaedic sales rep in surgery for a decade before returning to school. I decided to do something for my manual that I am familiar with and I thought might b...
See, I told ya you would do great. There is no doubt that the stress level is up there. It didn't help my instructor always trying to get us all worked up about it. It was all for good though because I was stressed out too about it. Congratulations!!...
I tested at a place in Shelby. I just wanted to get it over with so i asked for a place that had it everyday. I was the same way. Not really worried about the written, scared to death of the skills. I was worried about some stupid little thing failin...
I took the NC CNA test 2 weeks ago. I found it a breeze. The big thing for me is in the skills section, just talk your way through it. Don't psych yourself out before you get there.Good luck!
NurseSpanky replied to Dave ARNP's topic in Activism
LOL I posted this and then realized the last post was 2003. That was pre Advamed . The Pharma and Ortho companies have chanfged the way they work quite a bit. I was just reading back posts on the joke forum and ran into the discussion there. It was a...
NurseSpanky replied to Dave ARNP's topic in Activism
I was an Orthopaedic Sales Rep for almost a decade before finally burning out and returning to school. I am in CNA training now and hope to get into an ADN program in 2009. The changes at least in the Ortho community was striking over that time. When...
NurseSpanky replied to Bo Shoi Ming's topic in Male Students
Sure, open itunes, go to Itunes store. In the search box do a search for Biology 2110/2120. That should get you to Dr. P's podcast. The nice thing about these is they are the complete lectures and seem to coincide with the lectures i remember the las...
NurseSpanky replied to Bo Shoi Ming's topic in Male Students
If you have an Ipod or itunes, there is a series of lectures from an A&P class in Minnisota on Itunes under itunes U. They are complete and you can actually go to the schools website in the show notes and see the teachers pblackboard. The instru...