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    Missing the first day of class?

    this is the policy at our school as
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    Introducing Tweety & Trauma Nursing

    tweety you are what my mom would call "good people". Congrats and keep on "running that
  3. CNA certificate (to add points), HIGH GPA and HIGH SCIENCE GPA that is key! I would say you have no chance out here if you have less than 3.6 in either science or overall. The closer you are to 4.0...
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    Fund. of Nursing

    we have learned in our lab class so far: drawing up injections form one or twon bottles, giving sc and im shots, cappillary blood glucose monitoring, spiking an IV bag, lung and heart sounds, doing a...
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    "From doctors to beautiful ladies..."

    I guess I think of Keith coming from a generation where nurses were just "beautiful angels in white" who basically did whatever docs said. (or so that seemed to be the perception). I think he...
  6. Boy i was in there so much several nurses knew me by sight. LOL i kept thinking i was in labor and i guess in a way i was because i would dilate and efface but then it would stop (and it hurt like...
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    Valedictorian, but not announced

    how the heck do you remember the salutatorian and forget the valedictorian? wouldn't saying the former automatically remind you to mention the
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    You're Discharged....GET OUT NOW!

    Having just taken a test on "documentation", the standard of care with D/C orders states that you need to write the date and time of the discharge and the person who picked the patient up. Leaving...
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    OMG I feel terrible

    so basically that school just about guaranteed themselves double tuition from just about everyone that took A&P 2 out of sequence and failed because they will all have to take it again now. Nice...
  10. your instructor is the one whose license you are working under so she or he should be THE LAW. Be polite but let the charge nurse know that you have to go by what your instructor says and that you...
  11. well as a teen i was a witness to many a trampoline accident. Some were of the wound variety from falling between the springs and ripping up legs and arms, others were concussions and broken bones....
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    Does nursing school go by fast?

    :yeahthat: we are halfway thorugh the first quarter and I think it is flying by because we have sooo much to get through and test on that it seems like the weeks fly
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    BSN or RN

    the advantage comes in for BSN's later. I will continue for mine because it will only take 1 year to 18 months to finish, so why not? and ,if i am being considered for positions with other RN's and...
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    I never thought it was possible...

    yeah A&P was rough. when I took it, we started with about 135 students in september and by the beginning of 3rd quarter we had about 50 and i many of those didn't pass after 3rd quarter. Not to...
  15. Oregon has many towns that are a communtale distance to the bigger cities and towns and you can save money on housing and property by not being right in the heart of the city. I always recommend...
  16. that stinks. I am a big proponent of adults being responsible for their own learning, and if you can still do well without attending the class, then who cares? Unless it is a big discussion class...
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    I never thought it was possible...

    Brinley, you just need to figure out where you went wrong. Did you just learn general concepts instead of the nitpicky details of why, where, how? Di you focus on stuff that might be in the chapter...
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    What can an RN do that an LPN can't?

    true, but no actual "delegation" by definition could happen. Licenses would preclude
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    Let's call Oprah

    This should be a sticky for awhile, because i think lots more would be interested in doing something like this for nurses day, but may not be looking at the
  20. true, but waiting the 2-3 years while young kids are home is something to think about. Then the daycare issue would be a moot point because of school, your husband could still work and you would end...
  21. i think the 30 unit RN thing is in California if i am not mistaken? In any case your best bet is to get a copy of your transcripts and have them evaluated by a few local colleges to see what is...
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    What can an RN do that an LPN can't?

    i'm going to say what one one our teachers told us, she said basically the only thing you can say for sure that an LPN can't do is sit for the RN boards and delegate to an RN. Other than that it is...
  23. :yeahthat: Something is truly off with this girl and you need to just stay under the radar for the next 2 weeks and then hope you never need to have contact with her
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    How should I handle this??

    i was just going to mention to the nurses to make sure that the CNA's know why they need to have certain vitals done at ___ time. When i worked at an ALF i was just given a piece of paper and told...
  25. Marie, is it the kind of thing that you get used to?, Not just sense accommodation, but as the weeks pass do you find that the smell doesn't even bother you anymore even when you notice it? (kind of...