midlife_nurse

midlife_nurse

OR scrub/circulator, hospice crisis care

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  1. Advice about nursing school

    midlife_nurse replied to whitea776's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Congrats on getting accepted! My advice is to follow your syllabus and read ahead. Then during lecture, you will be reinforcing what you just read and retaining faster. Keep track of your notes- stay...

  2. TN Nurses Against Proposed Bill (SB 0009) for "Certified Medication Technicians"

    midlife_nurse replied to ccuRNinTN's topic in Tennessee Nursing

    [color=#334455][color=#334455]i just wrote to my representatives; here is the text: "i am writing to urge you not to pass this legislation designating "medication technicians who can administer...

  3. First Care Plan/First Day on Clinical Help....Please

    midlife_nurse replied to WndrWmn's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Nursing school is SUPPOSED to make you feel stupid... you will survive. My first care plans were crap, as were everyone else's, and my instructor was very cool. It's a learning experience! Put...

  4. Current LPN pay for Nashville area

    midlife_nurse replied to saskenn's topic in Tennessee Nursing

    I graduated this summer as an LPN, and while interviewing I was quoted new-grad pay ranging from from $13 (VA) to $18 (agency). I'm toward the upper half of that range at my job, and the salary range...

  5. Have you heard about DJ Sullivan?

    midlife_nurse replied to gnom's topic in Operating Room

    I haven't heard of them- and I hope I

  6. Foley Balloon Test

    midlife_nurse replied to OR male nurse's topic in Operating Room

    I am new to the OR- still in periop training. I was taught in school to always inflate. In periop training, I was taught that latex caths are being phased out, and the new silicon catheters shouldn't...