JulesRN10

Well, I have officially died and gone to Nursing Career Heaven! I recently started a position as the Staff Development Coordinator in a Long Term Care Facility. We are a 200 bed facility with a staff of 260 FT and about 80 PT/PRN employees. The pl...

I have a pt who is a relatively healthy paraplegic, about 55 yrs old. He has a non-healing/ stalled wound on the left buttock since October...had cyst removed late October. Wound vac placed with good, although slow, results until March. Wound vac ...

Congratulations!!! I know that has to feel so great!!! I will definitely be looking you up soon...might need some WGU pointers!!

I am so thankful for my counselor...got most of my stuff in, but have kind of slacked off. She called me a couple of times in the beginning to answer my questions, but for the most part has left me alone unless I call her....not what I expected, but...

I entered the program in September 2009 with the nursing courses, A&P and Micro to complete. I finished the nursing courses by Feb, FCCA in March then applied for CPNE thinking I had plenty of time to take the 2 science classes then focus on CPN...

I've been speaking with someone at the school recently, deciding if this is where I'm going or not...the Nutrition and Biochem requirements are fairly new, I think she told me in the last 3 or 4 months. Previously, if you had an AS, you wouldn't nee...

so, now i'm nervous about ec and the bsn, i just enrolled in rn-msn because it was easy to just stay put. i know i may need some upper level gen eds, but i'm hoping that's all...arg! so, are they not as lenient with accepting credits for the bsn as...

excelsior is a lot of information to take in, and i probably won't get it all out, so help me out peers! first, excelsior provides an opportunity for professionals, such as lpn/lvn's, emt's, paramedics, rrt's to gain an associate's degree in nurs...

i completed the program, including a&p and microbiology in 53 weeks. this was for all of the nursing exams, fcca, the 2 science classes, a workshop, and cpne. i chose mpac first available, registered for cpne in late april, got my date the firs...

I used my Mosby's for the FCCA, maybe one other text book, I can't remember...but it wasn't anything I had to go out and spend more money on :-)...as for CPNE, I used the Study Guide religiously, the skills kit, which was worth every penny I spent on...

I live in a small community where everyone knows everyone. After a lot of unprofessional coworkers and many lectures hospital wide about professionalism, I just don't participate in the Facebook/MySpace world much anymore. Even with my privacy sett...

glad to help....it does seem like a money pit, especially toward the end...but, those letters behind your name....yep! priceless! let me know if i can help in any way....it's so much easier with a support system!

have you looked at tina logan? took that one....loved it! it was tough, but she knows her stuff! her website is necworkshop.com and it comes with several weeks of careplans as well. she's in pennsylvania, if the travel is any easier. and sheri ta...

are you working full time in icu? i work 3 12 hour shifts at my hospital and moonlight with pediatric home health. the company i work for is awesome about working around my full time schedule. in return, when the bottom drops out at the house, i j...

help! i have worked for a pediatric home health company for a little over a year now, earned my rn and am considering taking a promotion with the company to do case management. never done anything like this, so i have no idea what questions to ask,...

so, i just had to run in and say thank you!!!!! thank you to this web site, and to the many new friends i've made in the bajillion hours i have spent since august of last year combing this board for the answer and support in my earning my adn and li...

erika, never fear, graduation will be here before you know it! we've come a long way, baby! and, hotnurse, i did my cpne in racine...loved it! the ec staff and the hospital staff were awesome! if i'd had to do it again, i would go back there in a...

i completed the cpne august 15 and will graduate next friday...already paid for nclex through pearson, and in missouri, you have to graduate before you sit for boards. i've heard of people getting their att as quickly as 1 week after their conferral...

angel, you passed the cpne like it was nothing and you are intimidated by a couple of video tapes! i am shocked at you!! talk to dianna, she enrolled in ec's bsn last month, i believe! i'm thinking about enrolling in the rn-msn just because it sav...

woot!! woot!!! congrats, del!!!!! can't wait to be right there with you....i graduate the 15th, waiting on my att to schedule! we've all been first time passers, as far as i know, and now i'm the last one! are you looking for a new job? staying...

i am a pediatric nurse in a small rural hospital, which is code for "float pool". i know exactly what you are saying! from right out of the gates as a new nurse, i have floated to each and every floor in the hospital. my latest float was a re-assi...

For my LPN program, they encouraged us to have completed between 3-5000 NCLEX style questions before boards. I did about 3000 and felt pretty good about what I was getting into. That's my plan in a few weeks, after I come home from CPNE...I've been...

don't over-think it...read it, slap down some answers and put it back in the mail....okay, maybe not quite like that, but you get the picture ! i fretted over that thing for days when it finally dawned on me that there was more than one right answer...

everybody, say a little prayer for me! i'm going to take my lifespan 1 test early this afternoon. this one is the most nerve-wracking for me thus far, and i don't know why! i did well on the practice exams, i've studied...just a lot of content i g...

after looking back at all of the ls series, i'm not sure if any of them were harder than the other ones...i put so much pressure on myself to finish that last test, i thought i would explode! i used sg 101 notes and the textbooks/study guides for ea...