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  1. Help with nursing

    SCSTxRN replied to lisa861971's topic in General Students

    Med surg success book - I have found most people find it very

  2. I would like to interview a nurse for my Intro to Nursing Class

    SCSTxRN replied to Karla_isela's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    1. I have only been a nurse a few years; there hasn't been a lot of change in role and responsibility since I started. Nurses in my family go back four generations, though. From listening to them...

  3. Want PMHNP, but only DNP offered. What to do?

    SCSTxRN replied to mocha54j's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    University of Texas at Arlington Academic Partnership has an online RN

  4. Wichita Falls Texas Nursing school

    SCSTxRN replied to username2311's topic in Texas Nursing

    Vernon (www.vernoncollege.edu) is a regular community college. They have an LVN certificate program, which requires you to take the TEAS test (deadline is mid-april for fall admission), apply to the...

  5. Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - Basic Advice :)

    SCSTxRN replied to mocha54j's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    University of Texas at Arlington Academic Partnership has an online RN program where you do clinicals in your area. I am in their RN-BSN program now, it is work.. but it is do-able. You might also...

  6. LPN. or RN

    SCSTxRN replied to gapeacheykeen's topic in Nursing Career

    I am career changer. I would never have dreamed of going for my LVN because it would be wasted time and a pay cut from my previous job. I worked as a CNA as a teenager, but that's been a very VERY...

  7. Career Advice Required, New RN, BScN Leaving the Profession

    SCSTxRN replied to giveface's topic in Men in Nursing

    Wound care. I know you're leaving nursing - and that's fine, go with what suits you. But wound care takes a few months of school and you can contract out - you are your own boss and it is...

  8. Impossible job expectations

    SCSTxRN replied to annmariern's topic in General Nursing

    My only hospital job was an LTACH - which I loved! We griped if we had more than 6-7 patients, a new admit happened maybe twice a week, same with discharges. Total patient census was 30 - tops....

  9. ALL nights or day/night MIX shift to pick? HELP! need to reply to recruiter!

    SCSTxRN replied to froggy8's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I currently work mix and I am just waiting for an all night line to open up. Nights.

  10. Area of hospital with minimal vomit...

    SCSTxRN replied to alxndria.mrqtt's topic in General Nursing

    I am as safe doing acute inpatient psych as I am in the ER. In a psych hospital, I know who and what I am dealing with. In the ER, nurses tend to get taken by suprise. It's been said that every...

  11. All Those NPs with No Bedside Experience

    SCSTxRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I am the opposite - belonging to me I have always thought is a good thing. My staff, my doctor(s), my patient(s) ... I do everything in my power to take care of them, to learn from them, to...

  12. All Those NPs with No Bedside Experience

    SCSTxRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I must have misunderstood Ruby Vee's post - because what I got out of it was not that a certain number of years makes an RN ready for NP school - but that when you're the NP with four years total...

  13. Area of hospital with minimal vomit...

    SCSTxRN replied to alxndria.mrqtt's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a mostly psych (and a little wound care) nurse... I don't see a lot of vomit. I do see a lot of excrement. I guess you have to choose your end.... lol :) Good

  14. When to apply for a job

    SCSTxRN replied to MCGNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think I applied in early March - my school uses HESI, and I had just found out that I had passed. I was hired in mid April as a Nurse Aide, then when I got my GN permit (after graduating, before...

  15. Math Calculations for last semester of Nursing Program

    SCSTxRN replied to WantingtheBest's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I was taught - and I teach - to do this by "dimensional analysis" Assuming you know that 1kg = 2.2 lbs, 60 minutes = 1 hour, and 1000mcg = 1mg and 1g = 1000 mg To use 'dimensional analysis' you have...

  16. Which job to pick?? Help!

    SCSTxRN replied to mshessle's topic in Nursing Career

    If you LOVE nicu, public health department is probably not going to be your thing. It's just a different dynamic of care / people / etc... pregnancy tests, immunizations, and STD clinics vs. babies...

  17. Preparing food on the nursing unit

    SCSTxRN replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    It would seem appropriate that they be made in the kitchen, since there is one on every unit - at our LTAC, they were made in the med room - and that was a PITA and a mess besides. Anyway - so far as...

  18. Am I making a mistake by enrolling in an ADN program?

    SCSTxRN replied to jacky8168's topic in General Students

    I have an ADN and I am working on my BSN via University of Texas at Arlington's Academic Partnership program - one year, all online. I have had NO PROBLEM finding a job. I applied for 5, interviewed...

  19. Can you throw out some career options for the fields i am interested in?

    SCSTxRN replied to confused256's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am a psych nurse - and I love it. I work in an inpatient hospital, so many of my patients are long term crazy. Not all psychotic, though - some depression, some bipolar, some borderline, some...

  20. I hate my boss!

    SCSTxRN replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    I love my boss. She worked her way up to RN over 10 years in health care, though - and worked as an RN for probably three or four years before moving up the food chain.. and she often says time on...

  21. What would the IV rate be...?

    SCSTxRN replied to nashgirl516's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    My answer would be: 17 mL/hour unless M.D. specifies a different rate to be administered

  22. Private sitters in the hospital

    SCSTxRN replied to NightOwl0624's topic in General Nursing

    You could always ask the family if they have any other openings for night sitters, because you have a friend who needs a night job that lets her sleep enough that she can still work in the day... from...

  23. Do nurses get holidays off?

    SCSTxRN replied to Jmiami's topic in General Nursing

    I have kids - 4 of them, and I've never much cared about Holidays. I work evenings and nights, so I see my family when I'm off - and I enjoy school break more than most people I know. Thanksgiving,...

  24. Any hospital hiring new grads? anywhere in the country?

    SCSTxRN replied to zefutebolera's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    lol - um, no - I live in north central

  25. Any hospital hiring new grads? anywhere in the country?

    SCSTxRN replied to zefutebolera's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I feel very fortunate to live where I do every time I log in to this thread - everyone I graduated with has a job as a nurse. Come on down to the sticks,