simbawicz

simbawicz

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  1. WGU RN-BSN

    simbawicz replied to OneDayAtATime93's topic in Western Governors University

    I've completed the BSN courses and am starting the MSN portion today. It is self paced, and that can be both good and bad. I've rocked through some courses very quickly, and have dragged my feet...

  2. WGU RN to BSN Grads/Current Students

    simbawicz replied to missy26's topic in Western Governors University

    Use your course mentors. I started the course thinking I didn't need to engage them, but once I reached out to them, I got through much faster, with far less frustration, and find myself thinking that...

  3. Ipad requirement?

    simbawicz replied to AldreaFalan's topic in Western Governors University

    I'm in the RN-MSN program. No requirements for i-anything. You need a tablet or laptop or desktop or something to access your courses and write and submit papers (tasks). I have an old Sony Vaio...

  4. New hospice nurse: Burned out!!!

    simbawicz replied to MsPrettyHospiceRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I genuinely feel your pain. My personal solution is going back to school, in spare time I don't really have, to get a MSN in education. So maybe I can transition to working from home in my comfortable...

  5. New hospice nurse: Burned out!!!

    simbawicz replied to MsPrettyHospiceRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    You are misinformed. We treat much more than anxiety, restlessness, dyspnea, nausea, and constipation. We still treat medically, just not toward a cure of their admitting diagnosis. We treat...

  6. Florida Nurses, I have questions

    simbawicz replied to dominiquejade's topic in General Nursing

    While I can't tell you the starting wages, what I can tell you is that when I moved from Ohio, I took a $2 per hour pay cut, I thought. Turned out it was an equivalent, as I had been paying state and...

  7. Florida Nurses, I have questions

    simbawicz replied to dominiquejade's topic in General Nursing

    One more caveat: if you see standing water deeper than a rain puddle assume there is an alligator in it. Down here there is an alligator that can climb chain link fences. They are much faster than you...

  8. Ice machine use in hospitals

    simbawicz replied to olcroner's topic in General Nursing

    I think it depends on the student. :

  9. 7/30 This week, I learned Deanna Troi sucks

    simbawicz replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Oooohhhh, TARDIS. If I were on the TARDIS, I'm afraid I wouldn't be here. Or now.

  10. Thinking about hospice nursing

    simbawicz replied to honeygirl1223's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    What she said, plus, how do you document? Salaried or hourly? How often are you expected to be in the office? How frequent is IDG/ITM (if you are case managing)? Are you given a

  11. VITAS in DFW

    simbawicz replied to arvolina's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I work for a competitor of Vitas in another city. I did interview at Vitas, and partway through the interview, I thanked them for their time but told them based on what they had told me of their job...

  12. New Charting Regs?

    simbawicz replied to FleaRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Exactly what she said. I use Home Care Home

  13. New Charting Regs?

    simbawicz replied to FleaRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    We have comprehensive visit documentation with supervision questions that are expected with each weekly visit, and are done by an RN minimally every 14 days. We have nursing visits minus supervision...

  14. $600 an hr to fill a shift?

    simbawicz replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I believe you may have missed that it is $600 per

  15. Moral character

    simbawicz replied to beckiand's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I think I watched too many episodes of Dark Shadows and X Files and the like. All I could imagine is the offender is an incubus or succubus. I do not know the gender of the OP

  16. Pocket Snacks for 12 Hour Shift?

    simbawicz replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Or wolfed nearly whole in the supply room, or any empty room you can find. A choking

  17. crushing meds, best foods to disguise taste

    simbawicz replied to heynow1313's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Exactly. It sounds like the caregivers are dealing with a lot, and controlling what they can. Even if you were trying to influence only as a nurse, which clearly you are not, it sounds like they are...

  18. crushing meds, best foods to disguise taste

    simbawicz replied to heynow1313's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I learned it in nursing school in peds rotation, but now I am a hospice nurse, and it is just as important once tastes or texture needs

  19. crushing meds, best foods to disguise taste

    simbawicz replied to heynow1313's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    While I don't have any new suggestions for you (that have not already been suggested) I usually suggest that FAVORITE foods be avoided. Use something the patient likes, but not loves. Guard the...

  20. What do you hate most about your job?

    simbawicz replied to PancakeSaturdays's topic in General Nursing

    What she

  21. Pocket Snacks for 12 Hour Shift?

    simbawicz replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I worked for a major health system with a policy that you could not have snacks of any kind on your person or at the nurses' station. You had to go to a break room to eat, but you often could not...

  22. Mentors

    simbawicz replied to erinmichele's topic in Western Governors University

    I started April 1, and my student mentor has not tried to slow me down at all. She is supportive and less me do courses in the order I want, and when take a practice test and pass it, she gets the...

  23. No response from Enrollment Counselor

    simbawicz replied to MsPebbles's topic in Western Governors University

    That was not my experience. I hope you can get connected. I've found WGU classes to be challenging, but achievable, and the enrollment counselor I had was very available, accommodating my work...

  24. Who here is starting April 1?

    simbawicz replied to nortonplusRN's topic in Western Governors University

    Me too, Jm0136. I'm working on stats and it's kind of

  25. Words You Hate

    simbawicz replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    Taunt. As it the patient's abdomen was