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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 through others. Use your course mentors early and often...

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 is one of my favorite courses. Engage in a cohort...

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 desktop, a small Asus tablet, a BlackBerry phone, and a...

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 clothes, teaching online, or mentoring online. Yo...

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 infections, wounds, and have to perform differential diagno...

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 city taxes, but no state of city taxes here. I sug...

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 might think.

I think it depends on the student. : )

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

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 mentor?

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 expectations (never mind wages) I was not intereste...

Exactly what she said. I use Home Care Home Base.

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 that can be done by an RN or LPN. We have PRN visit...

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

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 offender.

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

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 acting in the best interests of the patient. They a...

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 change.

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 favorite in case the medicine alters the taste of the fo...

What she said.

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 leave the floor to get to the break room. But the doct...

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 score, opens the final exam (objective assessment) fo...

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 schedule, but not hovering over me.

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

Taunt. As it the patient's abdomen was Taunt.