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    Someone signing "RN" when they are not

    313RN replied to SweettartRN's topic in General Nursing

    In Michigan it's the Michigan Department of Community Health, Bureau of Health Professions that adminstrates nursing licenses. This link has numbers to their licensing and investigations divisions:...
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    Second career, nontraditional background NURSES w/UNIQUE HISTORIES!-help our quiz

    313RN replied to Genuine_Pure_Setae's topic in General Nursing

    how long have you been a nurse? age? 39 gender? male what was your previous career? outside sales (b2b) did you receive a college degree in that specialty? yes. bs, marketing/sales how...
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    Anatomy in the summer??

    313RN replied to MsAshley's topic in Michigan Nursing

    It's been a couple of years, but I think it was about 8 weeks. I know it was T, Th 6-10. 2 hours lecture followed by 2 hours lab. Good
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    Anatomy in the summer??

    313RN replied to MsAshley's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Did A&P I in the summer at OCC. It was OK. Did Patho and Pharm in 9 Weeks, along with Med/Surg II and a few others in 8-10 weeks in nursing school. That was less pleasant but
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    scholarships

    313RN replied to medeiros808's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Check out the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They have a mission to increase the presence of minorities in health care and veiw all men as minorities in terms of the nursing profession. I recieved a...
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    university of detroit mercy second degree program

    313RN replied to creativetype2007's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Alright, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you get a 74.99% you're out. Now the good news is that it's cummulative. You can fail a test, ace the next one and if the average is 75%or higher...
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    university of detroit mercy second degree program

    313RN replied to creativetype2007's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I felt prepared once I graduated. The last 5 weeks (or so) of the program allows you to work along side a nurse 1:1 full time on his/her unit and shift. That's really where you get a full taste of...
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    Advantages to being a male nurse

    313RN replied to ItsTheDude's topic in Male Nursing Students

    No offense taken at all Dude. But I thought I'd chime in on the stuff that I have experience with- As far as I know my school had no preference for male applicants. MY class was about 20% male....
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    university of detroit mercy second degree program

    313RN replied to creativetype2007's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I graduated from this program in December of '09. Not all of us have taken the NCLEX yet, but so far everyone we've heard about taking it from our cohort has passed (mostly with 75 questions). We...
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    Malpractice Insurance

    313RN posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I just earned my license this week and am in the process of finding a job. I think my school prepared me well to become a grad nurse, but the one thing I don't recall hearing about is malpractice...
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    Potential strike in Michigan

    313RN replied to vivicaq's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I believe they are allowed to strike, although I don't know under what conditions. Four or five years ago a hospital in the Traverse City (or somewhere near there) area was in a protracted strike with...
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    ADN vs BSN nurses

    313RN replied to sheryl1304's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    i have a bsn and i doubt there's much difference in outcomes between adn and bsn nurses if all the other variables (pt, facility, md's etc) are basically equal. i have no evidence to base this on,...
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    Career Change Advice

    313RN replied to UDMABSN's topic in Michigan Nursing

    The loans do indeed suck. The biggest issue that I see with them in the broad view is what they do to your options for getting a mortgage. From what I'm hearing banks are really tightening the...
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    Career Change Advice

    313RN replied to UDMABSN's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I graduated from that program after spending 15 years in business with a wife and 3 y/o daughter at home. You're right, working probably isn't realistic. The program is demanding, rigorous and...
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    Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    313RN replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

    When I'm discharging patients and they're in the wheel chair I tell them "the good news is you can go home now. The bad news is the elveators are out and you're going to have to take the stairs....
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    Potential strike in Michigan

    313RN replied to vivicaq's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I heard a rumor many months ago about an area hospital but nothing ever happened. Given the state of the economy and the job climate it doesn't make a lot of sense for a union to agree to a strike....
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    How did you convince your wife/significant other to support decision?

    313RN replied to jcmoore07's topic in Men in Nursing

    I don't know if it was more or less difficult than anyone else who goes to nursing school with a family at home. But it was not easy. Going into school we sort of knew where we had to be, and we did...
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    Scared Of Poop!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

    313RN replied to nursingstudent424's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree that poop is part of nursing, and if you don't like it then you're just like every other nurse. How much you dislike it is a matter of degrees. The first time I had someone pass faltus very...
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    Does this article prove that BSN nurses are safer than ASN?

    313RN replied to Roland's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    i have a bsn and frankly i couldn't agree more. when i've talked to adn nurses and we discuss school they're often a little self-deprecating, saying something like "i only have an adn". i always ask...
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    Career Change Into Nursing?

    313RN replied to Ingersoll's topic in Men in Nursing

    I was a quota bearing outside sales rep for 15 years. I saw the economy tanking in this area around 2006 and in 2007 started my pre-reqs. I graduated from an ABSN program and passed my boards just...
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    How did you convince your wife/significant other to support decision?

    313RN replied to jcmoore07's topic in Men in Nursing

    I had been thinking about it for years, mostly because of the opportunity and security. At the time I was a commisioned sales rep. We kept discussing it and she was very supportinve. In fact she was...
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    Prospective male nurse with a lot of questions.

    313RN replied to DirtyBlackSocks's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Nursing schools may or may not have a problem with the tatoos, it will just depend on the culture of the particualr program. I went to a Jesuit school in an ASBN program and they didn't want visible...
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    WIll I hate Ob-gyn nursing?

    313RN replied to Sangrita RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I second that. I'm a guy, and I absolutley loved my L&D rotation. Mother-baby was boring in my opinion, but some people like it. I liked L&D because it was fast paced and there was a great...
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    Ages of male nursing students?

    313RN replied to Stearnsy's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I graduated from second bachelor's degree program at 39 and two
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    Nursing School Bloopers

    313RN replied to Jabber964's topic in Nursing Humor

    First semester of school the third day of clincals another student called me over and asked if I knew how to turn the call light off in a patients room. I said I did, becuase I'd seen it done by my...