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andeam

Getting my LVN first, the onto my RN!!!!

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  1. ~Earning your LPN~

    I am 22 as well and will be graduating from vocational nursing school in 3 WEEKS!!! I am so excited and YES, I do see it as an accomplishment. I have worked my butt off for the past year to get my 4.0 gpa and to learn the skills and knowledge to be...
  2. No She/he Did Not!!!

    she did not just ask the instructor if you could live without LUNGS!!!!!! or if you could be a blood donor/organ donor if you have HIV/AIDS same girl asked both, unbelievable, i swear
  3. OB/GYN RN jobs outside of the hospital?

    One thing that is always in demand are teachers. Childbirth instructors at hospitals around Dallas anyway are usually RNs, there are also RNs that work in county health departments and do case work for high risk and teen pregnancies and do "home hea...
  4. Starting Nursing School

    Hello everyone! I start nursing school in an hour and I am so excited. Honestly, I have not been able to sleep for the last week. Last night I kept waking up and thinking that I was going to be late! lol. I have put this off for way too long! I...
  5. Starting Nursing School

    The first two weeks seemed to fly by. So far its going good. I have met some nice classmates, however, the girl I sit next to has tried to steal my calculator twice now and tried stealing a set of flashcards I spent 2 hours making, but hopefully my...
  6. Do you recommend Presbyterian Dallas a good place to work?

    I've worked at presbydallas for the last 2.5 years and I must say it is a pretty nice place to work. The nurse to patient ratios are lower than at other area hospitals (usually no more that 6:1), and they just started a new career advancement ladder...
  7. Concorde Career Inst.

    I just wanted to mention that Concorde is accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools, and approved by the TX BON, if it wasn't they would not have a 91% employment rate of their students after graduation.
  8. how many non-traditional students are here?

    While I'm not over 24, I am 21 and married and fully independent from my parents. It is definetly a lot different. In my opinion, when you are older and "wiser" per say, you are generally paying for your own school, hence you will really try harder...
  9. FUTUREARMYNURSE: I am on the Concorde waitlist for June too, basically, the waitlist is just a way to make sure that everyone has payment plans in order and all documentation ready, I'm guessing you had the same counselor that I did, and I must say ...
  10. What do you love most about nursing?

    That no matter how rough it gets, I can always put a smile on someone's face and make what may be the hardest part of their life yet a look a little brighter!
  11. scary scary night in icu

    I have never been so scared working in a hospital as I was tonight. We had a patient in neuro ICU that was etoh withdrawl. He had been pretty mellow all night and the dr had started to wean him off of his sedatives. About 5 am all hell broke loose...
  12. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    When I ( a pct) tell a nurse about a patient's declining status and they ignore what I say and later we have to code the patient or send them to the unit
  13. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    There is one room in the post partum unit of the hospital that always smells like men's cologne! When you enter the room, the door shuts without being touched, and the lights appear to be off from outside the building, when they are on on the inside...
  14. Most hospitals all over Texas are still hiring! Especially in the Dallas area, there are hundreds of openings!!! Hope this helps
  15. SCD's and TED hose

    In the hospital I work at the mds typically order both teds and scds. In fact, while a patient in this hospital, I was given both, and told to put them on with a bp of 210/110
  16. CNA's/PCT's how much do you make?

    In Dallas, TX I make 11.90 an hour, which is not bad considering the 1.50 shift differential for nights, and the 2.50 differential for the weekends.
  17. NO, you would think if this shortage was really taken seriously the government would make it easier to get a degree in nursing. Teachers get extra grant money, why shouldn't nurses? The only way to fix our healthcare problem is to make sure there a...
  18. I'm not an RN, but I work very closely with them. From my experience, there are poorly trained, foreign born nurses and there are exellently trained ones. The same goes with American trained nurses, there are the good, and the bad. We can't gener...
  19. MED/SURG!!!! For someone who wants to be a nurse, I cannot handle bodily fluids other than urine and stool. Drainage and phlegm just make me gag, and once I get started, there is no stopping me!
  20. Scared to death of doing a foley insertion.

    I totally understand what you are talking about. I used to be so scared of the prospect of inserting a foley that I even decided not to go on pursuing nursing. However, at my current job as a PCT, I help the RN insert them on a regular basis and ca...