bluehippo

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1. How should a student nurse approach an uncooperative CNA for help?

   bluehippo replied to bluehippo's topic in General Students

   Thanks

2. How should a student nurse approach an uncooperative CNA for help?

   bluehippo posted a topic in General Students

   I'm in the last semester of nursing school. CNAs at all of the hospitals I've been at have been extremely helpful to me. Prior to the past few weeks, I have been responsible for total patient care of one or two patients. The past few weeks, I have...

3. Flu shots

   bluehippo replied to Aisha29's topic in General Students

   No, this is not required at every school or hospital.

4. HELP>> Advice of grades

   bluehippo replied to reader23's topic in Student Assist

   There was a post recently, maybe within the past month, that was very similar to your post. Try to find that one because a lot of people had some really great suggestions like talking to the department chair, writing letters, and other options. A g...

5. HELP! Student debt

   bluehippo replied to purple_zen's topic in General Students

   Some of my nursing instructors have told me that there is no difference in pay between a BSN or ADN. Two people that have graduated from this same ADN program are making very decent money, and they also say that there's no difference in pay. I am ...

6. How much is school costing you?

   bluehippo replied to tbell2's topic in General Students

   I also attend a community college in a Chicago suburb. With tuition, books, and child care for one child I will have spent about $9400. Maybe I should add my salon bill in there since nursing school has given me some gray hair that I need to cover ...

7. Nurses love DRAMA???

   bluehippo replied to Missy89's topic in General Students

   Ya, it stinks that people talk so much smack and can be pretty judgemental. 95% of the time I stay out of it. But I don't think RNs talk more than people in other businesses. I can kind of see your point because as students we are taught (or dril...

8. Whats the deal with all the crying?!?!....

   bluehippo replied to morningland's topic in General Students

   I cried (loud movie-style sobbing crying) in the car on the way home from clinical. My clinical instructor took me into the conference room, dropped her clipboard on the table, kept standing, and began loudly telling me that that would have been a m...

9. STOP - Don't buy your textbooks from the school bookstore

   bluehippo replied to DolceVita's topic in General Students

   Barnes & Noble has great prices, too. Lately B&N has been a better deal than Amazon. Especially if you join their member club (it's $25 a year). My books were still cheaper through them, even with paying for the membership, than what the s...

10. Leukocytosis

    bluehippo replied to 123_y_321's topic in General Students

    Look for interventions relating to infection/infection control, especially with her DM.

11. I don't think I can do this anymore...

    bluehippo replied to mc3's topic in General Nursing

    I can only imagine how you feel. What do you think about taking a leave of absence and talking to a counselor before you quit? I used to work for an HMO. The RNs there worked Monday through Friday 8-430p with an hour lunch, with benefits and all ...

12. People are dropping like flies

    bluehippo replied to 20mom10's topic in General Students

    I'm in my third semester. We started out with 50 (in first semester) and are down to about 30. And every semester you hear about how many people in fourth semester are told to go home from clinical- meaning they've failed. This time six people were t...

13. BMCC Policy

    bluehippo replied to missjayda's topic in General Students

    If you want to be a nurse, and not an EMT or respiratory therapist, please don't follow the suggestions from the counselor. You should really do what your passion is. From my personal experience it is challenging to get into a nursing program at man...

14. Withdrew

    bluehippo replied to Nightingale11's topic in General Students

    I have known a few people who have withdrawn or received an F after completing a class. They just re-entered the following semester and keep on going (and passing, too!). Withdrawing does stink but is sometimes necessary and definitely does not me...

15. Help! Advice Needed! Social work vs. Nursing

    bluehippo replied to cjohns889's topic in General Students

    I am still in nursing school. But you really sound like you have a wonderful heart, and I think the nursing profession needs you (and more people like you). It sounds to me that you are on the right track. At my psychiatric rotations I got to lis...