Idaho Murse

Idaho Murse

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  1. Salem Hospital opened RN Summer Internship 2011

    TSV, I just got notification today for an interview
  2. Tele interview Tomorrow. Need your help!

    Thanks for the responses guys. Any little bit of information is helpful.
  3. Struggle with pre-reqs, and go on to be successful??

    From what I have seen most people's GPA drops once they are in the nursing program. The content and the way it is tested is just much different from anything else. Will you be successful? I am not...
  4. Interview attire

    I dont think a suit will make you seem stiff shirted (not sure what that means). Why wouldn't you put your best foot forward? You say you are lucky to get an interview, if that is the case I would...
  5. Salem Hospital opened RN Summer Internship 2011

    Noooooooo lol Don't tell people where I have
  6. Hawaii RNs?

    Go under Region>United States>Hawaii
  7. Can someone reassure me?

    I have to ask what kind of facility you work at where used needles/medical containers are just laying around? Please dont take this the wrong way. I am just baffled how this could have happened in the...
  8. Here's my profile

    http://www.all-crna-schools.com/ Is a great resource for you. You can break down the schools, by experience, cost, state and many others. from your basic stats I think you have a great chance to get...
  9. What was your first nursing job?

    Hey everyone, I am graduating in may with my BSN, I know where I want to be on what kind of a floor. However, getting into one of those floors can be quite hard. I want to be in critical and in...
  10. What was your first nursing job?

    Thanks for the replies guys, I am just really torn if I should hold out for an ICU job/residency program. Or take a tele job which I am told I can transition into their critical care floor when they...
  11. best day at clinicals... worst day at clinicals

    My best day was in my second semester of med/surg. My nurse would ask me a question and I had the correct answer for each one. I was a rockstar taking care of 4-5 pts. I succeeded at everything I did....
  12. Care plan prioritization question!!

    I am not telling you how to do your nursing diagnosis, but pain is bad yes, you can help with pain. But why are they having the pain what is the patho causing the pain. If you can do something along...
  13. Care plan prioritization question!!

    Um, I sort of disagree with the pain is always the highest priority. This is sort of reading into it but if they have nausea r/t GI irritation and their pain meds are oral. Oral pain meds will make...
  14. Hello All! I am graduating in May with my BSN. Woohoo! I am excited to start working as a nurse. I have been looking around and something that has caught my eye are nurse residency programs. My goal...
  15. Title pretty much says it all, I know when jobs were more plentiful and the 'nursing shortage' was on everyone's mind there were signing bonuses. But I haven't really heard anything about them...
  16. What would you answer for this test question?

    I would have to say heat loss, B could be either way. But babies drop heat really fast just because they dont have the muscle mass, fat, or metabolism to maintain their body heat as effectively as an...
  17. Passed my bp check off this morning!!!

    Good Job, happy to hear
  18. Do nurses still get signing bonuses?

    Well thanks for the replies guys it was something I was wondering about a
  19. what am I missing?

    Starting wages I was told around 60k a year new grads... however hourly its like 20. Which is about 36k a year. Am I missing something? Starting as a bsn by the
  20. what am I missing?

    Thanks for the reply guys. What parts of thye country are you
  21. I really liked my med surg classes, my least favorite was definitely
  22. In need of help with a nursing dx!!!

    Well if he is a risk for injury, I would make sure he is always wearing the non slip
  23. So I realize this should be in the student portion of the forums, however I have posted in there before about asking for help and I never get a reply so I thought I would ask here this time. My...
  24. Clinicals starting Monday!!! AHH!!!

    My advice is to realize that you don't know everything and dont be afraid to tell your instructor/RN you don't know how to do something or are uncomfortable doing something. And don't stress...Lol...
  25. Antepartum nursing diagnosis?

    Also why social isolation? does she not have any visitors? Has she voiced concern over no one seeing or anything? Does she have a flat affect? As far as not having money for a parenting class talk to...