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    tired of hearing it, nursing students PLEASE answer

    sunkissed75 replied to ChervRN's topic in General Students

    I am only in school part-time and love it! Sure, it's going to take me an extra year plus before I graduate, but I only have two classes a semester. I am a mom with two young children and a job so...
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    Think CNAs will pick up LPNs duties in hospitals?

    sunkissed75 replied to lina.561's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    No problem!! PSW - personal support worker - exact same duties as a CNA from what I get from the posts I've been part of. RPN - instead of Licensed Practical Nurse it's Registered Practical
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    Think CNAs will pick up LPNs duties in hospitals?

    sunkissed75 replied to lina.561's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    i am in Ontario and what my understanding kind of is right now, is that PSW's (CNA) will be taking on more of the RPN (LPN) role (with training) and RPN's will be taking on more of an RN role. So...
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    PSY101 online summer class

    sunkissed75 replied to monters's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I think it's about 15 weeks. My class started the first of January and I know it goes until the middle of April. Also, we have some sort of a project that will be due in a few weeks (we haven't been...
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    Considering home health and have a few questions.

    sunkissed75 replied to ybstressed's topic in Home Health

    That is exactly why I love working as a PSW (CNA) for the Canadian Red Cross!! So much freedom!! My own hours!! Time to spend with the clt!!! I don't care that I make a couple bucks less an hour...
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    PSY101 online summer class

    sunkissed75 replied to monters's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm taking it online right now! So far it seems pretty easy...we have a week to read a chapter and before the next Sunday at midnight we have to paricipate in a discussion question and a quiz. I...
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    Connection between COPD and CHF

    sunkissed75 replied to totally_nuts's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thanks!! good question and good answer! I love when I learn something
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    Unsure of wording to use for a red bum while charting!

    sunkissed75 posted a topic in General Students

    i work as a psw (cna) in home health. in my psw classes we did touch on charting but not in any great depth and i haven't learned anything about charting yet in ns. anyway, i have a clt whose bum...
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    Unsure of wording to use for a red bum while charting!

    sunkissed75 replied to sunkissed75's topic in General Students

    i recognize the term 'sulcus' from biology in regards to the brain!!
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    Unsure of wording to use for a red bum while charting!

    sunkissed75 replied to sunkissed75's topic in General Students

    wow! thanks everyone! not that i want my clts to experience "non-blanchable redness over sacrum/coccyx; 1 cm diameter open area in buttocks cleft approx. 8 cm above orifice" but,now i'm prepared on...
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    What's the toughest part of A&PI?

    sunkissed75 replied to mell260's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    For me, it wasn't really about the different topics but I found the bell ringers difficult!! I didn't do very well on
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    Unsure of wording to use for a red bum while charting!

    sunkissed75 replied to sunkissed75's topic in General Students

    oooh...that sounds good!! thanks! i don't mean to sound ditzy...but would i state on the buttocks?! i hate feeling like such a
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    Do you know your 'stuff'?!!!

    sunkissed75 replied to sunkissed75's topic in General Students

    this week on grey's anatomy (it was a rerun) alex karev was arguing about the symptoms of a pt with another dr. and he said the pt was diplaying broca's aphasia! two thumbs up for me...we had just...
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    Do you know your 'stuff'?!!!

    sunkissed75 posted a topic in General Students

    I have been in school now for two months and I am so excited becasue I am starting to know what I'm learning!!! I was watching House the other night and I knew the the pt was in the left simms...
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    no wash cloths!!!!

    sunkissed75 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in General Nursing

    We had a fair share of those and it was A LOT of dirty pillow cases. But we all took turns and wore gowns and gloves. We also had one of the big toilett things you mentioned...and you are...
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    no wash cloths!!!!

    sunkissed75 replied to NurseEmRN's topic in General Nursing

    where i worked we put all the soiled laundry in a pillowcase and when all the residents were finished one of us would take the pillow case into the hopper room...it had a laundry tub and scrub brushes...
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    H1N1 -- Rant about the public

    sunkissed75 replied to Fiona59's topic in International Nursing

    i don't blame the dad for being upset. would you just blow something like this off? i wouldn't. there are so many unanswered questions about this vaccine as it is. the parents were hesitant to...
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    i have a question for nurses in Tornoto, and other ontario areas

    sunkissed75 replied to ibale's topic in International Nursing

    I don't know how far away from Toronto you're looking to go, but Woodstock always has job postings for RN's. We're close to London and Kitchener and really not that far from TO (Although you probably...
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    Did you have a "can't belive my eyes" moment?

    sunkissed75 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I started clinical a couple of weeks ago in LTC. I am so excited to be there...I love the residents and for the most part the staff. Most of the girls I work with are compassionate and kind. There...
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    Does anyone know what the Humber College Lab looks like?

    sunkissed75 replied to sunkissed75's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Wow...that's great that there is a fellow Humber nursing student on here and a part-time one at that!! How do you like the program? I just started two weeks ago and love that I only have to focus on...
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    Does anyone know what the Humber College Lab looks like?

    sunkissed75 posted a topic in LPN, LVN Students

    i've started the rpn program at humber college and am so excited to do the labs. i was wondering if anyone knows what the labs look like. i am just finishing up my psw at fanshawe college and the...
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    Hard Time Finding Brachial Artery

    sunkissed75 replied to zooz's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    yup...it worked...cool! thanks a lot, i was having a little bit of trouble with that
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    canadian nurses and rights

    sunkissed75 replied to Beebop25's topic in International Nursing

    wow...harsh...kind of cruel actually. do you feel better now that you berated another person over something as silly as spelling? do you go through all the posts looking for spelling mistakes or just...
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    what area of nursing do you never see yourself working in?

    sunkissed75 replied to ErinDel's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think I'd be able to work with babies and kids. I know it takes a very special kind of nurse to be able to do that job. When my son was a week old he was very, very sick, but we had the best...
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    No JOB- Spare time=LOSE WEIGHT!

    sunkissed75 replied to k.morris's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ahhhh...you're so close to reaching the 20lbs lost mark!!! how exciting!!! congrats for reaching the