Ginger's Person

Ginger's Person

Member
  • Content

    70
  • Visitors

    4,279
  • Followers

    0
  • Likes

    0

All Content by Ginger's Person

  1. Hi there, My husband and have just begun considering a move to Sydney from the USA. He has a job opportunity that would begin in about one year. One deciding factor would be whether I too could find...
  2. MN Program Interviews

    As far as I know. That was another perk for me about this being a grad program. I also got accepted to an accelerated BSN program, but the federal student loan allowance for one year of an undergrad...
  3. MN Program Interviews

    Hey, I got in too! I'm still on the fence. I live in Madison, WI, and I'll hear from UW in May about their BSN program. MAY! The people Minnesota SON just seem friendlier than the people I've spoken...
  4. Anyone heard from schools yet?

    Just heard from the UMN MN program! Yes! My life just got so much less
  5. No jobs in OB nursing!!

    Have you thought about getting trained as a doulah and volunteering to assist some births? Around here, organizations that provide volunteer doulahs can't find enough doulahs to serve their clients. I...
  6. Illegal Immigration & Health Care Reform: Prespective

    "I have no internal conflict over it. I don't feel they should be receiving ANY medical care here, or welfare benefits. Most of them do not pay into the system, so their using it amounts to stealing...
  7. Nursing School Question- Does the school matter?

    An anecdote... A friend of mine who graduated from another big public nursing school in the midwest (UW-Madison) was offered a few fab jobs in California. One boss said that "those universities in the...
  8. RN - New ADD Diagnosis

    I've never worked as a nurse... just as a CNA, a waitress, a college student, and a million other things that require an attention span and focus greater than my spastic gnat-like reticular formation...
  9. New home health CNA

    I start as a home health CNA next week. They give us 2 full weeks of training, which is fantastic, and the organization seems like a great employer, but I'm still way nervous. What kinds of situations...
  10. My roommate started his 3rd year med school clinicals earlier this month, on a general medical floor. He's working hard and is trying to do a good job, but he knows he has a lot to learn. As nurses,...
  11. Education vs Experience

    I really wish I agreed with you. I'm going to get a second bachelors in nursing, and I eventually plan to chose an advanced practice specialty. It would be nice to get school over with sooner and go...
  12. Germophobic considering Nursing. please help!

    With all the hospital acquired infections running around, a little germophobia could go a long way. As long as your fear of germs isn't straight up debilitating maybe you'd run an extra tight ship!...
  13. I'm a CNA, and applied for a bunch of jobs last month. One home health agency called to interview me after I submitted the shortest job app I submitted in my life... no references, no resume, no...
  14. CNA interview questions

    I just had, how to you tell a coworker who's falling behind in their job to pick up the pace? Also, how do you prioritize your cares... if you had to do several things at once, how would you decide...
  15. Advice for New CNAs

    Thanks for the advice! I start in a
  16. Chemistry before Physiology?

    I'm in A&P II, and starting chem next semester. I don't think taking chem later has been a problem at all for me. Whenever we have to understand any chemistry related concept at all (osmosis,...
  17. I just read this column about how doctors often don't get any geriatric training, despite the fact that a huge portion of their patients are elderly, and this often leads to quite bad medicine....
  18. do you think docs know what they're doing with your patients?

    Thanks for the info. Oh, and I'm not a doctor basher either :) Maybe the thread title sounded a little snarky, in retrospect... sorry all you doctors out there! I'm just trying to get a sense of how...
  19. What do health insurance corporations do?

    I have family members who work for a small health insurance company, which I would argue is relatively un-evil. From what I can tell, a lot of employee hours, in this company anyway are spent... -...
  20. Are you a competitive Nursing Student?

    ... just an addendum... Just because I want an A doesn't mean I see classmates as competition. The best way for me to learn is in groups, so I'm more than happy to help out a classmate if I can. We're...
  21. Are you a competitive Nursing Student?

    For my first degree I had a 3.5 which was not at all my best work. Now that I have a career goal for which I know having a 4.0 will help, and I know I'm capable of a 4.0, I'd be shooting myself in the...
  22. NP abortion providers?

    I was wondering if any of you know if NP's or CNM's may, where you live, be first trimester abortion providers. Have any of you been trained in abortion procedures, or know of any advanced practice...
  23. Free boob job hiring perk for nurses

    Free reductions. That would get me and my aching back to Prague. That headline is a bit salacious, no? They offer whatever cosmetic plastic surgery to nurses, docs, and secretaries, and the headline...
  24. do nurse owned nursing homes exist?

    I'm just asking out of general curiosity. Has anyone ever heard of a nursing home/residential LTC facility that is owned by a group of nurses? Lately there has been a lot of info posted around here...
  25. do nurse owned nursing homes exist?

    Alright, I may have just found my career ambition :) For this week,