Ginger's Person

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 work, and I'm having a hard time figuring out what ...

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 program is so small, it could hardly make a dent in...

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 to at Madison's SON, they give you the courtesy of...

Just heard from the UMN MN program! Yes! My life just got so much less stressful.

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 don't know how strongly midwifery schools conside...

"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 from the taxpayer." Many of the DO pay into the sys...

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 midwest educate some of the best nurses in the co...

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 can easily handle. I can picture myself in your po...

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 have you all encountered in home health? Do you a...

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, what advice would you give to a med student doing c...

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 straight to grad school, but I think I will wait a ...

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! Didn't Florence Nightingale pretty much invent germo...

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 nothing. The interview consisted of the following quest...

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 what to do first? Good luck!

Thanks for the advice! I start in a week!

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, polar bonds, etc) the instructor breaks it down into a...

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. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/opinion/02leipzig.htm...

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 pervasive this problem in medical education is from...

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... - Building and maintaining a network of providers state...

... 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 in this together...

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 foot if I didn't at least try to get that. I don'...

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 nurses who provide abortions? I was trying to figure...

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 tells of "free boob jobs for nurses" so images of s...

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 and in the news about nursing homes being run by rea...

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