PacoUSA BSN, RN

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    Medical Volunteer @ a Marathon

    PacoUSA replied to PacoUSA's topic in General Nursing

    Another update: it was awesome! Cant wait to do another marathon volunteering gig, and NYC will likely be a yearly tradition, that is of course unless I should choose to run
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    Nurse Posts About a Patient on Facebook ... Duty to Report?

    PacoUSA replied to PacoUSA's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Just to update: the person who posted on Facebook has since departed (on their own accord for another job) and this is the end of the story. No one will be getting
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    Lawyer to Nurse

    PacoUSA replied to layne228's topic in Nursing Career

    Maxvoca, just to give you some inspiration: I was in my early 40s when I started nursing school and finished my accelerated program a year later. I had a job offer on graduation day. My colleague...
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    Stony Brook Accelerated Nursing Class of 2015

    PacoUSA replied to spiritedkidd's topic in New York Nursing

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    Dismissed from FNP program

    PacoUSA replied to vanurse1022's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Deserves reposting. Second chances for these kind of infractions are not fair to those of us in the profession that strictly abide to the ethics society has entrusted in
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    Picking the right school to get hired in the future

    PacoUSA replied to Dressagern's topic in General Students

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    Picking the right school to get hired in the future

    PacoUSA replied to Dressagern's topic in General Students

    Depends on the hospital. My hospital required my official transcript as part of my interview process, although I don't believe any of my grades played a part in the process. Your best get is to go to...
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    Dismissed from FNP program

    PacoUSA replied to vanurse1022's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This! If you had enough gumption to forge clinical hours, this speaks to your ethics or lack thereof. Would you trust an FNP that forged insurance docs to get paid? Same
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    Stony Brook Accelerated Nursing Class of 2015

    PacoUSA replied to spiritedkidd's topic in New York Nursing

    Totally serious: I have heard "in passing" that one group was asked a "what animal would you be and why" question ... say
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    Stethoscope for a nursing student

    PacoUSA replied to INN_777's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Littmann, hands down. The Lightweight II SE is good enough for students and
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    NO Jobs for NEW NURSES In NYC AREA --

    PacoUSA replied to lola88's topic in New York Nursing

    The OP's claim is simply not true. I know quite a few new grads that got hired in Manhattan within the past 2 years, including NYU, Mount Sinai, NY Pres and Methodist in Brooklyn. Granted, most of...
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    BMT nursing questions

    PacoUSA replied to danceyrun's topic in Oncology

    I just attended a BMT continuing ed yesterday and have become very interested in this specialty lately, more than when I previously posted about my friend working on the BMT unit. It sounds so...
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    NTI 2014- Denver

    PacoUSA replied to meanmaryjean's topic in Critical Care

    I'm planning to go! Though have not reserved anything
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    Cheapest NP Program ... period

    PacoUSA replied to Oakley44's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Have you looked into the possibility of your hospital flipping some of the bill as reimbursement? Cheaper is not always the
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    Stony Brook Accelerated Nursing Class of 2015

    PacoUSA replied to spiritedkidd's topic in New York Nursing

    I think about 40% of my own class consisted of students who had just graduated with their first bachelors degree. It is definitely not
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    no one wants to talk to me

    PacoUSA replied to bargraphix's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    The reason most employers are asking candidates to submit resumes online is because they use the scanning technology that allows them to sort based on key words. No one in big hospitals nowadays sits...
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    Assisted living vs. Hospital as first job?

    PacoUSA replied to Alon's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hospital job, hands down. Acute care experience does not compare to LTC. Don't get complacent with a job because of location, you will regret
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    Officially giving up

    PacoUSA replied to CuddleFox's topic in General Nursing

    I started nursing school smack in the middle of this recession, when everyone was saying the same thing they are now: that new grads will not get jobs. Well, I graduated with my BSN last year and had...
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    new nurse moving to deland florida!!!

    PacoUSA replied to jamie8lynn's topic in Florida Nursing

    I volunteered in the DeLand hospital before moving back to NY to attend nursing school there. It's very much a community hospital, and staff is pretty nice. However, you will continue to see geriatric...
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    Charge Nurse Report Forms

    PacoUSA replied to strider76's topic in General Nursing

    Our unit updates a Word doc and reuses that every shift, we don't rewrite from
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    Queensborough Community College or Beth Israel?

    PacoUSA replied to rafiki121's topic in New York Nursing

    But both issue ADN degrees, and hospitals in NYC are barely hiring new grads even with BSNs ... What are your job prospects coming from each
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    Scholarships for ABSN?

    PacoUSA replied to INN_777's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Yes, you are sent instructions by the school to apply for the scholarship after you are
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    Columbia University MSN Grad Program

    PacoUSA replied to socialjustice's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Joining thread. Columbia is my only choice for the MSN, whenever I decide to pursue it. How is the program so far, for those of you in it already? Can one still work as an RN as a
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    Scholarships for ABSN?

    PacoUSA replied to INN_777's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    There is a scholarship offered to second-degree students called the Robert Wood Johnson New Careers in Nursing Scholarship. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides certain ABSN programs grant...
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    Officially giving up

    PacoUSA replied to CuddleFox's topic in General Nursing

    Hospitals in Eastern Long Island were taking new grads this summer and last in