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  1. Happy Nurses week! You Have MRSA!

    I did a research project years and years ago about MRSA. If I remember right about 70% of the general population has
  2. I didn't read all the post but wanted to add something I thought was funny. My son has MRSA. To take him downstairs for a Doppler, the nurse made him wear a mask. Just one little thing, he has a trach...
  3. Getting a C in Nursing

    9 months. I've been pounding the pavement for a year. And about to give up on
  4. Stretching the truth...

    My son has a trach and g-button and I can't use that has experience
  5. Getting a C in Nursing

    Almost every internship program I've seen has asked for your GPA. It may not matter when you have experience but matters for new grads especially since so many GNs can't find a
  6. This is actually one of the reasons I'm questioning having another child. I'm seriously worried about child care. My son is disabled and has a lot nursing hours every week. My nurses are flexible and...
  7. Texas Children's Hospital

    I just got an email from there recruiter asking for more
  8. I got an interview with the Children's ED! So excited and
  9. Thanks masmith you're making me feel better
  10. I applied to ER and NICU. And it still says applied not routed. I turned my packet on Friday. Hopefully I still have a
  11. I put in my packet Friday. I actually drove frome Houston to turn it in. My nursing instructors never filled out the forms for me. Luckily, I did have other references. Hopefully I still have a...
  12. UCLA New Grad Summer 2012 program

    Jennie33-those are the same ones I picked except L&D and NICU are reversed.
  13. UCLA New Grad Summer 2012 program

    Every time I hear Patience is a virtue that scene pops in my head.
  14. UCLA New Grad Summer 2012 program

    she: patience is a virtue. he: not right now it isn't. can anyone think of the
  15. Memorial Hermann June 2012 Internship is up

    No luck. My friend that works there hasn't been asked about me yet either. Did TCH already put up there internship I've been looking everyday this month but never saw
  16. I would love this information. OB is my first
  17. UCLA New Grad Summer 2012 program

    Me. I also have ACLS, PALS,
  18. UCLA New Grad Summer 2012 program

    I pick ER, L&D, and NICU. All my
  19. UCLA New Grad Summer 2012 program

    Houston, TX- Would love to live somewhere that didn't feel like a sauna most of the year.
  20. "But for me, 98.4 means I have a fever...."

    RN-Cardiac: My ob took my BP when I had PIH because he didn't believe it was as high as the nurse said. I've been on the other side of the fence. -We're in the ER with my son and I told the nurse he...
  21. UCLA New Grad Summer 2012 program

    Thanks, I still have hope. My horoscope the other day said I would be traveling at the end of the month of next month. Would love for once for a horoscope to be true.
  22. UCLA New Grad Summer 2012 program

    @sugarlips-I don't have an "X" anymore on active, that means I didn't make the first cut
  23. Best route-AAS or BSN?

    It's hard to find a job as an ADN right now (new or experienced), go for
  24. Easier or harder to accepted into a AA or BSN Program?

    I'm not from California. I would say go for bachelors, it seems everyone wants that at the moment. Many universities have programs that are only about 18 months for people that already have a...
  25. I have heard of cases where nurses fight Group One for things like you described and won. You might be able to get a lawyer to do it probono (sp?). Search the boards I swear I've about fighting them...