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  1. Implementing a Palliative Care Program in a Hospital setting

    Guest 360983 replied to luv2rsq's topic in General Nursing

    Palliative Care is not Hospice. Palliative Care is about managing a patient's symptoms, while Hospice is end of life care. I spent a lot of time at Famous Cancer Center in school and they had an...

  2. Why are there no nursing schools with built-in prerequisites?

    Guest 360983 replied to EMT-newbie's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Most 4 year universities with competitive programs don't admit many freshmen. Add on the number of people who switch majors and you'll find that a ton of students who aren't in nursing still have to...

  3. do you make sure your pts

    Guest 360983 replied to juzme's topic in General Nursing

    And when you actually have a tech, it doesn't mean that they'll actually DO anything. :icon_roll I was in the ICU for my final clinical preceptorship thing this fall. We had a float secretary one...

  4. How to get practice starting IVs / drawing blood

    Guest 360983 replied to Izzy11's topic in General Nursing

    I'm about to start volunteering at a free clinic in the area. I'll be doing vitals and blood draws. Maybe there is something similar near you? The one I'm working at only requires a commitment of one...

  5. Winter 2011 GN positions/interviews in Houston, TX

    Guest 360983 replied to Plover1's topic in Texas Nursing

    Pinkbee, check your email. That appears to be how Ben Taub is sending out job

  6. Do nurses get holidays off?

    Guest 360983 replied to Jmiami's topic in General Nursing

    As a kid, I thought it was AWESOME that Santa came a day early for kids whose parents worked on

  7. help! gift suggestions

    Guest 360983 replied to julio's topic in General Nursing

    A good stethoscope (like a Littmann Classic IIe) will last her for years. Get her name engraved in it. Mine was a wedding present from my sister and I'm still very grateful to her. You might also want...

  8. gpa calculation for graduation at ut houston

    Guest 360983 replied to trishajlee's topic in Texas Nursing

    I usually just talk to students. Some professors are better than others about returning emails quickly. Most have limited office hours because they teach several classes and a clinical

  9. New Nurse Needs Orientation Advice

    Guest 360983 replied to Silvergem800's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You're going to have 10 patients on a med/surg floor? I'm still a student, but that sounds insane to me, and makes me

  10. gpa calculation for graduation at ut houston

    Guest 360983 replied to trishajlee's topic in Texas Nursing

    The job market for new grads sucks right now in Houston. Get a BSN, but I don't know that it matters where you get it. Even with a BSN, be prepared to be looking at jails, LTAC (places like Kindred or...

  11. Should I get my ADN or BSN based on my life goals?

    Guest 360983 replied to Maria2694's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Why are you looking at nursing? It's physically hard work (you have the 400 pound immobile patient tonight), it has terrible hours (nights, weekends, holidays), it's stressful, it's gross (even if...

  12. UTHSC Summer 2012 accelerated program

    Guest 360983 replied to tuttie91's topic in Texas Nursing

    UT Houston also has a summer admit for their BACC 2 program (formerly accelerated BACC 2 program). Aside from graduating without jobs (and trust me, there aren't exactly a ton of jobs in May or...

  13. Willing to come to snow new grads there are jobs here.

    Guest 360983 replied to mentalhealthRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    There are also more nursing schools than you can shake a stick at, and most of the hospitals are hiring VERY few new grads, if they're hiring at all. I'll be graduating in December with a 3.6 from a...

  14. UTHSC Summer 2012 accelerated program

    Guest 360983 replied to tuttie91's topic in Texas Nursing

    It's not actually an accelerated program anymore. It used to be 3 semesters (1 year) and now it's 4 semester. One thing they don't tell you about this program is that you'll be graduating in August,...

  15. "If they really cared about their mom, they wouldn't of put her in a nursing home"

    Guest 360983 replied to Bruce_Wayne's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Someone at the assisted living that my FIL was in said that to me. Funny how she shut up when I told her some of the awesome things my FIL had done to my husband, such as deciding that he didn't want...

  16. First Psych Clinical

    Guest 360983 replied to incurable_optimism's topic in General Nursing

    Forgot to add in my post--ask the nurse who would be good to talk with. That way you're directed towards the manic guy who wants to talk all day instead of the person who won't talk to anyone. If...

  17. First Psych Clinical

    Guest 360983 replied to incurable_optimism's topic in General Nursing

    If you're allowed to participate in activities that the patients are doing (gym time, painting, anything), jump in. I did my entire interview one day while playing ping pong with one patient. She said...

  18. How Much Medication Education Do You Do?

    Guest 360983 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a nursing student in my final semester and I'm just starting to feel out my own method of doing things. One of the issues I run across is how much information to give my patients about their...

  19. How Much Medication Education Do You Do?

    Guest 360983 replied to Guest 360983's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks! I haven't been giving any information on side effects, which I think I will start doing with new drugs. I appreciate the

  20. The Debt Rant

    Guest 360983 replied to NickiLaughs's topic in General Nursing

    I also want to suggest that you relocate. Rural places in different states will have a lower cost of living and some hospitals are so desperate for people that they will give you sign on bonuses and...

  21. Stupid things said by your non-nurse significant other

    Guest 360983 replied to Moogie's topic in Nursing Humor

    I told my husband that one of my patients would be going in for a quadruple bypass in the morning. He said "Wouldn't that just totally bypass the heart?" He thought that a bypass surgery bypassed...

  22. RN salary a Texas Children's Hospital

    Guest 360983 replied to skyegirl's topic in Texas Nursing

    No idea what TCH pays, but I've heard that it pays significantly less than other med center hospitals (starts in low 20/hr; as an almost new grad, that's all I

  23. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

    Guest 360983 replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Sorry, but MAs are not "on the way" to becoming nurses. They focus on working in doctors offices, with education on billing and how to do a few skills. This isn't to say they are bad people, just that...

  24. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

    Guest 360983 replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    If you're on a regular floor (ie not the ICU), you do realize your nurse probably has 5 other patients, in addition to your granny? Yesterday I promised a warm blanket for one patient. Then the other...

  25. A hospitalist's clash with a PA and NP

    Guest 360983 replied to TheSolemnHospitalist's topic in General Nursing

    From your first