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  1. Interview question

    delilas replied to delilas's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I actually don't think I did spectacularly well for the interview overall, but this one kept sticking with me, and I keep thinking that maybe the obvious answer was the wrong one? I know I bombed the...

  2. Please critique my application essay?

    delilas posted a topic in Nursing Career

    I'm applying for a really intensive Critical Care Fellowship in my area - I made it into round 3 of 4 last time, but was not chosen for the Fellowship. It opens back up for application in another...

  3. Please critique my application essay?

    delilas replied to delilas's topic in Nursing Career

    I really like those points! Thank you so much for the examples. I've been trying to figure out better ways to explain my (admittedly meager) experience and talents in a way that isn't off putting, and...

  4. Please critique my application essay?

    delilas replied to delilas's topic in Nursing Career

    Thank you! A lot of that, I figured, but I'm glad for the specifics you gave. My initial problem was that I converted a financial aid essay (which is where the hard knocks bits came from) to my...

  5. how important is GPA?

    delilas replied to sourapril's topic in General Nursing

    Posts like these always make me cringe, because there's always so many who say its not worth it/what you learn in nursing school is useless. Learning the hell out of your pathophys is never useless....

  6. Mentorship in ED, Advise Please

    delilas replied to FazzDazzle's topic in Emergency

    I did my preceptorship (similar thing to your mentorship, only it was 12 weeks for us) in our largest ED. I was nervous going in, but you have to remember, its like any clinical - you aren't alone....

  7. Hesi's. Make you or break you!

    delilas replied to bassplyr1973's topic in General Students

    It all depends on your school's policies. Mine, for example, required a passing HESI in order to graduate. So if you failed the HESI, you failed the term. If your school has now adopted that route, I...

  8. Help! Relocating to Columbus, Ohio!

    delilas replied to purple_rose_3's topic in Ohio Nursing

    Not sure if you'll be checking here, I'm surprised no one ever responded! I live in the Dublin area and love it - considering when I first moved here I lived in a very, very bad area. Most of the...

  9. Funniest Patient Lie.....

    delilas replied to RNdiva505's topic in General Nursing

    The urgent care I worked at, most people really enjoyed speaking about their problems, even the STD checks. Occasionally, you'd get someone who would tell registration they had a 'headache' and when I...

  10. discovered and reported falsification of VS

    delilas replied to traumaRNdrama's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    When I did stints in nursing homes, I checked in constantly, because there are a lot of medications to give and our techs were incredibly lazy. On the floor I'm precepting (trauma ICU) there is one...

  11. Are mittens a restraint at your facility?

    delilas replied to in2ICU's topic in General Nursing

    Our floor (trauma) does not require an order to use them, but we do have to document when use starts and when use ends, as well as with each

  12. Hondros College of Nursing - Input??????

    delilas replied to adie0321's topic in Ohio Nursing

    All nursing schools in Ohio have their content certified by the Board. Hondros is no different. In my class of 44 students as an LPN, only 4 failed the HESI. We're talking a pass rate of 90%, which is...

  13. Hondros College of Nursing - Input??????

    delilas replied to adie0321's topic in Ohio Nursing

    There are plenty of students who graduate high school but perform poorly on ACTs and SATs. Your comparison is laughable. Passing your classes is not a guarantee of passing NCLEX, why should it...

  14. Urgent Care Clinic

    delilas replied to finallyRN7's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I began working at one three months ago (shortly after my post) and I think it's helped a lot as an LPN to RN. Most of my classmates work at nursing homes, whereas I'm doing IVs and IM shots, wound...

  15. New to ER and getting CEN?

    delilas replied to bbie17's topic in Emergency

    I agree with raskol - go for TNCC. CEN is an expensive and difficult test to go for with only a couple months of experience under your belt. TNCC teaches you great skills in addition to the...

  16. I just want to talk....

    delilas replied to darkbeauty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I will be the first to say that working LTC and truly enjoying it is a special (and fairly rare) breed of nursing. I knew immediately during my clinicals in LPN that LPN was not my cup of tea; I took...

  17. Need help interpreting research statistics...

    delilas posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm working on evaluating a pediatric randomized study. Our assignment was finding a topic from a nursing journal that obtains to maternal/child nursing, that contains a controlled, randomized study....

  18. Need help interpreting research statistics...

    delilas replied to delilas's topic in General Nursing

    There is no alpha set in the paper...I even ctrl+F to search it and got nothing, so perhaps it is set at the 0.5? And haha, now I'm scared. If this is Master's level, perhaps I really should look for...

  19. Need help interpreting research statistics...

    delilas replied to delilas's topic in General Nursing

    The measurement is the level of anxiety in children who engage in therapeutic play pre-op versus children who do not. The abstract does help, but the conclusion is simply that anxiety levels were...

  20. Need help interpreting research statistics...

    delilas replied to delilas's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for trying :) I've been attempting to read statistic guides all afternoon and simply can't make sense of it. I had a back up paper topic, but unfortunately, it looks like the data reporting...

  21. Best Tool for Learning Medical Spanish

    delilas replied to Rebecca, RN's topic in General Nursing

    After I realized my years-old conversational spanish would be little help, I took a refresher course and also used a couple free resources online to get medical terminology down. One of my favorite...

  22. Urgent Care Clinic

    delilas replied to finallyRN7's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I just wanted to thank those responding to this thread, because I'm actually interviewing tomorrow for a position with an urgent care, and wanted to know a bit more what to expect and how to prepare....

  23. Mental health nursing easier than Med-Surg?

    delilas replied to stellaRN1983's topic in General Nursing

    If MedSurg isn't floating your boat, I don't think the answer is to look for the easiest option; unless you really have a desire to work Psych for reasons other than it seems easy. The number one...

  24. Reasonable Nursing School GPA?

    delilas replied to bearscrubs75's topic in General Nursing

    I've never seen GPAs posted with job application; only for fellowships and internships, which is understandable, because they are competitive in a different way than jobs are. The only other time a...

  25. Hondros College of Nursing - Input??????

    delilas replied to adie0321's topic in Ohio Nursing

    Oh, no, I wasn't replying to you, just adding in my two cents about hondros in general =] Glad to hear you're