Kiwi BSN, RN

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  1. I've got a year before I apply, but I'm just wondering about recommendation letters... From my personal experience... I've worked as an aide in the ICU, and while I was there, a nurse wanted to go to...
  2. That makes 11 programs! I wonder why so many are located in the east
  3. The SGA (student government association) is full of volunteering... it's not a clinical-based sort of volunteering, but I know that my professors, deans, etc. would write me a recommendation for...
  4. Socal, your avatar is
  5. Kiwi

    what does c=rn mean?

    C = RN However, C ≠
  6. I agree w/ Brett. None of us are expressing our political views. We are offering/sharing knowledge on the two candidates' views on nurse anesthetists. Plain and simple. As you know, there are many...
  7. At one point, Kerry mentioned nurse anesthetists on his website. It was in a paragraph about his support of advanced practice registered nurses (and cited some examples). Kerry also wrote the nurse...
  8. Congratulations! Try not to totally get frazzled. Everything will work out great! Keep us up to date on your studies as an SRNA :) :balloons: :balloons:
  9. :chuckle Fascinating! Jello is an invertebrate with a CNS!!!! That raises a couple of ethical questions: 1) Does this mean Jello is alive? 2) If, indeed, it is alive is it humane to eat it while it...
  10. Uh-oh :chair: --> enter Deepz, Kevin, and
  11. The hard sciences: chemistry, physics, physiology are essential in the study of anesthesia. You appear to be a young person who is interested in this career. You should visit this webpage...
  12. Best of luck Emerald. You made the right decision. And I sooooo agree...gotta love Gucci
  13. I look forward to pursuing graduate studies in Nurse Anesthesia.
  14. Kiwi

    CRNAs?!?!?!?!?!?!

    I doubt he's even a physician
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    CRNAs?!?!?!?!?!?!

    I think this guy didn't know about CRNAs as a NS. You would have put up will all that "***wiping and bedpans" as you said, if you had known that you could have become a CRNA,
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    Obesity in the hospital

    I once enjoyed working in the ICU as a nursing student. But we became inundated with people getting gastric bypasses (about 3 at all times in our 8 bed ICU). Gatric bypass pts are natural king/queens...
  17. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Nurses in U.S. hospitals about 40 percent of the time are working long shifts that raise the risk of medical mistakes such as giving the wrong medication or the wrong dose, a...
  18. Kiwi

    Funny things that pts say

    Haha! Some patients do say rather funny things. I had an elderly, but friendly gentleman as a pt once. Unfortunately he was in a lot of pain one day, and kept saying "Oh, boy!" Well, he said it so...
  19. This is a great point. There are SO many nurses who think that somebody needs to do med-surg then ICU. Some have even told me to work in the OR for a year! In my experiences, these people have a hard...
  20. Hi chattypatty, The agencies where I live require one full year of work as a nurse before they will hire you into their agency. I'm not sure if that is true where you
  21. I'm all for the 12-hr shifts, myself. Nursing is a very different type of work. I think I'd get exhausted / burnt out if I had to go 5 days per week instead of
  22. I also read about this in MTSA's catalog (which is available on their website). If you are not aware of it, MTSA does early interviews. The candidate for the early interview has to have a 3.5 overall...
  23. Not a coherent argument. :rotfl: Thanks for the option, but I already make a mean batch of Maryland crab cakes on my own!... Although if we're getting into historically accurate civil rights, I...
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    Attributes of a good psych nurse

    Being objective, and