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  1. pin ?

    ken-pin posted a topic in Men in Nursing

    I'm about to graduate this spring and have to decide whether to buy a school pin or not. Honestly......what % of guys actually wear their pin? Where do they wear it? Am I supposed to go to the...

  2. Glucometer Quality documentation

    ken-pin posted a topic in Home Health

    My company recently drafted a glucometer quality control log for in-home checks. It requires the nurse to run a control solution before doing a finger stick when new lots of test strips or a new...

  3. Accelerated bachelor programs?

    ken-pin replied to GT50's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Summer, To respond to your follow up questions, I took a grad level patho course at MGH Inst. the summer before classes started at Curry. Then I kinda put them on the spot by asking them to take the...

  4. Accelerated bachelor programs?

    ken-pin replied to GT50's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Hi Summer. Congrats !! Getting into a BSN program is very competitive these days:roll I'm very glad to hear that they started your reading assignments at orientation. I was pretty obsessed with...

  5. Accelerated bachelor programs?

    ken-pin replied to GT50's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    All in all...I was very pleased with Curry's ACCEL program. I was extremely well prepared for the NCLEX....75 questions and I was done. Since graduating, I've worked at MGH and Lahey with new grads...

  6. Thinking of not accepting my nursing acceptance.

    ken-pin replied to nurse051's topic in General Nursing

    "give us tricker problems and some stuff we have not been told we needed to know how to do" Hmmm, I read the above statement you wrote a couple of times and smiled from ear to ear :) Because ......

  7. Quick advice

    ken-pin posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I'm a recent honors BSN grad about to enter the work force. Naturally, I need to get into a crit care unit to get the necessary experience for grad school. My dilema: Today I verbally accepted an...

  8. pin ?

    ken-pin replied to ken-pin's topic in Men in Nursing

    I think I'll pass on the pin and the ceremony. My diploma and nursing license will do very nicely as momentos thank you. Same goes for the Sigma Theta Tau jewelry/accessories, except for a...

  9. DOCTORATE as Required Entry Level for Advance Practice Nurses?

    ken-pin replied to VickyRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I see this as a way for hospitals and third party payers to increase advanced degree nurses' role in primary care and push MDs into more specialized work, to cut costs. They can pay the DNSc more than...

  10. A Nurse's Lifestyle

    ken-pin replied to Lauren3249's topic in General Nursing

    Lauren wrote So, my question is: as a nurse what kind of lifestyle can you afford? What kind of home do you live in? Honey, let me tell you something. No matter what you do for work, the lifestyle...

  11. Here's what AAs really think of CRNAs

    ken-pin replied to Athlein1's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    What a refreshing post....a joy to read! As a future CRNA, hopefully anyways, thanks so much for your keen and sometimes funny insight. It has that beautiful ring of truth to it.

  12. Accelerated bachelor programs?

    ken-pin replied to GT50's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    GT-50 I just started in the program at Curry last week as a member of their first ACCEL class. Including me, there's five guys in a class made up of 32 students. As a pre-med major many years ago,...