AgentBeast MSN, RN

Emergency Nursing

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    OH license ?

    It means that the board has received and reviewed all the application materials you have submitted. When you receive your ATT depends on when your school sends the certificate of completion to the...
  2. I was speaking as far as the ANCC and Magnet Status were concerned. What folks do as far as hiring and firing I don't
  3. Generic only because I wanted to start earlier and have summer's off. I started in the Spring of 11 and I'll finish this fall and will have had the summers off. I could have started in the...
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    Where are all the young nurses?

    By then they will have successfully developed an actual robot
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    Tri-C Nursing Starting Spring 2011

    Orientation will literally be the most boring 3 to 4 hours of your life. Not much happens. You fill out some forms. They talk about some stuff. Then you go
  6. Not even close. The formula is Volume to be infused * Drip Factor of Tubing Time in Minutes to Infuse Over For your problem 200mL * 15drops/mL 80 minutes = 37.5 drops/min and you round...
  7. From what I understand of the whole MAGNET deal is New Grads that have their BSN and "BSN Track" (folks that are RN's and are enrolled in a RN-BSN program) are looked at the same. You are probably...
  8. The descriptions on the courses at Tri-C leave a little something to be desired. Basically . . . First Semester 1300- This is your basic Assessment Course composed of 1 lab and 1 lecture 1450- This is...
  9. Nursing Program, Nursing Classes: Cleveland, Ohio Tri-C is short for Cuyahoga Community College. Just like LCCC is short for Lorain County Community College and OSU is short for The Ohio State...
  10. I do go there and have 1 semester left. It's the largest program in the state. It's fully accredited, and has probably the best reputation of all the area programs. Nurse recruiters for the Cleveland...
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    Nursing textbooks question

    Amazon.com: Medical-Surgical Nursing - Two-Volume Text and Clinical Decision Making Study Guide Package: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care, 6e (9781437714500): Donna D. Ignatavicius MS RN ANEF, M....
  12. You might consider Tri-C. Either the generic track at the Westshore campus, or the Accelerated track that is at the Metro
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    Information Paramedic to R (Ohio or Online)

    Lorain County Community College is the only Paramedic to RN bridge program that I'm aware of in Ohio. Don't know much about it other than it exists. Paramedic to RN
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    Practicing NG Tube on each other?

    I'd let someone practice brain surgery on me before I let someone practice inserting an NG tube on
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    calling all ohio nurses!!!

    http://www.nursing.ohio.gov/PDFS/Discipline/CRIMINAL%20HISTORY%20FACT%20SHEET.pdf As I stated it's not an issue with the Ohio Board of Nursing. Their fact sheet even states so. It's an issue with the...
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    Volunteer or Apply as a PCA?

    PCA
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    Men in OB/Peds Nursing....Any thoughts?....

    It doesn't really matter. Most patients don't care. You'll get a few that do, but you see that in Med/Surg too so big deal. On the flip side you have those patients that don't want a female as their...
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  19. Yeah it's seriously not bad at all dude. Dare I say I actually enjoyed my time at OB clinicals. Not something I'd make a career of, but . .
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    Need Help!!!

    You can't really say someone has a low hgb level just because they have chest pain can you? You'll probably want some supporting lab work, along with other signs/symptoms someone is having decreased...
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    IV flulids/solutions and WHY??

    LR contains lactate not lactose and there is a huge difference between the
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    Same patient's over and over again

    Try working geri psych. The patients come in, get probated, get forced meds, get well enough to be discharged, go off their meds, and the whole cycle repeats itself over and over and over and over and...
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    calling all ohio nurses!!!

    Your background follows you no matter which state you go to. I can't really say for sure as I haven't researched the issue much, but from what I've heard for most nursing programs any sort mark on a...
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    Tell me about your first day of nursing school

    You show up, they teach you some stuff, and then you go home. I you aren't too freaked out after the first day, you do the same thing the next day, rinse and repeat for anywhere between 2 to 4
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    calling all ohio nurses!!!

    Okay. Care to be more