PatMac10,RN RN

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    Fayetteville Technical Community ADN program, NC

    PatMac10,RN replied to RNnme3j's topic in North Carolina Nursing

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    FTCC or RCC (Robeson community college) Need Guidance Please Help!!

    PatMac10,RN replied to Lachell_904's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I got to RCC and Graduate in May! We have a challenging but solid program
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    IV push medications - nursing students

    PatMac10,RN replied to Lev's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm in NC. I graduate from nursing school in May! We've been doing iv pushes since the end of our 1st semester, but we only pushed stiff like protonix and flushes etc!!! In my 2nd (of 5) semester we...
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    Cape Fear Valley - New Grad program

    PatMac10,RN replied to UcStudentNurse's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I work at SRMC and will graduate from Nursing school in May. I really like my hospital, but an considering the benefits if attending a nurse residency program. What is it like behind in the program?...
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    BSN vs ADN

    PatMac10,RN replied to Grizabelle's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Your suggestions are unrealistic at this time however. The number of BSN prepared nurses is on the rise, but the majority of nurses are still educated and prepared at associate degree level. If one...
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    Community College or State University??!!

    PatMac10,RN replied to Nurse_Rae's topic in General Students

    I did the ADN route as well. I graduate in May 2013 as an RN. Haven't taken out any student loans at all. I also have multiple job offers already. The RN to BSN program I'm going to will take 1 year...
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    Forced wearing of nursing cap.

    PatMac10,RN replied to onetiredstudent's topic in General Students

    Because its part of the females uniform. Duh! Plus the OP had a clear choice. She doesn't have to wear the thing, just if she doesn't she can't participate, it's simple. Personally if I was...
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    Learning Spanish is a plus, bilingual? trilingual?

    PatMac10,RN replied to jtoms's topic in General Nursing

    It is definitely a plus to be bilingual! I think it is important to pay attention to the foreign language that is common to your area, as a previous poster said. However, Spanish is common across...
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    Loans, loans and more loans

    PatMac10,RN replied to Jennyfour's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that you might need to seek financial planning assistance. You can get it for free at the State Employee's Credit Union here in NC, or at least in my area. I have heard people say it really...
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    Wal-Mart Walk-in Clinic

    PatMac10,RN replied to vintage_RN's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital I work for opened a clinic in the local Wal-Mart about 10 months ago and so far it's a hit! It is mostly staffed with NPs, although I think there are 2 PAs that rotate through every once...
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    Class of 2013 anyone?

    PatMac10,RN replied to Lizzyru's topic in General Students

    Congrats friend! We got the same
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    Forced wearing of nursing cap.

    PatMac10,RN replied to onetiredstudent's topic in General Students

    Most Men don't wear stockings and dresses either, so is it sexist if we aren't required to a dress and stockings for
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    Last Semester!

    PatMac10,RN posted a topic in General Students

    I am almost there! 4 out if 5 semesters of nursing school completed!!!!! With B's! I am so thankful to have made it through this semester it had been the hardest thus far! I look forward to these last...
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    Forced wearing of nursing cap.

    PatMac10,RN replied to onetiredstudent's topic in General Students

    Praise!
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    Forced wearing of nursing cap.

    PatMac10,RN replied to onetiredstudent's topic in General Students

    The point is that there are too many other more important issues at hand to worry about wearing a cap for a short passage of time. Wearing that hat is meant to be an honor, not derogatory action. The...
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    Forced wearing of nursing cap.

    PatMac10,RN replied to onetiredstudent's topic in General Students

    Don't be ludicrous. Segregation is a belittling and illegal force that went on for Years. It put one person above another, and deemed the slave as an unintelligent Living thing. So that comparison was...
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    Forced wearing of nursing cap.

    PatMac10,RN replied to onetiredstudent's topic in General Students

    Couldn't have said it
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    Forced wearing of nursing cap.

    PatMac10,RN replied to onetiredstudent's topic in General Students

    You will only be wearing it for a few hours. Then yin can trash it and likely never have to wear one again! You just graduated nursing school, don't let something so trivial become an issue. Shoot if...
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    I finally did it!!! I finally finished Nursing School!!!

    PatMac10,RN replied to wanna b's topic in General Students

    Congrats! I will be joining you in
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    How old were you when you started CRNA school?

    PatMac10,RN replied to Nolander's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    With the resources that High School students now have, they are getting ahead faster. I took a semester's worth of college in my last year of high school in 2010. I'm graduating from nursing school in...
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    What is it with nurses and cell phones? Just a vent.

    PatMac10,RN replied to fakebee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    You are right. Honestly though, people give themselves a license to be rude, not a phone. The phone can't help that some people don't have a thing called professionalism and self-control. Phones can...
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    Class of 2013 anyone?

    PatMac10,RN replied to Lizzyru's topic in General Students

    Where I live, in SouthEast NC, we can apply for jobs about a couple months before we graduate, at least for all of the local hospitals, because they all have one big new grad orientation at their...
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    Anyone apply for the Frontier Nursing University 112 class for Spring 2013??

    PatMac10,RN replied to LPaigeRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Well I realized that on the FNU website that they will not be enrolling students from NC as of 2013 for the time being! Apparently it's the same issue that is going on with Walden
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    What is it with nurses and cell phones? Just a vent.

    PatMac10,RN replied to fakebee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I think that there is a limit to tend to every Little thing. But to be perfectly honest, I can't totally be upset with parents who "think the world is going to end when they don't talk to there kids"...
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    What is it with nurses and cell phones? Just a vent.

    PatMac10,RN replied to fakebee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Idk about you. But my mom has been a nurse since I was 7 years old. If I a babysitter or anyone else ever had to take me to get any kind if care that warranted a visit to an ER while she was at work,...