JROregon

JROregon ASN, BSN, RN

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  1. School wait..

    JROregon replied to derekfitness's topic in General Students

    I know in California schools have waiting lists. In Oregon, there are no waiting lists. You either get in based on your grades, essay scores, interviews, and life experiences (not necessarily all of...

  2. Career changer

    JROregon replied to loriidel's topic in General Students

    If you haven't already, you might want to post your question in the "region" section. Nursing pay is all over the map, all over the map : ) Some hospitals have a slightly higher pay for BSNs. Some...

  3. Palliative care clinical- how to deal with...

    JROregon replied to lemidora's topic in General Students

    "I'm so sorry for your loss." You don't need to explain how the death happened or anything. That's the doctor's job. If you stayed with the patient at the very end, you might want to say that you...

  4. Nursing Profession

    JROregon replied to kidari's topic in General Students

    Characteristics needed by a nurse - Integrity, organization, compassion, desire to understand, problem solving and decision making, knowing how to prioritize and re-prioritize, discernment....

  5. Second Career Nurses

    JROregon replied to DAL2010's topic in General Students

    Retail manager, insurance claims adjuster, full-time mom. I really looked up to nurses especially when working with nursing consultants in my insurance job. They could do their 9-5 job during the...

  6. How long did it take you to get into a program?

    JROregon replied to willowita's topic in General Students

    You know, a lot of people I know who didn't get in the first time just got jobs as CNAs or just kept doing what they were doing. Working as a CNA can get you a lot of face recognition when it comes...

  7. 54 year old sahm, am I nuts to think I want this?

    JROregon replied to cathyn518's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Since I'm just a kid (age 48), I find it hard to advise : ) We have a couple of kids in their 50s in my nursing class and they are doing great, have fantastic minds and manage to do far better than...

  8. Hours of Nursing school?

    JROregon replied to Amanda1105's topic in General Students

    Let's see, 1st term we had 5 weeks of lecture Mon-Thur 900-1130, skills lab for an hour on Mon afternoon, 3 hours of head to toe assessment practice on Thursday afternoons. Next 5 weeks, clinicals 2...

  9. Pharm Math Req in your school

    JROregon replied to exit96's topic in General Students

    100%, I attend some random comm college in Oregon. We haven't lost a soul because of the 100% requirement. I will say that people who don't pass the first time get 2 more chances

  10. How long did it take you to get into a program?

    JROregon replied to willowita's topic in General Students

    No waitlists in my state just high standards and a 90 day residency requirement. My school is on a point system. I was accepted the first time around. Those who apply and don't get accepted get extra...

  11. Union in Oregon

    JROregon replied to tena64's topic in Oregon Nursing

    Sorry, I don't have an opinion on the subject but a couple of the nurses I know have worked for hospital "A" a union hospital and leave to work for hospital "B" which is non-union. They say that...

  12. Get married during nursing school??

    JROregon replied to rileysaunt's topic in General Students

    1. I don't see why not. Yes, nursing school will be stressful. Yes, the normal level-headed, calm, patient YOU may become a little crazed, harried and completely unreasonable when you need to write up...

  13. Union in Oregon

    JROregon replied to tena64's topic in Oregon Nursing

    The only thing I know is that experienced nurses go for the non-union hospital jobs. I guess they're better

  14. Union in Oregon

    JROregon replied to tena64's topic in Oregon Nursing

    Neither did

  15. Union in Oregon

    JROregon replied to tena64's topic in Oregon Nursing

    http://www.oregonrn.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=21 Here are the hospitals with

  16. So, we don't learn how to do IVs in nursing school?

    JROregon replied to i<3u's topic in General Students

    It felt like half way through the first year things started to make sense. I was caring for a patient with ketoacidosis at the same time we were covering the condition in med-surg lectures and...

  17. What do I do? Flunked my first exam

    JROregon replied to studentrnnurse's topic in General Students

    Oh my goodness, don't give up! I remember flunking one of my exams. I got a 62 and was so angry with myself. After going over the test, I knew my stuff, I just didn't read the questions or answers...

  18. What do I do? Flunked my first exam

    JROregon replied to studentrnnurse's topic in General Students

    The advice I would give anyone is to meet with your nursing advisor or the instructor that lectured on the material and determine why you had trouble with certain questions. Sometimes we don't spend...

  19. did i pick the wrong field? feel sick looking at cadavers

    JROregon replied to mauramcd's topic in General Students

    I haven't seen a dead body yet and I'll be starting my second year of nursing school. Many people in my class, including instructors, are squeamish about certain things. Some are in the process of...

  20. So, we don't learn how to do IVs in nursing school?

    JROregon replied to i<3u's topic in General Students

    My school and local hospital group offer a class to nursing students in their last term. We learned how to connect tubing to catheters and do IV pushes in the first year. In our area, there is one...

  21. Senior nursing students I just want to say.....

    JROregon replied to Unique87's topic in General Students

    Yeah, you said it!! Feels good to be a senior at a 2-year college :

  22. Doubts about Nursing

    JROregon replied to LostEMT's topic in General Students

    I'm trying to figure out what is wrong with the concept of hospice. It's not an area that I'm interested in now but I think about my patients and their families. Hospice is about making the dying...

  23. Residency Programs

    JROregon replied to Katalina511's topic in General Students

    If you are under the age of, let's say 28, I think you might be a little crazy. Without at least a year or so of nursing (med-surg, critical care) where you are dealing with a variety of disease...

  24. Addressing a 'patient' or a 'client'?

    JROregon replied to PallaviMuraleedharan's topic in General Students

    Patient.

  25. Curious about textbooks:)

    JROregon replied to aspns10's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Again, go in and speak with your instructor. Unless they have recently revamped their whole program, you can usually get away with using and older edition. The page numbering may be off but it is...