NurseChick04 replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in Wound
I love xenaderm..:roll a great barrier cream that can be applied only once per day usually.... It is expensive but can be used on highly excoriated areas. I have seen this work on patients that have had excoriated areas for months where nothing el...
A lot of hospitals will give you tuition reimbursement for college if you are an employee of theirs. Say you work for them doing whatever..you tell them you want to go to school for nursing they will pay your tuition up to a certain amount. But you h...
Unfortunately there is really no way of getting around the boards laws for the Nclex. I am in Ca and really wanted and started to do Excelsior but after much thought I decided to just go the traditional route because I never want to be limited as to ...
NurseChick04 replied to Still Riding's topic in General Nursing
Wannabee, Have you ever heard the term "Nurses eat their young?". LOL..I feel sorry for you when you get out of school into the nursing field. With that attitude of yours you will be gobbled up in no time! :rotfl:
My first year as a nurse I was sick all the time. Now when I get sick which is rarely(knock on wood :), I get a mild version of the sickness. My kids come home with all kinds of nasty stuff and I can be around them the whole time while they are sick ...
NurseChick04 replied to Darchild77's topic in General Nursing
unfortunately this is one of the worst things about healthcare. too many people go around with "god complexes". especially when they see someone younger and or not as experienced as they are and decide to build themselves up by being mean and disresp...
NurseChick04 replied to Saved_by_Grace's topic in General Students
There is no way I would do that. What are they going to do kick you out? That would give a bad rep to that school. We never had to do that and that is just ridiculous. Don't let them scare you into doing something like this that you are not comfortab...
LOL...Yes, I would like to have the last word on this. You seem like the type of person that has very low self esteem and in order to "pump" yourself up you try to make other's feel little. For whatever reason the comments I made about another's repl...
Ex130load, Well you should pat yourself on the back for that great litttle speech :) Maybe you should have read my reply to the other user's comments as it will clearly say that I did not call this person "stupid", I simply said her comment was. Trus...
No, reading stupid comments like yours is a total waste of time! I have met so many nurses that brag about what good grades they got in nursing school and they are so incompetent I wouldn't let them take care of my dog! I would be cautious of you any...
I am also doing the Excelsior program and I live in California. I haven't enrolled yet and plan to when I get a couple tests out of the way. I know that CA does not accept this program but when I am done they can be short another nurse because I am t...
I had an allergic reaction to sulfa about 5 years ago. I had taken it several times before for frequent UTI's and never had a problem. This last time I took it and about 45 minutes later I started sneezing one right after another..a few minutes after...
NurseChick04 replied to J Lynn's topic in Med-Surg
I went to school in a military town and had some pretty strict ex-army nursing instructors..they told us to take the worst job that we could find for at least a year after school..they said it would teach us better than a cushy job and give us the sk...
NurseChick04 replied to TempleChic's topic in Georgia
I am not sure of what kind of programs they have in your area but when I went to school I was a single parent and I took advantage of everything I could to get me through school. You need to apply for a pell grant (FAFSA) which is free money that you...
NurseChick04 replied to nursecatnfl's topic in Correctional
i'm not understanding something??? do you have to send the inmates out somewhere for an ekg? or do you do them right there in the facility? i use to work in a prison and we did them sometimes but it wasn't much more that hooking up some leads and ru...
i took an online class at university of phoenix and let me tell you it is way expensive!! it cost just for a 3 credit class $1370. and that is just for one class! also you are required to be on your computer for like 2 hours a day five days a week wr...
my biggest pet peeve is when my family or friends ask me all kinds of medical questions and when i don't know the answer they say "well you're a nurse, you should know!!! " i just reply to them and say.."would you go to a podiatrist for a cardaic pro...
NurseChick04 replied to jaimealmostRN's topic in General Nursing
Hello, I am new to this site but wanted to put some input to your romance problem. I am an LVN in California and I am going to school now taking my prereq's for the bridge LVN to RN program. While I was in LVN school in Texas I divorced that same yea...