EMTtoRN

Hahaha Linda!!!! Do I know Alison very well!!!!!!! I love that woman!!!! And yes I have been to her meetings and spoke there last fall to all the potentials. I completed all of my prereqs there!! We must have met!! Katrin

Hey there latenurse, I am actually a postpartum doula with Birth partners!! What a small world!!

Hey everyone, I have year left in my ADN program but the planner in me is already thinking ahead. After attending the NSNA conference and learning more about the Army Nirse Corps Reserves, an interest has been sparked in me. Although I am not a us citizen but a permanent resident alien, I feel a sense of obligation to serve this county. I also grew up as an Army brat :) My question is this: I need to convince my husband that this is a good idea!! Help me guys!! What are the benefits for me and my family??? All I can see him talking about are the bad things, especially deployment. Before sitting him down for the really indepth talk I feel like I need to have good benefit comebacks. I don't live near a PX or Commisary so that dosent help :) Kat

Hi Linda! Just wanted to say hi. I am almost finished with my first year at NVCC and am considering the reserves. I am also a permanent resident . I would be very interested in following you through your process!

Hey there guys! I am a freshman at NVCC in the nursing program!! Email meif you need any info :)

Where in CT do you live?? There are several programs out there that offer both ASN and BSN programs. I am in my second semester at Naugatuck Valley community college for my RN. Then there is Capital ASN St Josephs Bridgeport hospital school of nursing ASN UCONN BSN Goodwin college ASN Those are the ones I can thin kof at the top of my head. If you live in litchfield county you can take your prereqa at Northwester community college and they have an awesome transfer program with Naugatuck that will get you right in.

In my 2year ADM program we will have med surg shared with OB in the spring.

UGhh that has to be soo tough. I am taking my EMT I class and went into the ED to do IV sticks and found that 50% of the nurses were almost annoyed that they had to watch me. I can understand that they are much quicker and effient than I am but you know what??? They were where we are now at some point. I just wish that some of them would remeber that!!!

Our books are about $650. If you dont have enough financial aid to cover the books, you have to find a way to pay for them unfortuntely!

I am currently an EMT and also a part time registrar in the ED waiting for an ER tech opening,,,but it depends on different hospitals!!! The hospital I work in will take EMT-B's and train them or also CNA's and teach the phleb and EKG skills. Another hospital I am looking at requires you to be an EMT-I or CNA. A state hospital around here only has Medical Assistants with 2 years experience as techs. SO like it was said before it depends on the hospital!

I work as a registrar part time in the ED and collection of copays goes like this: 1) We ask upon registration whether or not they would like to pay their copay at that time. We have both a cash box and a credit card machine to process payments. 2)During the hours of 9-5 M-F we have a financial counselar that also follows up on copays. 3) If the copay is not paid they are billed for it. I think the process works very well.

Hey Cheri, Can you link the page that shows that you can begin after your first year? Thank you!

Woweee how long are these sessions?????????????? If you are a new mom and think taking the classes online would be easier, it may actually be harder!!! I took A&P with Chem one semester and A&P 2 with micro this past semester and that was tough. I couldnt imagine doing all of that over the summer.

Hello!!!! Fellow CT person here!!! I am starting the Nursing program at NAugatuck in August. I have heared mixed reviews about Uconns program. Some say that the 4 year program really gave them good academic foundation but they felt like they lacked something in the applications and clinicals. I had a coworker do the 1year bridge program and he said it wasnt too bad. All of the courses around the state are competative. Good luck in whatever decision you make!!

I have to take that too this summer. I think I am going to get a dosage calculation for nurses work book to go over this summer to help.

It dosent help that at my college books will not be available for purchase until 2 weeks before class. This means they wont even stock them until then, Good news is that I just founs out I was awarded a $2500 a year renweable grant through a local hospital and it alone will pay for books!

Yup yup. I have heard that I will be spending about $800 in the fall for nursing 1

We also just completed our unknown project. We had a list of possibles and then had to make flow charts before we could do any tests.

Honestly I enjoy dissections and wish that we did cadavers. The day we did the rats our teacher told us she had fetal pigs for anyone who wanted and I chose to do a fetal pig instead. I think it is fascinating. Some people do not like the smell but it really is not bad.

I go to a small CC so there is no budget for human cadavers nor any place to put them! So we dissected: A rat A fetal pig A sheep brain That is it.

Hi I just wanted to let you know that St Mary's has just such a program!! It is in Waterbury but its an idea! http://www.stmaryshospital.com/ of course the sections you want are down right now, maybe they are working on them. go to working at st mary's, nursing, then student nurse and shadow program.

I work at Charlotte and actually live right up the hill from there. You are lucky that you are getting any type of sign on bonus!!! That is hard to find in CT. I work in the ER as a registrar. It is a nice hospital, not humongous with a close knit work environment. I cannot WAIT to graduate and make that!!

Bonjour!! Katrin here. I am 24 and mom to Hannah who will be 3 in November. I live in CT. I will be done with prereqs in the spring and in January will be apllying with our schools transfer program with another CC for the ADN program. Unfortunately they only start in the Fall. So I am hoping to start in Fall of 05 and graduate summer of 07. This semester I will be taking A&P 1 and Chemistry.

Hi, Not a nurse yet but am currently in EMS. It is amazing how much EMS varies from state to state. Each hospital has thier own protocols even if they are 5 minutes from each other. It is odd to me that they were not able to contact you in some way. I know we have certain hospitals who only want a patch if it is an ALS call, which yours was. Again we only call paramedics in certain situations because we have I techs on our rigs. If we need meds or heart monitoring we call medics who come on board with us. I think it was right that you questioned their actions. Maybe it will open your EMS office's eyes to a problem. I am glad to hear that he was able to be helped in your facility. I can only imagine if he had to be moved yet again. In defense to us, it is correct that 99% of the time we HAVE to go to the nearest facility. Especially if the patient is unstable. If they are stable then we have a couple of choices for hospitals. The idea is that they can at least be stabalized and then flown out as when we call the "bird" it usually takes then 25 minutes to come on scene vs 10 minutes for us to transport them to the nearest facility.

Hey my DH works 3-11 too. My daughter is pretty independent and so she plays but I have a job where I can study there which is VERY helpful!!!