missnurse01

missnurse01 MSN, RN

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  1. Need help with a behavioral interview question

    missnurse01 replied to ssalulu's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    It could be anything. Planning and orchestrating your nursing schooling is a long term project! Have you ever coached a team, or worked on anything long term? Really they are looking for...

  2. ER Interview: What should I expect?

    missnurse01 replied to jrsRN07's topic in Emergency

    I transitioned from tele. It was so long ago they didn't ask the standard behavioral questions they do now. They might ask you about certs like pals, acls, tncc. Look up behav questions, things...

  3. What to know about a hospital for an interview?

    missnurse01 replied to mhy12784's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Is there certain services or specialties that drove you to applying to this hospital? Heard great things about the unit? do they have awards? Shared governance? History of the hospital, what it...

  4. Excelsior Friendly Grad Programs

    missnurse01 replied to BOSS man's topic in Excelsior College

    I only did ADN thru EC and BSN through univ of Wyoming. All of my labs were in person so did not have any trouble getting into CRNA

  5. Just finished my first semester. Ask me anything.

    missnurse01 replied to MeTheRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    yes limit expenses! no credit card payments, car note, or huge mortgage. Unless you are 100% sure you are going to school within commuting distance from a house, and don't have to put down a chunk of...

  6. What jobs are the safest?

    missnurse01 replied to OCRN3's topic in General Nursing

    staff nurse in the hospital. Management and education have been getting cut badly over the last few years across my entire region. We completely shut down our home health/visiting nurses division...

  7. Refusing Orders.

    missnurse01 replied to StudentOfHealing's topic in General Nursing

    always follow standard of care will keep you safe, as well as hospital policy. There are a ton of things nurses refuse for, additional pain meds when pt's are nearly unconscious or hardly breathing,...

  8. Can't afford nursing school

    missnurse01 replied to zhightower's topic in General Students

    holy crap where are you going that you need more than what fed loans are to pay for tuition!!!! yikes! good

  9. Help! Keep wanting to diagnose myself :(

    missnurse01 replied to Shaniqawa's topic in General Students

    yup look stuff up, well I know what norms are now, so not looking up so much. Yes it is hard to trust. You can always ask them to go ahead and explain the diagnostic reasoning or ask if there are...

  10. Pediatric Straight Catheterizations

    missnurse01 replied to JVoEDrn's topic in Pediatric

    holding is of prime importance. Often the opening is really within the lady parts, not peeking out right at the top. Often if we can't visualize we just stick blind right into the top of the lady...

  11. Is CNA even worth going for?

    missnurse01 replied to angellove6776's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I am not like MommTy, I would not have been able to handle CNA, but did fine as a nurse. It all depends on you! I think schools like it because they have to concentrate less on teaching 'basic'...

  12. FUTURE CRNA

    missnurse01 replied to lynnjohnson13's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    that's awesome future! yes, I will try to be pretty upfront about school. I am going to blog about it as

  13. Nervous about Pharm.

    missnurse01 replied to MTmomofsix's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    i remember pharm being less about math and more about studying how the meds worked. We took a doseage calc test each semester and that was all the math we

  14. Need career advice

    missnurse01 replied to catfeather's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    many options out there for you. Bedside nursing hasn't been my friend all the time, and ER was much better for me. I did what I had to do in order to go to grad school. Other areas outside of the...

  15. Grades

    missnurse01 replied to hemoglobin11's topic in General Students

    Are you studying along with an nclex review book? Sometimes it is the style of question asking that gets you, the whole, there are two right answers thing. the review book goes into detail on each...

  16. Just wondering why it is so...

    missnurse01 replied to AMwilldoit's topic in General Students

    yes people like to talk about themselves. I found nursing school to be very clickish!! It was a horror movie high school with adults who should know better. If you don't need to talk to them, I...

  17. Safety for Nurses and Nursing students

    missnurse01 replied to Butterfly6890's topic in General Students

    bear

  18. Is CNA even worth going for?

    missnurse01 replied to angellove6776's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I did not do cna first. It would have deterred me from every doing nursing. I have the utmost respect for people that do that job. I know many nursing programs require it before admission though....

  19. Floating

    missnurse01 replied to Rexie's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Where I am at you get 4 hours orientation before being floated to that unit. We are unionized, so you have it spelled out where you will go. when I work cvicu, we can float to neuro icu, tele, and...

  20. CNA night shift??

    missnurse01 replied to Axm611291's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    At night you may have more sleeping pt's, but your workload is also way higher. Management figures you are doing less, so they give you more pt's. Fine if the night is okay, a nightmare if everyone...

  21. LP/VN Advanced Cert's

    missnurse01 replied to eyesopen_mouthshut's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I am not sure you can get as many as RN's can. acls, pals, etc, sure. Most specialty certifications list a requirement of working as an RN for 'x' number of hours before someone can take the test....

  22. How do I vounteer my time as an RN???

    missnurse01 replied to mcpheenom's topic in General Nursing

    red cross or disaster

  23. What else can I do?

    missnurse01 replied to H3ISMAN's topic in Nursing Career

    you do realize that nurses work in many many varied areas of the hospital! Once you are a nurse, you are always a nurse. You can do inpt, outpt, urgent care centers, public health, disaster...

  24. Decisions, Decisions.....

    missnurse01 replied to beachgirl0605's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    When I went through my initial LPN program I could not understand how the Mom's in the class did it. They had a very hard time relearning how to learn - take notes, take tests, study, along with...

  25. IV "wide open" ??

    missnurse01 replied to sassyann8585's topic in General Nursing

    have squeezed in on pressure bags or by hand fluids, blood products without incident on 20's and rarely 22's. Usually you can only force so much through the small gauge so it will limit you there....