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Okay, I feel very silly posting this but it's something that is on my mind and Google is surprisingly no help for me on this...so maybe someone out there can give me some information or lead me in the right direction. I am a BSN student, a PCT, and i...

I know, I am aware of this, it's common sense. However, I didn't know about the policy until the day after. Obviously if I knew that they were a nicotine testing facility I wouldn't have done it. I am just looking for information since I couldn't...

Agree with the other posters...Where I go it is 1 year of prereqs, 3 years of nursing school. Most schools in my area are 2 years of prereqs and 2 years of nursing school.

I would call HR. Just be honest and say you want to touch base, let them know you are still very interested and did they make a decision yet? I just accepted a job offer as a Nurse Tech after PCTing for a few years. I applied to 20+ jobs online an...

I would take Organic Chem and A&P II in the fall semester, and then Micro and Statistics in the spring. A&P and Micro are probably the hardest classes out of the 4 (well, were for me) and you will want to take those separately.

Email the nursing manager of the unit you wish to work. Explain you are aware that there are no positions available right now, but you are interested in working on that type of unit if a position opens up. Send her your resume and letters of reco...

I have used older editions of books many times. Definitely email your professor to see if it would be okay. If your syllabus has readings listed as page numbers, then it will be very tedious to figure out which pages match up to your edition. Howe...

If you have the time and money, then get the BSN. You never know where life will lead and having a BSN will always give you an edge over a nurse with an ADN. Many ADN nurses I have encountered who are working full time and completing classes for th...

Any experience that you can get (with any type of patient) will help you IMMENSELY with nursing school. I have a PCT hospital job and I can not say enough how grateful I am to have had this job before I started school. It makes everything so much e...

We had one "off-unit" experience in our first med surg clinical...I chose the OR, and I saw a CABG with a vein harvest. It was such a cool experience. The surgeon let me stand right at the head of the bed so I saw everything about 3 ft from my face...

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The things you can do with a Nursing degree seem infinite, especially if you are in a BSN program. Just stick it out, see where life takes you. I have had multiple nurses at work tell me, "You don't learn anything until you start working at your fi...

Hi, I just wanted to note that it would be a lot longer than 4 years to become a practicing CRNA. You would need to take about 2 full time semesters of prereqs, apply to a 4 year (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) program, not a 2 year program, and th...

Never mind...just performed a search and found plenty of answers...should have done that to begin with

After this coming semester I will have my medsurg clinical completed. In the hospital system I currently work for, this means I can apply to become a nurse tech which from my understanding is the same as what other systems call a nurse extern. R...

Although P&P say otherwise in my facility, I have only seen people (and I do the same) collect urine specimens out of the foley BAG and not use a syringe in the port. Personally, I empty the bag, then collect the specimen from the urine that coll...

question: I learned in school to use a needle in the port but that was in a video from the 1980s and I can't recall if the instructor mentioned anything...nowadays just a syringe is used?

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Thank you for the quick reply. I can't help but wonder why this is the norm why I work. hm. I have been educated on all this at school but I guess I am just on "auto-pilot" at work and so used to getting it from the bag. Well I work the next few da...

I am almost to the halfway point in nursing school, and I have come to realize that a lot of it is just jumping through hoops and just doing what you gotta do to get through. It is great you have experience working as a CNA. I am so grateful for my...

A lot of nurses I work with will work Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, Tues to have 8 day stretches off.....

http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/pdfs/ppe/PPEslides6-29-04.pdf Look @ the slide 5th from the bottom...re: giving a bed bath AGAIN...OBVIOUSLY it's wise to wear gloves when bathing a patient, but TECHNICALLY it's not required unless you anticipate coming into c...

Hm...I don't know why I have never thought about this before...I feel dumb lol.

If you do not anticipate coming into contact with any bodily secretions during a bath, then technically you do not need to don gloves. I was just making a point. Obviously this is rarely the case... I am aware of standard and universal precautions.

This is surprising to me. A lot of the times the nurses will give me much detail when telling me about their patients. Or maybe it seems that way to me and they really aren't. I am also in school, so I like to go through the charts and try to take...