Motivated grandma

I'm an older returning student and am planning to apply to HCC's Coleman School and Wharton County Junior College for this fall, but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for other schools? I live in the Sugar Land area (southwest), so I wou...

Am I nuts? I think I would be a very good student and am at a time in my life when I can devote a lot of time to studying. Do you think I could get accepted into a nursing program? Healthwise, I have very good control (using meds) of high blood pres...

Regarding testing - you might check the fine print of your hospital's admission papers - where I was doing clinicals patients give consent to testing whether or not they know it. It's in the "fine print."

Just thought I'd drop back in to this thread to post that Wink has different lines, and each line has it's on fabric content. Apparently a couple of the lines have fabric with a bit of stretch in them.

Winks scrubs (Origins line) are made from a crisper, heavier fabric than a lot of the other brands. Furthermore, they have awesome pockets. :) And don't forget to wear skin-toned undies underneath the white. I know it's not what you want to re...

I have one scrub set each by Med Couture, NrG (makes Greys), and Winks. Winks scrubs don't have the stretch that the other two have, but I love the crispness of the fabric - not roughness - and I love the POCKETS! I'm doing phlebotomy clinicals rig...

It seems to me that you are in such a hurry to make up for your past mistakes, that you are hurrying into another mistake - taking on too much debt! You may have wasted years of your life being a New Orleans party girl, and I understand that you don'...

Just an fyi. :) Barco makes both the Gray's Anatomy scrubs and the NrG scrubs and they can be mixed and matched, but the NrG scrubs have 4% spandex in the blend, which makes them fit and move beautifully.

As an over-fifty hoping to find employment soon - Hair color Updated wardrobe Teeth whitener Botox - it's temporary. Contacts. Younger women can get away with glasses easier than we can. Good luck!

I'm doing a phlebotomy clinical right now, but was a patient just a couple of weeks ago in a highly rated hospital in the Houston area where the nurses do all the draws. My nurses were fabulous, but they didn't follow any order of draw that I could ...

I just finished a phlebotomy course. If you're going to use torn tape, place it on the back of your non-dominant, gloved hand. Your gloves will be cleaner than most any other surface, even if they aren't sterile.

One of our local, well-known hospitals advertises executive health assessments with a personal physician in luxurious surroundings with all the trappings necessary for the busy executive. It kinda' rubs me the wrong way. :)

I think the term "nurse" reflects the nurturing part of the role, and if guys are offended by the term, they might not be such great nurturers, anyway. Basically, it sounds like "some" guys don't want to lower themselves to call themselves nurses. ...

I think I would ask those nurses if they had complexes because the "settled" for being nurses, instead of doctors.

I wish the medical dramas including more story lines involving nurses. As it is, the few story lines that do include nurses are sexual/romantic in nature and seem to imply that the doctors are slumming when they lower themselves to get involved with...

A gift certificate for scrubs, and maybe some extra nice long white tees to wrap? A really nice pen?

If you like the science aspects, perhaps you could consider laboratory work? Clinical laboratory technologist comes to mind. Good luck. If at all possible, I would finish the nursing degree first.

If a letter isn't required, I would choose to include a short "cover" letter with your application thanking them for their consideration of your application and that you look forward to hearing from them. More or less. :) Just enough to submit a ...

Learning to live in a new country generally takes a couple of generations, at least. However, in the past, although German Grandma or Chinese Grandpa or Columbian Grandma may not have spoken English their entire lives, they were very proud that the...

If that's the case, a "new" older nurse should be the best of both worlds. They'll work for cheaper having no experience just like the new younger nurse, have no "set ways" in nursing, and come with a plethora of life experience and maturity. :che...

I wish I could have given you more than one kudos. In my case, my husband is in IT and while he is very talented and has never been without a job, we know the day is coming when someone like the poster's mother is going to push him out the door a...

Skin tone "grandma" looking undies will give you the most professional look. The panty line must fall underneath your buttocks and not "on" them, and they also shouldn't be too tight. (Think of a too tight bra under a t shirt. Fat rolls having ov...

I just bought my 21 year old daughter some scrubs made by Barco in the NRG collection. Barco also makes the Grey's Anatomy line of scrubs. The NRG scrubs have a slight 2% stretch to the fabric, so you can wear them a little bit more fitted and they...

And if we lived in a place like Europe where we could travel inexpensively to other countries, we'd probably be speaking more than one language, as well. We live in a huge country where - until the last couple of decades - travel was too expensiv...

" Unless some Spanish-speaking country has beaten us in a war that I'm not aware of lol." We're not in a war - just under siege in the border states. Since the government is going to do nothing about reigning in illegal immigration and just gene...