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  1. FNP seeking acute care / hospital training and job

    chouxpastry replied to ExpensiveBSN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    ExpensiveBSN: there are one-year post-cert programs as well :) i just mentioned ucla b/c you mentioned being from southern california. and i will be taking the exact advice i provided in a previous...

  2. FNP seeking acute care / hospital training and job

    chouxpastry replied to ExpensiveBSN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    hi expensiveBSN :) i am also a FNP student with a strong preference for inpatient (or combined outpatient and inpatient) experience upon graduation. as bostonfnp has answered, a post-certification in...

  3. California Scope of Practice

    chouxpastry replied to chouxpastry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    thanks again, juan. the scenario what you described is exactly what happened to an acquaintance of mine - promised one thing, given another. well...guess i'll just have to do some research when the...

  4. California Scope of Practice

    chouxpastry replied to chouxpastry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    interesting...the institution i'm speaking of is indeed a nice magnet private Southern California hospital. but apparently the opposite may also be true in other areas of california? it does seem like...

  5. California Scope of Practice

    chouxpastry replied to chouxpastry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    thanks for the reply, juan! i should have thought about the nature of inpatient care before asking my questions the recent discovery of a comparative wheel of state to state scope of practice laws...

  6. Question regarding Emergency Room Practice

    chouxpastry replied to EMEddie's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    hi eddie! to my knowledge, it depends on the institution. most (if not all) ER positions i've seen are open to both family and acute care trained NPs. the benefit of being family trained is the...

  7. Resume Help

    chouxpastry replied to chouxpastry's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Thanks for the advice, annaiya! School is not currently offering resume counseling I will definitely also check out the career forum per

  8. CSULB ELM 2013 Hopefuls!

    chouxpastry replied to danceluver's topic in California Nursing

    i believe that for the most part, if a company hires you part time, they are better able to work with your school schedule. one example of a flexible part-time rn job is home health nursing where you...

  9. CSULB ELM 2013 Hopefuls!

    chouxpastry replied to danceluver's topic in California Nursing

    np sophiak, i am more than happy to! i would not say that most students work as part-time RNs during the masters portion. some do :) the work may not be what you may picture, i.e. acute care RN,...

  10. CSULB ELM 2013 Hopefuls!

    chouxpastry replied to danceluver's topic in California Nursing

    i have private messaged you. my first time! i hope it works

  11. CSULB ELM 2013 Hopefuls!

    chouxpastry replied to danceluver's topic in California Nursing

    no prob. i am referring to new grad NPs. in past ELM classes, greater percentages of students would stop at their BSN due to a variety of reasons. however, in more recent ELM classes, more have...

  12. CSULB ELM 2013 Hopefuls!

    chouxpastry replied to danceluver's topic in California Nursing

    hi future nurses! i am a current elm student and can answer some of the questions that have been thrown out here on this thread... -no, you do not need a minimum 3.0 undergrad gpa to get admitted....

  13. Awesomeness at work

    chouxpastry replied to Poi Dog's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    wow, totally true! if i were you and had the guts to, i would totally take advantage of this and give my female coworkers the heebies when i'm around

  14. CSULB-ELMSN Fall 2011

    chouxpastry replied to Malefocker's topic in California Nursing

    fyi the cutoff was 9.06 :) i called because i was dubious of my acceptance at

  15. CSULB-ELMSN Fall 2011

    chouxpastry replied to Malefocker's topic in California Nursing

    activate your account on mycsulb (if you aren't already a student) using your campus ID to accept the offer online (although i'm sure additional instructions will come out

  16. CSULB-ELMSN Fall 2011

    chouxpastry replied to Malefocker's topic in California Nursing

    gracias, malefocker. wow, one hour. that's commitment. i know it's silly, but i'm worried that extra hour will be wasted when i could be doing other things (like studying my butt off). then again, one...

  17. CSULB-ELMSN Fall 2011

    chouxpastry replied to Malefocker's topic in California Nursing

    question: do you guys think a thirty minute commute (one-way) is doable? i know it's not terrible, but i'm still kind of

  18. What do you do on your break?

    chouxpastry replied to Poi Dog's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    inhale liquidz. inhale foodz. if having bad day, speed dial family member and shamelessly cryz. laugh at motivational quote posted next to "DO NOT TAKE FODD NOT YOUS" and "attention employees, your...

  19. first three weeks, need some advice.

    chouxpastry replied to zippeh's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    puahaha. wow, some nerve that cna has...go do your work, girl! good to know the pain goes away with rest :) ...but still

  20. Patronizing coworkers!

    chouxpastry replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    thick-skin, shmick-skin. i'm looking to the day when i can roll out a dead pan head cocked to a side mouth slightly ajar blob of drool peaking out expression in a blink of an eye...and then walk away....

  21. CSULB-ELMSN Fall 2011

    chouxpastry replied to Malefocker's topic in California Nursing

    whooooooooooooo *commences celebratory flailing around

  22. CSULB-ELMSN Fall 2011

    chouxpastry replied to Malefocker's topic in California Nursing

    congrats everyone!!!!!!!!!! @claudia1986: you don't need a 3.00 undergrad GPA to get in (as far as this year's rules went). i hope this doesn't deter you from applying next year! (just demolish your...

  23. SMELL

    chouxpastry replied to klt324's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    thankfully, your body will also physiologically hasten the process of getting used to those smells...your sensory nerves become less sensitive to those odors over time :) i wouldn't ever say that a...

  24. first three weeks, need some advice.

    chouxpastry replied to zippeh's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    yay!!! congrats on getting through your first three weeks! wow, you're able to change 6 residents in 30 min??? i don't know how you can get much faster...i had the same exact dilemma during post-meal...

  25. You know you are a CNA when....

    chouxpastry replied to ham272's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    ...you enjoy scrubs shopping way more than shopping for regular clothes. but alas, much of that is only window shopping (what? you mean this set costs half of one day's paycheck???) ...your laundry...