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    What Experience is More Valuable? CNA, EMT or EKG Tech

    akulahawkRN replied to claudianyc's topic in First Year After Licensure

    EMT training is about 160 hours long now. That's not a whole lot of time, really. If you really wanted to become an ER Nurse, it would be a good idea to take that course. The knowledge you'll get...
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    EMT-Basic (maybe?) during nursing school?

    akulahawkRN replied to rldubz's topic in General Students

    Working as an EMT would NOT work well. You won't have time to study and you won't make a good wage. It'll sometimes be fun though... but burnout with going to RN school and working as an EMT is almost...
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    CNA, EMT or EKG Certification? Advise to improve chances for job

    akulahawkRN replied to claudianyc's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    If you want to be a nurse, your best bet is CNA. EMT won't teach you NURSING stuff, but it would give you some patient care experience. Paramedic similarly won't teach you NURSING but it teaches you...
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    American River College Fall 2013 Applicant Pool

    akulahawkRN replied to ShyeoftheTiger's topic in California Nursing

    Well, you won't get in if you stop applying. So keep at it and eventually you'll be picked! At least for now, additional points are added for persistence. When I was applying, the system put greater...
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    do any schools offer a LVN to RN bridge in California?

    akulahawkRN replied to spectrabrite's topic in Online Distance Learning

    If you're looking for online options to go LVN->RN, none do, that I'm aware of. You must do a clinical component that occurs in the same semester/quarter as your classroom subject. All RN programs...
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    GRADUATED!!! Do I call myself RN yet?

    akulahawkRN replied to Nurse-84's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    In other words, OP, you're a GN. A Graduate Nurse. You don't have a license yet, but you're no longer a student either. Your state may issue you a temporary license to work as a GN under the...
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    Denied into the Nursing program?

    akulahawkRN replied to stratus93's topic in Male Nursing Students

    At my program, I unaware of any males being denied entry into the program simply because they were male, nor do I know of any males being selected specifically for entry into the program because they...
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    I got a job at UC DAVIS ER!!!

    akulahawkRN replied to NickiLaughs's topic in California Nursing

    The UC Davis Medical Center is basically located at Stockton Blvd and V street in Sacramento. The actual ED entrance just to the East of that, along V street. I was in there last week and had a chance...
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    Laptop or Tablet???

    akulahawkRN replied to #scrubs's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I have used a laptop for the past 2 years. A former classmate of mine, who discovered nursing was not for him, used a notebook computers that could convert into a tablet. It seemed to work out well...
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    Not feeling anything at the sight of death

    akulahawkRN replied to Purple93's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    It is okay to feel essentially nothing for your patient when you do not know the patient at all. I have been present at probably >12 or so codes that ended up with us being unable to revive the...
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    Got pinned today

    akulahawkRN replied to Mimi90RN's topic in General Students

    Congratulations!
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    Nervous about starting IV's help

    akulahawkRN replied to Malina9559's topic in General Nursing

    You really need to put a TQ on that arm. That should make your veins fill up like the AC and hand veins and be palpable too. Try this, get your TQ on, palp that nice big vein in your AC area and...
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    ADN students...how quickly will you enroll for BSN?

    akulahawkRN replied to Katie71275's topic in General Students

    Not all PA programs require a Bachelor's Degree. Stanford's doesn't. If you wish to get a MMS degree, you must have a Bachelor's Degree upon entry to the program and you then take some additional...
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    Attrition/Retention rate at your School

    akulahawkRN replied to Sadala's topic in General Students

    In the program that I'm in has a high NCLEX pass rate (comparable or better than the local BSN program), and it enjoys a relatively low attrition rate. I think we lost 3 students out of 33 in 1st...
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    C Spine stabalization for the walking wounded

    akulahawkRN replied to sheikB's topic in Critical Care

    Have someone take manual C-spine control, do an assessment, looking for any symptoms from C2-T1 dermatomes and myotomes, any deformities/step-offs of any of the spinous processes, if any is found, put...
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    Tech vs. RN

    akulahawkRN replied to ER Soldire's topic in Emergency

    I think it has to do with, perhaps local?, the idea that Paramedics aren't anything more than UAP and therefore can't be delegated to do certain tasks, and aren't don't have a scope of practice any...
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    48 hour results

    akulahawkRN replied to Belle2013's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    That's just pure
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    48 hour results

    akulahawkRN replied to Belle2013's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    How quickly would your GN status go away if you failed? If you're in the window where results would be in limbo... then all you can do is wait for official word. However if it's immediate upon...
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    "normal" UA glucose level for diabetic

    akulahawkRN replied to Gonzalez10's topic in General Nursing

    Normal UA for a diabetic should be "Negative" as long as their blood sugar levels are under control. However, if the kidneys have sustained physical damage, say to the tubules, they may be allowing a...
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    TEAS V help!!

    akulahawkRN replied to sadangelbleu's topic in TEAS Exam Help

    Please don't take this the wrong way, but is there something you'd like help with? I don't see what you need help with in your statement above. If it's general test-taking hints, I can say that you...
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    Pearson Vue Trick was WRONG!!!!!!!

    akulahawkRN replied to mamacita2's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Even so, it would still mean that the best one can do is wait, there's nothing else in those instances, such as the quick results, that can be done, until official results are
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    No cardioversion due to risk of embolism?

    akulahawkRN replied to thelema13's topic in Emergency

    I'm not a nurse yet... but don't let that fool ya. My background includes some education in exercise science and quite a bit of prehospital time. Why do they choose rate control first? Simple. Often...
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    Lvn-RN 30 unit option CA

    akulahawkRN replied to tawnyalee's topic in LPN to RN

    I attend Sacramento City College. They're not the only program in the Sacramento region that does a career mobility program that results in an ADN being awarded to LVN's that choose this route. That...
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    attn ALL RN's !! serious help

    akulahawkRN replied to dreamerxo's topic in General Students

    I'm going to say that you certainly should follow your dreams... but I also highlighted some things that stood out to me. It's those things that tell me that you shouldn't immediately jump back into...
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    EMT-B to ER Nurse

    akulahawkRN replied to EMS_Rhino's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Look at the ADN programs first. Why? While their GPA requirements are a little lower, their science GPA isn't. Check their prerequisite courses and see if you have any of those classes done, and what...