akulahawkRN ADN, RN, EMT-P

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    Nursing Intuition- What Is It, and Do You Have It?

    akulahawkRN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Intuition comes with experience. I've been working with patients in various capacities over the years and it's definitely a "thing" but it is not something you can usually quantify. I have sprinted to...
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    SCC/ARC Fall 2021 Sac City/American River College

    akulahawkRN replied to MichaelsMama's topic in School, College Programs

    I went to SCC and I was one of the students that was accepted to both ARC and SCC for the same starting semester. SCC runs their program a little differently from ARC but the basics are going to be...
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    How can I learn to be "rougher" with patients

    akulahawkRN replied to MDBoy's topic in General Nursing

    Well, there is a certain level of necessary roughness needed but you have to know when to be a little more "rough" and when to be more "delicate." Clearly when pericare needs to be done, more...
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    SCC/ARC Fall 2021 Sac City/American River College

    akulahawkRN replied to MichaelsMama's topic in School, College Programs

    If the phlebotomy cert was necessary to get you over the 70 points, then that's stressful indeed! If you're already over 70 points without the phlebotomy cert, then not so much... My case was...
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    SCC/ARC Fall 2021 Sac City/American River College

    akulahawkRN replied to MichaelsMama's topic in School, College Programs

    When I was accepted by SCC (way back once upon a time, nearly 10 years ago now), I got an acceptance and a rejection letter. Needless to say that was a bit confusing but I did verify that the...
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    Infection after Vaccination?

    akulahawkRN replied to MeganMN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Let me see: ~7,200 "breakthrough" cases out of ~87,000,000. Roughly 500 hospitalizations and roughly 90 deaths out of ~87,000,000. Looks to me like the vaccines are working quite
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    Infection after Vaccination?

    akulahawkRN replied to MeganMN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Something else to look into is how soon after the 1st shot did a person develop symptoms. The closer one is to that 1st shot, the less protective the vaccine is. The closer one is to the 2nd shot, the...
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    Did I pass NCLEX?

    akulahawkRN replied to Alyssa RN's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Be very careful with this one... you must be ready to pay for and schedule a new exam in full. The "old" PVT wouldn't let you get to the payment screen if you passed. The current method is ready to...
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    Denial Letter , Crushed and Depressed

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

    I was qualified as an applicant every time I applied to nursing school and it took me YEARS to get in. Every season I was rejected, instead of getting down on things, I just continued refreshing my...
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    Bad Clinical Experience Today

    akulahawkRN replied to j0622's topic in General Students

    I have been advocating for better kits, unfortunately this falls on generally deaf ears. Therefore I must do the best I can with what I have. We're neither a community nor a critical access hospital....
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    ADN or BSN?

    akulahawkRN replied to Unsuregirl101's topic in General Nursing

    I would normally suggest that if you have the opportunity to do either BSN/ABSN or ADN, you should go for the BSN/ABSN option because you would generally have greater employment possibilities. However...
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    Bad Clinical Experience Today

    akulahawkRN replied to j0622's topic in General Students

    Actually, I do know how to access these ports. The port access kits we have aren't all that good and we don't get many port patients, so there's no impetus to get better kits. Guess what? Not all...
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    SCC/ARC Fall 2021 Sac City/American River College

    akulahawkRN replied to MichaelsMama's topic in School, College Programs

    SCC may or may not update your online status, but if you got an email stating what your status is, that's how you'll know if you got in, didn't get in, or are an alternate. They might update...
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    SCC/ARC Fall 2021 Sac City/American River College

    akulahawkRN replied to MichaelsMama's topic in School, College Programs

    They likely will finish sending out their acceptance emails later today if they haven't sent them all out yesterday. They're only going to send out something like 60-ish letters of acceptance. COVID...
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    Bad Clinical Experience Today

    akulahawkRN replied to j0622's topic in General Students

    Over the coming years, you will meet many people like those you met during your last day on that floor. There will be some great people to work with, both as co-workers and as patients and there will...
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    SCC/ARC Fall 2021 Sac City/American River College

    akulahawkRN replied to MichaelsMama's topic in School, College Programs

    I think this is the week that were going to be seeing the acceptance letters from SCC. I suspect that the acceptance letters will be among the first letters to go out, probably around Thursday I think...
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    SCC/ARC Fall 2021 Sac City/American River College

    akulahawkRN replied to MichaelsMama's topic in School, College Programs

    If SCC/ARC are due to report acceptance status by the week of the 26th, they very well could start notifying the week prior to that, however they could wait until that last week to do those...
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    SCC/ARC Fall 2021 Sac City/American River College

    akulahawkRN replied to MichaelsMama's topic in School, College Programs

    That's precisely what I'm saying. It's a bit of work to update everyone's status to "qualified" after the update of "application accepted" and then quickly reupdate the status of those selected/not...
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    SCC/ARC Fall 2021 Sac City/American River College

    akulahawkRN replied to MichaelsMama's topic in School, College Programs

    Sac City and ARC may not change your status in the system until after they've done all the notifications. This way they only have to update the system only once. Now as to which program I'd go...
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    SCC/ARC Fall 2021 Sac City/American River College

    akulahawkRN replied to MichaelsMama's topic in School, College Programs

    They will send an email to you that will tell you that you're either selected or you were qualified but not selected. It will go to your losrios email. If you were not qualified, you probably will get...
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    Struggling! LPN School

    akulahawkRN replied to Justtrynagetby's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    You have a LOT of great advice here! Those of us that are in the field all still remember what it was like when we were in school. I can't stress enough SELF CARE and how important it is. If you don't...
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    thinking of doing a phelbotomy course and wanted opinions

    akulahawkRN replied to LoutusCNA.VT1983's topic in General Students

    Phlebotomy certification won't likely help you all that much outside the phlebotomy field. However, there is exactly one area that doing phlebotomy will help you with and that's learning how to find...
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    ED Nursing

    akulahawkRN replied to Kbelle's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. Just to reinforce what was said above: you'll have to learn NOT to do full assessments. You'll have to learn to do focused assessments. I try to get my initial assessment and initial tasks done...
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    Intubation Should Be A Nursing Skill, Especially Now

    akulahawkRN replied to ErikWeeWoo's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It's not that endotracheal intubation is or isn't a "nurse" skill, it's that most nurses don't have a need to perform this particular skill so it's not something that is taught generally to nurses....
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    Doc Won't See Me Because I Treat Covid Patients

    akulahawkRN replied to bitter_betsy's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If someone asks if I've had close contact with a COVID 19 patient, I consider that a question of "Have you had close unprotected contact with a known COVID 19 patient" and since I always wear PPE, I...