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    Who else is waiting for an Acceptance letter?

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

    For those students that applied to the two Los Rios programs in the Sacramento region, they usually let their applicants know the results about 5 weeks after the filing period closes at each campus....
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    whats the difference between offense and conviction? im confused

    akulahawkRN replied to futurenurse93_'s topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    You have to look very closely at the application wording. If it asks for you to list all "offenses" then you likely need to list all arrests that are for misdemeanor or higher crimes. Just be careful...
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    Do you have to be an adrenaline junkie to work in the ER?

    akulahawkRN replied to Nola009's topic in Emergency

    I've been an ED nurse for just over a month and I'm seeing this. You do have to be a glutton for punishment and you have to be able to kind of go with things a bit. What's "nice" about the ED is that...
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    Do you have to be an adrenaline junkie to work in the ER?

    akulahawkRN replied to Nola009's topic in Emergency

    ER = adrenaline junkie? Not as far as I can tell. It might be for the busy Paramedic... Like Med Surg, you just have to be willing to move quickly and adjust to situations fast. I've been an ER nurse...
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    Failed out of school, what are the chances of getting into school?

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

    Given that you haven't failed out of nursing school, I'd say that's a whole lot better than if you'd failed out of nursing school itself. What you'll have to do is review entry requirements for...
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    Should I withdraw or try not to fail!!!

    akulahawkRN replied to durtydeedzgrl's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It also depends upon where you are chronologically in the class. If you're past the "W" date, then you should figure out your study stuff and try not to fail. If you're not past the "W" date, then you...
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    I need help with understanding how do a care plan.

    akulahawkRN replied to lharley132010's topic in General Students

    I wouldn't say the medical diagnosis useless, it's that it's formulated in a different way than a nursing diagnosis is. Both are based off of a data set and that data set can be an identical data set....
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    I am afraid of Anatomy and Physiology

    akulahawkRN replied to Housebabyj's topic in General Students

    A&P is mostly a lot of memorization of stuff. There's not much to be afraid about it. It just "is" for lack of a better way to describe it. The hardest part of A&P is that it's just a lot of...
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    EMT-B to CNA

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

    Working as a CNA will give you experience doing the basics of nursing skills. By this, I mean that you'll be doing things like bed changes, patient clean-up, showering, toileting, feeding, and the...
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    How do you know if Nursing is right for you?

    akulahawkRN replied to astormofswords's topic in General Students

    The post right above mine hints at something... As a student, you'll have the ability to go places in the hospital and do things that employed nurses almost never get to do. For example, as a student,...
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    How do you know if Nursing is right for you?

    akulahawkRN replied to astormofswords's topic in General Students

    If you end up going through school, get your first job, and hate it, look for another job... you might find that you fit in there. If after a few tries at it and it's just not working well for you,...
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    Stuck with nursing... Easy CA schools to get into?

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

    That, in this context, mans "Out of
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    How do you know if Nursing is right for you?

    akulahawkRN replied to astormofswords's topic in General Students

    I'm not going to say that you are or aren't going to be a good fit or that you'll like nursing. This is entirely up to you and how you feel. In my case, nursing is simply how I choose to express who I...
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    How many job interviews before you get your first nursing job?

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

    Over 300 applications went out, 2 resulted in interviews, one of which I was a top 3 candidate for the position. The other interview resulted in an offer and I've been there about a month so far....
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    Are Nurses First Responders?

    akulahawkRN replied to ScrubADub12's topic in General Nursing

    Most nurses are not "First Responders" as most would define that role. They certainly aren't trained for that role while in school. Some rotor wing nurses are auto dispatched as 911 responders and can...
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    Stuck with nursing... Easy CA schools to get into?

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

    You're not stuck. You just have to apply everywhere that you might be qualified to attend and that includes the JC's. A TEAS score of 83% is nothing to sneeze at. That's actually pretty darned good!...
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    Trying to be RN in California

    akulahawkRN replied to mjnmv's topic in Nurse Registration

    Not necessarily. If everything happened to match up with the concurrency issue and you touched on all subjects deemed necessary, and you had all the required didactic and clinical hours, then the BRN...
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    What's next when you receive rejection letters

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

    What do you do after you receive rejection letters? First of all, you don't give up. Second, look at the paperwork and see if they didn't accept you because you weren't qualified. You want to be a...
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    help need clarification CA BRN deficiencies

    akulahawkRN replied to JosephJustin's topic in Nurse Registration

    Many, many people from the Philippines have the same issue you do. The BRN looks very closely at "concurrency" now, partly due to fraudulent transcripts from overseas. What you need to know about...
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    What kind of degree do I need to be an ER nurse?

    akulahawkRN replied to Chiwuis's topic in General Nursing

    First things first... you will need to be a nurse. While it seems like a "duh" thing, this discussion starts from there. How you get to that license is only part of the issue. You have to look at the...
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    The pvu trick did not work for me and i passed!!

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

    It's still possible to actually pass when only 8 hours post exam. If you had waited 24 hours and gotten the result that you did, you would certainly have failed. This is because the exam is scored...
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    do you think a degree/ education is ever a waste?

    akulahawkRN replied to Infofreak411's topic in General Nursing

    Education is never a waste. What you do or don't do with that education is where any waste of your education would lie. My Bachelors is in Sports Med. I'm actually still reasonably good at doing ortho...
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    Wear gloves during assessment?

    akulahawkRN replied to future_nurse11's topic in General Nursing

    When doing a full assessment, I wear gloves all the time. Depending upon what I'm doing otherwise, I may or may not wear gloves. If I don't expect to be doing something that may result in contacting...
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    Is it normal to not graduate "on time"?

    akulahawkRN replied to greenbean14's topic in General Students

    When you complete all the graduation requirements, you graduate... on time. You're not going to graduate before that, and unless you've completed all your graduation requirements and not petition to...
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    6 hour layover at the LAX - enough time to get Livescan?

    akulahawkRN replied to raindrop's topic in Travel

    The California DOJ has a list of LiveScan sites. As long as you have the paperwork filled out, they can do it, usually fairly quickly. It shouldn't require that you to to a Sheriff's or Police...