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  1. Direct Entry Programs- How hard to get in?

    bruinlaura replied to GoodyNurse2b's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I got an acceptance letter from columbia today!! I can't believe this is actually real. all the late nights working on those apps and nights spent praying finally paid off. thank you everyone for all...

  2. question about scope of practice and the use of high flow O2

    bruinlaura replied to bruinlaura's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Thanks everyone for your responses. Since I haven't even started nursing classes it helps to understand why the nurses do what they do. We did learn about hypoxic drive in EMT class but I guess since...

  3. NP education - a rant

    bruinlaura replied to CatskillNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    :rotfl: Man, if I'd only know that an undergraduate degree in basketweaving existed I wouldn't have bothered with this Bachelors of Science in psychobiology nonsense.

  4. question about scope of practice and the use of high flow O2

    bruinlaura replied to bruinlaura's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I guess it just baffles me that an RN with much more medical education and training than me, an EMT, needs a doctors order to give O2 when I can give it anytime I think the patient needs it. Maybe...

  5. NP education - a rant

    bruinlaura replied to CatskillNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    After reading many of these posts I have noticed that many people think that the direct-entry programs provide different NP education than traditional programs. The classroom and clinicals are the...

  6. Direct Entry Programs- How hard to get in?

    bruinlaura replied to GoodyNurse2b's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    sad news, I got a rejection letter from Seattle University. At least they were my last choice out of the 5 I applied to (since they decided not to do the psych NP program this year after I had paid...

  7. where to nurse in orange county, ca?

    bruinlaura replied to nrse2B2005's topic in Nursing Career

    just about any hospital in southern california will need your language skills. i'm currently working as an emt and from what i've observed, santa ana has a large spanish speaking population. west...

  8. Direct Entry Programs- How hard to get in?

    bruinlaura replied to GoodyNurse2b's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I have had the same question, how hard to get in? It isn't like applying as a freshman where everybody knows which schools are the most selective. I haven't heard from any of the schools I applied to...

  9. Nurse practitioners in the neuro ICU

    bruinlaura replied to bruinlaura's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Thanks everyone for your replies. I am thrilled that someday I might have the opportunity to work in

  10. Nurse practitioners in the neuro ICU

    bruinlaura posted a topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Do nurse practitioners work in the NICU? My undergraduate degree is in psychobiology and I would love to incorporate my love of the brain with my desire to go into nursing. I would love to get an...

  11. 'Moral values' and organ donation

    bruinlaura replied to wannabee's topic in General Nursing

    I just finished reading all 11 pages of responses, very interesting and informative thread! I like to think or organ donation as a gift and be grateful to those who choose to give. I wish more...

  12. Mnemonic for cranial nerves

    bruinlaura replied to KR's topic in General Students

    this is the one i learned: "on old olympuses towering top a fin and german viewed a house" olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, auditory(or vestibuolocochlear),...

  13. Anyone taken the GRE test?

    bruinlaura replied to BChapp3182's topic in First Year After Licensure

    www.gre.org

  14. questions about accelerated programs

    bruinlaura posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am interested in the opinions of anyone who has gone through either an accelerated bsn or bsn/msn combo for non-nursing graduates. I graduated last year with a bs in psychobiology and i am...

  15. questions about accelerated programs

    bruinlaura replied to bruinlaura's topic in First Year After Licensure

    thanks everyone for your responses. i am sending in my first application tomorrow for a bsn/msn combo at columbia university. it is my first choice right now so i'll be praying hard for the next few...

  16. Anyone taken the GRE test?

    bruinlaura replied to BChapp3182's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I just took the GRE and I used the ETS book. I think it has about 8 real GRE's to take for practice. Also, the ETS website has free downloadable practice tests so that you can practice on your...

  17. Schizophrenia

    bruinlaura replied to ncolvin1's topic in General Nursing

    The person who told you that is misinformed. I did my undergrad degree in psychobiology and I remember my profs teaching us that schizophrenia has a very strong genetic component. obviously...

  18. Wanting to Work in California, I need to know everything.

    bruinlaura replied to Nurseboi's topic in California Nursing

    warning, california is hard to get around without a car, especially the los angeles area. however, i went to ucla for my undergrad and i lived in an apt near campus and walked by the med center...

  19. HUGE A&P Dilemma, object to dissecting cats, any options?

    bruinlaura replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    have no fear, cats are absolutely not bred to be dissected. i am taking anatomy right now and my professor addressed this issue. a small percentage of the cats (a few thousand) that are euthanized...

  20. new grad RN- want to quit nursing

    bruinlaura replied to sax_journey's topic in General Nursing

    from what i have gathered from this post you are having trouble eating, trouble sleeping, feeling sad and alone, and having a lot of feelings or worthlessness and guilt, and no longer taking pleasure...