gvicta

gvicta specializes in ICU.

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1. Do women find male nurses attractive?

   gvicta replied to Sykadia's topic in Men in Nursing

   In undergrad women's studies, I presented my final project on gender equality and what have you to my class, and ended it with telling my class that I had been accepted into nursing school. Ended up...

2. Is a tablet a good investment for nursing school

   gvicta replied to clclc4444's topic in Nursing News

   In case anyone is still referring to this thread... If you have to choose between a laptop and a tablet, choose the laptop. It will give the most flexibility and better performance for all the...

3. Night Nursing: Precepting & Perception

   gvicta replied to Larry2016's topic in General Students

   Here I am on night shift, stressing over my patient with a 3rd degree AVB in bigeminy that day shift called afib with PVCs. Got my charge to look at it, two RRT RNs to look at it, the CVCU resource to...

4. How old are you?

   gvicta replied to 1_fit_male_nurse2b's topic in Men in Nursing

   26. Not terribly fit, but I have a history of being a climbing instructor and playing in circus classes, and Asian metabolism. Genetics has given me salt and pepper status in my twenties, though I'm...

5. Baby RN's running ICU?!!

   gvicta replied to kmarieCCRN's topic in Critical Care

   It's cheaper to train new nurses? My hospital's residency program has always said that it costs them an extra 60K to train new grads, on top of the wages paid. Then add the preceptor pay on top of...

6. I passed - My Kaplan Scores and methods of studying

   gvicta replied to gvicta's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   So sorry everyone! I've been super occupied since my last post and didn't see these till now. I hope those of you who have taken your tests passed! For anyone else reading this, I'll answer each...

7. I passed - My Kaplan Scores and methods of studying

   gvicta posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   Hi everyone! Now I've read some older posts where people would reveal their Kaplan Qtrainer/Qbank scores once they past the NCLEX, so I'm doing the same. Before you read on, I did the Kaplan class...

8. 2014 Pearson Vue Trick (PVT) Poll

   gvicta replied to mslovebug's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   I posted this yesterday, and just wanted to let you all know that it is definitely the good pop up (like the two replying to me said it was). In less than 24 hours my license # and name were on the...

9. 2014 Pearson Vue Trick (PVT) Poll

   gvicta replied to mslovebug's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   Thank you much for the reply! I felt like death after the test and on the drive

10. 2014 Pearson Vue Trick (PVT) Poll

    gvicta replied to mslovebug's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I also got the pop up that says "Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled this exam. Another registration cannot be made at this time." Even though I read the post a page or two back that...