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Peer support is/was huge in my accelerated BSN program. I am due to graduate in August and the support of my friends and classmates has been instrumental to my success. The key for me was focus. If I had three hours to study, I used those three hou...

Lots of questions that I hope some of you can answer for me. I will be graduating from an accelerated BSN program in August. I was born and raised in Houston and lived there until I was 23. I am now 37 with a young son and want to move back. I hav...

Thank you both for the information. How about the sign-on bonus for two years' NICU or ICU experience? Any ideas? Theoretically, the smartest thing to do would be to serve out my commitment, get the experience, save up some money and then move to H...

Hi everyone, This has been a valuable read. I have a few questions. I am 37 and will complete my BSN this August. Am I eligible for loan repayment and sign-on bonus? What is the maximum age the Navy will take nurses? Also, and this may be the kic...

My father said it to his nurse he day he died. He also told my mother, who didn't believe him. He coded 3 hours later...and died.

Holy God. You WALKED to WBAMC from Bliss???? God bless you. You couldn't pay me enough to walk that - it's uphill! And you had to cross Dyer to do it! High Point is the complex you saw up at WBAMC on Alabama - it's nice. Definitely check it out. ...

Oy, athena. You might want to google El Paso, TX. We are 3500 feet above sea level and very mountainous!!!! I fear for you and your bike! Ft. Bliss is located in the NE side of El Paso, and is buffeted to the west by an enormous mountain range, w...

I am not a soldier or a nurse - yet...I start a 2nd degree program at UTEP in May - but I was married to a soldier here and am very familiar with Fort Bliss and El Paso. Do you have any specific questions?

Me too! I start UTEP's Fast Track program May 12. Now I have to figure out how to pay for it...

I am a single mom to a 4 month old son - I do it all. I work 40 hours a week, and attend classes from 5:30-8:30 pm MW and 6 am-8am Tues-Thurs-Sat. Yes, you read that right - I have a 6 am class on Saturdays. But for the precise reason that I am a...

I don't have the specific scores in front of me, but overall 98% percentile. "Post High School," I believe it's called.

In addition, typing in all caps is the same as yelling. Would you burst into a room full of strangers and began screaming? I would hope not. So please go easy on the all caps as well. Typing in all caps should be reserved for emphasis, stress and ...

Thanks for bringing this up - correct language usage is a HUGE pet peeve of mine. Coming out of lurkerdom to say...I have been a little surprised at some of the atrocious grammar and spelling skills from time to time here at allnurses. Those are ski...

I am interested in military nursing. For the record, I am 36, will have my BSN by the time I'm 38 or so. I know the age cutoff for the Army AMEDD is 47. Pretty much guaranteed deployment to Iraq is why I am really no longer considering the Army (sin...

GS positions = Goverment Service positions? Can you elaborate as to what kinds of jobs those are and how one obtains them? I've seen USPHS posted about a couple of times here...can you elaborate on those jobs as well? Are the benefits the same as t...

This is actually my Chemistry for Health Sciences class but the prof wants to get us thinking critically early so here is a problem he gave us with regard to acetaminophen overdose: The nurse was instructed to administer an IV with a loading dose of ...

That was enormously helpful. I thank you. :nuke:

For question 2, the concentration of the maintenance dose. I think I was trying to make this exercise harder than it was. So for question 3 I got 500mL/4 hours = 125 mL/hr question 4-4900 mg and part 2 was 1000mL/16 hours = 62.5 mL/hr Right? And las...

But wait! There's more! See, this was an article from Nursing magazine back in 2005. I'll type the para and then I'll tell you what the prof is asking from the article. Administer an IV loading dose of 150 mg/kg of acetylcysteine in 200 mL of D5...

That was very helpful! The too much info part is what kept throwing me. I kept wondering why that info was necessary. So if the instrux are 150 mg/kg and I have 49 kg then I multiply 150 mg x 49 kg and get 7350 mg? That sounds like a lot.

Hi all, I've been lurking for over a year and am always dismayed at the number of vent/I hate my job/nurses eat their young/this is a horrible job threads. I absolutely understand this is a forum for just such a thing, where nurses feel safe venting...

And I mean hospital-wise, in the country, where would you work? Let's say, hypothetically, you could up and move if you had to, taking your family would be a breeze, etc. If you truly had the freedom to work at any major hospital in the U.S., which...

Well, I guess what I'm really looking for are the Best Hospitals in America to work for. I know there are all kinds of lists out there for Best Hospitals in terms of care (like US News and World Report), but I'm looking for the best ones to work for...

I'm in the nursing math right now...and after 15 years out of school, the first two weeks were really tough, but then I got tutoring, which has made the difference, I think, b/w a C and the A I'm going to make. Tutors rock!

Thank you Clemm! I doubt a monsoon could knock me off my intended path to becoming a nurse, but it does get a little discouraging reading about all the negatives. That being said, I do appreciate this forum as a way for nurses to vent. Some of the ...