Chad Collins

Chad Collins

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  1. How many hours to work as a CNA in Nursing School??

    Chad Collins replied to PedsHopeful's topic in General Students

    I recommend looking at your finances and see where you can trim your budget, nursing school is very stressful, last thing you need is a financial crisis right in the middle, I personally have...

  2. My girlfriend is afraid that I might meet another girl in the nursing program...

    Chad Collins replied to ThePhilster's topic in Male Nursing Students

    If she is that insecure might wanna reexamin the

  3. What would u do?

    Chad Collins replied to kellycinalli's topic in Nurse Management

    I would tell him the truth with your exsperience you could easily move to another facitilty and probley make more

  4. Things that gross you out..

    Chad Collins replied to vintage_RN's topic in General Students

    the smell of the psudemonus infection makes me squeemish

  5. Community college has a 7% graduation rate...

    Chad Collins replied to Kadambari's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Community colleges don't get to count there successful transfers to 4 years colleges which drives down there over all graduations rate. aka it skews the results to a non favorable false percentile....

  6. Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    Chad Collins replied to Bortaz's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Well this post went viral

  7. Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    Chad Collins replied to Bortaz's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yes, as nurses it is our responcibility to uphold the highest standard of professionalism. Nursing is the #1 most trusted profession and it is up to us as nurse to keep it that

  8. How come no one will call me?

    Chad Collins replied to AshleyO77's topic in First Year After Licensure

    IV cert. is just one more piece of paper and extra training that hospitals can show off to the insurance company to get a cheaper rate lol. But seriously, the more practice and exsperience you can get...

  9. Anyone ever felt this way starting out ..

    Chad Collins replied to kay0324's topic in General Students

    I"m 37 and I start my second year of NS this fall. Don't be scared it is a lot of hard work and studying but it can be done. Good luck to all of you. You can do it :) PS. Buy your fundamentals book...

  10. Took NCLEX-RN today...keep getting good pop-up...still feel numb!

    Chad Collins replied to MiahMSN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Great Job now it's time to start a new and exciting career

  11. Advice for pre-nursing school studying/reading

    Chad Collins replied to vampcharms's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Buy your nursing fundamentals book and go ahead and read it now I wish i had. I passed but with a low B if I'd grabbed that book and read it ahead of time I think I could have gotten my

  12. How come no one will call me?

    Chad Collins replied to AshleyO77's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree a lot of areas are getting saturated I for see in the near future some nurses having to relocate. Here in East Tennessee there are dozens of nursing school pumping new grads out two or three...

  13. Pharmacology: Which Drugs?!

    Chad Collins replied to tammy_zeidan09's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    That is awesome

  14. Pharmacology: Which Drugs?!

    Chad Collins replied to tammy_zeidan09's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    When you start working around the hospitals you will see certain drugs used over and over then you can focus on those and then look up any odd ones that come along. I'm doing a summer extern at a...

  15. Nursing pay in the Wilmington area??

    Chad Collins replied to smarge117's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I wonder how much difference the RN/BSN would make in pay scale versus just the

  16. Pain assessment: do you believe your pt when...

    Chad Collins replied to Morainey's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a first year nursing student, they taught us we don't question the patients pain we give the meds as doctor ordered and to practice pain management so the pain never gets out of

  17. starting Fall 2011 - who we are

    Chad Collins replied to sandanrnstudent's topic in General Students

    1. Aug. 29th 2. Tennessee 3. RN/BSN 4. Nothing worth having comes Easy, fight fight fight :) 5. My wife bless her heart, she made it possible for me to retrain to a better career.