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  1. A few questions about applying to Frontier

    SnowboardRN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    So you have been? How did you like it? From reading around getting as much info as I can, it has seemed like the earlier you apply the better because the classes get filled up quickly. If you don't...

  2. Frontier Nursing University Bridge Class 111

    SnowboardRN replied to frylockholmes's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I'm really sorry to butt into the post but I have a question and am already filling up this poor board with my question posts, haha. I just submitted my application to Frontier, and after I uploaded...

  3. A few questions about applying to Frontier

    SnowboardRN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    They told me that I could go ahead and submit the application and documents (essays and resume) right now, and after that is finished I will receive an email telling me when I need to have my packet...

  4. A few questions about applying to Frontier

    SnowboardRN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    All of my questions were answered by them (except the waitlist) so disregard this post. Not that everyone wasn't doing that already, haha!

  5. A few questions about applying to Frontier

    SnowboardRN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Oh and one more question... in the first essay it says at the end "Please type separately."Type what

  6. ITT RN wanting to become a CNM

    SnowboardRN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I know that when I graduated, they were working on getting nationally accredited. Obviously accredited by the state, but I can't find them listed on the national accreditation list

  7. Funny & Cute Things Our Demented Patients Say

    SnowboardRN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    One of my delightfully confused residents asked me one day "Can you give me any pointers, you know, in the bedroom? My husband is taking me home tonight, and it's been so long I'm not going to...

  8. Do all of your LTC charts have face sheets?

    SnowboardRN replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Ours all have face sheets. I was going to suggest printing a new one from the computer, but I guess you don't have that option!

  9. Do you have to count lyrica at your LTC facility?

    SnowboardRN replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Yes we count lyrica with our

  10. Is this Safe? Census: 45 / ID Bands: 0 / # of Nurses: 1

    SnowboardRN replied to carriebarton59's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have worked in two LTC facilities and neither used ID bands. I quickly learned the residents names, and always asked the other staff if I wasn't sure. Working the dining room really helped to know...

  11. I'm a PRN nurse... just wondering, what's it like at your place?

    SnowboardRN posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have 4 young children so until they are all in school I opted to become a PRN nurse. Friends told me it might be hard to get hours, but this has become quite the opposite. I could work 7 days a...

  12. Another low staffing - am i being a baby- new nurse post!

    SnowboardRN posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I got hired into a rehab skilled unit at a LTC facility. I was told I would have 5 patients and would train for at least 2 weeks and more if I needed it. I trained for a week and a half, and I know...

  13. Help me get through this!!!! Tough first nursing job

    SnowboardRN posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Like many new grads, I applied anywhere and everywhere when I graduated. I had some interviews at a few hospitals, and an interview at a long term care facility where I had done my geriatrics...

  14. Another low staffing - am i being a baby- new nurse post!

    SnowboardRN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    They told me 5 because that's how many patients they had at the time of the interview...but they made it sound like that's all I would ever have. I guess I just hate that I wasn't trained and I asked...

  15. New Grad RN- Drowning in overloaded LTC setting- LOW STAFFING!

    SnowboardRN replied to Jaimie.RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I FEEL THE EXACT SAME WAY!!!!! I only have 14 patients on my rehab LTC floor but I work 8 hrs M-F and am the only nurse on the floor, tons of meds, NO training (1.5 weeks where the trainer was so...