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It seems like a natural combination, lab sciences and nursing school, and yet everywhere I look the learning sequence is artificially split. So many of the stories I read are "take your prerequisites and wait 1-3 years for a cohort." My problem with...

I'm now 50 and just finishing up an EMT class and probably starting down the long path to ER nursing one day soon. Do what you want, is my advice. My only other advice that took me years to learn is that it's easier to ask forgiveness later than to...

Just now finishing up an EMT certification, and clinicals in hospital ER shadowing a tech has been the highlight. I think that when I get school lined up that ER will be my first choice after learning thr ropes on the floors.

So here I am doing my clinicals in ER as an EMT-basic student, shadowing a tech. He takes a 20 minute break and within 60 seconds I get my muscles volunteered to transfer a patient being discharged from wheelchair to car. Now I gotta say that I'm 5...

Just a non-professional thought but for people not hyperventilating just the offer of O2 and the presence of the mask or nose tubes may have a calming effect because it's seen all the time on TV, you know the scene where the patient flies into the ER...

For what it's worth, I know a captain who absolutely loves their medical career in the army.

I hear that they got degrees from an offshore medical school.

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You've latched onto a Truth. My doctor recently went out of her way to thank me for being a wonderful, compliant and easy to work with patient she's had and simply because I followed the care plan. I was stunned for a moment that it was even someth...

Laser removal works best with dark ink so those grays may be a problem, plus you stand a real chance of scarring so my personal recommendation to anyone is that unless it's gang related and you're divorcing yourself from that lifestyle... be aware. C...

All good points, thank you. I think the current markets in many locations are heavily distorted which is why I can't make sense of how things are set up.

50 isn't even half-way done yet, much less "stick a fork in it" time I'm 49 and going back to get the degree I quit on 30 years ago, originally it was psychology but now I've decided on healthcare and quite possibly RN by the time I'm done. To para...

I'm orchestrating a career change from writing software to nursing. In my software career I am mostly self taught and have worked for many years without a degree. Because local classes in the traditional science prerequisites are wait-listed I'm th...

Thanks for the input and shared experiences, maggiex3 and LadyinScrubs! I'm on the cusp of deciding to get my bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, which I can complete in good time due to existing lower division work at city college. Aft...

A note from my side of the universe in software: it is far more productive for a software team to fire a member who is disruptive no matter how brilliant or productive they are, allowing "that guy" to stay poisons the workplace and undermines your au...

Urban dictionary entry for the Inland Empire, it's what we in SoCal call "The 909." Urban Dictionary: 909

My personal trick is to always link new things I'm learning to something I already know, that way the idea has something to anchor to in my head. Otherwise ideas all go floating away like a handful of helium balloons after you punch the clown holdin...

Can I guess that maybe the charge is ADN and you're a new BSN hired in? This sounds like a real familiar scenario from my software career where a lead will freak out when a specialist is hired. All the suggestions sound real familiar too, document s...

Keep to the facts, describe your experience(s) and how they negatively affected you. Don't make it a ***** session. Offer neutral, well reasoned suggestions on how these poor experiences could have been avoided or handled better. Don't forget to po...

Thanks PMFB-RM, great description of the changes from your perspective as a teacher and is much appreciated.

Is ACLS really "watered down," or is it simply that the algorithms have been refined to a point where all the rough edges that used to require all that extra work have been ground off finally?

I know I'm dredging up a thread that's a bit old, but it's not too old From those of you in, how has WGU panned out for you? I'd love to hear success stories, war stories and, well, stories in general about how your education is treated in the real...

I did a quick read and various states have provisions for for this if there are standing orders from the MD. Reading the original story this could also be a verbal order that you wouldn't know about? For my personal learning, am I right in assuming ...

Positive_Attitude, a cousin of mine works in the funeral business in a medium-small town. He mirrors exactly your sentiments on how he is there to provide support, information and help when people need it. He is their rock for a short while when th...

Speaking from an outsider's perspective the holy water's provenance and religious connection has nothing to do with the base fact that a civilian was adulterating supplies used to treat a patient. Is ensuring the provenance of all "stuff" making its ...