FiremedicMike

FiremedicMike BSN, RN, EMT-P

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  1. Skills Testing

    FiremedicMike replied to oldie's topic in General Students

    I gave you examples and explained my rationale, repeatedly. You are choosing to ignore them, so I reckon we’re done

  2. Skills Testing

    FiremedicMike replied to oldie's topic in General Students

    Those are fluff steps that don't need to be there for final skills checkoff days. I'm not even sure why we're still debating this. Do you really think there are 43 steps to giving an IM...

  3. Had my first bad clinical experience - L&D

    FiremedicMike replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I posted this

  4. Had my first bad clinical experience - L&D

    FiremedicMike posted a topic in Male Nursing Students

    My overall clinical experience has been great. I've not been treated bad at all, word quickly gets around that I have a lot of experience as a medic, and the nurses have always treated me very well...

  5. Skills Testing

    FiremedicMike replied to oldie's topic in General Students

    You're deliberately missing my point. YOU do those skill check offs for YOUR program and make the objectives clear to YOUR students. In my program, I asked, and was told to reference our elsevier...

  6. Skills Testing

    FiremedicMike replied to oldie's topic in General Students

    Not sure why you're just now responding to this.. Google NREMT psychomotor skill sheets, you'll understand what I mean. There is no fluff in there, everything that needs to be done gets a point...

  7. Timeline?

    FiremedicMike posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Hello there, I recently accepted my first RN position pending licensure, I graduate in May from my ADN program. The hiring manager says that I should plan on 6 weeks from graduation to...

  8. Timeline?

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

    Well that seems terribly

  9. Mount Carmel College of Nursing RN to BSN?

    FiremedicMike posted a topic in School, College Programs

    Does anyone have any experience with Mount Carmel's RN to BSN online? Looking for info on the curriculum, difficulty, time commitment, and super duper bonus points if anyone compared it to Ohio...

  10. Will ENP become a primary certification?

    FiremedicMike posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Just wondering - will Emergency Nurse Practitioner ever become a standalone license/certification? I have an interest in working in an ER and nearly no desire to ever work in a primary care...

  11. Will ENP become a primary certification?

    FiremedicMike replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    That really does and gives me a direction, looks like I can actually start the program with just my ADN also, so that's double cool! Do you know if there are mandatory primary care clinical...

  12. Will ENP become a primary certification?

    FiremedicMike replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I definitely appreciate the input! Unfortunately I don’t live anywhere near Alabama or Vandy, and our first grandchild is on the way so not interested in moving there for a few years. As for...

  13. Bad Clinical Instructor

    FiremedicMike replied to delrionurse's topic in General Students

    It’s 10 now.. I swear it was 6 as recent as last semester, but it’s definitely 10 as of right now..

  14. Bad Clinical Instructor

    FiremedicMike replied to delrionurse's topic in General Students

    Side note, my clinical would be a million times more efficient if I didn't need to wait for my clinical instructor to hold my hand while I pop the blister packs into the medicine cup and hand them to...

  15. Bad Clinical Instructor

    FiremedicMike replied to delrionurse's topic in General Students

    Can I ask you to take a moment of self reflection and honestly answer - do you feel like you’re ready to be on that

  16. Bad Clinical Instructor

    FiremedicMike replied to delrionurse's topic in General Students

    Listen friend, I told you in my first response that if you wanted useful input, you’d need to share at least some of the details. Since you won't, we’re responding based on the extremely limited...

  17. Bad Clinical Instructor

    FiremedicMike replied to delrionurse's topic in General Students

    Hmm.. I don't think I really have any advice for you then other than to say that I would think long and hard about investing energy into a BON complaint. I don't think that's going to be a worthwhile...

  18. Bad Clinical Instructor

    FiremedicMike replied to delrionurse's topic in General Students

    1. Because if it's only viewable by you and you're passing clinical, then chalk it up to just another "nursing school is needlessly painful" and move on. 2. Again it sounds like there was...

  19. Can we talk about "fashion" scrubs vs "scrubby" scrubs?

    FiremedicMike replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Advanced Practice

    You do have to laugh at the evolution of scrubs. They were originally designed to be reusable/semi-disposable garments so that you could wear your street clothes to work, change into attire that...

  20. Bad Clinical Instructor

    FiremedicMike replied to delrionurse's topic in General Students

    From your description, it sounds like there was an incident between you and the unit charge nurse. If you want useful feedback on your situation, you’re probably going to need to divulge more...

  21. Nursing School and Working?

    FiremedicMike replied to emilynuhwin's topic in General Students

    Someone just liked this post so it brought me back to this thread. As an update, I’m now in my final semester which has 2 days per week of clinical and one 2-3 hour lab per week...

  22. What does a typical week look like

    FiremedicMike posted a topic in Ohio University

    I'm wrapping up RN school and have a previous bachelors from OU, so it only makes sense to do my RN to BSN there. Can anyone tell me what a typical week looks like? I know these are a serious of...

  23. Nursing Home NA nightmare

    FiremedicMike replied to PunkinNoir's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    My wife worked in nursing homes as an LPN for 15 years. She worked in a wide range, from primarily Medicaid patients to super high end cash only places (she’s taken care of family members of local...

  24. Will ENP become a primary certification?

    FiremedicMike replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Kind of a bummer that the path to ER (a unique skillset IMHO) is to go through FNP... Would be nice if you could enter an ENP program from the start (which would also be more than a 1 year...

  25. Got The Worst Score On Quiz In My Class

    FiremedicMike replied to FutureMaleNurse9722's topic in General Students

    I actually want to apologize for my initial reaction to this post, because early on in nursing school I was also really hard on myself for my exam grades. I already earned a bachelors with honors and...