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  1. Scared of finishing nursing school and starting my career.

    Katie71275 replied to Katniss88's topic in General Students

    Yes I am very nervous! I graduate in May as well and I am excited and terrified at the same time. The hospitals here offer 3 month orientations from what I am seeing...although that is in the NICU...

  2. Class of 2013 anyone?

    Katie71275 replied to Lizzyru's topic in General Students

    Me too, but you know what, I fully believe if it had been done earlier, I wouldn't be as good a potential nurse....Im almost 29 and although not old by any means, my life experience with having 4...

  3. Class of 2013 anyone?

    Katie71275 replied to Lizzyru's topic in General Students

    studentnurseCT-That's great!! For the most part, I will be applying Feb-March, but a relative is a nurse at a hospital I would LOVE to work at(albeit on a different floor) and told me to go ahead and...

  4. Have you had a Hep B titer?

    Katie71275 posted a topic in General Students

    Just curious if anyone has had one? I had my series of Hep B vaccine about 10 years ago, but never got my titers checked afterward. I am now going to work at a hospital as a nurse tech and they...

  5. Class of 2013 anyone?

    Katie71275 replied to Lizzyru's topic in General Students

    Who is thinking about jobs? When will you apply? Graduating in May, and I've been told to start looking/applying Jan-March. We have a career fair in January too which hospitals come to so that will...

  6. OB for male nurses.

    Katie71275 replied to TerryNeal's topic in General Students

    I can tell you that a lot of the males in our OB rotation didn't get to do much at all! Thy didn't get to watch many deliveries either. We did at one hospital finally get to do a bit more, and me...

  7. Class of 2013 anyone?

    Katie71275 replied to Lizzyru's topic in General Students

    We are on the qtr system so we are in class until Feb then start our last qtr/preceptorship in March...Im so ready to be

  8. Out of State Applications

    Katie71275 replied to c.kelly20's topic in General Nursing

    So what about if you want to work in your home state for a year or 2 then move? Obviously you need your state's license(louisiana here), but when you apply for say a NC license, are you giving up...

  9. Patient Picking At Clothing/Bed Linens

    Katie71275 replied to 84RN's topic in Home Health

    Does she have Alzheimers or any sort of dementia? I've seen it when a person with dementia didn't recognize what was on them (the shirt, linens) and kept picking at it. And there are some psychiatric...

  10. Anyone work at LSU, WK, or Christus Schumpert in Shreve?

    Katie71275 replied to Katie71275's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Thank you mwc! I need to talk to my step sister soon as she works there lol!! Just didn't want to seem like I was fishing for a way

  11. Ritalin

    Katie71275 replied to Jilaena's topic in General Students

    My son has it and is on Focalin XR..It works great for him(he's in elementary school). I just would like to caution you to let your program director know you are on this med and you may also have...

  12. Husband rant...kinda long.

    Katie71275 replied to jamieekins's topic in General Students

    I feel you b/c I have 4 kids and it was definitely a learning process! Luckily my hubby enjoys cooking so he cooks 3-4days a week and that works out nicely! I would let him try his way and let him...

  13. Weeding out?

    Katie71275 replied to wantccu's topic in General Students

    I fully believe the weeding out is Fundamentals(our first qtr) and then the 1st qtr of medsurg. That's where we lost the most students. We still lost some in our 3rd qtr(medsurg 2), but it was just...

  14. Cleaning question

    Katie71275 replied to sarapRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Im a tech in the NICU. housekeeping cleans the walls, equipment, bedside table, other area. The nurse or nurse tech cleans the

  15. Military Deloyment After Graduation

    Katie71275 replied to Medic2BSN13's topic in Nursing Career

    I have no idea, but is it possible that instead of what you are currently employed for in the military, if you could be traind into a military RN? Just a thought. Thank you for your

  16. What classes are you taking in spring

    Katie71275 replied to Kimynurse's topic in General Students

    Practicum and graduation in May :) In Peds

  17. Is this a Med Error? I have been kicked from clinical. Help

    Katie71275 replied to nursing?s's topic in General Students

    No not a med error and shouldn't result in failing as you did not harm the patient. We do have to have the MAR with us when we are pulling meds and our teacher looks at the meds/mar to make sure it...

  18. Anyone work at LSU, WK, or Christus Schumpert in Shreve?

    Katie71275 replied to Katie71275's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Thank you! That's good to

  19. Class of 2013 anyone?

    Katie71275 replied to Lizzyru's topic in General Students

    We just started Winter Qtr (peds). I ended up with an A last qtr (OB). 1 more quarter after this!! As for preceptorship, we can choose our preceptor, but can't choose a specialty unless we score...

  20. Not allowed to choose senior practicum

    Katie71275 replied to bamgam9's topic in General Students

    I start practicum next quarter. If we do well enough on the ATI predictor test we can do 24hrs medsurg and our other 24hrs can be a specialty. If we don't do as well, then you do all 48hr medsurg....

  21. Skills Check

    Katie71275 replied to nursek17's topic in General Students

    Know your angles, and your sites! Also know how much you can give in each location (deltoid vs vastus lateralis, etc). We had dosage calc with ours too so had to correctly calculate the dosage, draw...

  22. Did you pick your school by it's NCLEX pass rate?

    Katie71275 replied to Kimynurse's topic in General Students

    To be honest I didn't look at any of that! It is the program in my town(and is a good program) from a school I respect(and got my Bachelor's from), it's one of the major schools here for...

  23. Could I fail because of this? can't be that bad...

    Katie71275 replied to mursetudent25's topic in General Students

    Uh yea that is unprofessional. Part of having to do presentations/seminars during class/clinical is so that you can become comfortable with it. Ours is usually done as a community service/service...

  24. ATI Pharm Levels

    Katie71275 replied to cveill's topic in General Students

    Just keep studying them and use your ATI pharm book as well! Also search ATI flashcards on this website and it should bring up some helpful study

  25. ATI Pharm Levels

    Katie71275 replied to cveill's topic in General Students

    I've taken it and I made a Level 2. It wasn't easy! But just keep doing Practice A and B plus go in under Learning System RN and I believe there are 2 practice tests and a final test there as well....