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  1. Grieving Families...

    wms posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Just wanted to get some advice and see how other new nurses handle grieving families and loved ones. I work in a smaller emergency room, Trauma II level with 3 fast trak beds, 12 rooms and 4 trauma...

  2. Thinking of moving to Clarksville..any advice really appreciated

    wms posted a topic in Tennessee Nursing

    Hi!! I am finishing my last year in a BSN program at Goshen College in Indiana, my husband and I have been hearing some great things about clarksville and the opportunities that may be there. Can...

  3. Should BSNs be paid more?

    wms replied to edcampbe's topic in General Nursing

    I just left a parttime LPN program and have started a full-time BSN program. The reasons for this vary, most importantly is that I want to be a NICU nurse and you have to be a BSN in my area to be...

  4. PSB Test for the Practical Nursing program

    wms replied to new_mom26's topic in Indiana Nursing

    HI, I took the PSB two years ago but I don't think that it has changed much. Focus your math on algebra and math basics. Science was all over the place, like what color does copper change to when it...

  5. What squicks you out?

    wms replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, for me the worst ever has got to be when I was in school and observed a surgery. It was a reverse-colostomy procedure for a guy who had broken a beer bottle up his butt!!! Between the smell from...

  6. Started Volunteering in the ER on Monday

    wms replied to Doug85's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Hey Jhawk- Find out what "escorting services" means (if you don't already know for sure at that particular facility) In the E.R. that I tech. in, we have Pt. liason escorts who have a really cool...

  7. ER the T.V. Show

    wms replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

    I love E.R. the tv show, I love Trauma, Life in the ER, and I love the ER that I work in. And one of my new fav's that is always Tivo'd is HOUSE! House, is soo interesting and I have actually looked...

  8. Do you get nervous before going to clinical?

    wms replied to Catys_With_Me's topic in General Students

  9. Anyone familiar with St. Joseph's or Memorial?

    wms replied to Nellie Nurse's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Well, I could be wrong, but I know that both my mother and her best-friend have both told me that Mem. is on a hiring freeze. My mom's friend is the computer trainer for every employee in the...

  10. Anyone familiar with St. Joseph's or Memorial?

    wms replied to Nellie Nurse's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Hi Nellie, I actually can tell you alot about both hospitals. I live in the area, work in another area hospital, and my mom has been a NICU nurse at Memorial for 36 yrs. She loves it, it is my goal...

  11. Computer Charting -- Do you like it or hate it?

    wms replied to live4today's topic in General Nursing

    We just changed to the EMR charting, lots of problems. Hopefully most of them will iron out, in the meantime we are dbl. charting, computer and paper. UGH. Plus, one of the most common probs. we...

  12. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    wms replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    You know you are a mom in nursing school when.. You assess your baby's diaper for color, size and consistency You have a "no blood, no foul" rule for every arguement between your two and four yr olds....

  13. Virtual Clinicals???

    wms posted a topic in General Nursing

    Maybe someone out there can help me? I'm a second yr. LPN std. and just recently both of our clinical instructors quit on us, one to finish her master's and the other to accept a DON position, (Can't...

  14. Virtual Clinicals???

    wms replied to wms's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for answering me, I completely agree that it will be nothing like having an actual clinical experience- Totally bummed! At least we got one sem. of med/surg in before this happened. Hopefully...