Ginyer

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1. the caribbean

   Ginyer posted a topic in International Nursing

   My husband and I are moving to St. Maarten in the Caribbean for him to go to med school soon and I was looking into going through a travel company to work there. I read the thread about the virgin...

2. 75 questions & passed...types of ?'s I had

   Ginyer posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   I was freaking out when I took my test... I had mostly questions with the word priority in them ... such as which patient do you see first, with a patient with this diagnosis which symptom would be a...

3. Nclex results?? what does "delivery successful" mean?

   Ginyer replied to tinacolada305's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   Well reading your post totally calmed me.... I was freaking out because my state board web site was still showing the expiration date of my temp license and some students that passed had their names...

4. new orleans nursing students

   Ginyer replied to Ginyer's topic in General Nursing

   Jen the last I heard was that we have no available real estate here; however, my roommate has family who found an apartment a couple of days ago and I also have heard of people who are still finding...

5. new orleans nursing students

   Ginyer posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm sorry if a thread like this has already been done. I live in Baton Rouge (60 miles west of N.O.) and just got power back and internet up. The schools here are starting back tomorrow so we just...

6. How much of a time commitment??

   Ginyer replied to labcat01's topic in General Students

   First let me start by saying that more than half of the people in my class have children, mostly young children. Some classmates have 3 to 5. So it's definately possible. Every school is pretty...

7. How much studying in a day???

   Ginyer replied to Nathalie's topic in General Students

   4-6 hours a day? I'm already in class from 9 am till 4 pm...I work almost 30 hours a week. I do maybe 4 hours of studying every saturday and sunday...during the week an hour or two a day max unless...

8. nurse extern - vs - nurse tech

   Ginyer replied to lifeLONGstudent's topic in General Students

   At our hospital the nurse tech and nurse externship (we call it an internship instead of an externship...not sure of the difference) are the same. The nurse externship student immediately starts...

9. Anyone thinking about med-school?

   Ginyer replied to nurseabc123's topic in General Students

   When I started nursing school I knew I wanted to go to graduate school and people kept saying, 'just worry about getting thru nursing school first' ... 'that's a long ways off and you have time to...

10. your PICU scrubs

    Ginyer replied to Ginyer's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I had heard that some hospitals required the nurses working in intensive care to wear hospital scrubs along with the OR. I'm a nursing student and I just applied for a tech job in the PICU at a...

11. your PICU scrubs

    Ginyer posted a topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Do you have to wear hospital provided scrubs? And if not can you wear whatever or do you have a specific color combo thats required? I realize it's different at every hospital, just curious. :)...

12. post-clinical day depression

    Ginyer replied to elizabells's topic in General Students

    I feel that way every week. I usually eat junk food and mope around the house and sometimes even have a good cry for no reason in particular. I really do think you've just had this adrenaline rush...

13. Question reguarding Neonatal nursing

    Ginyer replied to Liselle's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I'm about to finish my second semester of nursing school (and 2nd semester of clinicals) I think you'll be surprised by how you feel once you start your clinicals...I knew exactly what I wanted to do...

14. need help w/narrative note

    Ginyer replied to Ginyer's topic in General Students

    Thanks, I just ended up stating abdomen distended hypoactive bowel sounds x 4 tender on palpation in blah blah etc. ...I should have gone into more detail about it ... I think she just had bad gas...

15. need help w/narrative note

    Ginyer posted a topic in General Students

    In stating in my narrative notes that my pt has a distended abdomen...is 'abdomen distended' enough? When I informed my instructor she asked me why I felt it was distended and I explained how the...