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  1. 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. :)...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  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. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  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...

  16. why are cna's treated like they are stupid and replaceable?

    Ginyer replied to Purple Princess's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The CNA's at the hospital where I'm doing my clinicals start out at $7.50 an hour until they've been there for at least a year. I've never heard of a hospital starting CNA's out at more than...

  17. Retyping/writing notes

    Ginyer replied to TLC RN's topic in General Students

    The only notes that I rewrite are for Pharmacology when I'm making drug charts. I don't rewrite for Fundamentals, by the time I'm done rewriting my notes I barely have enough time to actually study...

  18. L&D vs. Peds

    Ginyer posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Who do you find to be more prepared upon transferring to a level three NICU...L&D nurses or Peds nurses (not PICU). Just curious. Thanks,

  19. L&D vs. Peds

    Ginyer replied to Ginyer's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Sorry, I didn't mean float... I meant actually changing jobs. At our hospital we have plenty of openings in L&D and Peds but none of the hospitals here accept new grads in the NICU. I was told...

  20. Nurses and smoking......

    Ginyer replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in General Nursing

    Our school just changed into a smoke free campus because our hospital did also. You can't even smoke in the parking lot of the hospital...no more smoke breaks here. I'm not sure how the smokers are...

  21. Working while in school?

    Ginyer replied to Magnus's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    I work 26 to 29 hours per week and will do fine with my schedule, you should be

  22. time and 1/2 for hlidays?

    Ginyer replied to jrmccl's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The nurses at the hospital here get time and a half for holidays...and the vacation time builds on itself...6 hours every two weeks. I'm a nursing student here so no idea about which holidays they...

  23. Beginning RN Salary in Louisiana

    Ginyer replied to LouisianaNurse2006's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    I know at the Baton Rouge General new grad day shift nurses make $19/hr...nights make $21/hr. BSNs make 25 cents more per hour than ADNs. This is the info I got from one of my teachers.

  24. Just want to say hello.

    Ginyer replied to Magnus's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Hi I took my prereq's at LSU and the lake but I didn't end up applying at the lake...hope your semester is going well, its a good school. Good luck!

  25. How much $ do RNs start out at?

    Ginyer replied to Doug85's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a student in Louisiana...at the hospital I'm going to school thru day shift new grads make $19/hr...night nurses make $21/hr, that info is from one of our teachers...