Ginyer

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. :) Ginyer

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 islands and I have a feeling it would be about the s...

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 priority to look further into... I had lower lev...

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 show up on the state board website earlier than the...

Today our lecture was on ethics and values in nursing care. We were discussing abortions and our teacher was explaining to us that we can refuse to care for a patient if say they are in the hospital because of a serious medical problem due to an abo...

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 had to skip one week of clinical. The director of ...

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 houses to buy...most apartments and rental houses a...

There are multiple students in my class who have had serious problems with that particular loan thru Bank One. Im in the same boat you are with our tuition cost at 3500 a semester before fees and books and supplies. The best loan that I have found...

I start my clinicals in peds next week and was looking for any advice that may be helpful with these little patients. We're learning the basics of communicating with them and their families and the differences in skills and procedures compared to t...

Hi guys, thanks for all the advice. Our instructors gave us a lot of those same tips so they must help. I'm really looking forward to these clinicals. I'm a little terrified, but hopefully everything will go smoothly. I have psych clinicals the s...

We wear scrubs during clinicals only thank goodness. We do have a dress code in class but just the basics, no short shorts or short skirts...nothing that shows your stomach

On the General nursing board there is a post about shoes and a lot of people talked about their z-coils. More nurses had negative comments than positive because of tripping, sprained ankles and getting them hooked on wires and tubes and other things...

I was just offered a job as a nurse tech in PACU yesterday so I'm pretty excited. They told me that since I'm in recovery and the patients are sleeping I'll get to utilize a lot more of my skills in this department. He said I'll start IV's, hang fl...

School started Jan 5 or something, clinicals started middle of March. From now on we'll have a week or two of class each semester before clinicals start. So we had quite some time.

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 different as far as schedules go, class time and clin...

Hey, ok I took my prereq's at LSU and the Lake as well. I never applied at the Lake because I had so many problems with the school that I decided I didn't want to go to nursing school there. I'm currently at the General which was the best decision...

What school(s) are you applying to? Ginyer

This past summer was our second semester of nursing school. The way our program is run, is if you get 4 clinical unsatisfactories (CU's) in a semester you are kicked out. You can earn CU's for medication errors, paperwork that's not done, usually j...

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 I have a test coming up. I'm borderline A/B stud...

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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 doing the same skills as a nurse tech here because the...

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 worry about that later' and it's all true but I thi...

Patti I will talk to an instructor and see if it would be a bad idea to sell my potter and perry fundamentals, if she says it would be no big deal then I'd be willing to sell it to you if you're interested. Let me know. Ginyer

I love today. I had my final this morning for the summer which I'm pretty sure I did well on. Finally a break. I started nursing school in January and we had three days between our spring and summer semester. Now we get three weeks till the fall ...

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 hospital here so I was curious how it was other places....