mattdixon

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1. Dress Code for nursing students?

   mattdixon replied to NPTeacher's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Summed it up perfectly. Most students that I know in our nursing program aren't loaded, or have free reign of their parent's pocketbooks so they can't wear 60 dollar button up shirts and 50 dollar...

2. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   mattdixon replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

   Well, this isn't humor, more along the lines of horror... My mother was telling me about one patient she had who was very schizo. and delusional, but didn't have a history of violence. One night they...

3. DUI and licensure in Texas?

   mattdixon replied to tamuqt1's topic in General Nursing

   Hrm, I guess Texas or maybe your school does it differently, but I think the lawyers right. The main thing boards are concerned with is not getting substance abusers in hospitals that will be a...

4. DUI and licensure in Texas?

   mattdixon replied to tamuqt1's topic in General Nursing

   More than likely you'll have a shot. Are you even in nursing school at the moment? You'll find out for sure if you are ok or not once you report these incidences upon applying for nursing school......

5. Effectiveness of bleach against MRSA

   mattdixon replied to weetziebat's topic in General Nursing

   from my education on MRSA, I'm pretty positive that bleach is an effective

6. Nurses make their own drugs???

   mattdixon replied to hospitalstaph's topic in General Nursing

   we did this in I think my chemistry 102 class about 3 years ago... the Proff. didn't mention that nursing students would be doing it for years to come though anyway, here's a site that explains the...

7. Nurses and smoking......

   mattdixon replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in General Nursing

   I've been smoking less than a year, and it was mainly due to being very stressed out and depressed at the time. it started with just a few cigarettes a week but escalated to over a pack a day. I've...

8. Nursing Student W/ prior DUI

   mattdixon replied to Alternator81's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   I can try to help the best I can... I'm in my first semester of nursing school right now and when we applied we had to answer the same question. Upon answering the question I then had to provide...