meanmaryjean DNP, RN

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    Teaching distance learning

    No clue. But I work from home and have a 15 step commute (up the stairs to my office). Benefits are
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    Teaching distance learning

    I am a full-time online faculty member. I do not have brick-and-mortar experience. I work for WGU so my experience is quite different as we have a disaggregated faculty model. I am a Course Mentor and...
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    Education ideas needed please :)

    Congenital Heart Defects (aka the thousand and one ways you can be born with a jacked up heart) Pulmonary
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    BLS/CPR

    I taught a class of professional football players BLS once. If they be taught, anyone can be taught! PS: You're not 'certified' in anything, you hold a valid BLS card. you passed a class. 'Certified'...
  5. The first six months is a pre-clinical term. The courses certainly 'count' but they are key to whether you progress to the clinical terms. If you don't pass everything in that term, you do not get...
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    Racist surgeon?

    Sadly, in a free society, individuals are free to be idiots. Move along - you'll not change
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    Salivary amylase... Is it bad?

    The real question is: What could you possibly DO about it? And
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    Looking for a change in scenery

    Indianapolis
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    I don't want to give up!

    What about making some rather severe -albeit temporary -lifestyle changes that would enable you to cut back to part-time? Ditch the cable, rent a cheaper, smaller apartment, give up a car in favor of...
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    RN license to be inactive

    Are you making the assumption that this is OPs only
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    RN license to be inactive

    If you're not going back AND you have an active license in another state- it would be silly to spend $$ keeping it active. IF you ever DO go back- just reapply by endorsement using your current active...
  12. Circling back to this thread, I eventually was accepted into two DNP programs (Touro Nevada and ChathamUniveristy Pittsburg) AND a post-MSN CNS program (University of Southern Indiana). In February of...
  13. One can have four kids in NICU for non-prematurity reasons. Mine were: 1) Prolapsed cord 2) Pulmonary hypertension 3) Macrosomia/ hypoglycemia (10.5#- and no, I did not/ do not have diabetes,...
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    ITT/ Breckinridge No Longer Accepting New Students

    Sadly, I have a friend who has pretty much flushed her career as an academic by associating herself with ITT. But I agree- happy to see these bloodsuckers go
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    Itt tech-Breckinridge possible shutdown

    ITT Tech no longer accepting new students following government ruling - 13 WTHR Indianapolis "Financial analysts, like CNBC's Herb Greenberg, say the recent developments are clear signs the company is...
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    Florida hospital pre employment physical help

    It is perfectly fine to be anxious sometimes. Getting a prescription anxiolytic for something that lasts under a minute? Experience the anxiety - you'll be a better nurse for it. Are you planing to...
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    Hospitals in Indianapolis, Please Help??

    That's something for you to find out. Call some HR
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    Nursing Research

    If you're in a hospital where research is conducted the department is usually called something like Research and Regulatory
  19. My talk is on election day- whatever day that
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    Advice for a new peds nurse? :)

    The hardest part of the job is the parents. The worst part of the job is the parents. The kids are hilarious. Unlike adults, they take ZERO enjoyment out of the the 'sick role'. All they want to do...
  21. My MSN and DNP research is about this very topic. (I've long lobbied for a separate discussion board about night shift issues- but alas...) Anyway, there is a genetic difference in strongly morning...
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    No extra insulin at school

    How about a Plan B? Have mom agree to be available by phone to come get the child OR bring insulin and syringes should the pump malfunction? Explain your concerns to mom- but ultimately i see this as...
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    **HELP!! ICU RN Working PRN in LTC??

    I suspect OP just meant that her 'real job' would be the one for which she just completed grad school- not dissing LTC. I saw nothing disrespectful of this work environment in her post. Rather, she...
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    No extra insulin at school

    How would you know if the pump was malfunctioning beside a rise in blood glucose? Does mom allow you to check blood