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I'm wondering if anyone has information on how you go about being compensated for providing nursing care for a family member. Although I'm not a home health care nurse, I do provide nursing care for my mother on a regular basis. The reason for the ...

I know a few folks that graduated from STLCC and the wait time was not reality for them. It seems many people apply and get on the list but things happen such as poor grades in pre-reqs or even acceptance in other programs. Basically, a lot can hap...

i know we live in a very litigious society and agree with the moderator about using people's names, especially in a defamatory way, but is there risk involved in giving one's opinion of a particular school or program, be it positive or negative?

The article is straight on. I just graduated from a program with only 3 males and 30 females. I was treated as an equal by my classmates from day one which I'll attribute to the instructors. They set the tone for the environment and one student us...

I just finished a program in Ohio and moved to Missouri so I'm stuck in the paperwork transition waiting for boards etc... I had similar thoughts during clinicals. My last 9 weeks, my group (6 students) were essentially turned loose on a med/surg - ...

This instructor was giving a cardiology lecture and was hosing it so bad that I finally had to say something. She clearly had no clue as to the difference between cadioversion and defibrilation and was confusing heart blocks with CAD, even saying th...

Perhaps the change could start with those of us in the profession. Calling men in nursing "male nurses" is not much different than what the patient did. As far as filing the report of discrimination, would more people have agreed with the action if...

This is 2006, not 1906 right? My mail is delivered by a female. I think she does as well as a male but I'm not sure. I noticed a female on a pumper the other day. I think she knows how to put out fires but I'm not sure. Just to be safe, if my hous...

Believe it or not cuteCNA, it's possible for us males to control ourselves, even around someone as lovely as you must be. If your choice is a female caregiver, that's fine, but don't try to qualify your decision with such a stereotypical view on mal...

A few months ago I was elevating a patients bed to change her linnen. I didn't notice the IV pole on the headboard and it went through her overhead light, causing the flourescent tubes to explode. Most of the glass was contained in the fixture but ...

We have all see good doctors and bad ones as well as good nurses and bad ones. I think what you do on your own time IS your business. Nursing school is a huge time committment, and unless you're being forced to go, it's on your time. It's possible ...

I just entered the field as a Nurse Assistant in January. I came from a management and administrative background and left it bacause I hated what I was doing. Of the 20 or so NAs on my floor, only 2 of us our males. There are only 2 male RNs as wel...

You may want to check your local hospitals for tuition assistance with nursing school. Many are short on RNs and will pay quite a bit and some even pay for all of your schooling. I'm finishing pre-nursing next spring and should start nursing school...

You may want to check around before doing things outside your scope of practice. Even if you were a nursing student, you can only do those things under the supervision of a preceptor and only in the capacity of being a student, meaning you can't get...

Our NAs dc IVs, insert and dc catheters and in one of our sister facilities they draw blood and are called patient care Techs. I think it really varies across the board as to what they can do and I'm not sure there's any logic for calling one a NA a...

Very well said.

As I indicated, things are done different state to state and so on. Our Facility is part of a consortium of hospitals with 18,000 employees. Even though we all fall under corporate guidelines, each hospital still differs from the rest. One example...

I believe the role of the NA is different from facility to facility and even state to state. The NAs in our hospital do much of the patient education on admit, during their stay and at discharge. They are trained to do so in a 200 hour in-house cou...

Sorry, I wasn't implying anything, only using an example. Again, I would use the credit / study hour formula. It seems to work for me. I

Assuming you work to support your kids, the math doesn't add up. Your credit load probably won't be any less than 12 hours. The formula I was given was to plan on 3-4 hours of study per week, per credit hour being taken. You also have to look at yo...

That's the same way I found out I was accepted. Try emailing from their web site. Although it has a great reputation, I'm switching to Jefferson College. I've heard nothing but good things from the students. The cost for in district is $66.00 per...

I agree that there are great nights ahead, but in this world of competative healthcare, a big part of our job is to PLEASE THE CUSTOMER. How many times have you seen cards from patients on the bulletin board saying how wonderfull and caring the satf...

I agree completely. The amount of time spent explaining why you couldn't do it could have been spent doing it. That is our hospital's policy. Unfortunately, NA's and nurses still point fingers at each other instead of just doing the job, which is ...

Anyone that jumps out of a plane freefalling at 90MPH + for no reason other than the thrill of it or run down the street IN FRONT OF charging bulls has no right to say anything about anyone else's choices in life. The funny thing is, skydivers have ...

I did 2 semesters with them. The third semester entailed clinical time. They were unable to provide adequate clinical opertunities which caused me to withdraw. The dean said I was not cut out for on-line learning, yet I made the dean's list. I d...