ColoradoRocky

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  1. How to deal with the old/experienced nurses?!

    ColoradoRocky replied to Anna-s's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Can they mock any harder than a bunch of fire breathing 19 year olds straight out of infantry and airborne school do to a 40 year old trying to keep pace with them? I doubt it - that sort of thing...

  2. How to deal with the old/experienced nurses?!

    ColoradoRocky replied to Anna-s's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    EXACTLY! This is serious business - peoples lives are at stake and so is their quality of life (and family life). I've had to lead when lives are on the line (my own and my troops and innocent...

  3. How to deal with the old/experienced nurses?!

    ColoradoRocky replied to Anna-s's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was pointing out that there is probably little they can teach me about leadership, but a ton about Nursing. It looks like Nursing Ed is wedded to checklists, and from what I can see, the *real*...

  4. How to deal with the old/experienced nurses?!

    ColoradoRocky replied to Anna-s's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Curious how the more seasoned RNs accept someone near their age that just finished ADN and is working way through a BSN. Male, "well over 39", married for over 2 decades, father of adult children we...

  5. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    Im setting up a google site tomorrow, since it looks to have tabs and different discussion threads, unlike facebook, which seems better suited to quick time based

  6. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    I have created a facebook account and used that to make a facebook group for us - let me know and I'll send an invite. its called "Collin College RN Dec 2014" (rather uncreative, I admit). Once you...

  7. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    Are iPhone users good with Google groups? Android is fine with those, and they can also be easily used over the Web on a regular computer, as well as optionally get everything by

  8. When someone mocks you for being a nurse

    ColoradoRocky replied to fraydar's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Stepping stone to

  9. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    Is there a place similar to this where all of our classmates can post? If not I can set something up, but if there are already resources, like a google group for RN students at Collin, it would...

  10. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    THANK YOU!!! Mine said "Nursing Field Of Study", which is what admissions had set it to, prior to this semester. Now I know what I need to

  11. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    I'm in the same boat apparently. When will they be back in office? I don't want my enrollment delayed any more than absolute minimum unnecessary because I am depending on the VA for the last of my...

  12. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    That's strange. There was my name in the first "column", the CRNs in the second, the class in the third, and the day/time in the last column. What column were your codes

  13. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    I do not see any permit codes! There is a letter saying "Attached you will find a copy of your permit codes to use for registration as well as your spring syllabi and calendars". Problem is there is...

  14. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    My wife set the mail in a different place so I did not find it until this evening. I will register in the morning. It looks like I have Thursday

  15. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    If I get Wednesday I'd swap with you - did not get my codes yet. We can probably ask

  16. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    Yes the list of books is all of them on the handout. Including the Henke book which we should be able to borrow at the library. So, yeah, we only need the Taylor books and the Med/Surgery book to...

  17. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    We have to buy the white scrubs through the website they specified. As for shoes, most nursing stores have proper one. They are hard to come by for men, but tons of them for women. Also, you can...

  18. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    Congratulations! The orientation went over what to expect, how to get your scrubs for clinical, which books to get, the forms for the physical and dental exams, and a few other things. Those were the...

  19. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    Oh, so thats when. I was beginning to wonder. Just the nursing classes alone are RNSG 1219 (Integrated Nursing Skills + and Lab, 2 cr hours), 1523 (Introduction to Professional Nursing, 5 cr hours),...

  20. Just got accepted into an ADN program for the spring!

    ColoradoRocky replied to joshthenurseguy's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Thanks - that very model is what was recommended to me - they said less than that and I will not hear as well, spend more than that and Im wasting money (until I know how to use it well, or if I have...

  21. Just got accepted into an ADN program for the spring!

    ColoradoRocky replied to joshthenurseguy's topic in Male Nursing Students

    There are, I think, 6 guys in my class, and about 50 females. We got our first assignment to read the first 8 chapters in our main Nursing book before our first day of class. Gotta order scrubs, get...

  22. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    The equivalent for gal's granny panties for guys is white boxer shorts. THe orientation today was fun - finally got to meet the people I am going to spend a lot of time with for the next 2 years. And...

  23. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    Thanks for the info on the Dansko - its one of the few all-white shoes that are made for nursing duty, and have sizes and shapes actually fit men. Most of the all-whites for guys are athletic shoes...

  24. Collin College Spring 2013 applicants

    ColoradoRocky replied to pepper35's topic in Texas Nursing

    And if you think you have problems finding white shoes, try finding men's shoes that are all white - and size 11. I've seen the Dansko and Sanita professional in white, and people swear by them, but...

  25. When someone mocks you for being a nurse

    ColoradoRocky replied to fraydar's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I'm a veteran (Cavalry Scout), so I have a built-in come-back: We broke things and killed people in the Army, I'm fixing things and saving lives now, got a problem with