AspiringNurseMW

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  1. How well should a new second semester nursing student know medications?

    AspiringNurseMW replied to ns808's topic in General Students

    My instructors make up make our own med cards. So since first semester I have been compiling them. You start to use some meds more than others and I've very slowly started to know some. We research...

  2. How to make a developmental binder showcasing infant through adolescent

    AspiringNurseMW replied to jbernard003's topic in General Nursing

    Following this train of thought you could follow the pattern of those baby books that parents fill out, every month/year has a page for specific things, and it just repeats for every

  3. Disturbing things that I heard Dr.s say in the Labor room

    AspiringNurseMW replied to mamagui's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I find that sex is irrelevant. I've heard just as awful stories/treatment from female OBs just as much as

  4. Nursing school acceptance?

    AspiringNurseMW replied to amhubert's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Pretty much all nursing schools have a low acceptance rate, except for some for profits who will take anyone to make a buck. Told by who? Rumors or people who have ACTUALLY been accepted? What are...

  5. Which nursing school is better?

    AspiringNurseMW replied to sfrw's topic in General Students

    That sounds flipping fabulous and

  6. Disturbing things that I heard Dr.s say in the Labor room

    AspiringNurseMW replied to mamagui's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    These quotes to me epitomizes why more and more women are seeking out of hospital care and homebirths are

  7. Books and Supplies

    AspiringNurseMW replied to CARMENVS08's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I spent about $1800 on everything. But I was broke so I had to buy everything through the bookstore. I think if I had been able to buy everything on my own it probably would've been about $1000-1300....

  8. Disturbing things that I heard Dr.s say in the Labor room

    AspiringNurseMW replied to mamagui's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    *That VBAC's at my hometown hospital were for a certain group of religious women because they had so many children...but not for me. *"Induction doesn't lead to more cesareans. It simply brings about...

  9. Disturbing things that I heard Dr.s say in the Labor room

    AspiringNurseMW replied to mamagui's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    *" I can just call cps on you and have them take your kids and still do the c-section but I won't because I like your family." *The first OB I ever visited was doing a lady partsl exam and had his...

  10. Disturbing things that I heard Dr.s say in the Labor room

    AspiringNurseMW replied to mamagui's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Oh goodness. I started a thread like this in a VBAC support group I'm in. Here are some After a lady partsl exam "Of course I could be lying and you'd never know, what are you going to do? Go home...

  11. Is LinkedIn Necessary?

    AspiringNurseMW replied to bete-noire's topic in General Nursing

    I think it depends on your area. If new grads are competing heavily for jobs and people are searching for jobs for 3,6,12 months then yes. LinkedIn is about networking and networking is a big piece of...

  12. 2/20: what I learned this week: people do not understand TB

    AspiringNurseMW replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    1. That the hospitals by me ate truly desperate for nurses. They literally hold job fairs and start hiring new grads in January-March, BEFORE graduation 2.that l&d is where I want to be! I...

  13. Help! Specialize... or Med Surg???

    AspiringNurseMW replied to camillea's topic in Nursing Career

    I'm still a nursing student but I'm not sure it matters. Our nursing instructors all have varying specialty experience . Some LTC, some had alot of managing, some l&d, one has only ER,

  14. Help! Specialize... or Med Surg???

    AspiringNurseMW replied to camillea's topic in Nursing Career

    I don't plan on applying for anything else other than L&D. I know it's what I want to do. That being said. I KNOW they hire directly into specialties where I live. They literally start hiring new...

  15. Independent CNM practice?

    AspiringNurseMW replied to GenSurgRNFA's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Huh. My midwife came to my homebirth alone. They were a partnership but they went on call individually which eachother as backup . Never discussed a birth assistant during prenatals. But I know *now*...

  16. Independent CNM practice?

    AspiringNurseMW replied to GenSurgRNFA's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    That's probably why many/most of the solo homebirth midwives I know have birth

  17. So grateful, and excited

    AspiringNurseMW replied to BRing914's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Idk if it will help you get into nursing school, but I can see being a doula helping get a job in L&D. I had a clinical shift yesterday, where my nurse was impressed with how I was helping my...

  18. other non traditional students / moms

    AspiringNurseMW replied to KThurmond's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    All day every day for

  19. New grad can't find work

    AspiringNurseMW replied to JeanaO522's topic in General Nursing

    Always! I used to like browsing jobs every few weeks/months just to see what's available. But it's like EVERYTHING is ALWAYS available, regardless of

  20. other non traditional students / moms

    AspiringNurseMW replied to KThurmond's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It's ummmm, interesting. I've been at NICU, postpartum, and watched a section. I have yet to labor with a patient or watch a lady partsl birth. Drives me batty because I am a trained doula and haven't...

  21. Did you receive a politically biased education?

    AspiringNurseMW replied to Guest910128's topic in General Students

    Huh. We rarely discuss politics in my program. We talk about how/why race and class can affect health outcomes but that's about it. Maybe it's because it's an associates program. Our discussions are...

  22. other non traditional students / moms

    AspiringNurseMW replied to KThurmond's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    *wavey* 29 with 2 kids, work from home part time, school full time, hubby works night. Got a B+ last semester and it's my goal again for this semester! In OB and it's going by so fast! The sole...

  23. The waiting is the hardest part!

    AspiringNurseMW replied to cheriya1217's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Ooooooo the waiting SUCKED. Majorly. I don't care how busy I was. And what made it worse was that classmates were getting acceptance letters a whole month before I got mine (with no official waiting...

  24. New grad can't find work

    AspiringNurseMW replied to JeanaO522's topic in General Nursing

    Move. I live in Northeast PA and there are sort of desperate for nurses. In fact a recruiter was at our school today. They've already started to hire GN who graduate in

  25. No prerequisite lvn to RN

    AspiringNurseMW replied to chukiestar's topic in LPN to RN

    I mean *technically* my school (in PA) only has 1 prerequisite, the rest are CO requisites and can technically be completed during the program. But then that would mean taking around 15-20 credits a...