NICU Guy BSN, RN

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    Nurses Eating Nursing Students

    NICU Guy replied to Cisabel's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    She told you that she needs to focus on her senior student. Any time spent with you detracts from the student that is about to graduate. How is this NETY? Why did you not go to your instructor and...
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    Nerves..

    NICU Guy replied to Val0912's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    There are many nursing students that do not really know what the role of a nurse truly is until they start clinicals. They go into nursing as a "calling" and have the vague idea of wanting to "help"...
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    Nursing Jobs - Excess or Shortage?

    NICU Guy replied to potatoz's topic in Nursing Career

    Many of those reports about nursing shortages were based on the assumption that the baby boomer nurses would reach retirement age by 20XX. The problem is the recession hit in 2008-2009 and their...
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    How start applying to nursing school?

    NICU Guy replied to scott.tyshawna's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The community college will accept you into the college for you to complete your pre-reqs it does not mean that you are accepted into the nursing program. After completing your pre-reqs, you need to...
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    Board of Nursing Audit

    NICU Guy replied to eanam's topic in California Nursing

    They are asking for proof that you had the appropriate number of hours for your last renewal. You told them that you have completed your 30 hours for the last renewal, now they want you to prove it....
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    Level IV NICU with only well-baby experience?

    NICU Guy replied to slippersocks's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Go ahead and apply. You have nothing to lose by applying. I work at a large Level IV and maybe my unit is unique, but we hire almost exclusively new grads that were summer externs or PCAs in the...
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    Is nursing a good fit for me?

    NICU Guy replied to undecidednewbie's topic in Nursing Career

    If shadowing an SLP was too much for your back, then I doubt any non-bedside nursing job would work for
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    Med-Surg to NICU?

    NICU Guy replied to ellamia's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I suggest applying to PICU jobs. They handle patients from newborn to 17 yr olds. So you will get exposure to the sick babies while still having adult patients (some teenagers are bigger than...
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    Military Girlfriend trying to find a nursing school/ moving

    NICU Guy replied to alaskanstudent's topic in General Students

    Option 4: Move back with your family, get your degree, and then move to wherever your boyfriend is stationed. Yes, that means being apart for the next two
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    8 vs 12 hour shift?

    NICU Guy replied to RN-Doula's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    12 hr shifts are more economical for hospitals. Two nurses each working a 12 hr shift cover the same patients that three 8 hrs nurses cover. How many more nurses would the hospital have to hire to...
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    Second degree nursing low GPA

    NICU Guy replied to ChiDashYan's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The lowest First degree GPA that I have seen was 2.5. Almost all will have a minimum application of 2.75-3.0. That is the minimum GPA to apply. The people that they accept have a GPA from their...
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    Tatts and HIPAA

    NICU Guy replied to ShockMe's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    When OP was referring to PT, she means patient. The question is if she described a patient's tattoo (gang member) to her police officer husband. Is that a HIPAA violation if the tattoo is unique...
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    indiana state university 2nd degree bsn

    NICU Guy replied to johnsonmar27's topic in Indiana State University

    I graduated from the program in 2015, if you have any
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    Question from a friend about completing program

    NICU Guy replied to WeatherB's topic in General Nursing

    The issue is that the BONs give schools requirements that must be included into their programs. It is up the schools to create a nursing program to include all of those requirements. For example,...
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    Tatts and HIPAA

    NICU Guy replied to ShockMe's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    If the gangs were smart, they would use hearts, roses, birds as their gang symbol. That way they could deny to the cops that they are in a gang. "No officer I'm not in a gang, the heart is for my...
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    To tell or not to tell?

    NICU Guy replied to nursingRN123's topic in General Students

    The instructor is using a test bank of questions that were created by the publisher for the purpose of creating exams. They are sold exclusively to schools. Students are not authorized to purchase...
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    NICU New Grad

    NICU Guy replied to NICU_Newbie's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Welcome to NICU. My advice is to be a sponge. Soak up every bit of knowledge and advice that your preceptors and co-workers have. Your co-workers realize that you know very little and that is why...
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    What makes one a "great nurse"?

    NICU Guy replied to LadyAn's topic in General Nursing

    A great nurse is the "go to" person on the unit. If you have a question or need help with something, they are the person that other nurses direct you towards: "Go ask XXX they are really good at...
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    RN salary in Kentucky

    NICU Guy replied to anchorRN's topic in General Nursing

    try
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    To tell or not to tell?

    NICU Guy replied to nursingRN123's topic in General Students

    The questions on Quizlet came from a publisher's test bank for your textbook. Either a student from another school that uses the same textbook bought the test bank online and made a quizlet for those...
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    NCLEX testing in 1 state, license in another

    NICU Guy replied to Cpyang's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    The problem is that your school needs to send proof of graduation to the BON that you have sent your application to. You chose to apply for a Minnesota license. Telling Pearson to send results to...
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    prescription drug addiction

    NICU Guy replied to shedevilprincss's topic in General Nursing

    Back to the original subject, most of the moms of NAS babies are true drug abusers. They have little to no prenatal care and urine screen comes back with a combination of multiple drugs, not just...
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    RN - How am I able to obtain CEUs?

    NICU Guy replied to UICSANDRA's topic in General Nursing

    You can't obtain CEUs from this site. Try Googling "free nursing CEUs". There are many websites that offer free CEUs, unfortunately this is not one of
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    ABSN Competency

    NICU Guy replied to cdavissmall's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    As a graduate of an ABSN program, I would have to disagree with that statement. I feel that my ABSN cohort was better prepared than the traditional group. Our scores were higher on the proctored ATI...
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    Need help making college decision!!! Please help!!!

    NICU Guy replied to roddyt's topic in General Students

    First, both of the application GPAs (BSN 3.0, ASN 2.0-2.5) are the minimunce GPA required to apply. The actual acceptance GPAs are going to be much higher (3.25-3.75). Second, unless it is an...