Akewataru

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1. Thinking of dropping Nursing school and doing Pre-Med

   Akewataru replied to Confusedbeyondbelief's topic in General Students

   I think doing nursing before medical school is not a bad idea. Be prepared to answer the question intelligently about why are you switching careers. Yes, you do need a good GPA and MCAT, but if your...

2. The Influence of the Influenza Vaccine:

   Akewataru replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

   Influenza Outbreak in a Vaccinated Population-USS Ardent, February 2014 This one has the almighty, all knowing CDC scratching their

3. The Influence of the Influenza Vaccine:

   Akewataru replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

   First of all, Mercury and other heavy metals that are consumed rather than injected are handled two completely different ways. The latter bypasses several layers of the innate immune system that exist...

4. RANT: Fed up with nursing!

   Akewataru replied to shellebelle212's topic in General Students

   I see you're looking to going in the lab sciences. I'm a Histotechnologist, and while I work on the Anatomic Pathology side (rather than the Clinical Pathology you'd be working on) of the lab, I went...

5. Nurses vs Phlebotomist

   Akewataru replied to Caleb_RN225's topic in Emergency

   Thank you TramaSurfer for pointing out the education of people in the laboratory. I believe there is a lack of education about our qualifications is simply that patients just don't see us. With the...

6. PA-C or NP? What would you do?

   Akewataru replied to Guttercat's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   Not to mention, if you go the PA-C route and you want to further your education and become an DO you can go to Lake Erie College of Medicine and do their PA to DO bridge program in three years. I...

7. Are You A Victim?

   Akewataru replied to queserasera's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   You become what you think about most of the time... Earl Nightingale Whatever the mind of man can conceive, and bring itself to believe it can achieve. -Napolean Hill The OP has the mentality of what...

8. Culturally insensitive patients

   Akewataru replied to tippytootagon's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   To the OP: The demographics of the area you are describing sounds eerily like a certain college town I know and love in

9. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

   Akewataru replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

   Hi, new to nursing here...Could you expand on this more, practicularly the note in interdisciplinary and behavioral health?

10. Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    Akewataru replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    My reason for