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  1. Nurses who don't treat CNAs fair :(

    ellaballet replied to aka640's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    There are going to be people who do the bare minimum where ever you work, regardless of their title. When I worked in LTC other CNAs would hide in patients bathrooms so they wouldn't have to help get...

  2. Common nicknames for hospital items.

    ellaballet replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hats and johnnies, bariatric beds are called big boy beds. The smaller beds that you can bring all the way to the ground are low boy beds. Computers are WOWs, our blood pressure machines are called...

  3. LPN programs in MA

    ellaballet replied to melnaughton's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    A coworker applied to Tri county in the spring started school four months later! I think thats close to

  4. Things that gross you out..

    ellaballet replied to vintage_RN's topic in General Students

    My first job was at a nursing home, I had a woman who would spit loogies all over the place..mainly onto the floor or into napkins and scream "Here! Be a good little girl and take this from me!" until...

  5. Any spring 2014 applicants?

    ellaballet replied to Mandy0728's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The school I'm going to didn't actually have an application fee, but all of the other programs I applied to did. Even Umass had a 60 dollar application fee. I had to put a 500 dollar deposit down on...

  6. Taking 20 credits next semester.

    ellaballet replied to bucolicdulcet's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I was a premed major in college and took 18 most semesters - I can not imagine taking any more than that!! Every major at my school only took 15 except for us science kids, I wouldn't recommend...

  7. cna pay

    ellaballet replied to tiff.a's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I make 12.50 an hour. Been a CNA for a year and a half - 7 months at a LTC and now 8 months in LTACH. I get a 6 dollar an hour pay bump once I start nursing school in January

  8. Any spring 2014 applicants?

    ellaballet replied to Mandy0728's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    After all I payed for application fees, getting my transcripts sent, my deposit...apparently I have to pay 100 dollars to submit proof of all of my vaccines online?!? Any other schools do

  9. Your Spring Schedule

    ellaballet replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

    My first semester of nursing school! Eeek! Nursing History, Knowledge, and Narrative - 3 credits Essential Concepts of Nursing - 3 credits Nursing Skills and Technologies (class and lab) - 4 credits...

  10. Any spring 2014 applicants?

    ellaballet replied to Mandy0728's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    congrats

  11. I will already have a BS in different field...

    ellaballet replied to jahall05's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm starting my BSN in January and it takes 16 months. At least the direct entry programs I was considering applying to you would still need to do the 16 months of nursing school. When thats finished...

  12. Brand new CNA job, Discouraged, Depressed and Wanting to know, is this really normal?

    ellaballet replied to futuresctRN's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    My first CNA job was at a "best of the best" nursing home too and I felt the same way. It disgusts me how short staffed we were and in result how poorly cared for these patients are. Just remember...

  13. I will already have a BS in different field...

    ellaballet replied to jahall05's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I was pretty much the same major/minor and looked into direct entry programs. Many of the nurse practitioners all said go for the BSN first, get some experience as a nurse, and then go back for the...

  14. I will already have a BS in different field...

    ellaballet replied to jahall05's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The associate degree programs I looked into actually would take longer than the accelerated BSN programs! If you haven't taken any of the prereqs for the ABSN programs that might not be the case, I...

  15. Doing favors or giving gifts for patients: Unacceptable?

    ellaballet replied to tariqblaze's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A patient I had taken care of every day for almost eight months was being terminal weaned a week before her birthday. Her family and the rest of the staff lied and wrote that it was her birthday on...

  16. One C in science prerequisite

    ellaballet replied to karentran's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Thank You! Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health

  17. Difference between BSN and ADN

    ellaballet replied to SaraStevenson's topic in General Students

    I live in Boston and most of the hospitals only hire BSN. I'm a tech at a LTACH outside of the city that has continued to hire ADNs - but now only if they're enrolled or planning on enrolling in a BSN...

  18. One C in science prerequisite

    ellaballet replied to karentran's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I just got accepted to a BSN program with a 2.9 GPA. C+ in Micro, B-s in A+P. Don't sweat it too

  19. Class of 2016

    ellaballet replied to duke1158's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Just found out today I'll be graduating in 2016 from Mass College of

  20. CNAs in LTAC?

    ellaballet replied to mvm2's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    I'm a CNA in a LTACH that specializes in pulmonary rehabilitation. I knew nothing about vents until orientation, they literally taught us how to AMBU and put a patient back on the vent if the tubes...

  21. If you could have one nursing superpower, what would it be?

    ellaballet replied to Blue Roses's topic in General Nursing

    I would want to be able to be in two places at

  22. Would you commute an hour to a job you wanted?

    ellaballet replied to nursebythesea's topic in General Nursing

    Yes! Just because an hour commute would mean a job in a big Boston hospital vs the small town one I'm at

  23. Career CNA's

    ellaballet replied to futureLVN40's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    While I'm planning on going to nursing school soon, I've worked as a CNA for a year and a half and absolutely love it! I work 7-3. When I first get to the floor in the morning, I get a full set of...

  24. Any spring 2014 applicants?

    ellaballet replied to Mandy0728's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Congrats everyone! I had a missed call and voicemail from an admissions office yesterday..My heart skipped a beat. Turns out they were only calling to tell me that my application fee had been waved....

  25. Nursing or Medical School

    ellaballet replied to brittarose's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    As a premed major I had to take a year of inorganic chemistry, a year of organic chem, a semester of biochem, and then a year of analytical chemistry. The nursing schools I'm applying to require no...