RNsRWe ASN, RN

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  1. This. How long it takes your school to get in the documentation (and resultant ATT) and how soon you can get an open appointment at the testing center is what determines how long it might
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    A question about vapor cigarettes

    Build a better mousetrap and someone will built a better mouse. Never dreamed that this would be an issue.....learn something new every
  3. A piece of advice? Forget you asked this question, and don't tell anyone else you asked it either. It is about as useless a question as you might ever ask in life. It doesn't matter AT ALL.....and...
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    I didn't accept the keys.....

    Refusing to accept the condition at hand, refusing to accept responsibility for this mess, doesn't constitute patient abandonment (no matter WHAT the admin says!). I used to work for a place that...
  5. I read the question, and wonder why you would NOT answer "yes"? The answer to the question is "Yes" and you then answer question 10a with the information it wants. "Convictions must be reported...
  6. I did not have any healthcare/CNA experience when I entered my core nursing program, and I soon became sorry I did not. I could not disagree more wholeheartedly with the idea that it "only" covered...
  7. Just remind TPTB that every patient has the right to refuse any treatment or device. Including bed alarms on a competent individual; if they insist you infringe on those rights and place a device...
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    I'm tired of hearing this phrase.....

    Aw, you're going to be hearing that for the rest of your career, get used to it :) There are those who don't know that we're at the opposite end of a nursing shortage, that there's a shortage of...
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    Can you help me?

    The only one who can know the answers to these questions correctly, absolutely, is going to be your nursing program advisor at your specific school. Volunteer experience is a big deal at some, not at...
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    Can antidepressants keep you out of NS?

    Yeah, I don't see this as an issue. Where I work, random drug testing is the norm, and if an employee's UDS shows something, all that is needed is a valid prescription....and, of course, it can't be...
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    PLEASE don't use photos as avatars!

    Hmm.....I'm not sure. Why not just upload another picture you like (photo of your neighbor's cat, whatever!) and see if it replaces it? I'm not saying that everyone who ever posts their own photo is...
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    Can antidepressants keep you out of NS?

    I suspect if you took a poll of medical people on antidepressants, you'd find a significant number. I have never heard of someone NOT being allowed into a program because of appropriate use of such a...
  13. Aw, you could educate them until you turn purple; some people just don't listen! They are told to put NOTHING in their mouths when getting an explanation of NPO: no gum, no mints, no sucking candies....
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    Do not use this program !!!

    This has to be the absolute longest run-on sentence (this is one sentence?) that I have ever read. And I still don't know the school in
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    PLEASE don't use photos as avatars!

    time to move this
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    I need to pass nclex rn

    Tell you how to pass the NCLEX-RN? Study----understand the material---be able to think through the scenarios....? How many times have you tried....and what is
  17. How about the ones who tell you they are allergic to Benadryl (it made me really drowsy)?? And my personal fave, when asking a pre-procedure patient for a colonoscopy if she'd finished all her prep,...
  18. Just remembered another one (from my endoscopy days): "I'm here for my colonostopy---colostomy---chroniostomy---craniostomy!!" Guess if you don't know your head from your......never mind
  19. Oh, yes! When I did endoscopy, and I knew a patient had been instructed to follow a clears diet for X period of time, followed by NPO since midnight, it was great fun to hear "Clears kept me too...
  20. EXACTLY what SoldierNurse said. Do not
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    What to wear

    Scrubs are only for working, after you've been hired. Consider every potential interraction with a potential employer or manager as an interview.....and be dressed for
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    What do you wear to work?

    I work in a medical center, NO jeans are ever permitted. However, I wear pretty much whatever I like, as long as it's professional attire: scrubs, business casual, or a combination of both. Lab coat...
  23. Can't put a number on how many times I heard "prostrate cancer". "Episode", as in "I had another one of my episodes". She wasn't a television program, she was a
  24. If you like that one, you should like these: lady parts honey pot va-jay-jay pootang "my good girl" People are ridiculous, aren't they?
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    Difficulty Finding New Graduate LPN Jobs

    I'm sorry I can't speak to your specific region/location, but typically LPNs find work in long term care (nursing homes). Rarely, if ever, in hospitals/acute care. Sometimes private medical...