Calzonan RN

The reason I'm asking is I'm studying for the midterm right now and my instructor gave us a 'focus guide' to study from. There just doesn't seem to be a lot of info we 'need' to know for the midterm compared to what the lesson plan usually has. I t...

I'm not sure when she applied, she actually used to work with me and then moved to Florida. I found out from one of the midwives I work with that she was going in June and then I contacted her via facebook. I'll ask her details, I'm curious about w...

I have actually just sent my application for June. I'm hoping to hear back fairly quickly since the deadline for applications was tomorrow. A friend of mine was placed in the June class in December so I'm really excited to see her at Frontier bound...

I work in a hospital with a lot of midwives and most of them have been educated through Frontier. It's a great program, I plan on applying for it very soon. Good luck, maybe I'll see you at orientation

I've seen this argument over the years that I've been posting on this board. I personally think Apollo is a waste of money. You caN get an ADN from a CC for around $6000 and if you work it the right way, you won't have the huge wait that most peopl...

Where I work we do about 250-350 deliveries a month right now. We circulate for all of our c/s's, scheduled and unscheduled. We have a dedicated scrub tech who sometimes acts as a HUC as well. We always bring in a Neo for the delivery and someone ...

My college offered the choice of the GRE or the MAT. I chose the MAT because it was only an hour long. I just didn't have the time to study up on my math or take a class to prep for the GRE or to spend the day testing. I ended up getting a high en...

Wow, I'm sorry to hear about your experience. I have been in L&D for 2.5 years now, 1.5 years as a new grad nurse and before that a year as an extern. I unfortunately, had a similar situation happen to me, that you've described. I took a job a...

A friend of mine works in peds at Banner Desert and told me that they just laid off at least 6 nurses from their NICU. Things are getting tight here in the valley. Most hospitals are not hiring new grads. If you have experience, make sure you have...

You'll need a good stethoscope, a lot of people say you can go cheap in NS, but you'll miss a lot if you do. I bought a really good Littman on Allheart.com (or it might be allhearts.com) one of those, and I"m still using it. I can pick up unusual l...

I hate to say it but the 'stimulus package' that the new president is trying to pass will only make things worse. We can't count on it to make things better. A good analogy of it is if you owe $10,000 on credit cards and you borrow $10,000 to pay o...

It's not all bad everywhere. Where I work I"m still picking up at least one extra shift a week, and they're still paying double time for it. We've been unusually busy lately, and this is usually OUR slow season. Summer L&D is really busy, but...

I was in exactly the same situation 7 months ago. When I had originally started my orientation I thought my preceptor was great, friendly, a really nice person. By the end of it I would cry every morning on my way home. I could do nothing right, I...

Really, you should've started looking in Aug/Sept if you were due to graduate in December. Most of the new grad (Dec) slots are filled up by the beginning of November at the latest. I graduated last December and some of my classmates chose to wait ...

And the next time I work I may be an RN. I'll find out Friday if I passed and I work Sunday. I haven't told anyone at work when I"m taking it, just in case I don't pass. I still don't feel like I've studied enough, but I've done fairly well on the...

LOLOL, couldn't have said it better myself. I'm still trying to figure out which way I want to go as far as an advanced degree. As an RN I've come to realize that a BSN really doesn't make a difference, an RN is an RN is an RN... and if I want to ad...

I'm one of the people that chose to go the ADN route as well. I thought about going to ASU or Grand Canyon but under the advice of three different RN managers chose to go through an ADN program. I also figured if I really needed a BSN I'd let my ne...

I work at an Abrazo facility too and love it there. They're really trying to improve things for the staff and are even giving me the option of going to a 3 shift a week pool position with only a year of experience. We're also still able to pick up ...

I've been in L&D for almost two years now, but only 9 months as an RN. I had a pt come in the other night who was 5 cm, she was a G3P2 and was able to ambulate from triage to her L&D room. When I got her to her room and she'd have a ctx she...

Hopefully they will keep knocking those classes out before they start school. My point is instead of having 3000(example) people on the wait list who have just completed a couple of classes and then sign up for NS, why not keep it like it was? That...

Sorry, this double posted. I'm deleting the second one

I just wanted to offer a little bit of advice. When I applied for NS I put down 5 choices on my application. No, I didn't really want to go to several of those schools, but I figured the more choices I put down the better chance I'd have to get in....

Unfortunately at the time I saw that mom I was working at a Catholic hospital and we weren't even allowed to mention the BC word! My preceptor told me about a pt of hers, G6P5 18 yo, who begged to get her tubes tied. She said 'you know I"ll just be...

I have very short fingers, so SVE's have been something I've worried about myself. I had a preceptor that showed me how to do a SVE and she sits on the bed to do it. I can't do it that way, my hand gets all twisted and I think it shortens my alread...

If your wife is working the 7p-7a shift then a commute from Gilbert/Chandler/Mesa would be very doable. The bad traffic goes the opposite direction during those times. I live in Gilbert and commute to Phoenix Baptist (~34 miles) and it takes me abo...