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    Best places in Oregon for new nurses?

    LoveMyBugs replied to vlmusicalsound's topic in Oregon Nursing

    You could try southern Oregon, if you go to the BON website there is mapped out areas where there is considered to be a "nursing shortage". However in the Portland metro and surrounding areas it has...
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    So so so Confused!

    LoveMyBugs replied to hisGirl25's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hi, Oregon resident here, I have looked at Clark's application process. To get into a nursing program you have to complete the nursing pre-reqs and some of those pre-reqs have thier own pre-reqs like...
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    pls provide me an answer to this URGENT question!

    LoveMyBugs replied to simplides's topic in California Nursing

    I am in Oregon, and the Kaiser system here puts some of thier own employees threw school, there is a seperate cohort that has Providence, Kasier and State hospital employees, about 18 students in the...
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    What the heck is going on in Portland right now?

    LoveMyBugs replied to sonnyluv's topic in Oregon Nursing

    Congratulations on getting your job, good to hear that someone is hirring somewhere. You sound like you have had an amazing first year in truama, I work in a ED, not truama and I would love to have a...
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    New Student - What do I need?

    LoveMyBugs replied to newstudenttx's topic in Texas Nursing

    flash cards, there are ones that come on a ring. Whenever you find yourself looking up a drug, make a drug card for it! At in my program we had to have hand written drug cards for any drug that we...
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    Parents at Orientation

    LoveMyBugs replied to lak20019's topic in General Students

    at my CC we kind of had 2 orientations, the 1st was shortly after being notified that we were accepted into the program and the orientation notification said to bring SO, parents, and people who were...
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    Do nursing student feel like they may fail EVERYDAY ?

    LoveMyBugs replied to LeesG's topic in General Students

    stay motivated, try to keep up on the reading, but read to understand, not just to get through it. Not as scary as I thought it was. I bought a recorder and never used
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    Are nursing instructors really that bad?

    LoveMyBugs replied to Kyla.ann's topic in General Students

    I have really liked my instructors so far. One she really scarred me during her lectures and I prayed that she would not be my clinical instructor. Well last term she was my clinical instructor and...
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    Any recommendations on schools please?

    LoveMyBugs replied to TXUKGal's topic in Oregon Nursing

    I dont know about the university's but with the community colleges if you can get accepted into the program they evaluate you on your skills and then determine on where to place you in the RN program....
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    New grads: hows the job hunt going?

    LoveMyBugs replied to KristiePDX's topic in Oregon Nursing

    I am not a grad yet (one more year!) but a coworker graduated and passed the NCLEX in September and he finally now has a job that is starting in August, he has to move to Olympia Washington because he...
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    What the heck is going on in Portland right now?

    LoveMyBugs replied to sonnyluv's topic in Oregon Nursing

    that would be nice, we have new grads that my hospital wont hire, but the last two new hires were transplants from
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    What the heck is going on in Portland right now?

    LoveMyBugs replied to sonnyluv's topic in Oregon Nursing

    My hospital too just said NO NEW GRADs, we are not on an offical hirring freeze, but there is no open job positions either. There are 3 CNA's who graduated and are RN's who can not find jobs and one...
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    Pre nursing/ Pre reqs???

    LoveMyBugs replied to Tonyapate's topic in General Nursing

    I had to take 2 years of math classes to work my way up to statistics, and it took me 2.5 years to finish all of my pre-reqs. I started at one of the lowest math classes and worked my way up and I am...
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    silly nursing question, hope u can answer it...

    LoveMyBugs replied to ErinDel's topic in General Nursing

    Just finished my 1st year, and we gave each other bed bathes while wear shorts and tank tops, we also gave each other IM, SubQ and intradermal injections using normal salineBy the end of our second...
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    PCC Nursing class of 2011, thread Anyone find out?

    LoveMyBugs replied to Motivatedtolearn's topic in Oregon Nursing

    COngratulations, I am in PCC class of 2010, feel free to contact me with any
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    OHSU and other PDX area applicants for 2009

    LoveMyBugs replied to studentmom2007's topic in Oregon Nursing

    Congratulations to you both, Paprika, if you end up going to PCC and have any questions send me a email, I am a current 1st year
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    What is the best shift in the ER?

    LoveMyBugs replied to divagirl's topic in Emergency

    it has been my experience that during the day you tend to get more acute and most geriatrics. The evenings and nights were more psyc. I worked 11a-11p and it was okay, however that was the busiest...
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    cna1 to cna2

    LoveMyBugs replied to bohica's topic in General Nursing

    I would check your states web site for information, also inquire at the hospitals if they have a training program. When my hospital made the transition from 1 to 2 they gave all of us the training and...
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    nursing prereqs?? too old

    LoveMyBugs replied to cheryl1176's topic in General Nursing

    Are you sure that the 7 year limit applies to humanites and English? Every school I have looked at, it is the science classes that must be within 5-7
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    Telemetry nurse moving to Portland, Which hospital does Tele nursing well?

    LoveMyBugs replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in Oregon Nursing

    Adventist is expanding the cardiac units, they are doing a huge addition to the hospital which is doubling the ED and then expanding the cardiac unit with the cath lab to be just off of the
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    Will I have to retire at 65, or can I work longer?

    LoveMyBugs replied to jallen5's topic in General Nursing

    I work with quite a few nurses that are older, don't know their exact age, but they are at least in their 60's, they work registery so they don't have set schedules and usually work 4- 8 hour shifts....
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    Where are the LPN programs?

    LoveMyBugs replied to prowlingMA's topic in Oregon Nursing

    PCC dosn't have a LPN program, Mt Hood has a LPN. go to the Oregon State Nursing board, go the education links and it will list the school that are accredited in Oregon for LPN, RN, and the NCLEX...
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    Nursing schools with SANE policies

    LoveMyBugs replied to carolanivey's topic in General Nursing

    In one of my pre-req classes, microbiology, it was required to have a 91% for the A. I ended up with a 90.7% there was no rounding, and I got a B and another year of applying to nursing programs. Now...
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    A question for RN's and RN students.

    LoveMyBugs replied to craigm's topic in General Nursing

    If you have been accepted into a nursing program go for it. You could wait and try for the CC, but you are already accepted. It took me 3 years of applying to schools to finally get accepted, where I...
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    I Contracted HIV

    LoveMyBugs replied to sarahwv's topic in General Nursing

    Sarah I am so sorry As many others have said more treatments are coming. One of the women in my Sunday School class is HIV+ and has been for more than 20 years she has a 17 year old son who is