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  1. CPNE Nov 11-13 at SRMC...anyone else?

    katwoman7755 replied to jenjer's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I took the CPNE in Racine a couple of years ago...best advice is to be thoroughly prepared....and STAY CALM!!! I seriously think that your nerves getting the best of you can be your down fall. I had...

  2. Would you go PRN at 2 hospices?

    katwoman7755 replied to Nurse 1991's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Ditto....the nursing home patients we had, if they met medicare criteria to be an inpatient (symptoms management issue, etc) we would change them to hospice inpatient status under medicare...if they...

  3. Statistics...how did you survive?

    katwoman7755 replied to SLH522's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    http://www.cvgs.k12.va.us/DIGSTATS/ http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/regression/home.html http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/wli/glossary/stat.html#n http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/statnote.htm...

  4. Statistics...how did you survive?

    katwoman7755 replied to SLH522's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Can't imagine there's a BSN program out there that you don't have to have stats for...yeah...didn't have to have them for ASN...but definitely for BSN. It catches up with you if you continue to pursue...

  5. Would you go PRN at 2 hospices?

    katwoman7755 replied to Nurse 1991's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    We had Inpatient contracts with all of the nursing homes in the area to provide care that way...but we also had a hospice residence. We were a fairly large company. The hospice residence was in the...

  6. Statistics...how did you survive?

    katwoman7755 replied to SLH522's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Also, make sure you are up to date with just basic algebra stuff....I really had to go back and sorta rehash that just to be able to get started....wierd how you forget stuff like what order to do the...

  7. Questions about death

    katwoman7755 replied to ER1010's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    yeah...I found that most people had some sort of symptom, whether it was pain, agitation, air hunger, etc...always managable...although not always easily. I can only remember like a couple who didn't...

  8. Statistics...how did you survive?

    katwoman7755 replied to SLH522's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm actually teaching myself this through a distance education course....has to be the hardest thing I have ever done....have a solid B average right now and am super proud....will be sitting for...

  9. New graduate nurse fired for not having experience after 30 days .....

    katwoman7755 replied to spiri1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think most employers can let you go during your probationary period for whatever reason if it isn't working out.... As far as "fault", we as nurses have a responsibility to know what our scope of...

  10. nursing home routine

    katwoman7755 replied to inwyte's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I was going to say pass meds from 7-3....lol. At least that's what it seemed like when I have to fill in on the floor....so many meds..and pt's without wrist bands...just trying to find those people...

  11. Question for experienced hospice nurse

    katwoman7755 replied to nursejoey05's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I know alot of nursing schools are starting to add classes that focus on palliative care...maybe even one of the schools around there. Maybe you can take this as some sort of elective. If not, I've...

  12. New nurse wants to be Hospice

    katwoman7755 replied to nurscee's topic in Hospice, Palliative

  13. Discouraged!!!

    katwoman7755 replied to mc3's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Just curious where you were in florida? I just moved from florida, but worked for hospice for 2 yrs there. We used lpn's alot, but primarily for continuous care....which they all loved. When...

  14. Lasix in Nebs for Air Hunger?

    katwoman7755 replied to rosemadder's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I usually would just use a low dose Roxanol sublingual for air hunger....it usually worked better than the neb MSO4...unless of course they were COPD pt's...and sometimes I think that extra humidity...

  15. Question for experienced hospice nurse

    katwoman7755 replied to nursejoey05's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Where do you live that they don't use LPN's in hospice? We used them quite often when I lived in florida, but the company I worked for primarily used them for continuous care. Also, medicare...

  16. Questions about death

    katwoman7755 replied to ER1010's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I remember having a couple of exceptionally difficult cases where symptom management was hard....but ultimately, no patient I had died in pain. Before hospice, I never knew how peaceful death could...

  17. Lance Armstrong-interesting info

    katwoman7755 replied to TypicalFish's topic in General Nursing

    yeah...i like the HR thing....I know alot of the super athletes I've known all have low HR's.....the heart is an amazing muscle.

  18. I need a private, unsubsidized, student loan. who has the best deal?

    katwoman7755 replied to anfe's topic in General Nursing

    I got a loan for distance education through a company called Key education resources...the interest rate was like 4.5%...it had long pay back terms also like stafford loans. I believe this company...

  19. Mileage pay

    katwoman7755 replied to lossforimagination's topic in Home Health

    Ditto renerian...most of the agencies around here don't pay mileage...and I know I easily drive 100 miles a day....and use to have some days i would drive around 250.

  20. 83 y.o. woman w/ lung cancer

    katwoman7755 replied to soontobe_RN's topic in Oncology

    Sorry about your grandmother.... Agree with the others re: the smoking.... Could be some latent effects of the treatment regimen.... Could be that the treatment regimen has not worked.... Have they...

  21. Nursing School Near Bogalusa,la?

    katwoman7755 replied to stvypi's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    i realize this post is quite old now...but just in case...there used to be a sullivan campus in bogalusa that had an LPN program.....I'm not sure if it's part of the louisiana technical system or...