TheNewDino

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1. Parents as Scholars or Aspire ???

   TheNewDino posted a topic in General Nursing

   has anyone or is anyone using help from the Parents as Scholars program or anything like that? i need some more info on it. i'd like to go back to school, i was gonna wait until my daughter was in...

2. Scrub pants with longer inseam

   TheNewDino replied to TheNewDino's topic in General Nursing

   I think large might be too big, i'm averaged sized (5'8" 140lbs) but thanks for all the

3. Scrub pants with longer inseam

   TheNewDino posted a topic in General Nursing

   maybe i'm picky , but i'd like to be comfortable i'm used to wearing 34-35" lowrise bootcut jeans or pj pants, but i'll obviously have to switch to scrubs for nursing. for clinicals (sat &...

4. Jobs While Student!!!!!!

   TheNewDino replied to Blue_eyes's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   eh, i thought our alfredo sucked. i hardly ever did the sauce station, so i don't remember, plus it's been about 6 months since i worked there. all can tell you is lots and lots of butter and heavy...

5. Jobs While Student!!!!!!

   TheNewDino replied to Blue_eyes's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   well my job isn't horrible but it makes you and your car smell - guess i'm not pimpin lol. i'm a line cook and have been working in kitchens for 3 years - i think it was worse when i worked at the...

6. Skilled Nursing (LTC)

   TheNewDino replied to nurseangel78's topic in General Nursing

   i'm confused. i recently started a cna class and i was told if a resident refuses treatment (of any sort), legally you have to respect their wishes, and that missing one shower isn't gonna kill them...

7. medical insurance

   TheNewDino replied to button2cute's topic in General Nursing

   i don't have insurance. i was off my fathers at 19 and didn't get any until this january but it took out nearly 40 a week and i quit my job, haven't had insurance since. won't until i start work...

8. Tattoos and nursing

   TheNewDino replied to PrincessJessica's topic in General Nursing

   probably becuase most of us - if not all, went to someplace clean and reputable. i've got 4 tattoos, none of them inapropriate, and i'm training to be a cna at a facility where you're aloud to show...

9. PDAs

   TheNewDino replied to sanrionjb's topic in Post Graduate Students

   I have the dell axim 50 and i guess you could call it a recording software. there isn't a specific program for it, but if you go into notepad you can make a recording that saves on it there. mine...

10. why are cna's treated like they are stupid and replaceable?

    TheNewDino replied to Purple Princess's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    every state is different for hourse and class time requirements. though i agree, the lpn is not a step above cna. if you look at it like a ladder. i don't know what it is called, but a year after...

11. Thinking about quiting my job

    TheNewDino replied to TheNewDino's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    i was worried they'd be mad becuase they were so short handded but they understood my needs and were nice about it. i'm not quiting just yet. i told them i can follow through with next weeks schedual...

12. Nursing at SMCC

    TheNewDino posted a topic in General Nursing

    anyone here taken (or plans on taking) the associate degree nursing program at southern maine community college? what was your experience? i'm enrolled right now in a cna course, but would like to...

13. Thinking about quiting my job

    TheNewDino posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    should i stay or should i go now? if i go there will be trouble, if i stay there will be double... lol ok so call me crazy, but i'm strongly thinking of quitting my job. i don't know how the whole...

14. Going from CNA to LPN

    TheNewDino replied to CNA2LPN's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    i'm doing the same thing as you. i just started a cna course and next year i'd like to get into the comunity college to become an lpn.

15. studying help and pocket pc downloads?

    TheNewDino posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    first off, any advice on studying, especially vocabulary (i just started and already have 70 that i need to know and spell correctly - including some long achronyms, yikes i probably can't even spell...