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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  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. 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

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  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...

  16. Slightly amusing call, and tattoos

    TheNewDino posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    i've been trying for a while now to get into a cna class and the interviews for long term care facilities that would sponsor me keep changing (which is really annoying :angryfire and a long story)....

  17. Slightly amusing call, and tattoos

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

    oh and i almost forgot, somethign else that was amusing. i got in the mail today a piece of cardboard. yes, a piece of cardboard (at least 14"x12") that was sent to me. at first i thought, wtf?...

  18. How old are you?

    TheNewDino replied to flight.attendant's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm glad I didn't jump right into college after high school, though I'm only 3 years out, I learned a lot about life and working first. Now that I've finally decided on what I think I'd like to do,...

  19. college

    TheNewDino posted a topic in Psychiatric

    i want to go to college next fall and have had the hardest time deciding on behavioral health and social services or nursing. but heck, why don't i do both. psych nursing sounds exactly what i want...

  20. I Got In!!!! I Got In!!!

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

    congrats! :beer: :w00t:

  21. I did it, I bought a Pocket PC

    TheNewDino posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    i was going to include this with my previous post but it was getting pretty long and this is fairly off topic. so i finally did it, i bought a pda. i did lots of comparisons and read lots of...

  22. I did it, I bought a Pocket PC

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

    bah! hey do any of you know how to turn off the auto update for the free epocrates program - it's just anoying that it comes up every time i activesync and turn on my

  23. For all you Pocket PC owners who love games

    TheNewDino replied to brazuca's topic in General Nursing

    so were do you go to get the modulator and where do you go to get the games for pocket

  24. I did it, I bought a Pocket PC

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

    alright so i got it today. delivery was super fast becuase it was actually sent to my house a few days ago but no one was home to sign for it. the rest of my goodies from the other website will take...

  25. CNA's, Interview help & Pocket PC's

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

    i had lots of therapists througout the course of about a year and a halfl, from personal ones, to family ones, to an at home one, to mental hospital ones and such, none of which names are worth...