HeartsOpenWide RN

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    Feeling insulted after job interview

    HeartsOpenWide replied to NellieRN10's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Yep, and how about those that think our job is all rainbows and
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    RN practicing out of scope?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to NellieRN10's topic in Ob/Gyn

    You have to check with your states nurse practice act. Usually with training it's fine. I have considered taking a course to become certified myself, but I don't believe I will use it frequently...
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    New grad RN in L&D, seeking "cheat sheet" in

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Cmmrn7's topic in Ob/Gyn

    There are a lot of free apps for your phone. Also, there is a small spiral bound flip pocket guide you can get. The rest comes from taking noted a work and putting them on 3X5
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    $8.25 an hour...*** is this normal?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to pnkgirl25's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I don't think that being a CNA before an RN is that much help in the sense that it should be required because of the "skill set" very little actual nursing care in related to what a CNA does, although...
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    Scrubs cost WHAT???

    HeartsOpenWide replied to flying_ace2's topic in General Students

    You can find solid colored scrubs for under $20 a set at AllHeart.com; stay away from main stream trendy brands like Dickies, Koi, Landau; go in with classmates for free shipping ( you will have...
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    Petition to help new grads get experience

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Brian's topic in First Year After Licensure

    What do you expect nurses to do? Give up their jobs for new grads? Drop to part-time so a new grad can take her/his other half? (This would never work by the way, the hospital doesn't want to pay for...
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    Petition to help new grads get experience

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Brian's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It pays to do your own research...these schools are "telling them" AKA advertising... The semester before I graduated, everyone in my friends class were offered jobs, many immediately after their...
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    Petition to help new grads get experience

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Brian's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have sympathy for the new grads, I graduated right during the first wave of the recession. However, as long as there are experienced nurses able to work, the government is not going to use money to...
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    Changing Job less than 1 yr after graduation

    HeartsOpenWide replied to videoguru27's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I agree with the above poster. If you can't stay, find another job first; you may be stuck without one for a long time if you don't. Do you feel confident in your position? It could be hard to get...
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    What was your GPA, when you got accepted into nursing school?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Kimynurse's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    3.5 is a perfectly fine GPA. Notice that those posting GPAS of 4.0 also post that their GPA has dropped since nursing school, mine raised in nursing school. Those of us that returned to nursing often...
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    What was your GPA, when you got accepted into nursing school?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Kimynurse's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Pre nursing: 3.53 Post nursing: 3.65 I actually raised my GPA in nursing school. It's easier for me to excel in subjects that interest me, and I knew that having a good GPA was required for masters...
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    How do you handle tough situations?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Nursingstudent93's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It's not the nurses job to tell the dad his wife died or the mother that her baby died; the doctor should do this, and most of the time they don't need to wait to be told, they know. The first time is...
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    Can some one develop an allergy to PPD?

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in General Nursing

    Is it possible to build up an allergy to PPD? Granted I have had approx 12 TB skin tests since 2000 and will get one every year for the rest of my life; is it possible to develop and allergy to PPD?...
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    California New Grads Question For You...

    HeartsOpenWide replied to pnkgirl25's topic in California Nursing

    Are your referring to jobs you have applied to period, or new grad jobs applied to...? Applying to non-new grad jobs is often pointless as these jobs require
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    PHN to have on New Grad resume- worth it?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to NurseK7's topic in Nursing Career

    What I meant was, at my school anyone who graduated from my program was able to pay the 75$ right after school ad passing a boards and get their PHN, no extra classes or training. We got the training...
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    PHN to have on New Grad resume- worth it?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to NurseK7's topic in Nursing Career

    Might as well. I am guessing you graduated from a BSN program that specializes in public health nursing; not all BSN programs do... I have mine behind my name on resumes, even though I have only...
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    Is this a Med Error? I have been kicked from clinical. Help

    HeartsOpenWide replied to nursing?s's topic in General Students

    This is not a med error. You may have been breaking policy however, was this a rule you were trying to side step in an interest to get the patient their med sooner? I do think failing you is a bit...
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    Do Nurses Earn Big Money? You Decide.

    HeartsOpenWide replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    Not everyone gets paid like you...me? No triple holiday pay, no large shift differentials, no large extra shift differentials, any over time is state mandated, we get $4/hr to be on call with no extra...
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    how long did it take for you to get into L&D nursing?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to NurseJessie2's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I got into L&D right out of school. ER experience can be good or bad, great for the skills; but remember L&D is way more holistic, my experience with ER nurses is that that are a lot less...
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    How long did you wait to take advanced fetal monitoring?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to ColoradoBirthRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    ACLS is not required for L&D nurses. Its not required at all
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    How long did you wait to take advanced fetal monitoring?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to ColoradoBirthRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I was a nurse for just over three years when I did it, I did it after my RNC-OB. I took Lisa Miller's class through
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    Bedside handoff report on mother/baby unit

    HeartsOpenWide replied to OBnurseSandy's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have a report room and do all reports orally. I agree, bedside report is totally outdated and inappropriate; especially in
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    Evidence based practice for newborn care

    HeartsOpenWide replied to babynurse428's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We only still mention alcohol fir cord care because of one our peds. I teach both because its policy to talk about alcohol; but I mention research in favor of natural drying and sterile water when...
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    Evidence based practice for newborn care

    HeartsOpenWide replied to babynurse428's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I wait 24 hours for bathing to promote breastfeeding; unless the parents ask for a bath sooner, the kid is covered head to toe with Mec (usually soap on the hair but clean water on body). The only...
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    Move to Cali and be a nurse in the USA

    HeartsOpenWide replied to B-Dreamer's topic in Nurse Registration

    I don't know about Visas, but California is one of the hardest places to find work as a nurse, even American born nurses with