HeartsOpenWide RN

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    Recent New Grads: Job Search Poll

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

    Papers to sign from HR May 11th. Everything will be complete when I pass the NCLEX. Graduated May
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    Decided to go Medical Assistant and discouraged

    HeartsOpenWide replied to coffee4metech's topic in General Nursing

    In my are MAs make less than CNAs, at least CNAs in the hospitals because they can pay more in
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    ATTENTION NEW GRADS: get e-mails about job openings!

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in General Nursing

    If you sign up for American Association of College of Nurses you will get weekly e-mails from AfterCollege Career Network Digest which sends you a list of new Job openings and New Grad programs all...
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    ATTENTION NEW GRADS: get e-mails about job openings!

    HeartsOpenWide replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    You can sign up for AfterCollege directly, I think for free, and still get the e-mails.
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    What's the difference between REAL LIFE and MEDICAL TV-shows?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to sergei1989's topic in General Students

    8. People that are flat lined to not get fibrillated. They are dead. Chest compressions are for dead people. Defibrillator are for arrhythmias. 9. Labor is not terrible like T.V. makes it seem. Wish...
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    Survey about Cytotec

    HeartsOpenWide replied to nurse_maya28's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I just got hired and am not working yet so I can not answer all your questions. But I can tell you that one of the reason's I chose the hospital I got hired at was because they DO NOT DO cytotec...
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    Salary to expect as a new grad nurse

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

    I just got hired at $29.40 which includes a $3.00 night diff. includes benefits. My friend who got hired in Dec said the union is fighting for higher wages for us to match sister hospitals and if they...
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    Grades- do instructors round up?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to WannaBeNrse's topic in General Students

    That would be rounded up at my school I anything .05 is. but every school is
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    I'm applying for Nursing School and I want to know if I need a Hepatitis B vacc?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to JohannaN's topic in General Nursing

    How long ago did you get it? If it has been awhile you might want to check into if they have changed the way it was manufactured. When my husband was a kid they made tetorifice vaccines with horse...
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    ACLS reassurance needed

    HeartsOpenWide replied to blessed_RN's topic in California Nursing

    I am only a student (for three more days) and I found ACLS to be fairly easy. I used my "ECG Made Incredibly Easy" to help me study for the heart rhythm strips. Did you get the hand book with the...
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    Got kicked out of an RN program don't know what to do

    HeartsOpenWide replied to courageandcare's topic in General Students

    I am in a BSN program. There is a girl in my class who repeated this semester and is failing clinical again. She has the options to take the LVN exam...she does not have to go to an LVN program, we...
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    job offer dilema

    HeartsOpenWide replied to pedspnp's topic in General Nursing

    I would just call them and explain the dilemma, ask if they can change your start day to effectively after you come back. Can't hurt to ask. Be honest and say you got your dates switched. IF they...
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    Exuse me while I gloat...just a little

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been on here starting and replying to posts about new grads not getting jobs and freaking out with everyone else. I was starting to apply to jobs I never though I would and out of the area even...
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    Pre-Nursing with ADHD... and timed tests!

    HeartsOpenWide replied to tripp3horn's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    You can, but its not a guarantee that she will work with you. When you meet with the disabled student office they have trained people that know what accommodations you need...extra time, a calculator,...
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    ATI Cpmprehensive: What score to pass? How many questions?

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in General Students

    For those of you who have already taken the ATI comprehensive exam, what score do you have to have to pass (I hear they do not use levels like all the other exams) and how many questions were on it?...
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    Exuse me while I gloat...just a little

    HeartsOpenWide replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. I think we all know that things are eventually going to turn around, but many people with student loans are getting real nervous, there is a short time after graduation and then you have to...
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    I am an ICU Nurse!!!

    HeartsOpenWide replied to chexycat's topic in MICU, SICU

    :yeah::yeah:I know how you feel..awesome hu? I just got my dream job
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    Home Birth culture in your Area

    HeartsOpenWide replied to mamafeliz's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I want to say everything that Redwood said, but don't need to say it twice now do we? I did a lot of training at her hospital which is great. I love the fact that I live in an area that is so...
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    Pre-Nursing with ADHD... and timed tests!

    HeartsOpenWide replied to tripp3horn's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    If you have a documented case of ADHD the school legally has to give you what is recommended for accommodations which is often extended time. I got tested for a learning disability and found that I...
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    Did new grads shoot themsves in the foot (are jobs really that scarce?)

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

    Although I was able to put that I am graduating Cum Laude and am a member Sigma Theta Tau--nursing honors, no one is going to ask you what your GPA is when getting a job unless you are trying to get...
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    the "dream" has come to an end

    HeartsOpenWide replied to summersent's topic in General Nursing

    At least you are discovering this now and not in 20 years after its even harder for you to change
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    Too expensive for CNA class?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to atran407's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Yea, way too much. At my JC (I am in California too so these prices would be the same for you too) the basic patient care class which you take in order to become a CNA is way cheaper than that: (Total...
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    Norma in 302

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    HOW'S NORMA? A sweet grandmother telephoned St. Joseph 's Hospital. She timidly asked, 'Is it possible to speak to someone who can tell me how a patient is doing?' The operator said, 'I'll be glad to...
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    Need help on the best way to get my RN degree

    HeartsOpenWide replied to mandy1623's topic in General Nursing

    The best way to get your RN depends on YOU. I will tell you how I decided to to it the way I did. I applied to a BSN program that uses a merit system and an ASN that uses a lotto system that puts...
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    Grad party idea for my wife

    HeartsOpenWide replied to acaringhusband's topic in General Nursing

    Food Ideas: Bean dip in a bed pan Mud Slide in a colostomy bag Catheter Bag Beer Bong Bowels of candy like Good n Plenty that look like pills Liquid Medicine measuring cups for shot glasses and/or...