HeartsOpenWide RN

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    Nurses Smoking

    HeartsOpenWide replied to JENNLEE's topic in General Nursing

    I imagine it poses as a bad image for patients to see a nurse smoke, but as long as they do not smell I could care less...I am not their
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    How many RN's would go the BON about MA's

    HeartsOpenWide replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    The BON has no control over what an MA can or can do..what their scope is, ect; they are not nurses or nurses aids so the Board of Nursing have no say in what they do. I belive the medical board...
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    Nurses not wearing gloves

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Nacki's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I saw doc touch a woman's gangrene MRSA feet with bare hands (she was not wearing the gown either), and walk out without washing her hands and continued her day. It was my second semester and I was...
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    No Workers Comp coverage?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to beachbum3's topic in General Nursing

    What if you get a needle stick and get AIDS, can you afford to pay for the medical expenses for that? I would look for a different job! Most insurances I have ever applied for ask if you have a...
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    Movie: "The Business of Being Born."

    HeartsOpenWide replied to epiphany's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Its the obstetricians trying to keep themselves in
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    Movie: "The Business of Being Born."

    HeartsOpenWide replied to epiphany's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I am a California Association of Midwives (CAM) member and we put a showing on locally. People were crying. I thought it was pretty good, but nothing I saw was new information, in fact if anything it...
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    Class splitting up!

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in General Nursing

    Its official. My two closest friends in nursing school are leaving me. Our school changed to a five semester program for all the students after us (ours is a six semester BSN program) and it has...
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    Medical Abbr font?

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in General Nursing

    Is there a program that is a medical abbreviation font so you can use S with a like over it or C with a line over it or a with a line over it
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    How many people who start NS finish?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to BillyMan's topic in General Students

    We started with 44. One quit because he decided that nursing was not for him, another transfered because her husband was in the military, and another got pregnant. However, we still have 42 because...
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    Knowing what you know now about nursing, what other career would you have chosen?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to 2bNurseguru's topic in General Nursing

    where I live the coroner is elected. The one that does it now has ZERO medical background but use to be a police officer. Medical examiners on the other
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    Any advice about Philadelphia U?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I am interested in them too; but they are my 3rd choice (I am in California, paying out of state tuition is somthing I would like to avoid) I wrote them and they sent me a packet with a bunch of info...
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    PSYCHOLOGY and SOCIOLOGY

    HeartsOpenWide replied to baxter80's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I loved bothof those classes. If you are a good reader you can probably do it. They are both intro classes so you are learning the
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    You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    HeartsOpenWide replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    You know you are in nursing school when: You have no social life you have anatmical posters all over your walls Your out to dinner with a classmate and get dirty looks because you forget that other...
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    Is it true that a BSN will be mandatory soon?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to szccdw's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I have not heard of this and I doubt it is true. If they do this they will have to do away with the ASN degree...they can not let some one get a ASN degree and not take the NCLEX...what would be the...
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    how much experience needed to be CNM?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to kitchenluvr's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    UCSF, one of the biggest research hospitals dose not require any experience...but if some one has experience and is apply with you they might have a better chance. Frontier School of Nurse Midwifery...
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    HeartsOpenWide replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am still in nursing school but I worked as a certified medical assistant for 5 years before going back to school. I was certified in clinical but when my doc was on vacation I would often get...
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    Nursing Student = CNA?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to katie0416's topic in Florida Nursing

    I am not from Florida but a lot of my classmates work as CNA and aids...I don't think that being in nursing school automatically makes you a CNA, you probably have to take the test to actually become...
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    Easter is not a holiday?????

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    My dad is a certified electrician---does stoplights, underground wiring, ect. he does not get paid to go vote. The men that work for Caltrans do (a california goverment paid
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    Someone saying that they are a LVN when they are not!

    HeartsOpenWide replied to jetta1's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Technically Medical Assistants can call themselves Physicians Assistants; thats what they do, they assist the physician....I can see the confusion however...a PA is not a Physicians Assistant....a PA...
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    Easter is not a holiday?????

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    If you want paid holidays galor get a postal job; or a job anywhere in the government; they even get "holiday pay" for
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    Headlamps for OB nurses and midwives... WDYT?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to ktliz's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I think it is a great idea. My friend lives off the grid and wears a spelunking light attached to a elastic band that goes around her head when putting the kids to bed after the reserve runs out. It...
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    Columbia or Yale?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to babycatcher12's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I heard that YALE does not allow midwives to do deliveries; just post partum and prenatal. If this is true how would you get your hands on experience for
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    average age of a new nurse?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to clemmm78's topic in General Nursing

    I will be 28 when I graduate next year from my BSN program. We have 42 students; there are only 5 students in my program that are older than me, the rest are about 20-25 (one gil was 19 our first...
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    Recent birth - unanswered questions

    HeartsOpenWide replied to threeriversbirth's topic in Ob/Gyn

    from what I have read our infant mortality is worsebecause it
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    Child Restraint During Induction ?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to OR male nurse's topic in Operating Room

    My trick is to have the parent hold them in their lap facing them with their legs around mom/dads waist with mom/dad harms pinning childs arms to side in a big bear hug and them sitting back in a...