HeartsOpenWide RN

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    MA's please stop letting school practice on you !

    HeartsOpenWide replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    When I went through MA school we were not allowed to practice on each other; something about the school not being covered for it. We had to have so many injections and blood draw to be certified, and...
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    No Child Carseat = Child Endangerment = Call to Police?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to S.T.A.C.E.Y's topic in General Nursing

    Are the police called when a person come in for a drug over dose? My friend found her baby barley breathing once and rushed him to the ERl without a car seat, she was sick too, sat with him on her lap...
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    Funny Names for Nurses

    HeartsOpenWide replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    The x-ray department has a Radiologist come in who's name is Richard and his last name is Head. He prefers to be called Dick. No joke, I have seen his preliminaries come across my
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    Why NP and not PA?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to GirloftheSun's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    NP and PA go to the same school, have the same classes and graduate together. However, nurses with BSNs become certified NPs and PAs and are licensed under the nursing board; where as PAs are PAs...
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    free cigs for psych patients

    HeartsOpenWide replied to eak16's topic in General Nursing

    And should a patient be stopped from going outside and drinking a beer? We are not prision gaurds and this is not a prision; we are nurses and this is a hospital where people have rights. I had a...
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    Grrrr.... Changed the requirements!!!

    HeartsOpenWide replied to luvmy3kids's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    A gal in my class said that while she was taking the pre-requs for our program they changed the chem requirement three times...she had to take three different chem
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    I failed my driving test! Venting...

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

    I failed my first time too when I was 18. I was sooooo nervous....the lady testing me said I drive TOO SLOW...she said she tested old ladys that drove faster than me......ugh. I spend a day with a...
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    yet another intervetion for birth.....

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Don't laboring women have enough tubes, straps, and drugs already?:angryfire FDA Clears Computerized Labor Monitoring System By Lee Barnhart, MD Buyline Clinical Analyst Barnev, Inc. announced that...
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    Can some one explain the #'s please

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I am still only a second year BSN student. We have not yet talked about the details of the NCLEX. I do not get the # of questions. I always see people post stuff like "shut off at 253 can I pass?"...
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    Fun Baby Statistics

    HeartsOpenWide replied to krazy_coconuts's topic in Ob/Gyn

    thats because doctors do not want to work on the weekends and induce on
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    Deluded Medical Assistant

    HeartsOpenWide replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I wasn't calling them in with critical judgment. All I did was say for verbatim what the doctor wrote down, word for word. Thats it, does not take an LPN to do
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    Anyone could help me wid nursing schools?

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

    :yeahthat:You said what I was thinking but was too scared to say. that can't just be a few slips of the fingers. I love my spell
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    Deluded Medical Assistant

    HeartsOpenWide replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I already knew a lot of stuff during the first semester (minus assessments) and injections from the second semester, but after that it was all new for the most part. A lot of the drugs I learned about...
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    Deluded Medical Assistant

    HeartsOpenWide replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I am also a Certified MA in nursing school. I got my training at a JR college and we were never given false ideas on what our roles would be as MAs. These other schools give a bad name to...
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    doctor won't approve my birth plan...

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Saltysaltyky's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Get a different doctor pronto. If he is claiming hospital protocal find a different hospital. I would say, "Thank you for your time but I can see now that you are not going to be able to meet my...
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    Take 7 classes in one semester to make deadline!?!

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Butterfly23's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I would not even consider doing that, and even passing all the courses let alone get good grades. You need to find out if your school will even let you take that many classes. At both the JC and now...
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    I'm sure I'll get 10,000 replies saying to run, run, run from this place!

    HeartsOpenWide replied to megananne7's topic in General Nursing

    Run, NOW, don't resign like others said. I am sure what you just said is reason enough when explaining to your next employer why you did not give notice at your last job........and then turn this...
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    cerificate vs masters

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    What is the difference between being a CNM with a certificate and a CNM with a masters? Is it like the same thing but the one with the masters took a few extra courses to make enough units/credits to...
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    Nursing School vs. Pharmacy School

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Pumpkin1621's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    My cousin wanted to be a pharmacist. I am not sure if it was just the school she wanted to get in or all pharm schools but she said that while she was getting her BS to get into the school they...
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    2 yrs for pre-reqs? Does that sound right?

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

    I took along time too, this is how it went: fall 2003: 1st semeter(still working) Nutrtion spring 2004: 2nd semester(no science classes open) spanish, english, math, public speaking (one year) fall...
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    Does is matter where you go to school?

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

    As hard as it is to get into nursing school these days, I would take any school that would take me (well not any school, but I think you get the idea) If jobs to not care what grades you got I doubt...
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    lvn pay in california

    HeartsOpenWide replied to timgirl2121's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    California is a HUGE state so it depends on the Area. My friend is an LVN in the RN program and he worked at a Hospital and a LTC and actually made more at the LTC. He was making about 14/hr at the...
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    "Don't waste your time getting your BSN..."

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

    I could see where this would work if the CC was just used as a sight but the degree was still recieved throught the State or University College, and of course the price would still be at the State or...
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    "Don't waste your time getting your BSN..."

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

    A commuity college can not offer BSN degree, they do not offer courses for higher learning, by that I mean upper division (Jr. and Sr.
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    Slightly OT: Lasik

    HeartsOpenWide replied to futurern123's topic in General Nursing

    It will be one year for me in august; and I love it. Before the surgery I saw 20/400 (the giant E on the very top of the chart) with an astigmatism and at my last post-op visit I was seeing 20/20. It...