HeartsOpenWide RN

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    RN wages: California vs Washington State

    HeartsOpenWide replied to nurse1717's topic in Washington Nursing

    Yeah we have one hospital in our town, which has a sister hospital 30 mins away in another town. The next hospital is in S.F. I would love to move after I graduate, but my husband has deep
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    RN wages: California vs Washington State

    HeartsOpenWide replied to nurse1717's topic in Washington Nursing

    Yes, but California is a big state with a lot of big cities that have a large population and get paid well. But there are a lot of rural areas too that do not get paid as well (so the figures are not...
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    Are you working the position you want?

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in General Nursing

    How many work in the department of your choice. To be honest, the main reason I am becoming a nurse is to become a Nurse Midwife. In order to do that I have to work in L&D for at leasat one year....
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    Having hard time with Pre-Reqs

    HeartsOpenWide replied to WannaBeMaleRN's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Although this is helpful, all schools use differnt
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    Having hard time with Pre-Reqs

    HeartsOpenWide replied to WannaBeMaleRN's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Try taking notes while you read and only go for twenty mins withou taking breaks. I hear the brain only pays attention for 20 mins...ever catch yourself daydreaming in class? And what class is only...
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    Preparing for Nursing School in the Fall

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

    I am not a nursing student until fall either, so I can not give the best advise. I am going to take the last week or so before classes start and walk around campus to get comfortable with my...
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    Cellphones in class

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

    I had a teacher that gave you one warning. If your phone rang in class after that she kicked you out permanately...I think it is a good rule. Any one that does not turn their cell phone off in-class...
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    clep out??

    HeartsOpenWide replied to nursie-nurse's topic in Online Distance Learning

    clep means you already know the information that is taught in the class. You can take a test proving that you already know the information that will be taught. If you pass you do not have to take the...
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    stethoscopes

    HeartsOpenWide replied to RNshark's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    My recommondation. Save up a little longer, your not going to get a very good steth for that price. Cheapies are ok for B\P if you have taken them for a long time, but I would not depend on a cheapie...
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    thinking of going into CMA

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

    Your wrong about the hands on with PT part, you will get that. I have been at my job over four years and I just go a .50 raise today, I am making a whopping 9.50
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    question for all of you who made it

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    For all of you that are now nurses, what is the one piece of advice you would tell students getting ready to start nursing school? Maybe something you wish some one had told
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    Abandoning babies at Hospitals LEGAL?!?!

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    I think it should be legal. I knew a girl when I was a child who was heavily retarded because her mother stuck her in a garbage can and covered her with grass clips on a warm day. The people who were...
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    FNP....in hospitals.....in L&D?

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

    The program I plan on attending gets you both CNM and WNP
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    Could anyone please help with anatomy question?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to nurse2b2007SC's topic in General Nursing

    Calcium
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    Is a high school degree necessary to be a CNA?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to emo1807's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I think it depends on where you get your training. If you want to go to the community college than you have to have graduated high school. But a bunch of the local 'rest homes' train their aids on...
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    That ain't my resident! I am dumbfounded...

    HeartsOpenWide replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

    "Grown-ups" who do not want to waste their time on co-workers that do not pull their share. I work with a woman,(in her forty's) who I am constantly picking-up slack for. We are short handed right now...
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    Soo Many Posts On Criminal Records

    HeartsOpenWide replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    What about exceptional cases? I had a girl in one of my classes who's husband was grown marijuana in the garage or shed or something. She had nothing to do with it or approved of it. He got caught and...
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    Refusing prenatal ultrasound

    HeartsOpenWide replied to 2curlygirls's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Being a dead mother after a wonderful natural birth would not help my baby. I am totally for natural birth, I cheer for the midwives and think that they should be primary care givers of all...
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    Refusing prenatal ultrasound

    HeartsOpenWide replied to 2curlygirls's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I totally agree. They did not have ultrasounds when I was in the womb and I turned out fine. Many people think sonograms and ultrasounds are dangerous. I look at it the same way I think of getting an...
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    Microbiology grades...

    HeartsOpenWide replied to lc3's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I got an A in my micro class. I never got anything below a 94% and I worked my ass off for the grades. I loved micro and thought it was a lot of fun and easier the Physio, but I think this might be...
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    Soo Many Posts On Criminal Records

    HeartsOpenWide replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. The OP seems to be a bit hypocritical...let "criminals" become nurses if they pass the boards because the "deserve it" if said "criminal" can pass nursing school, and has changed their way?!?...
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    Hep B Vaccine for Program.

    HeartsOpenWide replied to mingez's topic in General Nursing

    I would get the vaccinations for sure. Some people (for person reasons, relgion ect..) believe that vaccinations are bad for what ever reason ("my kindergarten does not need hep B because it is a...
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    MA?? any out there

    HeartsOpenWide replied to jewelz78's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    HI! I am currently a CMA and have been since 2002. I really do love my job, and although I will start nursing school in the fall, I quickly learned after working as an CMA that it just was "not enough...
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    LVN vs CMA

    HeartsOpenWide replied to jomby's topic in Texas Nursing

    It sounds more like the CMA your SIL is working with is a pain in the orifice. She needs to talk to her office manager....LVN are not "permitted" to talk to patients?? Give me a break, the person...
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    Help, can a (CMA-certified medical assistant) Supervise an LVN???

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

    :yeahthat: Does this CMA have more OFFICE experience then your LVN friend? Maybe your friend should try not to let it bother her and stop thinking that she is being supervised by some one "beneath...