I'm still here, just lurk more than I post. Still at Galen. We also just got our ACEN accreditation; I got the email about it yesterday. This is a good program, but it's hard, it's also an accelerated program. The staff are really nice and always ope...
I'm not sure about the Health Departments where you live, but that's where I got most of my immunizations done throughout my entire life. Family was skirting the poverty line growing up and a lot of my immunizations as a child were free. Now as an ad...
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I haven't been in this situation yet, but it would seem to me that if you already have an established relationship (friendship, work with them etc) with a doctor or surgeon or even the other nurses, you would get better care from the people who alrea...
The absolute worst are the instructors who have the canned ppt's and then talk above your head about every little thing in class. No explanation given, look at you like you have 5 heads when you ask a question, after saying "please ask questions...et...
I agree batmik, I feel all those things too. They don't say it was a nurse but like RN2B123 I'd almost bet that it is. The hospitals and initial organizations need to be taking care of those who are taking care of the sick, a.k.a. nurses. That poor l...
I love how they keep saying "she wore a mask, gloves, a gown" etc., super vague references but they don't list the type of PPE she had on in detail. Was it a surgical N95 mask? Was it sealed to her face? Was she triple gloved? Did she have a flimsy y...
I've suffered with anxiety and depression for a very long time now, since my early 20's at least, and I'm now 33. I'm only in Nursing school, and we haven't had our first clinical round yet, but there's been something that's making me feel like I'm s...
Thanks for your reply. I appreciate your kind words. I was really looking more for information about how it would affect my future in nursing employment wise. I know that I definitely need to go talk to someone, and I plan to, I just wanted to know h...
Thanks for clearing that up Mass. I guess the guy vomited all over the side walk at his sister/girlfriend whoever's apartment complex too while waiting for the ambulance. There's some body fluid nastiness for you. Wonder if they ever got that cleaned...
So I've been doing some digging. Trying to remain factual, but I'm not going to lie, my head can't help but to do the "what if" dance, every time I see someone from over there dying, who's traveled. I'll try to lay it all out without jumping all over...
So if she can do that, in such close proximity to those infected and not die herself, why are the healthcare workers getting infected and dying from treating the sick? Is it the sheer number of infected? Is it fatigue? It can't be said that it's poor...
And now there's a CDC map of quarantine stations being set up in the United States ( Quarantine Station Contact List, Map, and Fact Sheets | Quarantine | CDC ) also a new Executive Order signed by the President stating a " Revised List of Quarantina...
I don't have anything to offer other than it sucks that you're going to have to "dumb down" your experience just to get the kind of job you want. It's obviously only because of what you said, that they're afraid you're going to demand more pay than t...
I don't think you're actually contagious until you start showing symptoms, I could be wrong it was just a tidbit I picked up when reading about that doctor who died. There was another man who actually flew to Texas (Abilene?) or maybe it was his fami...
Good luck taking the PAX! I'm sure you'll do just fine. The science part was kinda rough, some of the questions were worded weird. If you've studied at all though you'll be fine. You only need a score of 100 to pass, and I got a 122. I am really supe...
This is one of the things that I've gone back and forth over with going into nursing school, ADN or BSN. People have to do what's best for them, money and time wise. I don't know enough to say that one could be better over the other, I personally don...
Not starting in July, but I'll be taking my PAX tomorrow (7/12) for the Oct. 2nd start date. Wicked nervous, been studying for months. I'm a non-trad student so I had to basically re-teach myself everything math. Those of you who started this month I...