mcgovernpirate

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1. Eliminating the LPN position

   mcgovernpirate replied to WCSU1987's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Girl, first of all you made my heart skip a beat. CT is NOT "getting rid of LPNs"...they did do away with the program for several years though (you know, Rowland and that $100 million budget shortfall) but reinstated it just this year for fall 2015. ...

2. I'm choosing to withdraw from NS. And that's okay.

   mcgovernpirate replied to Liz9's topic in General Students

   Proud of you, OP!! A degree in computer science will no doubt give you job opportunities once you're out by 23 (especially if you learn some programming in your free time...often you don't even need a degree). I was a lit double major and loved it mo...

3. LPNs are nurses too.

   mcgovernpirate replied to vbarger28's topic in LPN/LVN

   GREAT response, Scrubs911, and lol @dreamgirl--out of curiosity, why haven't you yet told your family? Is it because you don't need or really mind their approval? Pure professionalism like Scrubs911advocates is hard, especially with the abuses we som...

4. EtOH Medical Abbreviation

   mcgovernpirate replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

   Know this is probably really dumb, but, could ETOH be called "ethyl hydroxide?" (I hate when chemicals dont have a nice neat name). Every ETOH patient I encounter has only had--to their desperately sincere recollection, of course--only two or three d...

5. Taking RN pre reqs while in LPN program?

   mcgovernpirate replied to Beautiful_Soul's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Happily I've been finding that's mostly only true for private for-profit programs (Lincoln Tech, etc) and not state schools or colleges. My friend in NJ is taking an "articulated" LPN to RN program at a county college--a year of classes and she'll be...