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  1. Pre-reqs of a pediatric nurse

    The ability to relate to both kids and
  2. Pre Nursing With A Family

    Take what you can online. It can be
  3. Too Many Nurse Practitioners?

    Your story might not be far off base. The way health care reform is working out, national healthcare could become the only
  4. Does age matters,when planing to become RN?

    40 and almost halfway through LPN school. It's not too late to go for
  5. Favorite Motivational Quote

    I love her
  6. New Grad LPN, first interview

    WV pay can vary depending on location. What area of the
  7. Create Your Own Meme

    Another day of clinical and my patients
  8. Favorite Motivational Quote

    You are braver than you believe, stronger than you feel, and smarter than you think. Winnie the Pooh Just be patient, I'm a nurse in progress.
  9. Choose Your Favorite TV Nurse

    Samantha Taggert- ER She had to struggle her way through nursing school and never really stopped trying to expand her
  10. Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    Asked pt.who had been hospitalized for 3 weeks if she needed anything. Her reply, " A change of address card from the post
  11. My coworker was high and got away with it

    Please don't ever move to
  12. Injection Gone Wrong: Part 3

    It's a hospital! Why didn't they get a team of nurses to administer the flu
  13. Compression Socks: Knee-Highs or Thigh-Highs?

    I have a copperfit ankle sleeve and I can tell by the end of the shift if I don't wear
  14. Compression Socks: Knee-Highs or Thigh-Highs?

    Have you looked into copperfit or Tommie
  15. Math requirement for RNs?

    Look up
  16. Stethoscope help!

    Go with the maxiscope option. Same quality for less
  17. Orders from hell...

    Increase lasix and discontinue Foley. Naturally the pt is 400 lbs, uses a bedpan, and won't allow anyone to help her
  18. What does your nursing career repair bill say about you?

    I would have started LPN school as a senior in high school at the county tech center instead of waiting and figuring out at 40 what I knew at
  19. Graduate School at 50

    You are not nuts. There are CNAs that go to LPN school at
  20. Not just seen on TV!

    Took the bf to the ER, resident hooked him up to heart monitor, while reciting "snow over grass, smoke over
  21. 5 Weird Questions Patients Have Asked As An OB Nurse

    Having had a very quick birth, your response to the last one would have been
  22. Worried my Ultrascope is too "cute"

    I love my maxiscope. Blaze orange and got pink. Easy to spot but don't leave it anywhere, they still walk off, even when
  23. Stethoscope help!

    My hearing sometimes gets a bit fuzzy due to fluid in my ears. I use a maxiscope and love it. I'm actually the only student in my class who doesn't carry an expensive
  24. Need to buy nursing shoes

    I agree. But if budget is a consideration try on a pair of new balance
  25. Willing to relocate, but where?

    North central West Virginia is an AND friendly market. PM for more