brookegillen

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1. Tell Me About Your Job

   brookegillen posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm a new nurse, looking into where I'd like to eventually establish my career in the nursing field. One of the things I love about nursing is that there's so many options. Nurses can work anywhere,...

2. Nursing school and newborn?

   brookegillen posted a topic in General Nursing

   I've recently completed an LVN program, and passed the NCLEX. I'm still waiting on my license - all this is really fresh. I don't think I'll have much of a problem finding a job, several students from...

3. Confused! Re: NCLEX and Breeze License Verification

   brookegillen replied to brookegillen's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   The 48 hour quick result option is available for almost every state except California! Waiting up to 6 weeks sounds awful, but I guess that's really the only option. Thanks for letting me know that...

4. Confused! Re: NCLEX and Breeze License Verification

   brookegillen posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   I live in the state of California and I recently took my NCLEX-PN exam. I have heard that before you get official results in the mail, you can look up your license on Breeze. I've tried this several...

5. LVN school vs BSN school

   brookegillen replied to MAS's topic in General Nursing

   The LVN program that I took was a one-year program, which they took is was accelerated. We had class for 8 hours a day, 3 days a week in class and then 9.5 hours a day 2 days a week in clinical. There...

6. Stethoscope help

   brookegillen replied to TitanChrissy's topic in LPN, LVN Students

   My mom's a nurse and when I started nursing school, she insisted I get "nothing but a Littmann stethoscope," and I'm in love with mine. I ended up with the Classic III. I think as long as you have a...

7. Nursing care plan Help!

   brookegillen replied to TanyaBelviy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   I would make my priority the constipation, as the abdominal pain is likely a result of the constipation, and also a main intervention for constipation is to increase fluid intake, so that will kick...