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, it seems. But each path is so different. I'm curiou...

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 my graduating class are already to work. The thin...

3. Confused! Re: NCLEX and Breeze License Verification

   brookegillen replied to brookegillen's topic in NCLEX

   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 about the difference between the two, I didn't know...

4. Confused! Re: NCLEX and Breeze License Verification

   brookegillen posted a topic in NCLEX

   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 times and nothing's come up when I search my name, ...

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 was at least 1 exam per week, sometimes up to 3. ...

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 quality stethoscope, you can use any cuff. A stetho...

7. Nursing care plan Help!

   brookegillen replied to TanyaBelviy's topic in Student Assist

   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 out the dehydration as well. I completely agree with...