emtpbill ASN, RN, EMT-P

EMT since 92, Paramedic since 97, RN and PHRN 2021

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    Struggling with low GPA?

    emtpbill replied to ammiedew's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Or become a paramedic and go through a program like excelsiors to bridge to RN. [emoji22]medics are people
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    Please Help, I'm new & made a huge med error, I'm devastated.

    emtpbill replied to MasonDixieChic's topic in Patient Medications

    Will you make this mistake again, I'd bet a million bucks no: and that's life. Fortunately for the patient and you it wasn't heparin(like happened to me once, and caught before anything bad)....
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    Your monitoring program allow whipits?

    emtpbill replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nurses Recovery

    It's when you take a whipped cream container, shake it, and instead of inverting it to squirt out whipped cream you hole it upright and inhale the gas. Not a very smart thing to do. It displaces...
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    Your monitoring program allow whipits?

    emtpbill replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yea, don't teens do that when they're bored. I'm far from perfect and have my vices like others but whipits,
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    NEWS: The College Network Class Action Lawsuit Filed

    emtpbill replied to monkeyhq's topic in Excelsior College

    I agree 100%. I believe it is advertising. I remember about 5 years ago seeing magnets and flyers at the 911 squad where you I worked. If anyone called expressing interest they would call back...
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    NEWS: The College Network Class Action Lawsuit Filed

    emtpbill replied to monkeyhq's topic in Excelsior College

    I just don't get it. How can a class action lawsuit either been filed or settled and these crooks still
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    Paramedic bridge in GA

    emtpbill replied to comptonb's topic in Excelsior College

    But there IS NOT one for the excelsior program
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    Paramedic bridge in GA

    emtpbill replied to comptonb's topic in Excelsior College

    There is no preceptorship . I'm a medic in Pennsylvania and am a few months away from finishing. This is a transitional program. They base the program that you have been a medic and have been...
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    just took the first step to enrolling in Excelsior ADN program

    emtpbill replied to NurseNme30's topic in Excelsior College

    Straighterline.com. Verify with your counselor, but I am 99.9 % sure excelsior accepts it as they are a partner college. I used them for my English and did the class in 11 days. It cost me a...
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    Facility out of ppe

    emtpbill replied to mamabear1's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    In the same light though would you enter the room of an Ebola patient without the proper equipment? I know this is an extreme example and would never occur but shingles , as we all know, is highly...
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    Just tattoo DNR on my chest. . . it's been done!

    emtpbill replied to TiffyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yea right , definitely! In Pa. there is a whole seperate out-of-hospital DNR form that has to be filled out and signed by the MD. Alot of nurses in hospitals don't realize this and when a...
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    Microbiology

    emtpbill replied to ReReLPN2014's topic in Excelsior College

    I'm registered for the microbiology class that is for the spring 2 semester. I am taking A&P 1 now and A&P 2 along with microbiology for the next semester, hoping one plays off the other
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    Roswell NM???

    emtpbill replied to crameRN's topic in General Nursing

    Drove through it twice Btw I was just joking
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    Ethics: Brain bleed sign out AMA

    emtpbill replied to Kbig2's topic in General Nursing

    "People have the right to make bad decisions" is what I tell family members when someone is refusing to go. I present all the pertinent information I can for the patient to make an informed decision....
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    just took the first step to enrolling in Excelsior ADN program

    emtpbill replied to NurseNme30's topic in Excelsior College

    My counselor told me I could not enroll in transitions until I took A&P and micro. Don't know if that applies to everyone or
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    Different hospital units

    emtpbill posted a topic in General Nursing

    As someone who has worked entirely prehospital and is starting the nursing classes shortly, can someone fill me in on what the different letters mean when referencing different units. I know the...
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    Different hospital units

    emtpbill replied to emtpbill's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks
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    What are some of the most ridiculous requests you have heard?

    emtpbill replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think that's too ridiculous. Only if they have an arm injury or are incapacitated to the point they couldn't scratch their own back. Having an itch that cannot be scratched is...
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    heparin drips

    emtpbill replied to SN2014's topic in Patient Medications

    I would like to know this also. Heparin is most definitely compatible with
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    Different hospital units

    emtpbill replied to emtpbill's topic in General Nursing

    I did but some come up with different meanings . MICU, besides meaning what I wrote above, also comes up as Mobile Intensive Care Unit. I just figured I would ask the
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    Challenging paramedic exam

    emtpbill replied to sportsmed's topic in General Nursing

    What she said x10000000. The mind set of a medic and a nurse is completely different. A friend of mine who became a medic first and then an RN(what I am currently doing also) told me he failed...
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    Excelsior math

    emtpbill replied to Gwmosspoint's topic in Excelsior College

    Yes, I was thinking of the costs of the tests alone not the
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    Excelsior math

    emtpbill replied to Gwmosspoint's topic in Excelsior College

    If I recall correctly, they don't charge 490 for the information literacy class at excelsior. Since it is only a 1 credit class I believe it around 160 or
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    Radiology Technology VS RN?

    emtpbill replied to bisforbrown's topic in General Students

    My wife has been a X-ray tech since 1990. She started doing general, which is regular X-ray of various body parts but quickly moved to mammography. She currently makes 37/hr . She tells me there...
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    Valuable life lessons from an ER nurse....

    emtpbill replied to Momma1RN's topic in Emergency

    Ahhhh the formation of the acronym GOMER = Get Outta My E