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    Only charting?

    Extra Pickles replied to Niquolea26's topic in General Students

    OP please heed the advice and wonderful information that other people have posted here for you. Please disregard what you know you need to disregard, and also know that if you are the one who keeps...
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    Only charting?

    Extra Pickles replied to Niquolea26's topic in General Students

    What truth is that? That you have no clue what you are talking about and are unprofessional in your presentation? Yes, that is a truth. And it isn't the rest of us who are having trouble handling...
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    Only charting?

    Extra Pickles replied to Niquolea26's topic in General Students

    Speaking as a med-surge nurse, THANK YOU! Everything I detailed in my post is just a shift in med-surg on any given day.
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    Did I get in based on a quota?

    Extra Pickles replied to LibaSkelova's topic in General Students

    Don't obsess about how it is you got into the program, that's a waste of time. Instead, focus (obsess?) about how to stay in the program. That will be your job for the next couple of
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    Only charting?

    Extra Pickles replied to Niquolea26's topic in General Students

    Lightning, how a person speaks, how he presents himself is vital to establishing a professional relationship and being thought of as being a professional. The problem you are having on this thread is...
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    What to do with a bf who just wants me for my degree

    Extra Pickles replied to mstaurus2016's topic in General Students

    HOW to dump him is up to you. But do it, you already know this and are just looking for support that you made the right decision. Here it is, you did make the right decision, and now just need to...
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    Only charting?

    Extra Pickles replied to Niquolea26's topic in General Students

    This is extremely misleading, and even though you have only one semester in nursing completed it shows your ignorance of what nursing is actually all about. Ignorance as in you don't know what you...
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    SUPER low GPA

    Extra Pickles replied to cariboulover's topic in General Students

    LPN means licensed practical nurse. Practical nursing programs are available through vocational schools, Tech schools, sometimes community colleges. They are not degree programs, meaning that at the...
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    SUPER low GPA

    Extra Pickles replied to cariboulover's topic in General Students

    Nursing programs look at the grades for their prerequisite classes, not the last 60 credits. If it takes 2 or 3 tries to raise grades up to an acceptable level, or if a transcript is full of...
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    SUPER low GPA

    Extra Pickles replied to cariboulover's topic in General Students

    In contradiction to previous posters, I will have to tell you that you are extremely unlikely to find an ADN program that will allow you in with a GPA that low. Competition for placement in ADN...
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    Challenge exam for CNA/LPN/LVN

    Extra Pickles replied to Lakambini's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    You are not understanding that CNA does not equal license at all. C means Certified, not licensed. Entirely different thing, not a licensed nurse. LPN / LVN is a licensed nurse but it is in no way a...
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    INR 5.2 read as 2.5

    Extra Pickles replied to Ethio22's topic in General Nursing

    I hear when there are pre-dead patients it makes for a quieter night lol! Then again turn and position all that dead weight, ha! I think I'm too
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    Challenge exam for CNA/LPN/LVN

    Extra Pickles replied to Lakambini's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I'm not completely sure I'm following you, because you say that most of the hospitals you applied to prefer a licensed nurse, and the fact is they all require you to be a licensed nurse. A CNA is an...
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    Tuition Reimbursement How-To

    Extra Pickles replied to FutureNurseInfo's topic in General Nursing

    If you are willing to work in a very underserved area of the country where nurses are desperately needed some reimbursement may be an option for you. If you work for certain non-profits and...
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    Don't want to be the annoying one to ask but....

    Extra Pickles replied to Rissa109's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    it's called a trick because it isn't accurate it's a glitch but most of the time it works. don't make yourself crazy, spend time with your daughter and wait for the results that are accurate, the...
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    Nclex

    Extra Pickles replied to Fanellitaylor's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    if you're willing to risk being charged the registration fee then do the pvt. it isn't supposed to charge you if you passed but sometimes it does so the trick may be on you in the end! and if you put...
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    INR 5.2 read as 2.5

    Extra Pickles replied to Ethio22's topic in General Nursing

    If this patient bled to death he isn't in the ICU "NOW" is he? Was this your patient? Are you a nurse, or a tech in this unit? What am I
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    Military Girlfriend trying to find a nursing school/ moving

    Extra Pickles replied to alaskanstudent's topic in General Students

    no one wants to think this way when they are in a relationship but the plain fact is that until you are married you are both free entities. He can move without you and your bills are your own. Making...
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    Do I have to do Summer Externships?

    Extra Pickles replied to studentnurseemily's topic in General Students

    What's the employment outlook where you live? You have to know that to know your answer. If new grads can't find a job for several months or even a year, you know you had better do anything possible...
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    It seems like everyone but nurses make more money

    Extra Pickles replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    maybe this is a good time to tell you that your keychain for Christmas is more than I
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    Can you cancel your license

    Extra Pickles replied to RescueNinja123's topic in General Nursing

    See my previous "brain fart" post! My mind went to what would happen if I let my ONLY license expire and that was not a pleasant image. Obscured reality of the question for a minute!
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    Can you cancel your license

    Extra Pickles replied to RescueNinja123's topic in General Nursing

    OOPS, I had a brain fart! I was thinking about letting a license expire when it's your only license, in which case YES you absolutely do have to repeat the NCLEX before you get a new license. That's...
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    It seems like everyone but nurses make more money

    Extra Pickles replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    People who have the jobs you described by and large did have dreams and aspiration, and went to college to pursue them. Friends of mine who live as you describe have significant educational...
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    How old is too old to be finishing nursing school?

    Extra Pickles replied to conjer's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    78. I feel 78 is too old for a new grad.
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    Be honest: do you feel valued by your employer?

    Extra Pickles replied to sunnyskies9's topic in General Nursing

    depends on the day lol! sometimes I think any warm body will be valued as much as my warm body, and sometimes I see that little shining breakthrough that tells me that TPTB know I am worth every cent...