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    How does working as an R.N. beforehand help in being a nurse practitioner?

    Extra Pickles replied to sarahnp2b103's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    an important thing to remember when considering becoming an advanced practice nurse is that you must become a nurse and master the basics in the first place. if your goal is to practice psychiatry...
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    Nurses Humilated - Illinois

    Extra Pickles replied to SuburbsGirl's topic in General Nursing

    administration at this hospital felt that it was important to educate a nurse that a hearing-impaired person has difficulty hearing, and that a vision-impaired person has difficulty seeing???? By...
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    Is there a way to speed up Hep B series?

    Extra Pickles replied to dbabz's topic in General Nursing

    You'll want to ask your provider about having a titer drawn after your first shot because if you're one of those people who don't convert after 3 shots but do convert after a booster fourth it'd be...
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    "I have a PhD, I know more than you do!"

    Extra Pickles replied to MendedHeart's topic in General Nursing

    I have two questions, one is whether an MD is supposed to be prescribing medication for a spouse, I thought that was some kind of ethics violation? Maybe not illegal, but I thought wasn't supposed to...
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    EMS to Nursing

    Extra Pickles replied to darobow's topic in General Nursing

    Of course I read it, which is why I posted it, and if you don't find anything useful I'm not sure what you're reading. The OP asked really basic, broad questions about nursing that were answered on...
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    EMS to Nursing

    Extra Pickles replied to darobow's topic in General Nursing

    I was curious about this so I just googled Paramedic to RN Program and came up with this site. OP it looks like everything you want to know in one spot, I bet you can find all your answers and see if...
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    anyone know of any other jobs

    Extra Pickles replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    if you try to choose your career based on how much money you will make you will probably find yourself just as unhappy with those choices as many new grads today who find themselves disillusioned with...
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    Should I SUE?

    Extra Pickles replied to hollyday's topic in General Students

    I've never heard of anyone successfully getting into a nursing program in the very last semester when she's been dismissed from another school. Prerequ classes will usually transfer but not the...
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    Who's at fault here?

    Extra Pickles replied to PerkyNurse55's topic in General Students

    Correct! Which is exactly why not everyone who attempts the NCLEX passes it, not everyone who enrolls in nursing schools graduate, and not everyone who wants to become a nurse can and does. If she...
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    accelerated options for low gpa students??

    Extra Pickles replied to lex07's topic in General Students

    Frequently it's the case. As someone else said, you don't have to go to school near where you plan to work, but it absolutely does help if the places that you are trying to get hired into know your...
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    Who's at fault here?

    Extra Pickles replied to PerkyNurse55's topic in General Students

    I am not acting like anything. I am stating outright that the OP keeps returning to the idea that the school is to blame for these really good students not passing the exam when the question at this...
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    Need help finding schools that will accept low GPA or lottery

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

    If you have retaken many classes already you might not be a candidate for any nursing program, most have strict limits on retakes, allowing only one or two classes to be repeated for a higher grade....
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    Needlestick

    Extra Pickles replied to Ontariosn's topic in General Nursing

    I think you are confusing me with the OP. Me, I was never at risk
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    BSN after ameritech?

    Extra Pickles replied to Mckenziej's topic in General Students

    if you already know that you will have trouble getting your degree from Ameritech to mean anything to another school, and I know from your other post that a degree from Ameritech is going to cost you...
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    Ameritech In Draper?! Should I do it?

    Extra Pickles replied to Mckenziej's topic in School, College Programs

    Nothing about $52K for an associate degree in nursing sounds reasonable! Way way too expensive for that level of
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    Infection control + gloves

    Extra Pickles replied to eiwneon's topic in General Nursing

    as if we needed another example of why vaccinations shouldn't be administered on the equivalent of a street corner, that being a clerk in Walgreens.
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    Did you take a pay-cut to be a nurse? Do you regret it?

    Extra Pickles replied to MomAndSonInMD's topic in General Nursing

    I wasn't called to do anything. I figured out that I could make more money doing something I thought I'd enjoy and I was right. I also don't work in medicine, I work in nursing, as do all of us who...
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    Flowers for Mother's day.

    Extra Pickles replied to XNavyCorpsman's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    did you also check their files to see that they were all mothers of living children? if you didn't, then you were risking a bad reaction from someone who did not want to be reminded of their maternal...
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    Failed prerequisite, what options do I have

    Extra Pickles replied to mayapple16's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    kay you really should use the quote button feature so we know whose post you are responding too because otherwise it's just a random question and don't know who you are asking. LPNs have a different...
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    Advice on applying to other nursing programs due to clinical failure.

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

    after reading an awful lot of writing all I get from you is that your teachers didn't do enough for you, the school didn't do enough for you, the nurses you were supposed to be working with during...
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    Failed prerequisite, what options do I have

    Extra Pickles replied to mayapple16's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    kayashley you also said you failed an LPN class. were you in an LPN program and taking courses to apply to an RN program? Did you fail an LPN program already? If you still have the option of getting...
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    Failed prerequisite, what options do I have

    Extra Pickles replied to mayapple16's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm cutting out all the backstory because in the end no one who makes these decisions is really going to care why you failed or why you didn't do well. The story won't matter, the grades will. 1....
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    Infection control + gloves

    Extra Pickles replied to eiwneon's topic in General Nursing

    your school and the facility you are in will tell you what to wear and when. You don't have any decisions to make in that. I wear gloves whenever there's a reasonably good chance of something warm...
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    Feeling a little down about taking a summer class

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

    I don't understand why this is such a big deal you are taking only one course this summer and you think your social life is in ruins? you know that nurses work all summer I hope, and that vacation...
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    Needlestick

    Extra Pickles replied to Ontariosn's topic in General Nursing

    people really need to think this through. if you pricked yourself with a pushpin would you freak out and run to the doctor? because you are more at risk for picking up whatever was on the pushpin...