I'll just note that I have a bachelor's in public health, a bachelor's in nursing, and a master's in public health specializing in global health/infectious disease with 3+ years of nursing experience,...
The_nerve replied to ICU, RN, BSN, B.S.'s topic in General Nursing
This is why my policy is to never pay for "medical missions". Those organizations are doing more harm than good. Stick with legit places like MSF, Red Cross, Mercy Ships. They have strict criteria for...
I realize this is a very old post but I was wondering where you went to get that NP specialization? I just finished my MPH and I'm thinking about HIV/ID
The_nerve replied to Rin287's topic in Neurological
I work on a supposed neuro/surgical medical floor, level 1 stroke center, but the acuity is really more of step down. We still have a 5:1 nurse-patient ratio. The actual step down unit is 3:1 I think?...
My mother contracted Hep C from a needlestick from a dialysis patient and has a converted PPD. I just got over a likely case of pertussis contracted from who knows where?? We had no cases of pertussis...
I work for a large teaching hospital in the Midwest. We have lots of local adn and bsn programs. Probably half my coworkers are adn but I really couldn't tell you which. There's no differentiation....
My 24 year old brother very suddenly and unexpectedly died halfway through my program. I was five hours from home at school so I missed a few days of class and clinical to attend the services and try...
This is amazing. Great way to work out an issue in a very non confrontational way. Also I've been dying to ask one of our neurosurgeons if I can watch one of his stereotactic resections and you've...
That's completely absurd. I completed a year and a half accelerated bsn with honors. Almost every class had a project and paper. I did not do study groups, I prefer to study on my own. They were...