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  1. Ivy Tech - Terre Haute ASN program

    Crystle_clear posted a topic in Indiana Nursing

    Hi, just wondering if anybody out there will be applying for or have completed the ASN program in Terre Haute. I'm applying this month for the fall semester and I am sooooo nervous I won't make it in....

  2. Keeping the faith.

    Crystle_clear posted a topic in Indiana Nursing

    Hey just wanted to give you guys some encouraging news. I got my letter last Wednesday from Ivy Tech Terre Haute for their ASN program for the fall semester and.....I got in!!!! (yah Happy Dance!)...

  3. I have never met anyone like her...

    Crystle_clear replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Shay, I feel your pain. I worked on a psych unit specifically for borderline personalities for about a year. It was the longest year of my life. Imagine working everyday with 16 of those people. They...

  4. Med techs

    Crystle_clear replied to jennyga's topic in General Nursing

    I'm working as a QMA (qualified medication aide) right now while I finish nursing school. In Indiana to become a QMA you must have worked as a CNA or certified psychiatric technician for 1000 hours,...

  5. Ivy Tech - Terre Haute ASN program

    Crystle_clear replied to Crystle_clear's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Thanks guys for all your replies. I've been stressing myself out over this whole thing for over a year. I'll just be glad to KNOW one way or the other so I can finally relax. My fiance will be glad...

  6. Not for profit vs for profit facility?

    Crystle_clear replied to veegeern's topic in General Nursing

    I work for a not for profit psych facility and it is sooooo wonderful. I don't know if it just my facility, but they really listen to the employee needs. There are no dangerous cost cutting measures...

  7. Need help talking with new RN

    Crystle_clear posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work in a 18 bed psychiatric facility. I was a case manager there, but now that I'm in my 2nd semester of nursing school I've switched posistions to a QMA. Recently a new RN was hired to work the 2...

  8. Need help talking with new RN

    Crystle_clear replied to Crystle_clear's topic in General Nursing

    We do have a two week orientation period where the new nurses follow another nurses around and learn the basics of the unit. After that period a case manager or therapist is assingned to the nurse to...

  9. Md's Against Crna's?

    Crystle_clear replied to LLL123's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Thank you for proving my point about prejudice without knowing the facts. I got my QMA to help pay for my nursing school and I have several years of pre-pharmacy under my belt. It seems the nurses on...

  10. Md's Against Crna's?

    Crystle_clear replied to LLL123's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I'm just pointing out some of the hypocrisy I've read in these forums,

  11. An idea: Change of Shift Report Form

    Crystle_clear replied to drd19's topic in General Nursing

    Our forms are printed up on night shift ready for the day with the pt. name, age, diagnosis, MD, and legal status(ie. commitment, has gaurdian), and V\S from the 0600 rounds. Throughout the day we add...

  12. An idea: Change of Shift Report Form

    Crystle_clear replied to drd19's topic in General Nursing

    My facility has a "daily report sheet". It is actually more of a booklet because there are two pts. on each page. Throughout the day the secretary write all new orders on it as well as the MAR's and...

  13. Did you care for a psych patient today?

    Crystle_clear replied to onconurseRT's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a psych facility too. The thing that makes me so mad is the poor treatment that our patient recieve when at the emergency room. We are a free standing facility, so we have no access to...

  14. Md's Against Crna's?

    Crystle_clear replied to LLL123's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I don't see any difference between the two. It is still prejudice against a person's ability to do their assigned job based soley on their job title or the letters behind their name. All I am trying...

  15. Md's Against Crna's?

    Crystle_clear replied to LLL123's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    A qualified medication

  16. Md's Against Crna's?

    Crystle_clear replied to LLL123's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I seems to me that mabye the MD's feel the same way about CRNA's that nurses feel about QMA's. I'm not say that this prejudice is right but as a QMA, I been suject to more than my share of "talking...

  17. Help! What is BS/FS q 6 hrs with coverage??

    Crystle_clear replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in Medical-Surgical

    It is an order to test blood sugar every 6 hours and cover with insulin, usually on a sliding scale.

  18. Pharm Tech?

    Crystle_clear replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hi, I was a pharmacy technician for two years in a retail setting. I recently got my QMA (qualified medication aide) certification and my expereience as a pharmacy tech helped tremendously in passing...

  19. I started work as a QMA, what is with the LPN's attitude?

    Crystle_clear posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I recieved my QMA (qualified medicaiton aide) certification and my employeer created a posistion for me on our psych floor. I love the new posistion ( and pay increase:chuckle) and I love the...

  20. I started work as a QMA, what is with the LPN's attitude?

    Crystle_clear replied to Crystle_clear's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You know, a nursing student friend of mine told me that allnurses was a placed where opinions could be discussed and I could recieve some good advice form nurses. I posted a completlely neutral...

  21. I started work as a QMA, what is with the LPN's attitude?

    Crystle_clear replied to Crystle_clear's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm not sure what kind of facility you work at, but where I work, the RN's would much rather keep a hardworking and dependable "stupid" aide, than error prone and self important LPN. Mabye I just work...

  22. I started work as a QMA, what is with the LPN's attitude?

    Crystle_clear replied to Crystle_clear's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm not really sure what you were trying to imply with that comment but I only meant that if she refuses to work with me, for what ever reason, then she'll have to be moved to a shift that I don't...

  23. I started work as a QMA, what is with the LPN's attitude?

    Crystle_clear replied to Crystle_clear's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Marie, I know she used the term "stupid" because she unknowingly was talking to a personal friend of my mine that happens to be one of the RN's. She used it like " That stupid girl shouldn't be...

  24. do staffs have a right not to send pt to hospital?

    Crystle_clear replied to Ms.RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I work in a psych facility that attracts TONS of drug seekers, and they know the system well enought to realize that once they get admitted for being "suicidal" our hospital foots the bill for their...