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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. I have an A in all my pre-reqs, but I haven't bee...

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!) Anyway, just want to tell all you guys and gals still...

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 certainly have a knack for just sucking the life ...

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, pass a pharmacology course with an 82% or above, co...

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 too. I'm sure he is tired of having to hear me gripp...

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 or cutting hours. Plus, as an added perk, since it ...

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 days the regular evening nurse is off. While she i...

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 help them acclimate to the psych side of things, l...

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 here think that you just walk in to a room and sig...

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

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 new orders, and bx comments and happenings.

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 the tech's and nurses all write the basic of the cl...

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 medical supplies or diagnostic equipment. When we have ...

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 to say is that everyone deserves respect no matter...

A qualified medication aide

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 down to", especially on this website. Before everyon...

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

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 the Pharmacology portion. I already knew almost al...

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 challenge of working with meds. I was a pharmacy student f...

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 message and the only responses I recieved back were full...

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 at a better place than most.

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 work. Since there is already a fully staffed day shif...

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 allowed to pass meds, I'm the nurse here not her." My f...

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 "backpain" visit to the ER to get the morphine and ...