Former vet tech thinking about becoming an RN

I have been a licensed vet tech for over 11 years and an unlicensed one for about 8 years before that. I am contemplating a career change due to low pay, low respect, and no job opportunities where I live. I may have been accepted into a program at t

Moving as a nurse

Hello all! I am currently in my last couple weeks of nursing school. I graduate May 8th and I've accepted my first job as an RN and I start June 8th on a busy Med/Surg floor. I'm very excited because I've been working on the same floor as a tech f

CCM Exam

Hi Everyone!!

Planning on taking the CCM this fall. Have read alot of the posts and taken note of the recommended study materials and tips.

If anyone has any CCM study books/guides/flashcards that you are interested in selling or parting with, please

renal patients

I just had some questions about renal patients as i do not have a lot of experience, just wondering:

-If a patients BUN and UREA is elevated what do doctors typically order? or do they just get dialysis? what happens if BUN and UREA is elevated in a

Volunteer work?

Hey everybody, I'm an RPSGT (sleep tech) and wondering about going back to school.

I love what I do, but I managed to pick pretty much the only healthcare profession I can think of that is more or less useless in a Médecins sans Frontières kind of

Summer 2015 fnp at twu houston

Anybody going for the summer fnp at Houston campus this summer?

New nurse advice to make more money in Houston!

1 Take whatever job you can get especially in those major hospitals (hermann, methodist, childrens, St Lukes) as this puts you in the system there. Now here is the good part, once you have experience you can transfer into what field you like. Once yo

Snark of the day

Read for comprehension

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the posts in blue are responses from the OP. It was so nice when I figured it out about the blue posts!

what's on your whiteboard?

Hello all,

First of all, let me get this out of the way... I'm Drew... not a nurse, but a technology researcher guy for healthcare. I've been asking some of my friends in nursing about their experiences, but I'd like to reach out to wider set of d

Labor and delivery in Austin Texas

Hello fellow nurses,

I have worked in Labor and Delivery for the last 3 years at UCLA Santa Monica in California. I love my co-workers and my hospital's environment. The patient ratios are fair, they use evidence based practice, the benefits are out