sweetyjen

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1. UCO nursing school

   sweetyjen replied to marilynmom's topic in Oklahoma

   I graduated from UCO in 2005. WONDERFUL program, and I can tell you that now, after working for almost 2 yrs in Med-Surg. Compared to my fellow coworkers that graduated the same time I did from other schools, I caught on super fast and felt and appe...

2. What would you do???

   sweetyjen posted a topic in Med-Surg

   ok...scenario.... a patient of yours comes to the floor after surgery with a pca pump. policy is that the pacu nurses hook it up prior to leaving recovery room then once to the floor, pacu nurse and floor nurse check it together. ok...so your pt has ...

3. For all the new nurses: who has had crazy dreams about work?! :)

   sweetyjen replied to christvs's topic in New Nurse

   Wow, this thread came at the perfect time!! I had the weirdest dreams last night! I dreamt I overslept and called into work at about 7:30 and asked to speak to our charge nurse. she wasn't there, so my coworker talked to me and told me it was ok, jus...

4. What do you think you're DOING???

   sweetyjen replied to NurCrystal22's topic in Med-Surg

   Hi! I'm a new graduate, have been on my med-surg floor since june. typically our ratios are 5-6 patients per nurse. On a great day, it's four, bad day 7. We get lots of abdominal surgeries, such as colon resections, hernia repair, appys, choleys. we ...

5. picc line & blood clots

   sweetyjen posted a topic in Infusion

   Hi! I am a new nurse working in Med-Surg. I had a patient today that had a picc in her arm...I noticed slight swelling when I did my morning assessment. Pt said it has been like that.She left the floor for a while and when she came back it was much w...

6. No More Demerol IV Push???

   sweetyjen replied to VickyRN's topic in Emergency

   Hi! I'm a new grad and yes, we learned that demerol is pretty much being "phased out". HOWEVER, I just had a post op patient today on a Demerol PCA! Very interesting. I have had demerol IV before and honestly, it worked for about 5 minutes tops...i t...

7. Let's introduce ourselves...

   sweetyjen replied to pedi-RN's topic in New Nurse

   Hi!!! I graduated May 6, took boards June 7 and have been actually practicing as a RN since June 9!! I started full time on the Med Surg unit of my hospital this week! What a wonderful feeling to know that a dream has been accomplished!!!!

8. Reaction to mosquitoe bite?

   sweetyjen replied to NicInNC's topic in General Nursing

   This same thing happened to my daughter a week ago. The bite on her leg got very swollen, red, hard, and hot. Looked like an infection. The back of her leg was swollen 2X normal. I took her to the Dr. and she said she has been seeing about 2 kids a d...

9. 75?'s for NCLEX, Don't know if I passed

   sweetyjen replied to KimRN03's topic in New Nurse

   HI! Well my computer shut off at 75 and I did pass. Of course, I couldn't tell you at that time that I did or not. Very hard test. A classmate of mine also had 75 questions and failed! So you really never know. Good luck to you!

10. When did you start working?

    sweetyjen replied to JoniL&DRN's topic in New Nurse

    Hi! Well I started looking for jobs a little before spring break of my senior year and actually applied during spring break. I had a job that week. The hospital said that their new grad positions fill up soon after spring break. I took the NCLEX last...

11. GN getting ready to take NCLEX

    sweetyjen replied to ambercrombie99's topic in New Nurse

    Hi! I just took the NCLEX and passed with 75 questions. :) A lot of the questions were almost identical to Kaplan's review questions. Kaplan's tests, were, in my opinion, hard. You feel like you're doing well and come out with a score of 60!! I think...

12. Weekend Results on Pearson?

    sweetyjen replied to blkdawn's topic in NCLEX

    congratulations!!!! :balloons:

13. NCLEX is anxiety

    sweetyjen replied to icukk's topic in NCLEX

    Hey!! Sounds like you have prepared very well. I took the NCLEX on Thursday and I also took the Kaplan review course. I will have to say that the majority of my questions were very very similar to those from Kaplan. I swear there was one exactly word...

14. Weekend Results on Pearson?

    sweetyjen replied to blkdawn's topic in NCLEX

    HI! I got my results this morning (Saturday) on Pearson's website!!! I passed too by the way!!!! :) Finally a RN!!! I took the NCLEX on Thursday at 9 am. When did you take yours? Good luck to you!!!

15. When is everybody starting work and what unit?

    sweetyjen replied to grinnurse's topic in New Nurse

    Start Monday, June 13 , med surg floor. lucky to get day shift!! well i guess, lucky for me since I have a 2 yr old (single mommy) :)