NurseGizmo

NurseGizmo has 9 years experience and specializes in peds, family med.

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1. RN ~ BSN @ 55 ?

   NurseGizmo replied to tjmrn's topic in General Nursing

   I live in california, am 53 and attending the online RN to BSN program at University of Texas Arlington. It is going good so far. At this point the most difficult work was getting all my transcripts to them. I say never to old, and the positions tha...

2. How many triage nurses does your clinic have?

   NurseGizmo replied to elprup's topic in Ambulatory

   We have Five stand alone clinics,which run 80 providers in just the clinics, all primary care and specialties. We have two Clinical Resource nurses each in the two largest sites, One in our call center and then we have two smaller sites that have RN...

3. Does/Can an RN give anesthetics before procedures such as skin biopsy, laser surgery,

   NurseGizmo replied to 50kn's topic in Ambulatory

   I am a RN supervisor for a very large facility in california. In the state of california it is NOT in the scope of practice for a medical assistant to inject any type of anastetic (spelling?its late been up since 5am) including lidocaine mixed with R...

4. RN/firefighter policies and procedures

   NurseGizmo replied to ERRN324's topic in General Nursing

   I have spoke with the California RN board regarding RN's working in a lower lisc. position but with an RN lisc. I have an Lisc. RN working as an LVN. According to the Bon. The scope she must work under is the lvn. However she will be held accountab...

5. 1st med error

   NurseGizmo posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have made a med error in administration and I feel terrible. I have been an RN for 4 years, and with one staff member out sick, md trying to get me to do three different patient requests at the same time, and a patient that needed an injection an...

6. TIPS/Info for passing NCLEX

   NurseGizmo replied to paula77720's topic in NCLEX

   I took the RN NCLEX last week here in california. I passed with 140 questions. I was nervous since I had been on Jury duty for the last two weeks and had very little time to study. I studied with Saunders review, and I took practice tests online. ...

7. Taking an infant's temp.

   NurseGizmo replied to kbclary4's topic in Ob/Gyn

   In our peds office we take oral usually 3-4 yrs and up, axill for the rest, rectal only by md order, and I have been testing the exergen temporal, and so far it matches with my ax or oral temps taken with the welch allyn sure temps. I once had a la...