APinkston

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1. Assessing pain in pediatrics

   APinkston replied to stnurse421's topic in Pediatric

   I am doing my Ped. rotation at Scottish Rite. The nurses there use the smiley face scale to assess pain. I think this is a great scale to use for children because it is better to understand for them. They can associate different faces with feelings ...

2. PICC lines

   APinkston replied to stnurse421's topic in Pediatric

   Last week in my Ped. rotation, I had a 3 1/2 month old with a PICC line in his upper arm. This was the first time I ever saw a PICC line, so I don't have much experience with them. The day I was caring for the patient, no fluids were being administer...

3. Any experiences with Down's syndrome?

   APinkston posted a topic in Pediatric

   I am currently in my Ped. rotation and go to an early intervention center for children with developmental delays. There are several children there with Down's syndrome and all seem to be happy and have no behavioral problems for the most part. For e...

4. Question about Marfan syndrome

   APinkston posted a topic in Pediatric

   I am a second year nursing student and currently in my Ped. rotation. I recently watched an educational video on Marfan syndrome. I learned that this disease is a genetic disorder, and if a patient is suspected of having the syndrome and there is a ...

5. Question about Atrial Septal Defect

   APinkston posted a topic in PICU

   I am a nursing student and currently in my Peds rotation. Last week in post cnference, we learned about atrial septal defect. What nursing care is given to a patient with this defect? What complications will the patient have? Have any of you had exer...

6. Question about Atrial Septal Defect

   APinkston posted a topic in Pediatric

   I am a nursing student and currently in my Pedi rotation. Last rotation in post conference, we learned about atrial septal defect. What nursing care is given to a patient with this defect? What complications will the patient have? Have any of you ha...

7. Fundal Pressure

   APinkston replied to at your cervix's topic in Ob/Gyn

   :) I am a nursing student at North Georgia College and State University and finished my OB rotation about 4 weeks ago. I am also attending a maternal-child health nursing class, so I have learned a few things about fundal pressure. It is a definite ...

8. Stress relief

   APinkston replied to Ortho_RN's topic in General Students

   I am also on Prozac because of dealing with depression for many years, even before college. I started taking antidepressents when I started college because the stress seemed to make things worse for me. I still have a hard time with trying to reliev...

9. help me

   APinkston replied to gulle valliani's topic in Pediatric

   There is so much information on cerebral palsy on the internet. Just put the word into the search engine and many websites, articles, etc will be available for you to explore. I am doing some research for a formal paper due in one of my nursing class...

10. Infant abduction

    APinkston replied to merliza's topic in Pediatric

    I am a nursing student at North Georgia College and State University. When I went on my OB rotation at North East Georgia Medical Center in Gainsville, they had the parent banding policy. Havng the parent banding policy is great so the parents of t...

11. Don't forget to take care of yourself too!!!

    APinkston replied to jschut's topic in General Students

    I think that you have stress-management down pretty good. I try to do things for myself in order to help relieve stress from nursing school. The only problem is, is that I feel like I don't have any time to study for nursing, let alone take time way ...

12. Hepatitis B Vaccine... Needing Answers

    APinkston replied to AmyL219's topic in General Students

    It has probably been frustrating and scary for you to find out that your body never made antibodies against Hep. B, even though you got the series. I am sure you have talked to your doctor about now and hopefully he has told you some reassuring thing...

13. Pitocin

    APinkston replied to TineAngelo's topic in General Students

    I am in OB clinical rotation at a hospital that uses pitocin as the standard protocol. The majority of the patients are induced and given pitocin to increase contractions. Pitocin is also given after delivery to help the uterus continue to contract i...

14. Im in pain.

    APinkston replied to BrandyBSN's topic in General Students

    Brandy, I'm sorry that you had to go through that pain after being given a flu shot. I think its really unfortunate that you went to get a flu shot and had to suffer pain from it! It seems like you were feeling a little better the next day. Hopefuly,...

15. A Clinical Observation Question

    APinkston replied to nursenat1's topic in General Students

    Hi! I am a second year nursing student and I had an opportunity to observe in the ER last semester. Because the hospital was fairly small and another hospital was located near it, the ER was not busy at all. So, patients would come in for infections ...