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1. Heparin drips

   justblink replied to brown rice's topic in General Nursing

   Our protocol is this: Anti X-A is drawn six hrs after initiating therapy; if sub-therapeutic, we follow the pre-printed bolus orders, bump up the units per hour, and put in another Anti X-a 6 hrs after changing the dose. If the Anti X-a is within th...

2. Infor ASAP on traveling to Medical Center of Louisiana?

   justblink replied to sunshine9403's topic in Travel

   It's not that bad. It's in downtown New Orleans, run by Louisiana State University. During Hurricane Katrina, the big Charity hospital (located just blocks from MCLNO) was flooded and has not reopened. Thus, MCLNO is known as the "interim Charity" t...

3. Tulane, West Jefferson, East Jefferson...Good places to work???

   justblink replied to vwsrmyfave's topic in Louisiana

   West Jeff is a sinking ship.

4. CSN Financial Aid

   justblink replied to Metry_RN's topic in Louisiana

   By all means, take out loans to make your life less stressful. Most of the hospitals in the area are paying $400/mo loan repayment when you graduate. I took out loans I didn't think I needed, but I promise you it was worth it.

5. Smartphone and Charity

   justblink replied to hope2-B-RN's topic in Louisiana

   I never used a PDA when I was at Charity. More than likely, you should have looked up your meds the prior evening. If you do need to look up something, however, there are always drug books laying around the unit. I brought mine to clinical anyway, th...

6. How is it to work at Ochsner?

   justblink replied to J Lynn's topic in Louisiana

   And they have raised New Grad rates. It's $22.50 for days now. I'm a new grad.

7. discouraged in getting to Charity

   justblink replied to destin504's topic in Louisiana

   Delgado didn't want to accept one of my higher-level math classes from Tulane. I was like "y'all are kidding, right? a community college isn't going to accept credit from a University?!" You can always appeal, and should do so ASAP. They are relative...

8. Kims Notes?

   justblink replied to scazbaby's topic in Louisiana

   You are right, they're not really important anymore. Most of the lectures are recorded and posted on blackboard. T-notes were awesome when that was your only way to "hear" the lectures over again. Now, tegrity also shows you the corresponding powerpo...

9. students attending charity fall 07

   justblink replied to baltic's topic in Louisiana

   Don't bother with a PDA. You'll need a drug guide book anyway (used to look up the meds you'll be giving the next day @ clinicals) so just use a post-it-note to mark the scheduled meds when you are researching your meds the night before. it's also ni...

10. Acceptable shoes for CSN students

    justblink replied to mimimartina's topic in Louisiana

    Personally I wore some adidas shoes that had a little bit of tan/gray on them. They were subtle, not blatant violations of the all-white policy. it's hard to find solid white tennis shoes that don't look like something for the elderly mall-walkers! S...

11. Fundamental Success Book/Basic

    justblink replied to PaxMaster's topic in Louisiana

    some test questions from my 1st semester (Basics) came straight from that book. however, the library has several copies. i didn't want to pay the $50 for the book. Never used it again after 1st semester.

12. Jan 07, Charity School of Nursing, hopefully!

    justblink replied to southlandrn's topic in Louisiana

    HOPE-- you should apply to charity NOW and take the PAX-RN test NOW. I think it's offered every 3 months (could be totally wrong on that, though). Call Delgado -- City Park's campus was my testing center. I say that because it takes about a year fro...

13. Chairty fall 06 applicant--anyone else??

    justblink replied to Cmunst45636's topic in Louisiana

    OH -- not all the T-Notes are totally accurate word-for-word. My coworker graduated with Teresa (the namesake) in ~1998. she basically recorded lectures and went home to re-type what she heard. So, the instructor lecturing on Fluids & Electrolyte...

14. Chairty fall 06 applicant--anyone else??

    justblink replied to Cmunst45636's topic in Louisiana

    I have the T-notes. I can send them via email as Word document attachments. E-mail me if you want them! [email protected] CASN (Charity Assoc of Student Nurses) also sells them burned to a disc for (i think!) $5. or maybe it's $1. I just finished ...