sissyboo

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  1. I feel you! I am sorry things are this way for you right now but you can make it! Here's some things I did while in school to get things done... Made notes of routine things to be done. I would even leave them posted next to places so there was a lit...
  2. Flush bag when giving IVP meds?

    I'm with the others! Look up the med and be sure to dilute properly! Flush, push med at correct rate, flush again using the same rate you did for the medication (there is still medication in the IV catheter). I hang a flush bag with piggyback medica...
  3. I'm a senior nursing student from an ADN program. Granted its only two years it's been a rough two years and my family has been GREAT at helping me get through this mess they call nursing school...still not quite done--but they are all still going st...
  4. Does any one know

    I don't know a mnemonic for it...I just work head to toe! A little A&P goes a long way for me!
  5. Anything thats not medical related! Be it going for a walk, listening to music, going for coffee with friends (usually non-nursing ones so you don't spend the whole time yacking about nursing school), cooking something awesome...whatever.. Since ther...
  6. Help with a math question presented on my quiz

    Short & Sweet GingerSue! Thanks!
  7. Help with a math question presented on my quiz

    me too!
  8. White scrub bottoms, royal blue polo shirt with school logo, white shoes If we choose to wear a lab coat it has to be white with a school patch on the left shoulder
  9. Help with a math question presented on my quiz

    I got 10mL 12mL 4x/day is 48mL/day 16oz converts to 480mL (16oz x 30mL/1oz) 480mL / 48mL per day = 10mL/day I'm not too great at these myself...correct me if I am wrong!
  10. How do you practice this??

    We practiced everything on mannequins. We had to locate sites for IMs on each other...since how its kinda blatantly obvious on a mannequin! But we never got to stick each other for any injections or IVs. We had practice arms for IV's. We had a wierd ...
  11. Soooo, you're observing in the Operating Room (O.R.)...

    Thanks for the info! I start my OR rotation in a couple of weeks, I hope this stuff is helpful! Keep it up!
  12. Things you would LOVE to say to your nursing instructors...

    I work my a** off for my grades. Keep it fair to the fullest extent possible--don't allow people to "get by"! Do not bash my actions in front of patients. I am not incompetent--I am a student. Be on time. I am paying YOU to teach--I don't get much o...
  13. Journal Writing for students

    We were very similar to previous posters. Simply write about what you learned, which things caused you some trouble, a goal to improve on it next time, anything you really liked or disliked, anything you had trouble understanding...whatever really! ...
  14. Cheaters-How does your school handle them?

    They receive a zero on the exam. Will have disciplinary action and possible expulsion. This applies to both people.
  15. Preparing for first semester of NS

    I didn't really know what to study ahead of time--but looking back...I would have... Reviewed medical terminology a little bit (sure you're nursing career doesn't rest on it--but it's purely memorization--it won't change in different schools and it w...