HillNPStudent

HillNPStudent specializes in Med-surg, Critical Care.

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1. Adverse Effect of Steroids?

   HillNPStudent posted a topic in NP

   I had a patient return to see me that I had given a steroid injection to a couple months ago. She returning complaining of dimpling in her gluteal muscle where the injection was administered. I know this is a potential risk of steroid injections, but...

2. CCU Back to the Floor?

   HillNPStudent posted a topic in CCU

   Has anyone went from working in the unit back to working a cardiac telemetry unit? The reason I ask is that I am beginning my final year of FNP school this fall. I have been working nightshift in our CCU and while I LOVE the unit, I HATE nightshift! ...

3. Where Do I Start?

   HillNPStudent posted a topic in NP

   I am an FNP student with two semesters left of school. The majority of my graduate education I have financed with student loans. I would say upon graduation I will have roughly $20,000 to pay back. I work in Kentucky where the state will pay back stu...

4. Hypochondriac Nurses

   HillNPStudent replied to HillNPStudent's topic in General Nursing

   Oh my! Well I'm SO glad to know others are out there like me! I have seriously considered in the past that maybe I DID have a mental health problem and should go be put on medication. I do believe it's stress from working with so many sick people and...

5. Hypochondriac Nurses

   HillNPStudent replied to HillNPStudent's topic in General Nursing

   Well let's see...since beginning nursing school years ago I have been self-diagnosed with lymphoma, MI, colon cancer, brain tumor, basically anything that was in the textbooks we discussed in class. If I could find a similar symptom, I had it. Also, ...

6. Hypochondriac Nurses

   HillNPStudent posted a topic in General Nursing

   Anyone work with any of these? In both hospitals I have worked I have seen nurses of all ages hooking themselves up to monitors-telemetry, EKGs, pulse-ox, BPs, worried over the smallest things. How common of a practice is this? One nurse I work with...

7. Oral Presentation

   HillNPStudent replied to HillNPStudent's topic in Post Graduate

   Yes, I LOVE powerpoint. I am actually using it for this presentation. I have done presentations before and I usually do fine other than the nerves-it's just the dread leading up to it that gets me.

8. Oral Presentation

   HillNPStudent posted a topic in Post Graduate

   Ok, so in about two weeks I have to do an oral presentation on my research project for one of my MSN FNP classes. Can I say- I HATE ORAL PRESENTATIONS! Does anyone have any good suggestions for how to get through it? It is a fifteen minute deal....m...

9. Need help with deciding when to start FNP school

   HillNPStudent replied to moonberry's topic in NP

   I agree with the other posts...I had two years of experience in med-surg and then critical care before I began my FNP program. I am now in my third semester and just beginning clinicals. One thing I chose to do is to complete the program part-time wh...

10. Docs need to grow up! (Long post!)

    HillNPStudent replied to HillNPStudent's topic in General Nursing

    I definitely agree w/ all of the above. The dayshift nurse explained that she tried to get him to speak w/ the nurse manager, but he was so insistent and would not wait. The clerk spoke to me when I asked and then handed him the phone. I should've ju...

11. Docs need to grow up! (Long post!)

    HillNPStudent replied to HillNPStudent's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I finally got so tired of trying to unsuccessfully explain to him that he had not given me an order to move the patient, and if that was his idea of an order than he needs to clarify himself better next time if he expects his orders to be commu...

12. Docs need to grow up! (Long post!)

    HillNPStudent posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok, well, it is truly getting on my nerves how SOME physicians can act like the biggest, immature babies! Yesterday I had a patient who had just been extubated, was on a nasal cannula yet would desat quickly to low 70's with any sort of exertion. Our...

13. I'm an ADRENALINE junkie...and I'M SCARED!

    HillNPStudent replied to pikevillenursing21's topic in Emergency

    Hey Pike! I too am from that area, maybe you are familiar with Belfry? I did not attend Pikeville College, however, moved away to school. I have been a nurse now for a couple years; I started working post-graduation in Lexington on a post open-heart ...

14. Beginning Clinical Rotations

    HillNPStudent posted a topic in NP

    Well, I have just finished another semester of my FNP program. I now have one full year under my belt! Since I am just going through part-time b/c of working full-time, I have four semesters left. I will be beginning my first clinical rotation this ...

15. How much do you owe in loans?

    HillNPStudent replied to Butterfly3001's topic in General Nursing

    I will be graduating in May 2008, with my MSN as a Family Nurse Practitioner. I have already been an RN for two years; am now working in the CCU at our local hospital. I currently have a total of 18,000 combined undergrad and graduate student loan am...