arizonanurse

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1. Yelled at nursing station by doctor

   arizonanurse replied to longjourneydream's topic in New Nurse

   I would not let it rest here. You were perfectly in the right and it was rude and unprofessional of the doctor to act like that. If you say nothing more and hope the whole thing just blows over, you are encouraging him to repeat the same thing again....

2. Funny Doctor Situations

   arizonanurse replied to Ubernurse's topic in Humor

   One of our doctors made a mistake on one of his orders, so I took the chart over to him as he was walking out to leave and asked him to correct it. He asked me for a pen, and both me and the unit clerk handed him a pen at the same time. Now, our unit...

3. CLEP Tests?

   arizonanurse replied to jalgray's topic in General Nursing

   I took the CLEPs for biology and chemistry, and it was well worth not having to take the courses. The bio was easier than the chem, I thought. I felt like I was guessing on most of the questions but I passed with a pretty good score. The way I looked...

4. Nursing diagnosis

   arizonanurse replied to Liebchen's topic in General Nursing

   No, I've never used a nursing diagnosis since I graduated. In my mind, they are a waste of time. I've heard the arguments that they "teach you how to think," but personally I never found them useful. I wish nursing school would focus more on the comm...

5. RN to BSN online program?

   arizonanurse replied to AfghaniPrinzess's topic in Arizona

   You do clinicals in your own community (you're responsible for setting them up), but they're not "clinicals" in the ADN sense. For example, one of the assignments was to shadow a leader in your hospital and write a paper on the leadership qualities y...

6. RN to BSN online program?

   arizonanurse replied to AfghaniPrinzess's topic in Arizona

   I did an online RN to BSN program through Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff (http://www.nau.edu). I never had to go to the campus at all.

7. contact precautions questions

   arizonanurse replied to stayingoutoftrouble's topic in General Nursing

   I wanted to add that it doesn't matter if the MRSA culture came from the wound...you still initiate contact precautions. And any MRSA culture from the past (for example, you have a patient admitted that had a MRSA positive culture a year ago) means c...

8. contact precautions questions

   arizonanurse replied to stayingoutoftrouble's topic in General Nursing

   At our hospital, all meals for contact precautions patients are in disposable containers. In addition, all patient care equipment should be "dedicated" to that patient. There should be a seperate BP cuff, stethoscope, thermometer, Accucheck meter, et...

9. Could she do this?

   arizonanurse replied to jenni82104's topic in General Nursing

   Okay, I'm going to play devil's advocate here, but we don't know the whole story and we really can't judge the nurse without it. Say you have a patient on Vanco and Timentin pending culture results, culture comes back at 0600 as MRSA. MD won't be in ...

10. Medical Terminology & Abbrevations Game :)

    arizonanurse replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    nope...try again or how about NC or NP (hint: means the same thing)

11. Medical Terminology & Abbrevations Game :)

    arizonanurse replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    postdates induction of labor LCTA

12. What did u buy your first year of nursing?

    arizonanurse replied to rn2bn07's topic in New Nurse

    I bought a used Honda Civic for $3700 and saved most of the rest for graduate school tuition. I did let myself splurge a little more - ate out about once a week, whereas when I was in nursing school I NEVER ate out; went shopping when I needed new cl...

13. What's In Your Pocket?

    arizonanurse replied to AmyD_RN's topic in New Nurse

    Stethoscope (I don't like wearing it around my neck, so it goes in my pocket) Tape Alcohol wipes Bandage scissors IV caps Lots of pens, since I always seem to lose them My report sheet My cell phone My car keys with a calculator key chain (can't coun...

14. IVs.... When will I be good at this?

    arizonanurse replied to TigerGalLE's topic in New Nurse

    I probably did about 10 IVs in nursing school, and got about 70% of them. Not great, but I didn't think I was horrible either. Then I started working. For the first three months I did not get one IV. I'd get flashback, but then I'd blow every. single...

15. This has been really getting on my nerves lately...

    arizonanurse replied to GregRN's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, these are my pet peeves. It doesn't get to me when I read it but when someone says it, oh my gosh, it's like nails grating on a chalkboard. umbil-EYE-cus (accent on the third syllable) instead of umBILicus "reversible isolation" - we have a nig...