O2WSW ADN

O2WSW has 16 years experience as a ADN.

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1. Do you wear rings on your fingers to work?

   O2WSW replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

   Me & my husband had each others names tattooed on our ring fingers. I also have a plain, smooth band that is not a part of my wedding ring set, but I usually wear it to work and slide it out of the way when I wash my hands.

2. removing tegaderm

   O2WSW replied to godbless-yute's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah, I have used alcohol wipes with success if really sticky and on sensitive, delicate skin. I was changing the dressing on a PICC line and the pt's skin was coming off with it, so used the alcohol wipe in that case with much luck (more comfortable...

3. Using Same Equipement on all Patients?

   O2WSW replied to Atl_John's topic in General Nursing

   This is also something I think about. I clean my stethoscope A LOT - after every patient, before & after I work a shift, ect. because I figure it is like hand washing, it's going with me from patient to patient. I came across a site that has dis...

4. removing tegaderm

   O2WSW replied to godbless-yute's topic in General Nursing

   The easiest way is to start at an edge and pull and stretch the tegaderm horizontal, not straight up as you would with tape. Continue doing this all the way around the IV site until you are ready to remove it.

5. I was blamed for a medication error I didn't do!

   O2WSW replied to ponderpoema's topic in General Nursing

   This is what I was wondering about. I know that when I was doing my preceptorship I was practicing under my preceptor's license. Any mistakes/errors I would have made (and not that you did) would have been on her license since I was a student at the ...

6. April 2008 NCLEX test takers, COME ON IN!

   O2WSW replied to MMARN's topic in NCLEX

   Hello! I am finally taking the NCLEX-RN on April 7th (I graduated 12/07). I have been using the review CDs from Lippincott, Mosby, Saunders, along with Saunders NCLEX-RN review book plus ATI review books/CDs I have from nursing school. ATI also has ...

7. How is this fair?????????

   O2WSW replied to jg11785's topic in General Nursing

   I just graduated this month and my school used the ATI tests. We took them on different subjects each semester and the graduate predictor near the end of the program. We had to take all of them in order to graduate, but they did not have any impact o...

8. Question for Current nursing students

   O2WSW replied to lulu1224's topic in General Students

   I graduate from my ADN program on Saturday J Chemistry was required before we could take our A&P classes. We didn’t see the relevance of chem & nursing while we were studying the periodic table of elements, but it turned out to be a good fou...

9. Went to a pinning ceremony...I was disgusted...

   O2WSW replied to justme1972's topic in General Students

   I am going to my school pinning ceremony...tomorrow J Our class has a great committee who had sent out a survey to everyone that would be attending pinning. They asked us if we wanted to have food and drinks, flowers, decorations, a photographer, mu...