NurseShell

NurseShell

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  1. Another book question from me!

    A friend of mine gave me her careplan books (she just graduated) and I use them a lot for interventions and rationales!! I know what I want to do in my care plans - but the books help me to word them and come up with complete rationales!! Barnes &am...
  2. How Nursing Has Changed Me

    Wow Wendy!! You bout made me cry!! I may have to quote you - awesome "speech" material Even though I'm still on the road to 'becoming' a nurse - I am definitely transforming into a "different" person than I've been - and this is a GOOD thing! Self-...
  3. Careplan help

    Here's a trick I've heard...Barnes&Noble and Borders book stores will let you "browse" their books (i.e. read them in the store) and my local branches carry Care Plan books.
  4. Great clinical!!

    GOOD FOR YOU!!! Glad your day was fantastic! Now...remember this feeling when you have another "bad" one!! That's the trick! Hold on to the really good ones to pick you up when you're down!!
  5. New Nurse Prevention!

    I'm guessing it was meant to be a scare tactic...were you notified in advance that this film was to be shown?? We got a notice from my daughter's teacher (she's in 5th grade) that they were gonna have "the" talk this week. The "permission" slip at ...
  6. "Well, it says to do two legs"

    I have my "blonde moments" you know?! I've saved a couple people from humiliating themselves with incredibly stupid questions - but some people just can't be helped!! i.e. when discussing the ration/proportion method for drug dosage calc. which is ba...
  7. When you have an "I hate my job" day, try this

    EWWWWW!! That's a Nass-tay image
  8. Best compliment ever!!

    WOO HOO!!! You go!! For the record - I remember my nurses' names from all three of my births!! Lucy, Leslie, and Polly Lucy had really long beautiful hair and she was so sweet to me!! She held my long hair back while I "hurled" and held my hand when ...
  9. Here's what we did - we itemize, and this only applies to those that itemize on their taxes: Anything that you HAVE to buy for school is a write-off uniforms stethoscope shoes tools, whatever CPR class AND if you buy REQUIRED textbooks at your campus...
  10. Where are YOU on Maslow's Heirarchy?

    I tried that link...it said "I could not find the quiz"
  11. The FINAL scope thread

    That's the one I have - LOVE it!!! Hubby bought it for me... Had to use a different one once - it was terrible!!! Get this one!!!
  12. Hand lotion

    Guess what?! The Kaiser hospital in San Diego has that policy! And they DO confiscate any lotion brought in from home. When my clinical was there during orientation the told us under no circumstances were we to bring our own lotions with us to the h...
  13. Cheating In School

    We had a girl first semester that was caught "cheating" and she was asked to leave!!! Good riddance!! This stuff is too important to cheat!!!
  14. I think it was about $500 not including scrubs, stethoscope, shoes, etc
  15. New to the site

    Welcome!