Alloush replied to Jennifer George's topic in Informatics
Since there is a huge deficit in NI nurses, many hospitals and EMR tech companies hire nurses and they train them to do the informatics part. Ofcourse with the lack of experience and degree the salary will be on the low side but after 2 years in Info...
I did my MSN in NI at Walden Uni. 100% online classes except for the internship hours where I had them at my hospital's informatics department. It was pretty easy and I was out of school since 2008 (started my MSN in 2015-2016). I recently moved to t...
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I am a Registered Nurse from Lebanon (the country) and I am working on my immigration visa. I was granted a job opportunity at chi st vincent infirmary and I am moving there next May. I know nothing about life and work there and I would ...
Salam wait a little bit. a WBC of 5000 or 4000 or 3000 or 2000 or even 1000 is perfect for a cancer patient on chemotherapy. and she doesnt need any neupogen support when her count is like that. we usually start neupogen for Neutropenic patients wh...
Alloush replied to pcarmichael's topic in Oncology
Salam dont forget to check the blood studies. especially SGPT and Billirubin. and some of the studies are specific for different medications. u must be aware of them. wear double gloves, gown, face mask, eye shield, hair cover and shoe cover. mor...
Salam maybe it is late. but reading about the diagnosis is all what u need at this point. everything else will be taught to u on the unit. good luck :)
Salam i chose peds onco myself. and it was my first position. it broke my heart several times. and it will a lot more. but making this child smiles is my goal and seeing him happy is what keeps me going. someitmes i try not get attached to the babi...
Alloush replied to nurse_runner's topic in Oncology
Salam it is preferable not to get urself exposed. when any one of my friends r pregnant we ( the males ) usually hang the bags and connect them to the patient's IV set. and then we deaccess them. it is better to stay away from chemo.
Alloush replied to Susan Patterson's topic in Oncology
Salam 99% of the time we give it as SQ ( slowlyyyy ). when the patient doesnt pick up and remains neutropenic we give it IV. we dilute according to the pharmacy policy. and each dose has different dilution. we stop all running IVs and IV medication...
Salam most of my patients have Polysite ... our routine is flushing the polysite with 500u heparin in 5ml NSS IVP BID. and we use the same concentration before deaccessing the needle. if the patient weighs less than 10 kilo grams we flush the pol...
Alloush replied to sundayspaper's topic in Pre-Nursing
Salam if u want a job just when u r done with ur school ... go to nursing if u go to medical assistant u will get paid as much as half of what u will get in nursing even less it is true .. it is hard .. it costs a lot .. but if u think u can sacrific...
Salam i proposed and she accepted we've been together for 4 years lool it was expected to agree on that oh yeah ... it is coool no NCLEX .. we have a board exam (lebanese version) it is really simple .. 1 or 2 oral questions ... no written mater...