chapril

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1. The Patient I Failed

   chapril replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Relations

   One has to wonder, Where is Utilization Review when really needed?

2. my techs are STILL walking all over me! help!

   chapril replied to NPs4health's topic in New Nurse

   As a student nurse, I had experienced a lot from techs - from positive, like showing me the ropes, eg, how to deal with quirky equipment - to negative, like showing how to do a disappearing act in 10,000 ways and still get away with it. Coming from a...

3. What to do with a crying patient

   chapril replied to LH1212's topic in New Nurse

   Thank you for your question, hope you found the answers as helpful and insightful as I did. May I ask where in the world you were given 12 weeks of orientation? So far, I have found facilities that provide only 8 weeks at most, and 3 workdays at lea...

4. Where are all the ULCA nurses at???

   chapril replied to natnurse23's topic in California

   COngratulations to you; I have met a couple of nurses who were New Grads at UCLA but went on to other places before I managed to ask them - How are the wages? Will someone commuting from OC, for example, survive the gas expenses? Thanks for any tip...

5. Need to study lab values

   chapril replied to A2008's topic in NCLEX

   hi, thanks so much for the help, really appreciate it.:bowingpur

6. Negligence From A Nursing Student

   chapril replied to mariesexiest's topic in General Students

   As a student nurse, I caught a would-be med error of the RN I was shadowing at the NICU; she pulled out the wrong (concentration) bag, and I am glad that I always copied the MAR entries for the day - thanks to the millions of CarePlans we had to subm...

7. Need to study lab values

   chapril replied to A2008's topic in NCLEX

   Hello, I am doing the F&E chapter of Saunders, 3rd Ed, and noticed in the pyramid terms for hypercalcemia, hyperkalemia, &c on p83 that certain lab values are not the same as the lab values I got from the NCSB review site. For example, NCSB ...