Badger4lfe262

Badger4lfe262 has 3 years experience and specializes in Cardiovascular medical/surgical.

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1. Favorite CCRN Book

   Badger4lfe262 replied to kgpatterson87's topic in MICU

   Laura G wins my vote the videos and her question book as well as PASS CCRN questions, don't bother with the book it will make your head spin. Kaplan's book was worthless, not enough detail and the online questions were not pertinent to the content ac...

2. Oklahoma City University accelerated BSN acceptance?

   Badger4lfe262 replied to veebeeG's topic in Oklahoma

   I know it has been a little bit since people have posted but I just wanted to post on here from an alumni perspective. I graduated in May 2010 from the Accelerated BSN program and I am more than happy with the education I received at OCU. Some of the...

3. The worst code you've seen?

   Badger4lfe262 replied to jesshopper12's topic in General Nursing

   When I was in nursing school I was spending my day in the peds ER, 6 yo child comes in, apparently a frequent visitor to this ER with a lot of chronic problems, he was found down at home and is 20 minutes out by the time he gets to ER. His stomach wa...

4. IV Answers

   Badger4lfe262 replied to Nursebabe2009's topic in Medications

   We normally run Zosyn over 30 minutes

5. Demerol dosage

   Badger4lfe262 replied to myk_RN's topic in Medications

   I work on a surgical care floor, pain is one of our biggest issues of course. I normally have no problem getting pain meds for a patient but when one of my patients started talking to me about the dosing chart and how heroin ranks compared to morphin...

6. List your school if you use HESI exit exam.

   Badger4lfe262 replied to djsolji's topic in General Students

   Oklahoma City University

7. New Grad positions, is anyone in WI hiring?

   Badger4lfe262 replied to settinggirl's topic in Wisconsin

   Aspirus Wausau Hospital is hiring on new grads still. In my orientation alone there were 6 new grads hired, so try applying with them. The pay is a little lower than Madison though the cost of living is lower. Good luck!

8. How can I maximize my learning experience at clinical?

   Badger4lfe262 replied to Spikey9001's topic in General Nursing

   Do the best you can with what you are given. Some days you will be with what seems like a nurse that doesn't want anything to do with you. This happened to me often in school, but if you put forth the effort and dig in that is all you can do, some nu...

9. Just curious- What do you use on the floor?

   Badger4lfe262 replied to MJB2010's topic in General Nursing

   We have electronic scanners that also have some charting flow sheets so we can do pain assessment, med administration, acknowledge orders etc.

10. Stay on crazy med-surg or unemployment

    Badger4lfe262 replied to soragamii's topic in New Nurse

    Stay at your job, the job market right now stinks and a lot of people I talked to recently that just started where I just started said no one took their LPN time as experience!! Money is better than no money and it is always easier to find a job whil...

11. Oklahoma City University

    Badger4lfe262 replied to Den1978's topic in Pre-Nursing

    No they do not have an entrance exam, as long as you meet all the pre-reqs with the needed GPA you are accepted in. The way they tell if you meet the pre-reqs is that Miss Clarey will request an unofficial transcript first and then sometimes they nee...

12. NEED HELP...

    Badger4lfe262 replied to Amogul25's topic in NCLEX

    I recommend Kaplan, I took it and think it made all the difference in the world. The diagnostic test allows you to see what content you are lacking knowledge on and they have over 30 hours of content video for you to watch. This personally was the be...

13. How do I know if I'm ready for NCLEX???

    Badger4lfe262 replied to howcanthisb's topic in NCLEX

    Remember, the longer you put it off, the more information you will probably forget and the more anxious you will become. Make sure you know your lab values and common endings for drugs. Other than that, it sounds like you are doing lots of questions....

14. Pearson Vue Trick - Does it Work Every Time? Part 2

    Badger4lfe262 replied to Silverdragon102's topic in NCLEX

    just wanted to write a post for anyone who tries the pvt and gets the lovely 'the candidate currently has test results that are on hold. a new registration cannot be created at this time.' message. i didn't see a lot of posts about it on here so i th...

15. Devastated.

    Badger4lfe262 replied to sayang87's topic in New Nurse

    I feel everyone's pain. I just graduated from an accelerated bachelors program. I have applied to many different jobs in many different places. You name it I have applied to it..I ask almost EVERYONE I come in contact with if they know of anyone that...