Nurse2bNicole BSN, RN

Nurse2bNicole is a BSN, RN and specializes in L&D/MB/High-risk antepartum; Hospice.

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1. Time for a career change!

   Nurse2bNicole replied to Tina818's topic in Hospice

   Most places should be more than willing to let you do a ride along. Do you work for a hospital system? If you do, check and see if you offer hospice there, and if you do, contact that manager and ask to do a ride along....that's what I did and it w...

2. Charting MVU's

   Nurse2bNicole replied to VagabondRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Wow....it's very unneccessary to have IUPCs in every pt! If the pt is not on oxytocin, I chart them hourly. If they are on oxytocin, I chart them everytime I should be increasing it....so 30 minutes. This is a recent change for us though, because ...

3. Raising C-Section Room Temperature for preemie births

   Nurse2bNicole replied to nicu1991's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I work at a hospital in Detroit, and we changed our policy to increase OR temps above 70 degrees for all c-section deliveries, not just preemies. Our ORs are warm....usually around 72 degrees, which isn't horrible for the premature deliveries becaus...

4. Teaching Project Ideas, anyone?

   Nurse2bNicole replied to crazylilkelly's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We just had a student do a teaching project on Post-partum Depression. She included early warning signs, risk factors and a ton of local resources. She also put together packets of info that we can give to our mom's who are at high risk for PPD; th...

5. What is considered a "busy" L&D unit?

   Nurse2bNicole replied to fsaav's topic in Ob/Gyn

   My unit is busy. We do about 400 births a month. I cannot even imagine what a unit that does 700 deliveries a month would be like though! That's not busy...that's insane!

6. MCC Registration

   Nurse2bNicole replied to NBMom1225's topic in Michigan

   Yeah, they open nursing registration before the rest of the classes because we overload the system and everything crashes! Don't worry about starting your lab before the lecture. They don't cover the same material because lab is just basic skills. ...

7. Care Plan Help Please!

   Nurse2bNicole replied to Nurse2bNicole's topic in Student Assist

   Thank you Daytonite! I'm not really sure why my brain thinks that there are different diagnoses for adults and children. I guess I was expecting there to be an obvious way to relate the diagnosis to the newborn age because some of the diagnoses hav...

8. Care Plan Help Please!

   Nurse2bNicole replied to Nurse2bNicole's topic in Student Assist

   Thank You!! I wasn't sure if urinary retention would work because the baby was still

9. Care Plan Help Please!

   Nurse2bNicole posted a topic in Student Assist

   Hi all - I'm working on a newborn care plan and I'm trying to find a diagnosis to fit with elimination. Baby has a hydrocele and a skin septum attaching his member to the scrotum. All of the risk for altered elimination diagnoses that I'm finding s...

10. Any Michiganders take the HESI recently? (the prenursing school one)

    Nurse2bNicole replied to MIKelly's topic in Michigan

    92% is very good. Most of the people who get into the program score in the 80's and have a high gpa. If your gpa is high, you're probably in a good spot.

11. MCC, OCC students, question....

    Nurse2bNicole replied to jenni82104's topic in Michigan

    You can order them off of this website: http://www.hesitest.com/students/ But check the library at the school, sometimes they have several copies and you can sign up to borrow them for a couple days.

12. Any Michiganders take the HESI recently? (the prenursing school one)

    Nurse2bNicole replied to MIKelly's topic in Michigan

    It's just basic math - no algebra!

13. Nursing Documentation

    Nurse2bNicole replied to jktb's topic in Student Assist

    One of my clinical teachers told us to get a pocket sized notebook. This way, if you are going through a pt chart and like the way something is worded you can write it down in your notebook. The next time you are doing documentation and can't think...

14. Meds calculation book

    Nurse2bNicole replied to tookewlandy's topic in Student Assist

    I haven't used this book, but I did use Math for Meds. Can't remember who it's by, but I did find it very helpful. At my school we are responsible for learning the math portion on our own. They might go over some formulas to help us, but that's it...

15. Starting Med-Surg in Aug ~ advice please

    Nurse2bNicole replied to btown annie's topic in Student Assist

    Review your a&p, more the physiology part. You can't understand what is wrong if you don't know how it's supposed to work. As the person before me said, assess your patient! You can't do anything if you don't assess. If you don't know the ans...