spunky1281

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1. miscarriage

   spunky1281 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I recently just went through a miscarriage and found out the baby passed 2 weeks before my body aborted it. I ended up choosing not to do a D&C (mostly because the baby was already out before I could take the info home and think about it overnigh...

2. oral fluids in labor

   spunky1281 replied to kouklakis's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I received an epidural during my labor and was never restricted on fluids. It was very dry in there and I felt like no matter how much I drank, it was never enough. Something mad me so thirsty I was sucking down water like there was no tomorrow. Neve...

3. St. Cloud Hospital

   spunky1281 replied to SanskeetRN's topic in Minnesota

   I've been really trying and have had only 1 interview lately. I really would like to get into the clinic or hospital but never hear anything after interviews? Anyone have any connections to get me in. I'm already over my "allowed number of applicatio...

4. Nursing staffing

   spunky1281 replied to mercy1975's topic in Geriatric

   Wait a second. It shouldn't be how many staff are on that is the issue. It is what are the cares like. If there are 42 residents and they are all pretty much independent with only needing the assist of throwing their legs back in bed, yeah, they shou...

5. another victim of nclex waiting...

   spunky1281 replied to low_k3y's topic in NCLEX

   get Kaplan's NCLEX book. helped when I failed it. I learned it was because of my nervousness that I failed. The book helped me quite a bit and i was much calmer the second time

6. Nursing instructor putting student through embarassment and singles out

   spunky1281 replied to mjacobs's topic in General Students

   I'd be very careful with this. If you speak up about it, it may backfire on you. Nursing instructors tend to stick very tightly together and going over their head or calling them on something could only upset them more. They will flag you and ride yo...

7. lumbar back pain

   spunky1281 replied to spunky1281's topic in General Nursing

   I'm not asking for medical advice. I'm asking if anyone has ever had it and if so, what they found out about it..... I work with enough doctors that if I wanted to have it looked at, I would.

8. lumbar back pain

   spunky1281 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm not sure if anyone has come across anything like this...but I'm hoping... About a month or 2 ago, I think I twisted wrong picking up my 2 yr old son. Since then I've had lumbar back pain occasionally. Now within the last 2 days, I get this squirm...

9. I am doing a research project on why nurses become nurses

   spunky1281 replied to dmckague's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you! I too, get sick of LPN's not being referred to as nurses.

10. Nurses working in doctor's office

    spunky1281 replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    I work for a pain management clinic and our RN's primarily work in pre/post-op. One of our RN's also floats to clinic and works phone triage and works with our insurances (pre-authorizations). I don't know what the RN's are paid but we have excellent...

11. Free CEU credits/contact hrs?

    spunky1281 replied to BwayDani's topic in New Jersey

    where did you find them?

12. First week of nursing school and I am already freaking out...

    spunky1281 replied to lilbutterfly1's topic in General Nursing

    Whoa. Slow down. It isn't as bad as you make it out to be. I went to school full time for the LPN program, raised an infant, and worked 32 hours a week. Instructors told me I had to quit my job or cut my hours back to weekends. I couldn't or I would ...

13. peg/gtube question

    spunky1281 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had a LTC resident pull out his Mic-key gtube. I am an LPN and have never been trained to deal with them coming out. The charge nurse was an RN. If a resident pulls it out, do they get sent in to the hospital or can a nurse reinsert it? I brought i...

14. Can A School Deny Me Because of Hep B?

    spunky1281 replied to RO0912's topic in General Nursing

    ummm nope that would be discrimination. Now, its borderline discrimination to deny someone because of a tattoo or piercing.... Threaten them with a discrimination lawsuit....

15. Changeover- Worst Night of my life (vent long)!!!!

    spunky1281 replied to RNgrrl09's topic in Geriatric

    Yep, that is how a changeover usually goes. I have never seen a changeover go good (well except when I trained in-those are nights guaranteed to go smoothly). For some reason residents have this thing where they can sense things and then will only wa...