shananigansWI

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1. Pearson Vue Trick and Official Results.

   shananigansWI replied to sunshinee's topic in NCLEX

   I took my exam on Thursday, and got the good pop up! Am I the only person that doesn't want to pay for quick results? If I were really worried I might not have passed I'd be more inclined, but I feel pretty confident. I just feel like the whole testi...

2. Nurse Residency Programs

   shananigansWI replied to boykinm's topic in Job Hunt

   I am currently working as a nursing assistant at a hospital affiliated with the university I am earning my BSN from. Many of the new grads that worked as SNAs (student nursing assistants) on this unit have been accepted as nurse residents and seem to...

3. Is Phlebotomy taught in Nursing school?

   shananigansWI replied to amanda1266's topic in General Students

   It is technically not included in my school's curriculum (a recent and controversial change actually), and the nurses at the hospital where I did my first two clinicals seemed to pretty much rely on lab techs for blood draws and the IV team to start ...

4. exposure to the Operating Room

   shananigansWI replied to wishiwereanurse's topic in Operating Room

   We get one day of OR observation during our first year, it's my turn next Tuesday. I think it will be an interesting experience, I've never been in an OR and we get to follow the patient to PACU.

5. LPN license eligible?

   shananigansWI replied to finallyRN7's topic in General Nursing

   I just heard about taking the LPN NCLEX after the first year of the RN program from another student recently. I don't know if it's very common or encouraged, probably not since this is the first I've heard of it, but if it's an option I think I'll do...

6. what color uniforms does your school use?

   shananigansWI replied to Nolander's topic in General Students

   We have white scrub tops with the school logo and "school of nursing" embroidered on them, navy blue scrub pants, and white shoes with some color on them ok. I like the uniforms alright, except I had to get an XL top to fit over my bust and hips and ...

7. How did you choose your specialty??

   shananigansWI replied to mitral's topic in General Students

   I'm in the beginning of the second semester of my program, and realizing I have no idea what I want to do. I feel like my experience is too limited and there are so many options, many of which I am still completely unaware. I guess I'm hoping to be l...

8. Evidence Based Research Project

   shananigansWI replied to fhsu06's topic in General Students

   We just had a librarian come and do an active learning session on research in one of my classes this afternoon. We covered how to search for things on PubMed and CINAHL. Our group made a PICO-style question to research and we'll be making a presentat...

9. PHARMACOLOGY HELP!

   shananigansWI replied to EMMIESMOM's topic in General Students

   I have Nursing Central on my phone, which includes Davis's Drug Guide. I often use this in clinical and to look up any drugs I don't know as I come across them. It's also useful for reference information when writing up pharm study material. I read q...

10. PHARMACOLOGY HELP!

    shananigansWI replied to EMMIESMOM's topic in General Students

    I'm finding pharm to be a challenge too, so much info and almost all of it new to me. I just took the second exam of the semester in my pharm class, got an 81. That was the class average, so I shouldn't be so disappointed I guess, but honestly I thin...

11. Did anyone else have a bad 1st day of clinicals??

    shananigansWI replied to allsmilez's topic in General Students

    Mine could have gone better. There was another student assigned to this pt as well since her case was pretty complicated. Admitted with an anoxic brain injury (following an incident of food aspiration and vomiting), and had a neuro status change (spe...

12. Share Your "Brain" Sheet

    shananigansWI replied to nurseJ88's topic in Cardiac

    Thanks everyone for sharing your "brains"! Our instructor wanted us to come up with our own format to use for clinical prep tomorrow, this thread has been a great place to mine ideas. I decided to keep it pretty simple and uncluttered, I'm sure I'll ...

13. air bubble in syringe

    shananigansWI replied to colleennurse's topic in General Nursing

    Glad I found a thread on this topic! I just did my first flu shot clinic yesterday, and left pretty confused about the issue of air bubbles for IM injections. We were using pre-filled syringes. Our instructor demonstrated putting the needle on, th...

14. What exactly is BSN online?

    shananigansWI replied to MyGranniePanties's topic in General Nursing

    Like everyone said, I think it will vary a lot depending on the program. While working on my first semester of prereqs I was considering the Accelerated Online Bachelor’s to BSN program at UW-Oshkosh. It's a one-year distance learning program with ...

15. How to learn about drugs on your own?

    shananigansWI replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

    My organic/bio chem class had a semester long project doing assignments and writing a paper and presentation on one drug. When I was doing my research on lorazepam I came across the Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference guide at the library. I really like...