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1. To drop out or not to drop out?

   koan replied to koan's topic in General Students

   Saline flush goes into the sharps **because the teacher says so** not because of logic, and as for the insulin stylet it is a new type that once used you can not extend the needle again, you could safely throw it in the garbage (many RN's do) however...

2. To drop out or not to drop out?

   koan replied to koan's topic in General Students

   Wow so you had a lab on not throwing syringes in the garbage? I have to wonder how that went. She emailed me a while ago and dropped, thanks for the input everyone, I was hoping to get something to encourage her to stay.

3. To drop out or not to drop out?

   koan replied to koan's topic in General Students

   The stylet is the thingy you poke the patients finger with, that's what our CI's call it anyways.

4. To drop out or not to drop out?

   koan replied to koan's topic in General Students

   There is no "skills lab" for these skills, there is no paper writing for errors like this either.

5. Would you call this teacher's behavior "abuse"?

   koan replied to tutored's topic in General Students

   It's a 1 page paper and you're almost done...what does making waves about it get you? I can write a 1 page paper in 15 minutes...get over it.

6. To drop out or not to drop out?

   koan posted a topic in General Students

   A member of my clinical is trying to decide whether or not to quit, she is 2nd semester (near the end of 2nd) and has been written up for throwing insulin stylet and saline flush syringe in to the garbage rather than sharps, in addition the instructo...

7. Womens interest in male nurses

   koan replied to johny1's topic in Men

   I wouldn't expect much more from a woman that was responding to being "chatted up", you aren't hanging out in a bar when you're doing this are you?

8. whats with sutter and Sacramento city?

   koan replied to amber74's topic in California

   It isn't any harder than the sac city main campus program, it's just faster, the work load is the same, in fact, it is an identical program, in my experience a 4.0 doesn't seem to matter so much with this program, however there was talk of going back...

9. whats with sutter and Sacramento city?

   koan replied to amber74's topic in California

   I'm in the sutter "extended" program which is a joint effort of sacramento city college and sutter to get more nurses out there and working. Let me tell you how it is in the extended program, we start with 55 students 1st semester and 2nd semester th...

10. Are you in Nursing for the Caring or the Cash?? Be Honest

    koan replied to 1BlessedRN's topic in General Nursing

    That day never really comes in my experience, the more you make the more you spend.

11. What is PES

    koan replied to koan's topic in General Students

    Thanks everyone, PES isn't listed in the index of my book but it is under the careplan section.

12. What is PES

    koan posted a topic in General Students

    and why can't I seem to find it in any of my books?

13. Blood Types

    koan replied to koan's topic in General Students

    This is exactly the type of information that confused me because I did research this, seems so easy to just say we are all either Rh- or Rh+ and one of the 4 major bloodtypes. Not a single one of the pages I visited nor my text book say that...in fac...

14. Blood Types

    koan replied to koan's topic in General Students

    So then I would ask why do we ever refer to anyone as having type A, B, AB and O as they should be refered to as having type A-, B-, AB- and O- and of course their + counterparts. So there is not a type A, only type A- and A+ you either have the Rh f...

15. Blood Types

    koan posted a topic in General Students

    Yes I should be able to find this myself, but I think I have confused my self. Is type O blood the same as type O- In other words all blood types missing the Rh factor are - ? So that when you say type O you are also saying it is type O- because type...