Amber0515

Amber0515 specializes in Med-Surg.

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1. Need help on Final!!!!!!!

   Amber0515 replied to dragonflyet's topic in Student Assist

   well, here is how i usually study for my final...because of the act that we have comprehensive finals. I look back at my tests and see where my weakest areas were and i hit those the hardest. we have about 8 tests over different areas. the bigger tes...

2. Failing barely

   Amber0515 replied to Amber0515's topic in Student Assist

   well, the thing is...if i fail...i am out of the program until next fall, the nursing program is just one class...it's kind of all just rolled into one. they only count our test grades, clinical homework is not counted, and neither are papers. we jst...

3. Failing barely

   Amber0515 posted a topic in Student Assist

   Okay, so this semester has been hard...I have to get a 77.5 to pass and I was down to a 74 before i brought it up to a 76.7 (77)....so I am now failing by 0.5 points. We have a trends test then the final. I need to get 45/50 on the trends test and a ...

4. priority nursing questions

   Amber0515 replied to Amber0515's topic in Student Assist

   4,3,2,1? i am prolbably wrong though..

5. priority nursing questions

   Amber0515 replied to Amber0515's topic in Student Assist

   Exactly! That is how I feel! I always think "well, it diesnt seem serious enough for me to call the dr....so now I have to narrow it down.." and sometimes thats where I go wrong, I def overthink. They tell us to think of the NCLEX hospital as the "pe...

6. Interesting day today...bullying in clinicals

   Amber0515 replied to nikkole318's topic in Student Assist

   well, I have worked as a CNA and now I am working as an LPN and finishing up school. Yes, some CNA's do think they know more than a nurse. I have had a few instances where a brand new CNA (she is 50 years old but has been one about as long as I was w...

7. How does neuromuscular disorders affect oral medication

   Amber0515 replied to swansonplace's topic in Student Assist

   Mike, I believe you are right. We wouldn't want them to be at an increased risk for aspiration pnemonia. And if they have had a neuromuscular disorder, this means the muscles are not working as properly. Their respiratory muscles may not be working a...

8. Help, failing last semester

   Amber0515 replied to Adlib's topic in Student Assist

   I know the feeling. I was straight A student in high school. And now I am trying to keep my head above the water. I just found out the more than half of my class are not doing very well now. But, I think our head of nursing dept might have talked to ...

9. priority nursing questions

   Amber0515 replied to Amber0515's topic in Student Assist

   yeah, the answer was to notify the dr because its sign of infection...my teacher said that it would have been any of the others if the fever was not in the equation. but yes, these questions always get me! do they ever confuse anyone else? is there a...

10. Help, failing last semester

    Amber0515 replied to Adlib's topic in Student Assist

    Hey! dont worry, Im on the brink of failing also. My ortho test, I was so worried about studying neuro next that I blew it. And whats worse, is I shouldnt have failed ortho. I work on a med-surg unit. I knew the questions when I came in to talk with ...

11. priority nursing questions

    Amber0515 posted a topic in Student Assist

    Hey all, Are there any good websites that give NCLEX questions with priorities? I seem to have a little trouble with these questions sometimes and would like more help with them ex. A ct is 2 days post-op for an ORIF of the right arm. He is now exhib...

12. Nervous about Neuro!

    Amber0515 replied to Amber0515's topic in Student Assist

    Okay so, something I was reading and I am not sure if I completely understand this one...it says that before they obtain a C&S or CSF for menningitis, they go ahead and give a broad spectrum antibiotic. My question is this: What happens if it is ...

13. Nervous about Neuro!

    Amber0515 replied to Amber0515's topic in Student Assist

    Yes, thank you. So..this is the reason why they dont get opiates? So that they dont lose their LOC because we need that to assess them? Correct?

14. Nervous about Neuro!

    Amber0515 posted a topic in Student Assist

    Hi everyone, I am in my second year of nursing, graduate in may and I am needing some help with neuro. We dont exactly have the greatest teacher, she flys through the powerpoints and didnt even have half the notes for us to look through. Her tests ar...