Any good bachelor's program emphasizes evidence-based practice - of which nursing research is a basic element (I don't know about ADN programs) . If not for nursing research (NOT medical research) we might still be doing things the way Florence Nigh...
I don't mean to sound picky, but I did want to point out that CHOA, Crawford Long, Wesley Woods are all part of the Emory Healthcare System. :) Also, if you have a parent that works at Emory (I guess that's not very likely, though), Emory forgives ...
SookeyRN replied to geekgolightly's topic in Georgia
I'm at Emory as a Chemo nurse - the commute for me isn't too bad - about 45 minutes in the AM and an hour on PMs, but parking is a pain (my second day I got a $35 ticket), and the pay is fairly well below Atlanta averages (mine is an RN III OCN posit...
I don't know if this is even a problem, or if I am making more of this than it really is. I have worked on my unit for a year and a half now, working 60% (24 hours a week), and attending graduate school full-time to obtain my NP in adult/gero with em...
As someone who is extremely sensitive to smells myself (scents are a very sensitive migraine trigger for me), and having been taught not to, it is just plain common sense to not wear perfumes and strong-smelling lotions/body sprays when providing pat...
SookeyRN replied to Kristi Lee's topic in Emergency
What I remember from what little legal we had as seniors in undergrad, if you stop to give aid, you are expected to perform at at least minimal standards within your scope of practice. As long as you have done that, you cannot be held liable for any ...
I work on a 14-bed inpatient BMT unit. I started there a year ago right after graduating. If we have patients who need a vent (doesn't happen very often), they're transferred to the MICU, then transferred back when the vent is no longer needed. The m...
Hi Joyce! I don't have any real answers for you, except to say that I plan on taking the OCN certification this fall, also. I took an oncology specialty elective my last semester of my undergraduate program at Iowa, and have been working on a 14-bed ...
Your state's Nurse Practice Act will dictate exactly what is within the scope of nursing practice. If a physician writes an order for something that is not within the scope of nursing practice, the nurse is obligated to refuse. I believe that intub...
As a clinical instructor, I would much rather have a student tell me "I don't know" than guess, guess incorrectly, and risk harming a patient. Next time I ask a question (and I will ask again) the student had better be prepared! :) I had a student th...
If the stroke is embolic and is less than 3 hours old, tPA can be used to dissolve the clot. Function does return quite quickly as blood flow is restored to the watershed areas (hers was in the temporal area, where the speech centers lie). The tiss...
SookeyRN replied to happystudent's topic in New Nurse
Sending tons of good thoughts your way. This isn't a "therapeutic communication" (and focuses on *me* instead of *you*):stone , however, I felt the same exact feeling when I took the exam on Monday (6/21). I was fine until the computer shut off - th...