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1. What is the difference between CLEAN and STERILE?

   HT2SW replied to ILoveTenerife's topic in Student Assist

   But suctioning is supposed to be a sterile procedure, you make your sterile field and everything. NG insertion is not a sterile procedure

2. What is the difference between CLEAN and STERILE?

   HT2SW replied to ILoveTenerife's topic in Student Assist

   Really? First, I am talking about the procedure, not the equipment. Second, any chance of an NG tube ending up in a lung field is huge to me. Naso suctioning enters the same point as an NG tube, travles the same initial path as an NG tube, and NG ...

3. What is the difference between CLEAN and STERILE?

   HT2SW replied to ILoveTenerife's topic in Student Assist

   I wonder why an NG is clean and suctioning is sterile, NG has a huge chance of veering off into a lung.

4. Conversions and Medical Term

   HT2SW replied to ajkaiser09's topic in Student Assist

   Conversions you just have to memorize, med term, for the most part you can find a word or letter in the medical form that is related to an everyday word, hypernatremia, "hyper" is always more than "na" is the chem symbol for sodium, "emia" is an abno...

5. Path for a 34 yo nursing student?

   HT2SW replied to HT2SW's topic in Government

   Thanks for that information, I may consider the reserves and ultimately becom an LDO or "mustang" officer, with the reserves I would have my home life and my military fix as well. My exp with the navy is that they don't really give much time for edu...

6. Path for a 34 yo nursing student?

   HT2SW replied to HT2SW's topic in Government

   I am planning to get me BSN, I was hoping to find a way for the military to pay for it, my GI bill expired Oct 2010. I have no prior health care experience. I just really miss the military way of life and would love to get it back somehow.

7. Military/VA RN's - Please post experiences for Students

   HT2SW replied to RNPATL's topic in Government

   The navy has a "green side" which provides all of the medical coverage for the marines in the field, they train with marines, live with the marines, eat with the marines, and if necessary die with the marines. For all practical purposes they are mar...

8. Path for a 34 yo nursing student?

   HT2SW posted a topic in Government

   Any one have info on what my options would be of becoming a military nurse with only an associates in MAY 2012? I talked to a USNR recruiter and he was blowing some LDO crap my way, I'm prior enlisted ten years ago.