NCRNMDM ASN, RN

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About NCRNMDM

I am a new graduate RN living in North Carolina. I float throughout the entire hospital (medical, surgical, oncology, ICU, and ED) at night.

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    Giving an awesome verbal report?

    Every nurse has his/her own way of giving report, and you will develop your own way over time. Personally, for me, I want the important details, vitals, lab values, etc. I don't want a five day history of the patient if those details don't pertain ...
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    How do you draw up meds for IVP?

    I draw the dosage of the medication up (in this case 0.4 ml), and then squirt enough NS out of a flush to fit that dose of medication into the flush. In this case, I would squirt out less than 1 ml of a 10 ml syringe of NS. I completed my preceptor...
  3. This patient's WBC count is high. If you didn't recognize that, go look it up. What does a high white count indicate? If you said infection, you'd be correct. It would appear to me that this patient has an infection of some sort, and the Flagyl i...
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    How are your grades posted?

    Anything below an 80 in my program is failing. If you make an 89.9, it's just that. There is no rounding up or down.
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    Case Study Help

    Since this is peritoneal dialysis we are talking about, and the return is cloudy, I'm going to say that the cause could be possible peritonitis. Also, with the ammonia level as high as it is, is it possible that some of the confusion and hallucinatio...
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    Questions about Mental Health.

    Our mental health was a 10 week summer unit combined with advanced med-surg. We did six weeks of mental health, five weeks of mental health clinicals, and four weeks of advanced med-surg in class. The mental health portion was by far the easiest thin...
  7. I'm about to start fourth semester. We learned nearly all our skills during first semester. We covered IVs, Foleys, NGs, dressing changes, bladder irrigation, suctioning, IV meds, IM and subcutaneous injections, oxygen therapy modalities, surgical dr...
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    Clinical rotation in the PACU?

    You're so lucky! I spent two semesters on a surgical floor, and I just finished a semester of mental health. I'm approaching fourth semester, and will be doing an OB/neonatal nursery clinical, and another clinical on a surgical floor. I got to do a o...
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    Nausea, loose runny stools, or dizzines???

    I'm about to be a fourth semester student, and I will graduate in May. As soon as I read the question, I immediately selected loose runny stools because this can be a sign of C. Diff (an adverse effect of antibiotic therapy). You will get better at t...
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    How far do you drive for nursing school?

    There are three schools in our nursing program, and a number of clinical facilities. I currently drive 1 hour and five minutes one way to class, and 1 hour and 30 minutes one way to clinical. Class is on Monday from 1600-2100, and clinical is Saturda...
  11. You will be nervous, to one degree or another, until you graduate nursing school. First, you'll be nervous about the program and your newness. Next, you'll be nervous about the overwhelming amount of work. After you've gotten used to all that, you'll...
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    Worried to death about dosage cal!

    Our instructors didn't teach us dosage calculations, or medical math. Instead, we had to teach ourselves. There were a few who struggled (and failed out), and a few who still struggle, but we've done pretty well. I always hated math too, but, for som...
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    Interview for a Patient Care Assistant PT SVCS

    I'm a third semester nursing student, and I just got a CNA II job on a med-surg oncology/transfusion unit last week (this unit also does outpatient chemo infusions, blood transfusions, ICU step-down, intermediate care, telemetry, and hospice and pall...
  14. What they did to you wasn't fair, but you do have to be extremely precise with BP readings. I agree that they shouldn't have waited twenty minutes, but work with me for the purpose of making my point. Let's say that the 8 point difference was actuall...
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    CNA salary

    NC CNA II in medical-surgical oncology/transfusion unit. No CNA experience, but I am a third semester nursing student. I will be working second shift (1400-2200) with the possibility of floating to third (2200-0600) or first (0600-1400). My starting ...