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  1. Floor Nurse Thinking about Home Health

    I have been a floor nurse for almost 4 years in both acute and acute rehab settings and I did a short stint in an outpatient wound care clinic which I also really liked. I may have an opportunity to do some PRN home care, mostly wound care it sounds...
  2. Prevalence of Christians in the field of nursing

    There are lots of good people who aren't Christian and you may find that you have similar values even if you don't worship similarly. Please keep an open mind.
  3. I think the OP has a very valid point. We have had many flunk out and the math skills of some of my classmates was atrocious. Not to say they won't be good nurses but I'd definitely double check their calculations! If entrance requirements at a par...
  4. I need some advice and guidance

    One great piece of advice I got about nclex questions was don't just try to figure out the right answer but figure out why the other answers are wrong. It may be worth shelling out the money for the actual kaplan or hurst review course if you are ju...
  5. Don't You Just Love It?

    Why don't you just start your own board for only "established posters" if it bothers you so much.
  6. Writing "readiness for enhanced" diagnoses...Help!

    Obviously you already turned this paper since I'm responding a year later in but just in case anybody else is looking for information on this topic, according to Lynda Carpenito, Nursing Diagnosis Application to Clinical Practice 14th edition p. 15 "...
  7. SOOOO HOT AT WORK!!

    No..as a matter of fact, I am not pregnant and am not planning on being ever again. If there was a pregnant coworker on my floor and I could take her isolation patients so as not to take any chances, I would. You are the one who is grossly misinfor...
  8. SOOOO HOT AT WORK!!

    You go ahead then..I wouldn't do it.
  9. SOOOO HOT AT WORK!!

    Ummmm...maybe because your immune system is depressed during pregnancy and you need to be concerned about catching something for which the treatment may be contraindicated during pregnancy like so many of the potent antibiotics that you'd need to tak...
  10. Did being unattractive hurt your career?

  11. New Grad Nurse & Pregnant

    It sounds like you are still fairly early in your pregnancy and while a small minority of people have nausea all the way through their pregnancies, for the majority it clears up by about 14-16 weeks. Even before then, I felt that the distraction of ...
  12. A Day In The Life Of A Nursing Student

    I have definitely come home exhausted from a clinical despite currently being in a profession that requires a ton of physical exertion and being on my feet for 9-13 hours a day and being in excellent shape if I do say so. I think this statement was ...
  13. Just bought my textbooks - a mini-grumbling session

    If you're wondering what is in the "kit", it's going to be a lot of different kinds of syringes, wound dressing kits, foley catheter kits, IV bags and tubing, lots of gloves, alcohol wipes and all that other fun stuff you're going to practice with. ...
  14. What didnt you do in school?

    I agree. You tube is great, but can you imagine approaching a patient and saying "I've never done this but I saw it on You Tube"
  15. What didnt you do in school?

    As a student, I can tell you that that this education is much more about observing, practicing out-of-date techniques on mannequins and making sure we pass the NCLEX so the schools pass rates stay high.