beautifulbyHisblood

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1. Heel stick on side of foot/medial ankle

   beautifulbyHisblood posted a topic in Pediatric

   Hey there! Wouldn't you believe it, another question about heel sticks! :) Last night I had a kiddo that I needed a blood sugar sample from. She had a right club foot and that was the foot I was using for the test, so her foot curved outward, making ...

2. Tourniquet with heel sticks?

   beautifulbyHisblood posted a topic in Pediatric

   So last night I had to get labs from a 1 month old. We stuck his heel, but it didn't bleed well and clotted before we had enough blood (plus it looked like it was starting to hemolyze). So I stuck on a tourniquet to look for a vein to straight stick ...

3. Why does ionized calcium need to be on ice?

   beautifulbyHisblood posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey all, I've been drawing a lot of icals the last few nights, and I just got to wondering why it needs to be stuck in ice right away. Anybody know?

4. Dumb things new nurses do....

   beautifulbyHisblood replied to OhioCCRN's topic in New Nurse

   Sorry, I didn't meant to post twice and I can't delete this post!

5. Dumb things new nurses do....

   beautifulbyHisblood replied to OhioCCRN's topic in New Nurse

   " those stinking prefilled saline syringes will be the death of me. the first time i had to flush a patients line my instuctor instructed me to "burp" it, well i pushed too hard and shot my patient in the face, i thought i was going to die. " i'm...

6. New Nurse Blues

   beautifulbyHisblood replied to Ashlee-SN's topic in New Nurse

   I'm a new nurse, too, and I totally feel ya! :) It is rough! I have good nights and bad ones, but I always make little mistakes and ask tons of questions. I even double-check some things because I am just afraid of doing something wrong. I realize ev...

7. Cook Children's nurse Residency Jan 2012

   beautifulbyHisblood replied to mannan03's topic in Texas

   Hi there. :) No, I did not get the residency, unfortunately. BUT I did get a great internship at a hospital a little further down south. :) And I know it's where I'm supposed to be. The interview was not too bad... pretty typical questions, but they...

8. Job as a new grad RN

   beautifulbyHisblood replied to LatinaRN978's topic in New Nurse

   I would encourage you to look at new grad internships!! I bet applications are open (or close to it) for the June cohorts. :) I'm in one and it is really helpful...

9. Feeling depressed with new job as a nurse...

   beautifulbyHisblood replied to Keri29's topic in New Nurse

   This is so encouraging. I'm a new grad, too, and just feel completely overwhelmed and depressed all the time. At first I was really good at being productive on my days off but now it's like I've hit a wall and don't want to do anything but lay around...

10. Anyone in peds neuroscience?

    beautifulbyHisblood replied to loveoutloud's topic in Pediatric

    I have a friend who just began working as a neuroscience nurse. She says she has a lot of kids with CP, epilepsy, strokes, etc. I think it's a big variety, but out of all the floors you could work on, I'd say neuro has the most epilepsy. Good luck!!

11. question for people who took kaplan and nclex-rn

    beautifulbyHisblood replied to meltnpointofwax's topic in NCLEX

    Sure! Well, everything I did is pretty much in that original post, but as far as a timeline... my school actually provided Kaplan as part of our tuition, so we took the in-person class sometime in October before graduating in December. That included ...

12. question for people who took kaplan and nclex-rn

    beautifulbyHisblood replied to meltnpointofwax's topic in NCLEX

    Hey! I just took my NCLEX this week and passed with 75 questions! :) You can do it!!! I actually used Kaplan and Hurst... with Hurst, I just watched the lectures. I didn't use any of their practice questions. It was a really good review and hit all ...

13. 75qs I think I failed. =/

    beautifulbyHisblood replied to bayareastudent0711's topic in NCLEX

    I passed!!!!!!!!! Did you?!

14. Kaplan Qbanks

    beautifulbyHisblood replied to rodmarkq's topic in NCLEX

    Awesome! :) Sounds like a great plan. Best of luck and I hope to hear how you do! :)

15. When To Submit NCLEX application?

    beautifulbyHisblood replied to starmickey03's topic in NCLEX

    You bet! :) I agree, it is pretty confusing. People tell you so many different things and it is just a little ridiculous!! Congratulations on being almost done! Yahoo!