tsm007

tsm007

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About tsm007

tsm007 has 2 years experience.


Med-Surg/Ortho nurse

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  1. Renewing my license with the new MiPlus

    Extremely helpful! It looks like they added instructions at the top in orange to help to find where you're actually supposed to click to renew. I wonder what genius designed this. I did get mine renewed. I never did receive any email though about ren...
  2. Renewing my license with the new MiPlus

    This is what I got back after emailing their help email about where the "RENEW LICENSE" option was. Guess I just hate to wait.
  3. Very frustrated. I cannot figure out how to renew my RN license. Anyone renewed their license with their new database.
  4. Now what??

    That would make me extremely uncomfortable! I do not perform well when someone is standing over me like that. I have absolutely no desire to work in a place with that kind of culture. Personally I'd be looking for another job ASAP. Also, they very w...
  5. Getting a "head start"

    Take anatomy and physiology if it's offered in high school and medical terminology. Those two classes will help you a lot to be ready for the college level material.
  6. Wow, serious troll food. I can't believe I'm going to bite. Plenty of RNs worked their butts off to get there. Please don't act like everyone who has an RN degree just had rich mommies and daddies to pay for it. I can tell you I put myself through sc...
  7. New nurse who feels like a failure

    Heck, all of those sound like typical new nurse mistakes. Heck, most of them we've all done! I don't do it a lot, but I have thrown out a med still before scanning it when I'm tired. It happens! For me mistakes are just a part of how you learn. I'll ...
  8. Navy Corpsmen Caught

    Does not surprise me at ALL. Navy veteran here. Corpsman are more than CNAs. They do get a lot of training on "skills". They can do a lot of skills that traditional techs would not be able to do because they are under military laws/guidelines (but on...
  9. Spouse vs. MPOA and feeding tubes

    Pet peeve of mine, nurses who quote things as laws or policies and don't actually know where said law or policy is in writing. It's a 50/50 shot whether it actually IS a policy/law or not. I almost always find the dang policy in writing then put on m...
  10. I'd take the semester off. I had my baby the last semester of nursing school and didn't have to take a semester off because he was due end of November. Our clinicals ended the week before he was due and then we had a gap in clinicals again until Janu...
  11. General, Spinal, blocks, oh my 411 please

    This! I want to thank all of you who responded. I have a much, much better understanding now.
  12. Online Nursing Schools vs Traditional Schools

    I went to WGU's prelicensure ONLINE program. It's hybrid. Theory online/clinicals in person. Love, love, loved it. I got more hands on clinical time than most of the other students I seen at the hospital. I got to actually do stuff because I was pair...
  13. General, Spinal, blocks, oh my 411 please

    Okay, I *think* I may have found the problem. I think the nurses I work with may just not be using precise terminology and that's why I am confused. Maybe??? I found this article I think what they may be referring to is intrathecal OPIOIDS vs loca...
  14. General, Spinal, blocks, oh my 411 please

    Well maybe that's it. I see "intrathecal precautions" on our floor, but you know I think you may be right. I am going to start reading all the anesthesia notes and comparing it to what I hear in report and see if that this is just one in the same and...
  15. General, Spinal, blocks, oh my 411 please

    Last question, I have been reading and searching, but lost here. What the heck is the difference between intrathecal and spinal? My searching is getting me nowhere on this.