Love4Me

Love4Me RN

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About Love4Me

Love4Me is a RN and specializes in NICU.


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  1. shift question

    I thought I would hate midnights but have come to realize I LOVE them. Couldn't pay me enough to work straight days. And yes I have a husband and 3 kiddos. At my hospital new grads hire in on days strictly for orientation (which is 20 weeks long). Th...
  2. Best Stethoscope?!

    I use the Neonatal Littmann and it works just fine.
  3. Can you work in NICU right out of school?

    Yes U can. I did it. I work in a teaching hospital and got my foot in the door during my last year of nursing school. I started in our NICU as a student nurse. It is definately doable.
  4. Calculating PGE drips

    You guys are right. My original post should have had the concentration 500mcg/50ml. Sorry:cool:
  5. Calculating PGE drips

    I am okay with calculating the rate. It ran at 0.6 ml/hr. I use the dose desired/dose on hand calculation method: dose desired: 0.025mcg/kg/min = 0.025/3.9 = 0.0975mcg/min (then change mcg/min to mcg/hr since that is ...
  6. Calculating PGE drips

    Hi everyone! I am a new nurse still in orientation and working in the NICU. Yesterday was my first time having an intensive assignment (as opposed to progressive) and I was taking care of a little guy waiting for a new heart. He was on a prostaglandi...
  7. Oakland Community College nursing program

    As far as the question concerning how long it took to get accepted...I applied in May of 2004 and was accepted in July of 2004 and started the program in August of 2004. I did not apply until I had finished ALL of my prerequisites. From what I "heard...
  8. Paid Training

    Call around to the local nursing homes. Before I started nursing school I got certified as a nurses aide. I did 2 weeks of unpaid training at a Nursing Home in Waterford and then was eligible to take the certification exam. That is your best bet if m...
  9. Oakland Community College nursing program

    You will do just fine in the LTC. You will do alot of the things that you learned in the lab. Expect to give a bed bath and do AM care. Change bed linens. Do lots of transfers and toileting. You will spend a bit of time looking through the chart. It ...
  10. Oakland Community College nursing program

    So how is everything going for all of you? Has clinical started yet? The semester is almost half way over!
  11. Help!!! Urgent-Please Reply!!!!

    I only had pre-clinical for my first semester. During pre-clinical we were able to meet our patient (that relieves a bit of the nervousness for the following day). In the charts we looked at labs (write down the abnormal values), the client's history...
  12. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Yes, I am a second year student. Each instructor tests differently, so the only way to really know is to go by previous tests. Some universal pointers: the prep points usually cover alot of the info that will be on the test; alot (but not all) of th...
  13. Care Plans Help Please! (with the R\T and AEB)

    We use the Ackley book. It helps with activities and rationales but not all that great with the related to. Our instructor explained it to us that the related to is like the cause of the diagnosis. But the related to has to be in the present nothing ...
  14. Oakland Community College nursing program

    I agree about the prep points. They do seem like busy work and take FOREVER to finish. But hey, we have no choice in the matter. They do help when it comes to the tests. Usually whatever is in the prep points is a good indication of things to come on...
  15. Oakland Community College nursing program

    http://www.oaklandcc.edu/iic/iichl/nursing_candidate.htm Hope that link works. If not, go to the occ website, click on the "campus" link. Click on Highland Lakes. Then click the department "individualized Instruction Center". On the left side of the ...