Klimpys

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1. Is it legal to give a friend insulin before meals?

   Klimpys replied to mommasgirls's topic in Endocrine

   Run screaming in the other direction! I say this as a mother of a Type 1 son who diagnosed at age 13. I agree with everyone else. The kid should be doing his own injections. My son took command the moment he left the hospital. He is 16.5 now. T...

2. I think I want out, end semester 1

   Klimpys replied to Katyvent7's topic in General Students

   Glad to see I am not alone! I envision a committee sitting around with thesauruses coming up with a bunch of BS. My favorite from the Ackley Nursing Diagnosis book is Disturbed Energy Field.

3. The "Nursing Games" claims it's first victims...

   Klimpys replied to Klimpys's topic in General Students

   My teacher taught us the desired over have formula. Once you got it is a piece of cake! Everything is metric, which is a breeze as well. If the desired is in grams, and what you have from the pharmacy is in milligrams, you just move the decimal on ...

4. Must-have gadgets for the nursing student

   Klimpys replied to FDW630's topic in General Students

   I am in my first semester and in fundamentals as well. The only thing I have found useful so far is my recorder. I find it easiest to print the power points and take notes on it during class. I have a kindle fire that I can download articles that ...

5. Parents of diabetic students

   Klimpys replied to Spidey's mom's topic in School

   Thanks for sharing more info. I am sorry I came across rather cranky. Parents of a CWD tend to circle the wagons when care for our kids is being questioned, and it doesn't take much to make us feel that way, lol! I must say though, I have often fe...

6. Parents of diabetic students

   Klimpys replied to Spidey's mom's topic in School

   Interesting timing of this post. My son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes two years ago at age 13. I homeschool my children. Always have, and always will. But sometimes it is not easy, since I am also a student in nursing school. However, this ev...

7. Holder vs. Neck Draping for Littmann Cardio III?

   Klimpys replied to CCMNursingStudent's topic in Uniform/Gear

   I bought mine on Amazon.com

8. The "Nursing Games" claims it's first victims...

   Klimpys replied to Klimpys's topic in General Students

   I agree with a math prerequisite. An idea could be to have potential nursing students attend a workshop and learn how to read drug labels, do metric conversions, and how to do the "desired over have" method of calculations. Give them "x" amount of ...

9. The "Nursing Games" claims it's first victims...

   Klimpys replied to Klimpys's topic in General Students

   Believe me, I am not underestimating the importance of the drug calculations test! I guess what is really bothering me is that so many students I know can't survive nursing school, but I know they did really well in A&P and Microbiology. The n...

10. The "Nursing Games" claims it's first victims...

    Klimpys posted a topic in General Students

    I posted on another thread recently how nursing school is like "The Hunger Games." Today was a particularly rough day. I heard the cannon sound for several of my fellow classmates. They failed the required drug calculation test and have been dismi...

11. The Hunger Games and Nursing School!

    Klimpys replied to PatMac10,RN's topic in General Students

    YESSS!!!!!! The reason I found this thread is that I googled something like "The Hunger Games is like nursing school" to see if anyone else made the connection! I am in my first semester of a community college program. The number of students who ...

12. Holder vs. Neck Draping for Littmann Cardio III?

    Klimpys replied to CCMNursingStudent's topic in Uniform/Gear

    I bought a Batclip to use with my Littman classic II SE. I haven't used it yet because I just started classes. I liked the concept of it and that it is well made.

13. Nursing program starts Aug 27th and I'm not prepared!!!

    Klimpys replied to its_meee's topic in General Students

    I start in two weeks as well. I agree with the others regarding getting your house in order. I plan on doing a thorough cleaning of my house so we can just work on maintaining it. I am also trying to come up with some menu ideas and work on doing l...

14. Lantus (Insulin Glargine): Scratching The Surface

    Klimpys replied to TheCommuter's topic in Medications

    My son had to take steroids due to a nasty case of poison ivy. His blood sugar levels doubled! He was only on them for about a week, but we battled his numbers for several more. Before we went to the pediatrician I had read up the effects of stero...

15. Lantus (Insulin Glargine): Scratching The Surface

    Klimpys replied to TheCommuter's topic in Medications

    In a previous post I mentioned that I have a son with Type 1 diabetes. We were basically given some training in the hospital (he was in DKA when admitted), a prescription for insulin, and sent home when he was stabilized. There was so much to lear...