ADAngel

ADAngel

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About ADAngel

Went to ASU for two years, after struggling to pay for out of state tuition, I moved back to MI and got into a nursing program here. I have 2 1/2 years left and I am beyond ready to have my BSN!

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  1. Outside of Detroit Area Hospitals

    I am looking to move into the Detroit area, specifically Warren/Troy area. I have been trying to research what are the preferred hospitals to work for in the area. I have looked into Beaumont in Royal Oak (which was preferred by a co-workers friend),...
  2. NANDA, NIC, NOC -- Lifesavers! As for databases, my favorite is CINAHL. I think almost every EBP paper I did during school, I found most of the articles on there.
  3. Relating to Community Service Projects

    Relay for Life, Health Fairs (nursing students would do BP tests; nutrition students would do nutrition; etc.) Events that I have put on outside of nursing but still relatable was called cookies and condoms. Basically it is an informational session p...
  4. Microbiology

    Have fun with quadrant streaks.. They were my absolute favorite part of micro! I think it is relatively easy to remember the names of the bacterium once you have become accustomed to the Latin.
  5. nursing course failure--help!

    You have to wait an entire year and not a semester? If that is the case, then I am terribly sorry. At my school, they give you the chance to retake the semester the following semester if you fail. In my cohort, luckily no one has failed or had any ci...
  6. For peds nurses:

    Hey y'all! I am currently in a nursing program and researched a topic last semester regarding withdrawal assessment tools that can utilized for children > 4 months old. The hospital that posed the question did not currently have a tool to assess ...
  7. I think you stand a fair chance on getting into a program. I am not exactly sure what a TEAS test is, but you have improved greatly on your latest score. I was attending ASU and realized that my scores could not compare to those of my competitors so ...
  8. It's not going by fast enough. I am graduating in May 2014 and it feels like an eternity. I have a mantra though, "just 3 more semesters, just 3 more semesters.." Granted, by time I do finish, I will have 8 years of university under my belt..
  9. WORK,and Going to school for nursing??

    Like Racer stated, it depends on varying factors. I am currently completing my BSN at an university who's program takes 3-years to complete. However, there are some schools that have accelerated BSN programs. I know when I attended Arizona State Univ...
  10. Hey y'all, I was curious if you can interchange the bell/diaphragms of the Littmann stethoscopes for a pediatric bell/diaphragm. I have a classic ii Littmann, and figured it would be cheaper if I could just swap out the bell for my ob/peds clinical....
  11. Any stethoscope recommendations???

    You have to be careful of the cardiology littmann's.. at least the single head stethoscopes.. our professors would not allow anyone to use these since it takes a certain amount of pressure to use the bell and diaphragm.. I got a cheapie when I ordere...
  12. Hello, So I am working on my first Initial Assessment for practicum.. I need to write about the patho of small cell lung carcinoma, acute renal failure, and diabetes mellitus. I am working on the lung CA and I remember that my patho professor once t...
  13. Flex time VA nursing

    My clinical instructor told me that the VA in Mid-Michigan has both 8-hr shifts and 12-hr shifts. She said that she used to work 8-hrs but decided that working 12's would be more feasible; so now, she works 3 12-hr shifts. I'm not exactly sure of how...
  14. do your instructors do this?

    For the most part, my school is a mix of both. Our instructors lecture but we are expected to know and learn techniques and skills in the lab. For instance, two weeks ago we had gone over transferring. We were expected to know certain transferring te...
  15. Foods with Dysphagia

    Thank you! That was really helpful and clear. I will probably stick with the ice cream idea but I will double check with his wife to make sure that is allowed. Would it be a violation of HIPPA if I called the facility to ask if ice cream is allowed i...