blt99

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1. Should nurses perform outside scope of practice during emergency situations?

   blt99 replied to chels0641's topic in Student Assist

   I might approach your paper from a different angle, and a little lesser degree of severity. I'm thinking about hospitalist physicians that trust the nursing staff enough to issue very lenient standing med orders to prevent calling them in the middl...

2. Much needed advice please:)

   blt99 replied to wchelsea's topic in General Students

   Never heard of. We were told to start looking for a part time/PRN job at a hospital (doing PCT or similar) about halfway through nursing school. Just to get a foot in the door for an RN job after graduation.

3. Med Surg Fluid and Electrolytes help!

   blt99 replied to jep039's topic in Student Assist

   What type of learner are you? I ask because I am highly kinetic and visual (on the VARK test) and the last thing I am is read/write. I can't look at black letters on a white paper and absorb it. Doesn't work for me. For me, I act stuff out or ma...

4. Need advice, just failed first semester of nursing school

   blt99 replied to mnurs's topic in General Students

   Did you just fail a couple classes? Can you retake those classes? If you've failed more than your allotted number of fails, our school will dismiss you. I can understand their reasoning. If you can't succeed in these classes after 2 attempts, the...

5. Advice for stethoscopes...

   blt99 replied to audra211's topic in Uniform/Gear

   I am hearing impaired and I have the Littmann 3100. Without my hearing aids, I can barely make out heart sounds on any regular stethoscope (classic, lightweight, cardio, master, you name it), let alone any delicate vascular or breath sounds. My el...

6. What classes are you taking in spring

   blt99 replied to Kimynurse's topic in General Students

   Semester 2/4: Adult I Med-Surg + clinical - 5 hours Women's health (OB) + clinical - 5 hours Aging - 2 hrs (online) Research - 2 hrs (online) Groups - 2 hrs (online)

7. About the HESI

   blt99 replied to MilliePieRN's topic in HESI

   our end of semester HESI wasn't as bad as I anticipated. 1064 - 96.3% I'll take it!

8. Foley catheter

   blt99 replied to honeybuns89's topic in Student Assist

   And (aside from the ever present UTI fear with foleys) the biggest concern is clotting and foley tube blocking.

9. Question about Bedside Manner

   blt99 replied to lilemma's topic in General Students

   I was dead nervous about having to talk to patients during my first clinicals. The best advice I was given my first semester was to just be yourself. Do what is comfortable for you, but every day challenge yourself to do one tiny new thing. Touchin...

10. Losing Weight While In School

    blt99 replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    I gained weight through my pre-nursing school semesters. This is my first semester in nursing school and I've lost 15 so far. It's from being too poor to eat at the cafeteria, vending machines, starbucks, or fast food. Nursing school is expensive....

11. Refusing to dissect in A&P or Microbiology?

    blt99 replied to joel.mercado's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I see that as a tough situation. I love critters as well, but I didn't have a problem dissecting pigs. We used 1 pig per table (4 students) and used the same pig through the whole 4 week summer class, so at least we conserved while we learned. W...

12. A very positive clinical experience

    blt99 replied to Stcroix's topic in General Students

    I love happy stories like these! Great idea to start a positive thread!

13. Not willing to do the dirty work?

    blt99 replied to stratus93's topic in General Students

    I agree with and respect everything that has been said, but I would like to add two things that I have had to think about lately. 1. Especially first semester nursing students on their first clinicals - we want to see things, we want to have excit...

14. Are clinicals flexible?

    blt99 replied to mee9mee9's topic in General Students

    I would say that it depends on what city you live in. I'm in Dallas at TWU and we have many locations for clinicals. Most of the hospitals in Dallas have bus/train stops pretty close, and ours run early. In that case, yes it's possible, I have fri...

15. Will med error keep me from NT position?

    blt99 replied to kht124's topic in General Students

    Thanks for bringing this topic up. It is something that I wouldn't have thought of and I'm glad I am since I'll be interviewing this spring. I agree with everyone else about the situation and Congrats on the job!!! Thinking about what I would say:...