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I'm graduating from a WOCN program soon (single wounds scope). I'm perusing for jobs and I can't find a thing. Not hard to imagine since every hospital I've worked at only has one or two wound care...

I would say that if you haven't heard anything, that's good news! I got my rejection letter a few weeks ago. -_- Good luck!

Congratulations! If I were in your shoes, I'd go to UMSL, solely because of the cost factor. Unfortunately, I got rejected from them twice. From my understanding, there are a ton of applicants for...

@NurseLife329 - but that doesn't make sense, either. Belly cases are different because once you take any part of the bowel out, you're considered contaminated, but if you scrub the skin and you're...

@skylark, when I worked on med-surg a couple years ago, pretty much all dressing changes I did were wet-to-dry with gauze packing. I don't have evidence based practice proof, that's just what I saw...

Oh, that is NOT okay. Wow. Yes, they definitely need to be sterile, first of all, because an infected skin graft won't take and will cause a lot of problems for that patient. Raggedy mangled skin...

Love - neuro Like - general Dislike - plastics (boring), hearts (the doc is waaaay too high-strung for it to be enjoyable) Hate - ortho (hate positioning and prepping, hate all the little screws...

I have never done a skin graft that wasn't sterile.

Not to my knowledge. We have medical students scrub in and hold retractors every day. I don't know of any written policy on this, though. I'm in Missouri.

Hi all - I will soon be starting a new OR job at an adult hospital. I have never worked with adults in the OR. I have only had OR experience in pediatrics (the last two years), though I have worked...

AORN standards also say to not cover your sterile tables.

We were also educated on not hooking it up to chest tubes (DUH), but it has been taken away from us and we haven't gotten it back yet. If I cared more I might look into it, but I don't find the...

I agree with all of the above, and would also like to add that one thing I admire about school nursing is that you're pretty much on your own. Hospital nurses have their fellow nurses and charge RNs...

THIS, so hard.

I think the responses here are pretty harsh. Maybe I work in a more caring environment than most. It doesn't really feel like an "everyone fend for themselves" culture. If someone was having a rough...

Anesthesia runs it. I don't know jack about that thing.

With the new consensus guidelines for adult-gero nurse practitioners, which kind would be most fit to work in hospice? Primary care or acute care? It's not exactly primary care, but I don't think...

Hello. I am in the process of applying to get wound care certification online. The program is webwocnurse.com. Is this a legitimate accredited school? It appears to be, as it is associated with a...

I second everything TakeTwoAspirin said. Everybody makes mistakes, it really is how you handle it. Write an incident report, tell your manager, and see if there's a way that she can get an xray...

+1 ORoxyO. I wouldn't even waste time with CST. Pass boards and get a job in the OR as a nurse. If you have experience you shouldn't have any problem getting a job.

I'm having major stresses over choosing which NP track to take. This isn't so much the typical "Adult or FNP?" question. It comes down to the fact that if I know my preferred population is the...

I am applying to SLU's fall 2013 FNP program. Let me know if you guys get in!

I'm in the process of applying for a BSN-DNP online program for Family NP. It's a very competitive program, so I feel the essay portion should stand out. What are recruiters looking for? What kinds...

There is still direct patient care. As circulator, you speak with the patient and the family before the surgery. This is a time in which people are typically the most frightened, so your presence...

@jmlowe85: *nods* I'm on the neuro team too, and that's exactly how I feel about it. @eleectrosaurus: lolol, well my boyfriend had an inguinal hernia repair and some elderly man shaved his pubes....