Our state just legalized recreational marijuana this week. So my question for AN is, what is your opinion on what we should do with it when (non-cancer) patients have/use edibles on a healthcare unit? Its legal, so should we treat it like cigarettes ...
FutureDNP2021 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing
The vitals machine may have produced an erroneous BP reading. Therefore, the doc was correct in suggesting/verifying you followed up with a manual BP verification.
"To me, the problem is unrealistic expectations for floor nurses, short staffing, customer service mentality, high nurse to patient ratios where increasing patient acuity is not taken into consideration"
FutureDNP2021 replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in NCLEX
Yes, I noticed roughly 1/3 of the NCLEX questions I remembered from reading specific Uworld rationals. I thank Jesus for directing me to the right knowledge prior to my NCLEX because I only did 500 Uworld questions.
Uworld-RN April 2017 Thread for discussing the Uworld x2 Self-assessment scores, Overall %, number of total questions completed, and comparison of these predictions with our pass/fail experiences on the NCLEX-RN. [*=1]Uworld total questions complet...
FutureDNP2021 replied to KrisDRN2016's topic in NCLEX
I take my NCLEX this Friday 3/31/17 and HAVE to pass because my new job starts on Monday Boards are enough stress already by itself, but all of this extra pressure of my licence deadline is almost too much to bear. I know that God brought me this f...