Tami707

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1. CNE Expects Code Nurses To Leave Patients Under Direct Care

   Tami707 replied to Tami707's topic in Safety

   Thank you everyone for your replies. We, all the Charge Nurses, have requested a meeting with our Manager, the DON, and CNE to discuss this. The consensus among us, is that this is an unsafe, as well as a license jeopardizing practice.

2. CNE Expects Code Nurses To Leave Patients Under Direct Care

   Tami707 posted a topic in Safety

   Wondering if anyone else has run into this and what you have done. I work in ICU and am frequently assigned as a Charge Nurse. In addition to unit resource, Charge nurses are a member of the RRT/Code team. But they are also responsible to break ...

3. Upset When Nurses Volunteer To Take On Extra Patients

   Tami707 replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

   Do you have any type of Professional Performance Committee or Staffing Committee that nurses sit on? At my hospital, the Charge is a, mostly, rotated assignment. Some senior nurses won't do it, and new grads are not allowed. The Charge does not ha...

4. why leave an open appendectomy open after surgery?

   Tami707 posted a topic in Pediatric

   I work in a mixed med-surg unit, so we get pediatric patients occasionally. One of our surgeons, will leave the open appys open after surgery and have us clean them qXhrs. Usually this means re-opening the incision when we clean it. I've tried sea...

5. Interview scheduled - now What?!?

   Tami707 posted a topic in Career Support

   I finally have an interview scheduled, and I've done the research on the typical questions (thanks for the stickies!!!) But, this hospital is going to have me walk around the floor with another nurse - not delivering patient care, but I am trying to...

6. Question about clinicals

   Tami707 replied to Shooting4RN's topic in General Students

   My school is a little different. We are scheduled two days/week for 8 hours/day. The school assigns us to our location, either a hopsital or SNF (Skilled Nursing Facility, first semester only). For the first few weeks our instructor assigned us to...

7. I'm a failure & need advice

   Tami707 replied to mbgirl81's topic in General Students

   I agree with all the posters, but I also wanted to mention to use your school's library as a resource for A & P books, as well as Nclex books. I stumbled across two entire rows of nursing books in our school's library, and now I go back and use ...

8. You'll never make it in California

   Tami707 replied to luv2shopp85's topic in California

   I just have to add my two cents. I've lived in Cali my entire life. I'm currently in Nursing school, my husband is our sole support and we are raising two kids on less than $35,000/yr in a rental house in Northern California. We literally scrape b...

9. Nursing students around SF

   Tami707 replied to kitty catt's topic in General Students

   I don;t know of any LVN to BSN programs, but Santa Rosa Junior College has an LVN to RN program. You would enter as a second year RN. Santa Rosa is 80 miles North of SF. Good Luck!

10. Major meltdown in progress re:pathophys

    Tami707 replied to Tami707's topic in Student Assist

    Thanks for the slap, I stopped hyperventilating long enough to think again. I ended up writing most everything as an abdominal mass, but I did pull out the information that doctor used to come to her conclusion of colorectal cancer and focused the p...

11. Major meltdown in progress re:pathophys

    Tami707 posted a topic in Student Assist

    UGGGGHHHHH, I received a ptient today with an admitting diagnosis of Abdominal mass. I need to do a pathophysiology on that diagnosis, with all the related stuff: diagnostic tests, etiology, signs/symptoms, medical management, nursing imlications, a...

12. Nursing school at age 47 - Am I crazy to think I can do this???

    Tami707 replied to GratefulHeart's topic in General Students

    Hi GratefulHeart, I don't think your crazy. I haven't started the program yet, but I have plenty of friends that have successfully completed their first year of the program that are the same age, or older, than you. I think the key is your support...

13. Order of science classes

    Tami707 replied to AmericanChai's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I had to take Bio before I could get into Anatomy, and Chemistry before Physio or Micro. I took Bio one semester, chemistry the next, followed by Anatomy, then Physio, then Micro. It took me longer to finish all the prereqs but by taking only one sc...

14. New about to be Student with Questions

    Tami707 replied to myonlyboyluke's topic in General Students

    I don't know about everyone else, but my prereq's have taken straight three years. If the college courses I had taken earlier in life had transfered it wouldn't have taken so long, but alas, they didn't and I had to start fresh. I also needed to ha...

15. New about to be Student with Questions

    Tami707 replied to myonlyboyluke's topic in General Students

    My college has a turtorial center where we could go and get individual help with math, english, writing, foreign language, etc. THe math dept had three such centers!! One for basic skills (fractions, division, multiplication, etc), one for algebra a...