bld24

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1. Brevard Community College

   bld24 replied to KnightRN's topic in Florida

   I think it was 36 points. I had the following: GPA 9/10 Orientation 5/5 Advisement 3/3 AP1 5/5 AP2 3/5 Micro 5/5 Algebra 3/3 Nutrition 1/1 Essay 2/2 90's on Net Math and 80's on comprehension with no health care experience. I was in school with peop...

2. I need help with smells

   bld24 replied to BlessedRoseRN's topic in General Nursing

   Try chewing a brand new stick of peppermint gum. I've always had an iron stomach, but I've found my achilles heel in the smell department. It's called the biliary drainage bag. I can smell it right now and I left the floor almost 3 hours ago. I'd...

3. Beer in the morning?

   bld24 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in Recovery

   Night-shifter, nonalcoholic and occasional skier here. I have a very occasional beer or two in the am after I get off work. If I'm on vacation, I will sometimes have a drink in the morning. When I ski (unfortunately on rare occasions now), I almos...

4. To Quit or Not to Quit

   bld24 replied to DustBunnies's topic in General Nursing

   Two years ago I could have written your post. Clinicals made me feel incompetent and stupid and I'm far from that. Clinicals were the bane of my existence. I dreaded going to almost every single one. Every day I would say to myself, "just get thr...

5. Any advice please?

   bld24 replied to bld24's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks to everyone that wrote with advice. I sucked it up and went back in and somehow they had assigned me this patient again. I deferred and switched the assignment, but it all worked out. The family sought me out and actually apologized about t...

6. Any advice please?

   bld24 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm a new nurse, of less than a few months,scrambling along and having the common time management issues with taking 6 patients, trying to do things by the book, asking lots of questions and thinking things are going pretty good-I'm a little slow, bu...

7. Solumedrol

   bld24 replied to bld24's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the answers-we don't have those vials-wish we did.

8. Solumedrol

   bld24 replied to bld24's topic in General Nursing

   The dose is .96ml. I guess my concern is that the 3cc syringe that we use to waste the 1ml has so few markings that it seems a little imprecise when you waste 1ml. (Unlike the TB syringe where you could get as close a measurement as .01), so if you...

9. Solumedrol

   bld24 posted a topic in General Nursing

   How do you prepare it? They way I was taught by my preceptor was to dilute in 2cc's of saline (per package instructions). My dose is .96 so I've been wasting 1ml of a 3ml saline flush, then injecting the solumedrol with 2ml of saline, then drawin...

10. Learning Thread: Med/Surg

    bld24 replied to RN28MD's topic in Med-Surg

    I thought in CO poisoning that the skin usually never presents as cyanotic, but cherry-red or pink and flushed?

11. Common skills needed for med-surg

    bld24 posted a topic in Med-Surg

    Hi, I'm a brand new GN getting ready to start on med-surg in about 10 days. I'd like to brush up on skills and pathos, labs, etc that I will need for my job. Since i only have 10 days and I have to study for NCLEX, I was hoping to create a top 10 l...

12. Nursing Students and Report

    bld24 replied to miko014's topic in General Nursing

    My clinical group is always on the floor in time for report, but I seem to run into the same problem many times. I'll have 3-4 patients with 3-4 different nurses assigned. I have to find 4 different nurses who I have never seen before and try to ge...

13. I have never been nasty to a student until now!!!

    bld24 replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't be worried, the majority of the students I see are doing the right thing, just like the majority of the nurses we work with aren't mean and nasty to students. We always hear the worst stories. Sometimes it only takes one person to taint the e...

14. Long Clinical Hours

    bld24 replied to bld24's topic in General Students

    That's actually a really good idea that for some reason I hadn't thought of. Thanks! I'm just brainstroming on all of the things that I don't know yet. I haven't seen an admission done for some reason, so thats on my list for next weekend. I've ...

15. Long Clinical Hours

    bld24 replied to bld24's topic in General Students

    Your instructor sounds great. I love my instructor, but she expects us to be proactive about our clinical experience-she won't search out things for us to do-and I don't have a problem with that. Unfortunately, we have to stay on the floor the enti...