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really has 5 years experience and specializes in Neurosciences.

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1. trigeminal nerve damage--unilateral or bilateral presentation?

   really replied to BluegrassRN's topic in General Nursing

   Off the top of my head, my inclination was to say it's unilateral, but I decided to look a little further. From Barker's text on Neuroscience Nursing (pg. 505): "Right-sided nerve involvement is found twice as often as left-sided involvement and rare...

2. Obtaining certification

   really replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

   http://www.nursesbooks.org/Main-Menu/Certification/ANCC-Resources/Medical-Surgical-Nurse-Review.aspx It's a comprehensive overview of Medical-Surgical nursing. I will keep it for reference for sure because it really is a great text. No offense meant...

3. Obtaining certification

   really replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

   I just sat for my AACN Med-Surg cert last week and it was pretty straight forward. I didn't study at all and did just fine. Of course, i'm teaching pharm to ADN students and do a lot of disease/patho review before starting certain classes of meds s...

4. Transplant Nursing

   really replied to really's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks to all who replied. Believe it or not, I was floated to our transplant unit (livers/kidneys) just a few nights after I posted this. It's definitely a very different discipline...the labs, meds, etc. are all very specialized, just as neuro ha...

5. What do you start IVs with in your OB unit?

   really replied to LNDRN2's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I just had a repeat C in September. Policy in the hospital was 18g. The nurse that started my IV did a little numbing with lido and she put it in my right forearm. I am a TOTAL BABY about IVs, but this was a piece of cake! Thank the dear lord for...

6. Transplant Nursing

   really posted a topic in General Nursing

   Background: I have worked as a neuro nurse for the last 4.5 years (with a little N(eonatal)ICU stint thrown in the middle). I have been spit, hit, kicked, nearly bitten, scratched, etc. by poor, scared souls who aren't in their right minds and I've ...