JerudC

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1. Airforce Nursing 2011

   JerudC replied to abygl's topic in Government

   The former reply is right, you need to talk to a recruiter ASAP as it may take some time and you may have to back door into the military nursing at this time. Army nurse corps right now is basically be ROTC and in school for nursing, get an Army sch...

2. LVN "teamate" not doing meds properly-advice wanted

   JerudC replied to babblingbrook's topic in Relations

   Two points: 1 Karma will eventually catch up with this LPN. In a hospital near here an RN was marking the meds as given before they were actually given. Unfortunately for her the patient died before the next medications....the doctors had quite the...

3. Isolation Nursing

   JerudC replied to AngelicDarkness's topic in General Nursing

   I am currently a nursing student, and one of the girls I am in school with is from Canada. She was talking about this just a couple of weeks ago. The way she made it sound you can make a lot of money in a very short amount of time. She is Native C...

4. Suture/Staple removal in NYC

   JerudC replied to RNpaula's topic in General Nursing

   If you are concerned about legal liability in regards to your license then the only way is to pull up your states nurse practice acts and check. What a nurse can and can't do varies from state to state. I live on the border of two states, what is g...

5. Dont know what to do?

   JerudC replied to kevinsmom5's topic in General Students

   I agree that you should just go for the RN. That said, I know plenty of LPNs who are very good at what they do. Just remember this, LPNs do a lot of what an RN does, but the RN makes more money. You need to think of it in terms of cost/benefit rat...

6. toradol vs morphine

   JerudC replied to missE's topic in General Students

   Toradol and Morphine are often given to give synergistic effects. I have seen people in the ER get 12 of morphine in less than an hour and not have it touch the pain. 60 of Toradol on board and they feel right as rain in about 30 minutes.

7. Positive PPD test after BCG vaccine

   JerudC replied to priyam2008's topic in General Students

   As I understand it, yes you will always get a +PPD after being vaccinated with BCG. What I have been told is that you should not even have a PPD after the BCG and a + result, go directly to CXRAY. Your program should have a policy for a + test, but...