hope2beRN

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1. Patients knowing medical lingo

   hope2beRN replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

   Oh my gosh that drives me insane, and you're right about many patients knowing what NPO means, but it DOES NOT stand for "nothing per oral"!!!! It's Latin!!! And haha, for the record, it's nil per os.

2. Patients knowing medical lingo

   hope2beRN replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

   Yes I definitely agree with this- actually I couldn't agree more and you couldn't have said it better. I was perfectly fine and healthy until I came down with what we thought was a run-of-the-mill stomach virus in December and never got better. We ...

3. any nurses had a lap cholecystectomy??

   hope2beRN replied to sn2rn04's topic in General Nursing

   well im not a nurse yet, but i had it done in december... i was in a ton of pain for about a week, 2 weeks post-op, but after that got better pretty quickly. definitely be careful with the lifting. i really took it easy for a month or more, so i wo...

4. My slow recovery from wisdom tooth removal

   hope2beRN replied to ~Kitty~'s topic in General Nursing

   i've been lurking around here for a while, but this thread was just all to familiar... i had mine out last tuesday, all 4 impacted, and i was miserable. my face was so swollen i could barely talk, and couldn't eat or drink (big no-no, i know), which ...

5. I want to work at Baylor? Need to know...

   hope2beRN replied to moliuchick's topic in Texas

   I live about half an hour from Plano- it's a really nice place to live in and it has a lot of great places to eat, shop, you name it. I'm guessing you are referring to the new Baylor that is about to open next month- it will be wonderful. I would h...