LadyK82

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1. Most important thing for a nurse to do after a spinal tap?

   LadyK82 replied to raindrop's topic in General Students

   I would have to say lying flat and applying pressure to the area. I know fluids are important, but they can't drink fluids if they're bleeding to death. I know with a liver biopsy you have to lay on the right side and on our test it was the priorit...

2. Has Anyone Else Had Problems With Hept. B Vaccine?

   LadyK82 replied to Kyriaka's topic in General Students

   When I got each of my Hep shots my arm started to swell up to the size of a tennis ball around the injection site. It was very painful and radiated down my entire arm... and I got the pleasure of going through it three times for the series :stone. ...

3. Inspiration Please

   LadyK82 posted a topic in General Students

   I just started my second semester in an ADN program and I have been going non-stop. I am so stressed out and have started to really get discouraged and wonder if I'm in over my head. In clinical last week, just before post conference, a Code Blue wa...

4. Pharm question

   LadyK82 posted a topic in General Students

   I have a Pharmacology test tomorrow over ANS. I can't seem to figure out when you should give Antiadrenergic VS. Cholenergic. Don't they basically do the same thing, which is decrease/block sympathtic activity?? Please help!!!! Thanks!

5. What would you do...?

   LadyK82 replied to Iluvhospice's topic in General Students

   I personally think you did the right thing. What would you have done if you crushed the med and something happened to the patient? It would have been your name tossed around as the one that made a med error. Kudos to standing up for the patient. ...

6. your clinical uniforms

   LadyK82 replied to Ginyer's topic in General Students

   We wear a royal blue uniform with school logo on the front and all white shoes. We were never told we couldn't wear jewelry. They do however make a big stink about hair being pulled back off the collar. I'm soooo glad we don't have all white.... c...

7. I need some ideas!!!

   LadyK82 replied to Coco706's topic in General Students

   the nursing shortage is probably what I'd write about. You can find lots of stats and articles on that topic to refer to.

8. Has Anyone Else Heard This Rumor?

   LadyK82 replied to Jen2's topic in General Students

   Our school uniforms for clinical are royal blue. None of the hospitals that I've been to in the Houston area wear white. The new first semester nursing students that just entered our program and start clincals in March aren't wearing white either. ...

9. Start a family VS nursing school

   LadyK82 replied to e_pigpig's topic in General Students

   There are many people in my program that have young children and are in nursing school. We even have one girl that is 6 months pregnant and is in her second semester. It can be done. I'm sure you've heard about how stressful nursing school is and ...

10. Poll: How much did you "know" before nursing school?

    LadyK82 replied to ER1010's topic in General Students

    i knew nothing about nursing and just sorta jumped into it. I like it though and I feel like I've learned more the past 6 months than I have learned in my 12 years of school.

11. First Day of Second Semester? How did it go?

    LadyK82 replied to NurseBunky's topic in General Students

    Today was so incredibly overwhelming that I'm still trying to catch my breath. We had a clinical math exam today at 8am and then we had orientation for clinical where we have to do all sorts of projects... in addition to the two other classes we are...

12. accepting patients??

    LadyK82 posted a topic in General Students

    Overall, would most of you say that your patients were pretty receptive to having a student nurse do things like IV's, meds, wound care etc? Or were they apprehensive about your knowledge and skills as a student? So far I've found most patients to ...

13. Why do women seem to........

    LadyK82 replied to Rivs's topic in General Students

    A lot of women are two faced drama queens. Too bad they can't wake up and realize that they are professionals & that they have a job to do. Not all women are like this of course, but unfortunately some are. Some people just need the attention ...

14. Do you dream about school?

    LadyK82 replied to helpinghands's topic in General Students

    Nightmares are more like it. I woke up having a panic attack one night b/c I was nervous about a math exam coming up for clinical entry. Everything turned out okay in the end....but it's not what i would consider a sweet dream!

15. do you have to read to make good grades?

    LadyK82 replied to Fern22's topic in General Students

    In my program, if you don't read, you don't pass. The majority of the material comes from the book and a lot of our courses are independent study so we have to depend on the text book for the test info. Our instructors are also very big on pop-quiz...