Mountain Nurse

Mountain Nurse specializes in MedSurg.

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1. Floating non-ICU RN's to ICU!!?

   Mountain Nurse replied to Keri29's topic in Critical

   It's not unheard of where I am. None of the ICU nurses like it, but, we weren't consulted....

2. Mistake... Need advice!

   Mountain Nurse posted a topic in New Nurse

   Sorry... long post...but there is a point, I promise! I recently had an order to hang one unit of blood. H/H wasn't bad, but it was right at shift change. So I decided not to "pass the buck" and went to lab to get the blood. When I got back I grab...

3. online BSN programs

   Mountain Nurse replied to ss112329's topic in General Students

   I'm not sure which state you live in, but I know that many NC Universities offer completely online ASN to BSN programs. You could probably check links for the university nearest you.

4. Help nursing DX

   Mountain Nurse replied to nstu's topic in General Students

   You need to prioritize your nursing diagnoses. Your first one should be to control the pain. He stated a 6/10. Also, for your interventions, you should TCDB, offer fluids for volume depletion, etc. I would recommend a good care plan book. At my...

5. I failed :(

   Mountain Nurse replied to Deliasgone's topic in General Students

   I can SOOO sympathize... I just found out today that I failed one of my classes. There were only three grades, midterm final and a paper, and my final grade just wasn't high enough by nursing standards, but... the worst part is that it will be this ...

6. Do they make these?

   Mountain Nurse replied to StarGirl's topic in General Nursing

   Not sure if anyone is familiar with the Cherokee Boxer Style Pants....the waist band is like 4 inches thick and rides up to your chest! Not to mention the legs are tapered like 80's style....ugg. Those are the exact same ones we had to wear for ...

7. nursing ethics

   Mountain Nurse replied to pedsorrn's topic in General Students

   We have an individual class for ethics. It's called Proffessional Issues and we also deal with ethics in each class for each situation we talk about.

8. Scrub sites... again

   Mountain Nurse replied to bowkerj's topic in General Students

   some good ones are http://www.allheart.com which has the best prices, http://www.jascouniforms.com and http://www.lydiasuniforms.com are good Dontcha hate that? and the minute you stop thinking about it, you'll remember what you forgot!!

9. ahhhhhhh...a sigh of relief!

   Mountain Nurse replied to RN and Mommy's topic in General Students

   Isn't it wonderful? When I woke up this morning I didn't know what to do with myself!!! It's so nice to not need to be studying anything!

10. Pt/Family RAGE

    Mountain Nurse replied to sawbuck's topic in Activism

    Good for you CseMgr1!! Stand up for what yourself. You definately deserved more respect than you got.

11. A waitress?!?!?

    Mountain Nurse replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    My husband is also a paramedic, so I can sympathize in knowing that these guys wouldn't even think of going to work drunk, much less in front of their supervisors!! It's ridiculous that one waitress could change policy, even though public opinion is...

12. Would you choose an Associates OR Bachelors in nursing? need your opinions, please.

    Mountain Nurse replied to apexsw20trd's topic in General Nursing

    These two semesters are two 14 credit hour semesters offered through online or web-enhanced classes. They wanted you to have most of your pre-req's, ex. A&P, 2 English classes, etc. before you get in to the ADN. (My english classes were online ...

13. What has been the most difficult course for you while in the nursing program??

    Mountain Nurse replied to breeqt's topic in General Students

    I would have to TOTALLY agree. I had pharmacology and assessment together, and I had an A in Pharm and not as great in assessment. It is definately the hardest so far.

14. Would you choose an Associates OR Bachelors in nursing? need your opinions, please.

    Mountain Nurse replied to apexsw20trd's topic in General Nursing

    I had the same decision to make, but where I live they offer a RN to BSN, so it will take me two years to get my ADN and only two semesters after that for my BSN. That is a total of three years, two years at the cost of a community college, and only...

15. A question to the ER pros concerning fracture stabilization.

    Mountain Nurse replied to evans_c1's topic in Emergency

    Hey! My husband is an EMT-Paramedic and I am an EMT-B and he and I both think that both answers are very good ways to stabilize and the only thing we could add is just remember that the hip in connected to the spinal cord and to keep that in mind!!