essarge

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1. Parking during clinical/work hours?

   essarge replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Students

   Do I hear the word "Egypt"? When we do our clinicals it is at a massive medical center. Student parking (including med students) is located at the far east side in the back. It takes a good 20...

2. Change in mental status

   essarge replied to essarge's topic in General Nursing

   Please don't think that I am stereo typing all LTC nursing staff. I stated in my post that SOME do this. And yes, I know that there are some (most) very caring people in this field. I do however...

3. Change in mental status

   essarge replied to essarge's topic in General Nursing

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4. Change in mental status

   essarge posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work in a hosptal setting and have seen a rise in LTC residents being admitted for "change in mental status". When we get these residents, they present with no fever or any other symptoms. Their...

5. is a spanish course needed for nursing

   essarge replied to Cs Jinx's topic in General Students

   Actually, the Spanish language is now the "2nd" language of the U.S. I took two semesters of it and it has come in handy many many time when I worked in the ER and now on med/surg. If you can do it,...

6. HELP!!! I can't COUNT the Apical Pulse!!

   essarge replied to kwagner_51's topic in General Students

   Your idea of being "Lawrence Welk" is a good one if you are having problems. Just count lub (one) dub (and). If that doesn't work well, try taking the total and dividing it in half until you get the...

7. Can't give a friend an aspirin at home?

   essarge replied to PennyLane's topic in General Students

   While you are a student, you are not held liable for your state's nurse practice act. You are working under your instructor's liscense while you are in clinicals and it is their responsibility to...

8. Typical drop/fail rates for RN programs?

   essarge replied to jjbaby's topic in General Students

   After two years of actual nursing courses (freshman year is pre req's) we've lost over 50% of our students. Started with 45, now down to 18 original and 5 that failed earlier and are now with us....

9. Does your hospital "lock down" after visiting hours????

   essarge replied to altomga's topic in General Nursing

   All of our doors except the ER are locked after 830pm. You must have an ID badge to "unlock" the door to enter. The only problem is that sometimes one person will swipe and 5 will come in behind...

10. How many of you are married to or date someone in the Medical Field?

    essarge replied to echo*echo's topic in General Nursing

    Gee, now I'm kinda depressed! Been married (((((coughing))) a few times to non-medical personnel. Maybe I should have listened to that song "Looking for love in all the wrong places" a few more...

11. post mortem care

    essarge replied to carcha's topic in Operating Room

    While I am not familiar with OR, I do know that here in Delaware, everything is left in place....just in case. We clean the patient as best as we can if the family would like to view the body, but...

12. Nursing Syndrome

    essarge replied to flaced's topic in General Students

    blue, thanks for saying to be nice to all assistant staff. I have run into many, many nurses who feel that assistant staff is there to do their bidding and have no clue that they have a job...

13. How hard are nursing classes?

    essarge replied to flaced's topic in General Students

    While I have had "hard" courses and "easy" courses, nursing school is an animal in it's own category. It is very time consuming and much of it is "self paced". That is that the instructors expect...

14. which shift is busier?

    essarge replied to momrn50's topic in General Nursing

    I'd like to give my opinion from a student nurse/assistant perspective. I have worked all three shifts and on the surface, it appears that day shift (on our med/surg unit) seems busier. I think...

15. Nursing Syndrome

    essarge replied to flaced's topic in General Students

    Working in a hospital situation, I've seen many nurses with attitudes (not good), some are burned out, some are just snobs, and some have some twisted idea that they are better than anyone else. I...