essarge

essarge

Member

  • Content

    1,250

  • Visitors

    12,690

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    1

All Content by essarge

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. Change in mental status

    essarge replied to essarge's topic in General Nursing

    ,,

  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...

  16. a good medical excuse

    essarge replied to rdtyu7's topic in General Students

    I got it!! Tell them you've lost your spine and it will be awhile before you have the backbone to take the

  17. Websites...

    essarge replied to FutureRN~Pookie's topic in General Nursing

    Was surfing the net and found this site...it's very good!

  18. Chronic Tardiness

    essarge replied to Tweety's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Thank you for this thread!!! I am a nursing student working as a nurse extern full time on the 3p-11p shift. I am always relieved by a a CARDY (chronically tardy) person. About two weeks ago, I'd...

  19. pharmacology in nursing school

    essarge replied to juji fruit's topic in General Students

    :chair: I remember Pharm very well! Half of our class literally failed it. It is very tough and, because it is such a dry subject, causes brain melt down relative to the memorization involved. I...

  20. skipping class, a hard habit to break

    essarge replied to PlanetCaroline's topic in General Students

    When I was doing my pre-req's, I missed class regularly. Nursing courses.....if I miss, I miss out on quite a bit of info (even if the instructor reads the book). It seems my retention level is much...

  21. Any advice for newRNstudent

    essarge replied to newRNstudent's topic in General Students

    I always make this suggestion to new students coming into our program. I suggest that they get the books they will need ASAP and just read them. They might not make any sense right now but will give...

  22. DESCRIBE Your IDEAL Nursing Instructor

    essarge replied to VickyRN's topic in General Students

    Best instructor(s) - the ones who were animated in class. They showed a real passion for nursing, students, and patients. Told stories (some happy some sad) about their experiences and when asked a...

  23. DESCRIBE Your IDEAL Nursing Instructor

    essarge replied to VickyRN's topic in General Students

    Best instructor(s) - the ones who were animated in class. They showed a real passion for nursing, students, and patients. Told stories (some happy some sad) about their experiences and when asked a...

  24. Aspirating with IV pushes.

    essarge replied to kimmicoobug's topic in General Students

    When this question came up, our instructor told us not to aspirate. The reasoning behind it was that, because it is a "closed system", aspirating could compromise the vein. The only time you would...

  25. Clinical Hours

    essarge replied to vaughanmk's topic in General Students

    We have 72 hours per clinical rotation.....and some go longer with pre and post