NJNursing ASN, RN

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    What doctors do that bugs you...

    NJNursing replied to 33-weeker's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Unnecessary sections. I had a doc section a girl becuse she was in pain. Went right past the Nubain/Phenergan and had her consent to an epidural She moved a lot during the epidural and it didn't go in...
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    How does your facility utilize pitocin for post-3rd stage?

    NJNursing replied to klone's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We use 20 miliunits in 1000ml of LR, 3 miliunits upped every half hour for inductions and some will even up it q 15 minutes. After the placent is out, we run it at 500ml/hr (because it's through the...
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    Help me understand

    NJNursing posted a topic in International Nursing

    I'm trying to write this the best way without it coming off wrong. There is a large influx of nurses coming to America from the Phillipines to work. It's good because there's a shortage here and...
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    How long for licenses?

    NJNursing posted a topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I took my NCLEX 10 days ago and passed (woo hoo!) I'm wondering how long it'll take to get my actual license from NJ. I know our BON is the most infuriating BON out there (IMO). I've got a friend...
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    New Jersey Nursing Schools

    NJNursing replied to rookierunner9's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    @rookierunner9 I'm not sure you're quite understanding. Whether you do an associates program or a bachelors program, both come out to becoming an RN. There's no RN degree. It's ASN/ADN or BSN. You...
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    Fear ruined my first nursing career. Help!

    NJNursing replied to Elisheva's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Congrats on having the courage to want to go back into it! That's a great first step past the fear! I really commend you on that. Also congrats on taking the refresher course. I don't like the...
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    I known nuttin bout birthin no babies

    NJNursing replied to jprn05's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I can only add to what the others have said. I started to dilate and efface at 28 weeks (seems to be the magic # in this thread). They put me on Brethine (evil drug!) and told me to stop work and be...
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    Experience with SNS systems?

    NJNursing replied to PhoenixGirl's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Rebecca, Congrats on the pregnancy! I, myself, exclusively pumped for my daughter for 10 months (when work interefered with my supply :-( ) because I tried to breastfeed and she was just a poor...
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    RWJ nurses union gives 10-day strike notice

    NJNursing replied to lee1's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    They settled ahead of the strike:
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    Who feels new grads should definately start on med/surg unit?

    NJNursing replied to jenalv's topic in Nursing Career

    My first 2 semesters of nursing school they pushed into our heads over and over again that we should do 6-12 months of med-surg under our belt. However in our last year of nursing we found that many...
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    RN TO BSN online

    NJNursing replied to ksrn2004's topic in General Nursing

    I'm starting my BSN/MSN program in January through Drexel University. The BSN portion is completely online and some of the MSN classes are as
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    Help me understand

    NJNursing replied to NJNursing's topic in International Nursing

    The information I had gotten this from was this month's American Journal of Nursing. I'd like to hope that their information isn't skewed and/or outdated. If I can land my hands on the article online,...
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    RWJ nurses union gives 10-day strike notice

    NJNursing replied to lee1's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I hate hospital strikes. Our Lady of Lourdes went on strike I guess 3 years ago and it didn't do anything for the nurses there. They hired agency nurses to fill the void and after 2-3 weeks many...
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    Appropriate Debt for Nursing School

    NJNursing replied to OCstudent's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I worked my first year in college. Then I found out that taking 12 credits and working as much as possible (somewhere between part time and full time) was not theraputic for classes. I was getting...
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    Help

    NJNursing replied to RNKay31's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    ABC's are first. Without ABC's everything else is kind of useless. I mean who cares about their safety if they've got an occluded ariway or are bleeding profusely? Second is Maslow's heirarchy of...
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    NJ nursing school

    NJNursing replied to Tristin_b's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    Really every school is good. Every school from community colleges to universities produce good nurses. It's basically a matter of cost and location. I went to Mercer County College. Of a class of...
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    Hospitals with On-Site Day Care?

    NJNursing replied to nycNurse2b's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    At Robert Wood Johnson - Hamilton - they have a daycare center across their parking lot. It's called the Lakeview Daycare Center and they have several of them, so you can bring your child to the one...
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    How?

    NJNursing replied to xomandalized's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I spent 4 years in nursing school, graduated in may and got into a maternity internship. This way we're working under a mentor for 18 weeks, so we're not just thrust into the fire, but we get to ease...
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    Student and wanting help in going forward to bcome a OB nurse

    NJNursing replied to NursingStudent19's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It's true - in OB when everything is going well, it's the happiest unit in a hospital. When something goes bad it's the saddest. But that really comes working in ANY unit in a hospital from m/s to...
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    Is Valtrex prescibed for anything other then Genital Herpes?

    NJNursing replied to KayceeLeeRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Yup - I take it for cold sores. I get two 1 gram pills that I take once when I feel my lip tingling and it goes away without ever materializing. I love that
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    First year nursing and EXPECTING first baby

    NJNursing replied to anxiety722's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree with some of the previous posters. Tell them now. I had this happen. I found out I was pregnant the week that I started a new job. They were upset because it seemed that they thought I...
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    just starting...

    NJNursing replied to nrm51's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I just graduated from Mercer County College this past May. I start work tomorrow (woo hoo!). Find out what your nursing department's policies are in regards to applying to start the nursing classes...
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    New pre-nursing student "need advice"

    NJNursing replied to kcmo06's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The tips above are excellent! I agree - stay really organized with everything. Tape record lectures so that you can review them later if there was something you didn't quite get. Form a study...
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    A good point to remember for studying in general

    NJNursing replied to RNsRWe's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I think what she's advising is to try to stick with the main 5 study guides that many people are finding successful and has a reputation with the users here as being valid and
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    Your advice

    NJNursing replied to Makand's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I agree, keep doing questions. This way it keeps you in the testing frame of mine all the time and if you do comprehensive questions (all of the material is together rather than broken down by...