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Hi! I am a new nurse working in Med-Surg. I had a patient today that had a picc in her arm...I noticed slight swelling when I did my morning assessment. Pt said it has been like that.She left the floor for a while and when she came back it was much w...

Hi! I just got home after working tonight as a tech on a med-surg floor. I am a senior nursing student and saw something tonight that I am questioning! I have done a couple of foley's before and I swear that I thought that if you "miss the hole" then...

I graduated from UCO in 2005. WONDERFUL program, and I can tell you that now, after working for almost 2 yrs in Med-Surg. Compared to my fellow coworkers that graduated the same time I did from other schools, I caught on super fast and felt and appe...

ok...scenario.... a patient of yours comes to the floor after surgery with a pca pump. policy is that the pacu nurses hook it up prior to leaving recovery room then once to the floor, pacu nurse and floor nurse check it together. ok...so your pt has ...

Wow, this thread came at the perfect time!! I had the weirdest dreams last night! I dreamt I overslept and called into work at about 7:30 and asked to speak to our charge nurse. she wasn't there, so my coworker talked to me and told me it was ok, jus...

Hi! I'm a new graduate, have been on my med-surg floor since june. typically our ratios are 5-6 patients per nurse. On a great day, it's four, bad day 7. We get lots of abdominal surgeries, such as colon resections, hernia repair, appys, choleys. we ...

Hi! I'm a new grad and yes, we learned that demerol is pretty much being "phased out". HOWEVER, I just had a post op patient today on a Demerol PCA! Very interesting. I have had demerol IV before and honestly, it worked for about 5 minutes tops...i t...

Hi!!! I graduated May 6, took boards June 7 and have been actually practicing as a RN since June 9!! I started full time on the Med Surg unit of my hospital this week! What a wonderful feeling to know that a dream has been accomplished!!!!

This same thing happened to my daughter a week ago. The bite on her leg got very swollen, red, hard, and hot. Looked like an infection. The back of her leg was swollen 2X normal. I took her to the Dr. and she said she has been seeing about 2 kids a d...

HI! Well my computer shut off at 75 and I did pass. Of course, I couldn't tell you at that time that I did or not. Very hard test. A classmate of mine also had 75 questions and failed! So you really never know. Good luck to you!

Hi! Well I started looking for jobs a little before spring break of my senior year and actually applied during spring break. I had a job that week. The hospital said that their new grad positions fill up soon after spring break. I took the NCLEX last...

Hi! I just took the NCLEX and passed with 75 questions. :) A lot of the questions were almost identical to Kaplan's review questions. Kaplan's tests, were, in my opinion, hard. You feel like you're doing well and come out with a score of 60!! I think...

congratulations!!!! :balloons:

Hey!! Sounds like you have prepared very well. I took the NCLEX on Thursday and I also took the Kaplan review course. I will have to say that the majority of my questions were very very similar to those from Kaplan. I swear there was one exactly word...

HI! I got my results this morning (Saturday) on Pearson's website!!! I passed too by the way!!!! :) Finally a RN!!! I took the NCLEX on Thursday at 9 am. When did you take yours? Good luck to you!!!

Start Monday, June 13 , med surg floor. lucky to get day shift!! well i guess, lucky for me since I have a 2 yr old (single mommy) :)

It probably would not be appropriate to actually tell her she shouldn't get pregnant again, however it would've been ok to tell her she is lucky she's alive!! PP hemorrhage actually happened to me 2 years ago after giving birth to my 1st daughter. VE...

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Thank you! Congrats to all of you too!!! Our graduation was Friday and pinning was Saturday! I can't believe it's all over already!!! Good luck to you all with the NCLEX!!!

Hi!! I just graduated from nursing school over the weekend and my new job will be in Med-Surg. I actually like it, while about everyone I talk to hates it and thinks I am crazy... so hopefully I won't end up hating it!!!

Hi! Well your pinning ceremony sounds a lot like ours. We had ours last night and they played a slide show at the beginning. As we walked across the stage to be pinned they announced our name and read the message we had written for our families. It w...

Hi everyone!!! Tomorrow is the 1st day of my Leadership clinicals and I am getting so nervous!! I graduate May 6 so only 6 more weeks to go!!! I just can't believe this is real, it's starting to sink in that this is my last clinical rotation PERIOD!!...

If you had to pick one thing that you thought was a major problem in nursing what would it be and what would you do about it? Just curious! :)

Just to add that lots of women do start showing a lot earlier with their 2nd, 3rd,etc. pregnancy!! Good luck!!

How funny!! I am so glad I am not the only one who feels this way. I was JUST talking to my friend telling her how it does not seem real when I saw this post. I keep thinking like something is going to happen to mess things up. But I do remember thin...