danigirl58

danigirl58

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  1. How do you dilute your meds for IV pushes?

    for me i use a 10cc syringe and say if i had a 10mg ampule of morphine i would draw up 9 cc ns then draw up the 1cc of morphine. i never draw up the med first then draw up ns because then if you take...
  2. New and scared

    well i managed to get through my first day as a gn. :uhoh21: am i overwhelmed .... yeah .... am i scared .... hell yes......... am i going to hate the next little while ..... i'm thinking so... but...
  3. Hoping you guys get in

    hey there, this is a message for all you guys waiting for your acceptance letters. every day i come onto this site to see if any of you guys get accepted into your programs, weird yes i know cause i'm...
  4. Let's introduce ourselves...

    hi everyone, my name is danielle. i'm a new bsn grad from the middle of no where in canada. i will write my canadian nursing exam in june (theres only 3 or 4 times to write it in a year), and i will...
  5. New and scared

    well thankfully i'm not afraid to ask questions :) i know that things will get better as time passes and i become more confident in myself and my skills. i will be getting an orientation, so that will...
  6. here are the codes for majority of the hospitals in my city. i must say that i didn't know there were so many different types of codes until i started typing them. sadly enough we receive a laminated...
  7. I got in.. now I'm nervous.

    i have just finished my education (which consisted of 450 hrs of senior nursing student practicum) ... wow its weird to say that ...... and i have just been hired at a major hospital in my city. i...
  8. the unit i am currently on has a lot of young nurses. a lot of these nurses are new, however they are top notch in my eyes. the more senior nurses are still young (under 35) and are very competent....
  9. IV scenario

    i'm a new nurse (just finished :))but i would have a few questions first ....... how much longer will the blood be infusing for......... does the patient have any allergies to either of the meds or...
  10. Nursing School Heartbreak of losing fellow students

    i am pleased i passed, i worked hard and love my job. but the emotional and physical rollercoaster that is nurse training, i couldn't do it again. if i had to do it all over again, i don't think i...
  11. Nursing School Heartbreak of losing fellow students

    my program was 4 years long. at the beginning my nursing class had about 97 people in it. how my program was put together all of us stayed together as the courses were preset. as a result my class was...
  12. Arrival in US -- what to expect, what to do

    so does that mean if someone had really bad credit in their home country that its not transferable .... what if a person has a past history of going bankrupt does that affect them. so on another note...
  13. Arrival in US -- what to expect, what to do

    hello to everyone out there. first i'd like to say that i did a search and could not find any info on my subject so i thought i'd bring it here to all of you :) i am a canadian nurse going through the...
  14. UT-HSC Fall '06 Applicants

    first i'd like to say that i know all schools are different and that being said.......... in my program holds and stuff like that were only placed on students that were accepted into programs....
  15. Anyone else get flooded on their way to work tonight??

    to true, i never thought about the houses flooding ..... man that would
  16. Anyone else get flooded on their way to work tonight??

    every time i have gone down to houston it seems like the sky opens up and it pours. i have never seen a big city like that flood to the point where you cant even drive ..... or even contemplate...
  17. Lovenox Injections: SC, But Where?

    When I was pregnant I had to use this med, but as I was prego I couldn't obviously inject it into my abdomen. I was told to inject it into my thigh's and let me tell you that it stung like the...
  18. First Job Interview!

    hey there, i just read your post and thought that i'd reply to it. i just had my first interview today for a nursing position. i will be receiving my senior practicum final evaluation this week...
  19. Total cases as SRNA..

    ok i feel dumb asking but what is
  20. hummmmmmmm my personal opinion is no it doesn't if anything it got worse :uhoh21: not that you want to hear that. my first year there was a lot of memorization second year it was still memorization...
  21. Salary question??

    OK i have a dumb question ....... what is a NP I'm thinking its a nurse practitioner is that
  22. Salary question??

    That there is an argument that I could totally agree with :) My BSN education placed us into more clinical's then the diploma nursing course (theory and clinical
  23. Canadian licensing.

    Hey there just wanted to add that in the province of Manitoba there is a two year diploma nursing program that gets you RN status. I'm not sure but i believe that theres another one out there but i...
  24. Salary question??

    Where I am from (Canada) many of the Provinces are starting the practice of only educating nurses at the BSN level. I know that there are a few 2 year diploma nursing programs that are left up here...
  25. Getting Along- The Union Debate

    Hi every one, I just thought that I'd put in my 2 cents worth on this thread. I am a Canadian nursing student (will be a GN come April), and as such I only know the nursing profession as being...