KEL2BanRN

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1. Sorry

   KEL2BanRN posted a topic in General Nursing

   I didn't want medical advice with the post I just put on here. I know enough to not seek medical advice on a message board. All she wanted to know is if it's possible that the vaccine came out of...

2. New rules about going online to listen to You Tube!

   KEL2BanRN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

   Floor nurses have time to surf the 'Net??? I'm actually surprised. LOL I'm still just a student, but from what I see in clinicals, I can't imagine nurses having time to sit at the desk and play...

3. anyone have to take HESI at the end of each semester???

   KEL2BanRN replied to wan2banrseNms's topic in General Students

   My school is on quarters. The ADN program is 7 quarters. We have to take a HESI after 4th quarter. If you don't score high enough, you have to stay after summer quarter for 3 weeks of remediation....

4. Stiff Stethoscope tubing...Ugh!!!!

   KEL2BanRN replied to mcknis's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

   Here's what I just found: Q. Why does the tubing on my stethoscope become stiff and rigid? A. The tubing used in all 3M™ Littmann® Stethoscopes is a PVC (polyvinylchloride) tubing that becomes...

5. Critique my documentation?

   KEL2BanRN replied to KEL2BanRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Yes, thank you!!

6. Critique my documentation?

   KEL2BanRN replied to KEL2BanRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Could you be more specific on the abbreviations? So far I've used all of those before and my CI has said it was fine. In fact he's the one who has told me to use most of them. I did do head to toe,...

7. Critique my documentation?

   KEL2BanRN replied to KEL2BanRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   LOL Thanks. I guess what they're doing with us right now is getting us used to doing full head to toe assessments and learning how to document. I'm really lost on how to document, and I wonder just...

8. Critique my documentation?

   KEL2BanRN replied to KEL2BanRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Hm, My CI is the one who told me to use UE for the upper extremities. Is there a list somewhere of abbreviations we can't use? As for the PU dressing, I am not to remove it - it was just put on that...

9. Critique my documentation?

   KEL2BanRN posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   This is my second day of charting. We're at a nursing home and have same resident each week for now. This is for practice, we will be charting in the actual chart next week. How does this...

10. charting.... critique?

    KEL2BanRN replied to KEL2BanRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yeah I realized just AFTER I posted that I forgot to put "call light in reach" with my entries!! DOH!!

11. Nursing Documentation

    KEL2BanRN replied to Csuev_1970's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    AHA! Finally someone else who has/understands my dilemma. I'm going thru this exact same thing right now. I know *what* to chart, I just don't know HOW and no one teaches us. You just fumble...

12. charting.... critique?

    KEL2BanRN replied to KEL2BanRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thank you, that is very helpful! I need examples, and no books I see really have very

13. charting.... critique?

    KEL2BanRN replied to KEL2BanRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Daytonite, thank you! Yes, I explained it in a previous post. (about the inability to

14. Doc'ing Bruit and Thrill.

    KEL2BanRN replied to KEL2BanRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    THANK

15. charting.... critique?

    KEL2BanRN replied to KEL2BanRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The reason there was no intervention is because my resident is on dialysis 3x week and she really never is able to "go" but once in a while she gets the urge so we help her onto the toilet. I figured...