KEL2BanRN

KEL2BanRN

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  1. Sorry

    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!

    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???

    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!!!!

    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?

    Yes, thank you!!
  6. Critique my documentation?

    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?

    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?

    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. 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?

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

    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?

    Thank you, that is very helpful! I need examples, and no books I see really have very
  13. charting.... critique?

    Daytonite, thank you! Yes, I explained it in a previous post. (about the inability to
  14. Doc'ing Bruit and Thrill.

    THANK
  15. charting.... critique?

    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...