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I work for home health. I have a patient who has a VAD (port-a-cath, lifeport) which was due to be flushed the end of last month. She was in the hospital and it didn't get flushed. I am telling her it's long over due (this would be 7th week) but the ...

a few places i've worked for would let you work as a CNA if you tell them you are in nursing school and you've taken the first semester of nursing ( i think "principles of nursing") and that's good enough for some, granted that you are still in schoo...

once i had cramps and numbness in my foot that won't go away while i was on birth control. thinking i may have a clot, i took 2 aspirin. my stomach starts hurting so i took some pepto bismal. the next morning my stool was very tarry so i thought i'd ...

i've actually never used vacutainer straight on picc, we've always used the 100cc syringe method....... i would stick to it as much as possible since one of my co-worker blew one picc line in one day, then come back the next day and blew a second pi...

i have met people who felt they just need to get through school and once they get through and start practicing they can "slack off" because the professor is not breathing down their neck anymore.... in a sense there is more freedom, but at the same t...

i have a BSN right now and am thinking about a career as a nursing professor. i have contacted a few nursing schools on their MSN program, but would like to hear from someone who's actually done it. what kind of advise would you give someone who's co...

thanks for all the replies. i have never thought of doing PhD but now i guess it can be an option. i do want to teach, but thought it might be later in life (i'm 28). i am not that passionate about research, but i am very passionate about teaching, m...

he did not have temperature. i was later told that they should've taken care of it in the ER when the patient first presented himself, and that he was just upset about the amputation and wanted to take it out on somone. thanks for your reply

i have a question and i hope to find anwsers here. i have a patient who fell and injured his great toe badly. when he was admitted to our home health service, he'd been in the hospital for a few days and they have sewn back his toe. during my 2 weeks...

i did one over the weekend, the oasis itself is not terribly bad, can't fly through it anymore but it is pretty self-explainatory. my problem is going to be contacting the doctors and actually HEAR BACK! most of them probably think we are annoying en...

the hosptial i work for now is a for-profit hospital now. they call patients "clients" and talk about "market share" with other hospitals in the city. i am ready to be out of this setting and NMMC seems to be a good place.

i am a tele nurse moving to new albany, MS (close to tupelo and oxford). i am thinking about either staying in tele or moving to ER, but i have NO IDEA where to work. any suggestions??? i would appreciate even names of some hospitals that i can look ...

yes, i took a peek-look-see when i went to NMMC (you know, just to walk around) and i did see computers locked on those little carts. it must be nice to have computerized charting. one of the smaller hospitals i've been to when i just graduated nursi...

thank you, it does help, i guess it would be great to be able to stay close to home at Baptist but i checked on their website and it seems like there were only limited positions. i am a tele nurse and would like to stay in something more high acuity.

memphis? i've been there a few times and there seems to be good hosptials you can work for, pay is competitive too. congrats on graduating

thanks. i would like to be close to home but the baptist hosptial seems really small and only limited positions were available, so i thought i'd try tupelo. do you know anything about NMMC? do they keep their nurses? do people like working there?

thanks for the info. is there anyone who actually work in these hosptials? i hope on finding somewhere and then stay there.

i'm an RN. my husband was from that area. i am finishing up my contract in texas then we are all moving back for good. (yay). thanks for your help.

the computer cuts off when it's convinced of how good/bad you are. if you find the questions getting harder at the end, like prioirty quesitons, you might be doing good. but don't worry now, it's not worth it.

i have recently signed on with OGP and am now being placed. it's the desire of my heart to be in houston, REALLY! but when i mentioned texas to my recuriter she sounded like there's no jobs there. she's trying to place me in OK, which i do not desire...

i am moving to san antonio because i took a position at baptist medical center as an RN. i am used to take 5 telemetry patients for myself. i think the system i am walking into is a team of one RN (me), one LVN, and one CNA caring for 12 patients. i ...

i have an interview with baptist meidcal center in a month, any concerns, suggestions, opinions? this is my first travelling job, would appreciate any pointers, thank you

thanks for replying, i was a little concerned that there might be something majorly wrong with the hospital. i am very excited about moving to texas and really hope this falls through.

i'll just say they might be taking advantage of you that you are now a student, since they won't otherwise get away with it. it amazes me how they don't realize that you'll graduate in a few months and would be above them in the chain of command. i h...

my friend's husband actually was given this in the ED and it helped him, just made him extremely drawsy. my friend is an RN and we were just talking about this 2 days ago. i think she said it works in the same place of the brain?? i'm very intereste...