Lady_in_red

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1. Effectiveness of alcohol??

   Lady_in_red replied to Lady_in_red's topic in General Nursing

   KristiePDX. Interesting questions. Another I wonder about...How long should that tubing or vial be wiped? So what I have found out about ChloraPrep is: ChloraPrep costs about $1 a piece. (NY hospital uses process, product, education to cut bloodst...

2. Effectiveness of alcohol??

   Lady_in_red posted a topic in General Nursing

   A doctor recently told me that the alcohol prep pads we use before starting an IV or administering an injection are useless. He said there is no literature to support alcohol as an effective means of reducing infections before these procedures and th...

3. What did u buy your first year of nursing?

   Lady_in_red replied to rn2bn07's topic in New Nurse

   Do you believe in love at first sight? :wink2:

4. Help a poor nursing student

   Lady_in_red replied to sayalittleprayer's topic in General Students

   Sorry, I don't have any of those books. I'd try the library first, but someone else might already have had that idea so don't depend on it. barnesandnoble.com can be great. My classes required the new editions for three semesters. I bought the disco...

5. People who own a Palm TX, I need your help!

   Lady_in_red replied to Scrubz's topic in General Students

   Also this website is very helpful. I bought all of my programs from them. Skyscape: FAQs

6. People who own a Palm TX, I need your help!

   Lady_in_red replied to Scrubz's topic in General Students

   "One more question.. To download programs for your PDA you first have to download them onto your computer, then onto your PDA right? So I buy a program, download it onto my laptop, then put it onto my Palm?" Exactly right. Just make sure that you pri...

7. People who own a Palm TX, I need your help!

   Lady_in_red replied to Scrubz's topic in General Students

   And yes you are supposed to charge your Palm before using it. It should tell you how long in the instruction booklet.

8. How bad would it be to get pregnant while in nursing school?

   Lady_in_red replied to Soup Turtle's topic in General Nursing

   This depends on so many things! I think getting pregnant in nursing school isn't so bad if you have a fairly easy pregnancy and no complications. If you don't, you might have to drop out. We lost an amazing person last semester because her baby was b...

9. How much did you spend on books for the upcoming semester?

   Lady_in_red replied to Elizabeth Hanes's topic in General Students

   For spring 07 I bought $85 of books. I got them through barnes and noble online. I used their discount card and 15% and 25% off coupons. Last semester I bought $250 of references for my PDA and spent $150 on books. Yikes! I love my books though. I ...

10. New Migrain Treatment?

    Lady_in_red replied to Lady_in_red's topic in General Nursing

    To give you a little more background. Insurance will not pay for the surgery or the botox. Dilaudid works for her as does Lortab. They make her, to say it politely, highly unpleasant to be around. She's allergic to the meds so they make her itchy and...

11. New Migrain Treatment?

    Lady_in_red posted a topic in General Nursing

    A friend of mine has migraines bad enough that she lands in the ER twice a month. She had botox injected into the muscles in her temples by a plastic surgeon to try to stop the pain about six months ago. And it worked!! She had no migraines until th...

12. What's your holiday bonus?

    Lady_in_red replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I work at a company that gives us $20 for Thanksgiving for everyone and then a variable Christmas bonus depending on how the business has done that year and how long you've worked there. I had been working there about 9 months part-time and received ...

13. ATI Testing is BS!

    Lady_in_red replied to TsavarenaRN's topic in General Students

    Our school used ATI testing for several years (before I entered the program). So many students and professors complained about the test, we ended up getting HESI instead. The senior nursing students I talked to said that the HESI was a much better te...

14. When I graduate I am going to.....

    Lady_in_red replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Students

    Waiting until May to... Build a new house with a doorbell that works and a basement that doesn't flood Build a new fence and plant rose bushes Buy a decent couch - no stuffing hanging out anywhere Take a cooking course! Kick out all my messy roomma...

15. Reader-friendly references for schizophrenia

    Lady_in_red replied to Lady_in_red's topic in Psychiatric

    Thank you!