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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

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

    Lady_in_red replied to rn2bn07's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Do you believe in love at first sight?

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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....

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. Reader-friendly references for schizophrenia

    Lady_in_red posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I was hoping someone could help me find some reader friendly books about schizophrenia for my mother. My 17 year old brother has been hearing voices and seeing things (apparently for years) and is...

  10. Reader-friendly references for schizophrenia

    Lady_in_red replied to Lady_in_red's topic in Psychiatric

    Thank

  11. Estimated study time A&P v. Micro

    Lady_in_red replied to Multicollinearity's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Micro was on of the best classes I have ever taken because of the kick but professor I had. The tests were progressively more difficult with essay questions, choose multiple answers, and fill in the...

  12. How many hours per week do you study?

    Lady_in_red replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Students

    Oh, another thing I like to do is read the material, read the notes, then make up questions about the information and put them on notecards. Questions like, "Your patient has pitting edema, a bp of...

  13. How many hours per week do you study?

    Lady_in_red replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Students

    Most course work is designed with the 1 hr of class time = 2 hrs of study time rule (or so my instructors tell me). It really depends on how fast you read and how fast you can memorize. I read...