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  1. "stale" new grad

    ukstudent replied to jxRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    No, it's that nurses are not graduating from diploma programs any more. The clinical hours of a diploma program allowed a nurse when getting a license to be able to function immediately. Those...

  2. CNL Exam advice

    ukstudent replied to kathrynrose's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't know that a CNL exam existed. I thought that most universities offered the CNL as a masters for non nurses to get into nursing. Those students take the NCLEX just like ASN and BSN students....

  3. I've been bullied all my life, and it continues...

    ukstudent replied to asdjkl's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Seconding those that said to contact your hospitals EAP. I think your past experiences and your current home problems are coloring your views about how you are being treated at work. Yes, it seems...

  4. Lost my first patient - could I be in trouble?

    ukstudent replied to southernhospitality's topic in General Nursing

    I'm with Talaxander with this one. The symptoms say it was an MI. Nothing you did or didn't do was going to change what

  5. To you ICU nurses

    ukstudent replied to NightNurseRN's topic in General Nursing

    Depends on your definition of making it. About 50/50 die in the ICU. Of the ones that don't, most end up with a trach and peg. Then after going to step-down (if they can get off the vent) and...

  6. An RN friend being set up at her job, are even threatening her license; need advice

    ukstudent replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

    BabyLady it is nice that you work on a unit that everyone sleeps at one time or another while at work. In most places sleeping on the job, while not on break, is a firing event. If you have not...

  7. An RN friend being set up at her job, are even threatening her license; need advice

    ukstudent replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

    Not saying that this is necessarily true, but here are some thoughts based of what you have written. Your Friend has just come out of a psychiatric hospital (first line of the OP) so I am assuming...

  8. Sliding Scale vs Tight Glycemic Control?

    ukstudent replied to sheryl1304's topic in General Nursing

    Two different concepts. Sliding scale just means there is a written protocol for how much insulin to give depending on blood sugar results. In my hospital it is also used to distinguish sub-q and...

  9. More leeway in the ICU?

    ukstudent replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in MICU, SICU

    It can vary greatly. Is it an ICU in a rural area, community hospital, large teaching hospital? Do they have doctors/residents on the unit 24 hrs a day? In some you get more leeway, in others you...

  10. Moving to MD: New Grad with only ADN

    ukstudent replied to cooksjuliachild's topic in Maryland Nursing

    It might help that you will be in southern Maryland. Less competition for jobs as it is lower paying (even by MD standards) and they not a big city hospital that everyone seems to want to work

  11. Digitally removing fecal impactions

    ukstudent replied to LouisVRN's topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient that did this. Came in the hospital for open heart surgery. Needed a longer stay in the SICU to get off vasoactives and the vent. Was doing great, sitting up in bed eating breakfast...

  12. I got fired.

    ukstudent replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    After reading all the posts I thought I would post again. You don't seem to be taking any responsibility over the reasons you were fired. You said that your manager let you go because she didn't...

  13. Nurses role if Dr is not giving all options (VBAC specifically)

    ukstudent replied to maiday's topic in Ob/Gyn

    As the nurse you are not meant to be giving advice, especially not medical advice on what the patient should or should not do. Your paper as I understand it is about ethical dilemma's in childbearing...

  14. Acute Respiratory Failure/ARDS

    ukstudent replied to beatrice1's topic in General Nursing

    Acute respiratory failure is the inability of the patient to breath/ventilate on their own, so needing increased oxygen and or mechanical help. Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a type of...

  15. Nurses role if Dr is not giving all options (VBAC specifically)

    ukstudent replied to maiday's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Your doctor not giving all options has nothing to do with the nurse working in L & D. Like I said before, it is unlikely that the "nurse" in the doctors office is a nurse. Even if she/he is what...

  16. Nurses role if Dr is not giving all options (VBAC specifically)

    ukstudent replied to maiday's topic in Ob/Gyn

    There is no informed consent for lady partsl birth. Therefor it is not the nurses job to make sure the patient is fully informed, that is the patients responsibility. The choice of doing VBAC's is...

  17. I got fired.

    ukstudent replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    If they didn't offer to transfer you, then you either had a lot of difficulities that you didn't say about or know/understand, or this is not about you. The hopsital might need to cut down the...

  18. I got fired.

    ukstudent replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry that this job did not work out for you. Did they offer to transfer you to the med/surg floor within the hospital? When you get a new job, think back on this so that you can get the orientation...

  19. CCRN certification

    ukstudent replied to jmeng's topic in Critical Care

    It does not spell out that it must be ICU because not all ICU are called by that name. However, working in a hospital (acute care) does not make you used to working with the acutely/critically ill...

  20. Instructor reamed me even though nurse said I did right thing..what do you think?

    ukstudent replied to Angels_wearScrubs's topic in General Nursing

    You asked for constructive criticism, so here it comes. Although you are only a student your clinical instructor wants you to practice as if "you are THE nurse" while staying within your scope of...

  21. high bun/creatinine

    ukstudent replied to jagquarRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    LMAO :fnypst:You are so very very bad, but so so

  22. Not admitted to testing center

    ukstudent replied to jdagoso's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Near the end of the last semester of nursing school we had a class in which we all filled out the nclex application for the state we wanted to work in. Our teachers made sure that we filled out our...

  23. ACLS vs PALS vs CCRN etc.

    ukstudent replied to travleur's topic in Critical Care

    ACLS is a more advanced verson on your basic lifes saving (BLS) which covers chest compressions, airway, intubation, breathing and code drugs for adults. You have to have your BLS current to get your...

  24. Which is best for CRNA?

    ukstudent replied to talknw's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Why do you want to get a NP license? You have to show X amount of contact hours with patients to keep up the license. You will not be able to do this while in CRNA school, and it is unlikely you...

  25. How do you choose a specialty?

    ukstudent replied to aef_btrfli's topic in General Students

    Please look though some of the post's here on allnurses. The recession has hurt nursing as well. There are many nursing graduates over the past year that have not found jobs, any jobs let alone in a...