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  1. How much will your education cost you?

    luckylucyrn replied to GottaGetIn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I already had a Bachelors degree in something else, with my student loans around $15,000. BUT for nursing school i only paid out of pocket for the first semester ($2700), then my hospital paid for the...

  2. Anyone else with higher than normal volumes?

    luckylucyrn replied to ParrotHeadRN's topic in Emergency

    For our ed "fast track" is our low acuity patients, ones that can be in and out in roughly an hour- stitches, ingrown toenails, etc. It's staffed by 1 RN and a Nurse practitioner from 11a-11p every...

  3. I had a bad day!

    luckylucyrn replied to lil-hosp.usa's topic in General Nursing

    Wow at my hospital patients with that acuity level (insulin drip, dopamine) would not be on a unit with a nurse to patient ratio of 1:6! Those are ICU patients for us. The cardizem drip can go to...

  4. Do Registered nurses really make a Nursing Care plan for their patients?

    luckylucyrn replied to josepito3's topic in General Nursing

    Plus you are using knowledge you learned in writing care plans during school constantly. You may not think in "Nanda Format" but you think, Hey this person is not oxygenating well, I need to do x...

  5. failed at 75 second time 1st time 130

    luckylucyrn replied to twotfruity98's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Have you tried the Hurst review? They offer live and online classes, and the online is the exact same lectures, so if you don't live close to them you can still do it! They guarantee passing or they...

  6. med error: i think im in trouble pls help!

    luckylucyrn replied to katypurry's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Okay, BIIIIIIIIGGG deep breath in...now let it out and try and relax :) I really think you will be OK. Meds are missed sometimes and as long as there are no serious repurcussions (spelling? I've been...

  7. Hey ER, what takes so long???

    luckylucyrn replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in Emergency

    At our hospital, unless the patient is going to ICU stepdown or ICU we don't have to call report. We call and talk to anyone on the floor and notify that person that we are faxing report on the...

  8. Zoll autopulse

    luckylucyrn replied to babynurselsa's topic in Emergency

    we have an autopulse, but i haven't heard if anyone has used it yet. I tried to get us to during one code but the lady was too big for it. It seems really neat

  9. Any St.Jude Nurses here?

    luckylucyrn replied to newbeginnings07's topic in General Nursing

    While I don't work at St. Jude, I have a friend who I started nursing school with who does. She started as a Nurse Intern there (apparently they don't have many), and then has since graduated and has...

  10. Ampicillin/Cefotaxime in Febrile Neonate

    luckylucyrn posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hi, In the ER where I work I am usually assigned to the Pediatric area, which i love! I have been a nurse for less than a year, so I am hoping that I can get an answer from someone who knows more than...

  11. Status asthmaticus

    luckylucyrn replied to elthia's topic in Pediatric

    Could they consider a terbutaline drip on this

  12. Common dosage of child's Motrin/Tylenol

    luckylucyrn replied to willdgate's topic in Pediatric

    In our ED, we do Ibuprofen 10mg per kilo po Tylenol 15mg per kg po and 20 per kg PR (although with PR doses I round down and one of our docs only gives 15 mg/kg

  13. Destruction at work: What have YOU broken?

    luckylucyrn replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I broke a Zoll one day when I was checking it for extra paper. I pulled the little drawer right off (I don't know my own strength!). But they replaced it with a biphasic zoll instead of a monophasic,...

  14. Ampicillin/Cefotaxime in Febrile Neonate

    luckylucyrn replied to luckylucyrn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I don't know about neofax. We don't have a lot of neonates come through our ED, so I haven't been exposed to a lot of problems they might have. We get febrile neonates, high bilirubin babies, and a...

  15. Pt demanded a stronger pain med

    luckylucyrn replied to AstrosFan's topic in Emergency

    I guess I am meant to be an ER nurse after all! Sometimes I really enjoy being able to tell people

  16. heplock needle size

    luckylucyrn replied to greenbean's topic in General Nursing

    good info, thanks. i'll remember that, especially starting a smaller line to decrease pain with kcl infusion

  17. Nurse tech pay at Baptist

    luckylucyrn replied to 2bmalenurse007's topic in Tennessee Nursing

    A nurse tech is anyone who has been accepted into a nursing program but is over a year from graduation. Some of the nurse techs I work with have not even started clinicals yet, and they are going to...

  18. Anyone work at Baptist Memphis?

    luckylucyrn replied to cinja's topic in Tennessee Nursing

    NurseDiva76- I work there now and it's pretty much the same. However, we have a new manager, and although there ha ve been rough patches, there have been some improvements. They have increased our...

  19. Baptist or University of Memphis?

    luckylucyrn replied to maxima99's topic in Tennessee Nursing

    I went to U of M and although I had some very rough patches with administration (my fault), I felt that the nursing program was top notch. I felt that the program really prepared me to be a nurse. I...

  20. Moving to Memphis

    luckylucyrn replied to lapriajanae1's topic in Tennessee Nursing

    The baptist system has a few LPN openings listed I believe. I also know someone who was an LPN at Lebonheur before becoming an

  21. Medication Reconciliation Are all hospitals doing this?

    luckylucyrn replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately we have do do this on EVERY ER patient, no matter if they are going to be admitted or not. This means that we fill it out on grandma with 3 pages of meds in the ER for a minor problem....

  22. What's your favorite shift and why??

    luckylucyrn replied to np_wannabe's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yeah! Shift diffs! Add that to my list of why I like nights. Makes a huge

  23. What's your favorite shift and why??

    luckylucyrn replied to np_wannabe's topic in General Nursing

    I like 7p-7a as long as all my days are together. I love sleeping a lot (he he) and can sleep all day on my first off day and then wake up for a while and go right back to sleep at a normal time. I...

  24. Anyone had this happen to them?

    luckylucyrn replied to AussieKylie's topic in General Nursing

    I work with a nurse that asks if I need help and then when I tell her what I need, she says, "I don't want to do that" and walks away.

  25. ACLS/PALS Certifcation

    luckylucyrn replied to kimmie518's topic in General Nursing

    With ACLS and PALS, a lot of the interventions would require an advanced license anyway, such as paramedic, emt-iv, RN, or MD. There's no point in getting it before graduation. Not to say you couldn't...