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There is a nurse I work with who just about everyone considers to be unsafe. 3 big time offenses I can think of right away are: dc'ing a central line and starting a peripheral IV for TPN, feeding a patient who just had a heart cath, still had a she...

wow, I forgot how heated discussions get around here. perhaps I didn't make myself clear..I DON't want to report anyone. But I don't want my patients harmed. I have carefully considered everything that has been written here. I am NOT planning on ...

People who have talked to the manager about this have been shut down, the manager has backed this nurse. (Our manager is new and many of our staff don't trust her yet). Right now, we are asking everyone to document incidences of bad judgement and vi...

Yes, I mean the BON. iti s my business because she is our new charge nurse and could be making decisions that effect my patients. in the instance where she fed the pt that should not have been fed, she was charge, she knew the pt had the sheath in ...

Try Denton Regional.

I can't offer any suggestions on where to work or not to work, my first day ever will be monday. You may find helpful information on the hospitals websites, some are working toward magnet status, if that's important to you. some of the big hospital...

My grandpa tried to talk me out of nursing school a while ago, his sister was a nurse and she hurt her back so badly she couldn't work. He's spent a lot of time in the hospital with grandma the last few months and now he's concerned about my health ...

after my NCLEX, I wasn't sure about the last question so I looked it up. My text books didn't even have a definitive answer! I still passed.

We had to take my son to the ER a few months ago and the MD ordered 3 CTs and only told us about 2. The bill is outrageous, our insurance company won't pay all the charges because they are beyond what is reasonable and customary. we need to get thi...

Thanks for your reply. we found a third party file a complaint and negotiate the situation for us.

at my current school, if a student is having a hard time with an instructor, a different, unrelated instructor will follow them for one clinical day to evaluate their skills and rule out difficulties r/t personality differences. there is one instruc...

I think one could probably survive pregnancy and nursing school simultaneously, it has been done, but oh my, I certainly would not plan it that way. I couldn't imagine coming home from the hospital with a new baby and then leaving him to go to schoo...

sounds like me, but I'm working on year #7.

I am supposed to start my second year in an ADN program this month, but my husband lost his job and we are most likely moving. Has anyone had to change programs and did you experience any difficulty transferring credits? thanks for any input.

In my experience, school counselors don't know jack, I'm not really sure what they are there for except that students need their signature for some things. Find the information you need IN PRINT from the school catalogue or department literature. I...

I'm in the adn program at OKCCC, why do you think it is so hard to get into an ADN program?

I enjoy the instructors who use stories in lecture, it helps break the monotony and let the brain rest for a minute before it goes back to being overloaded. Please don't read out of the book, students can do that on their own. Powerpoint can be ver...

In clinicals recently a fellow student had a pt who had OD on only God knows what. She was so out of it, had to have a sitter in their all day. Her boyfriend kept bringing food and things in, saying she needed her "iron pills" I don't know how lon...

I found "the motherly art of breastfeeding" along with other books mentioned to be very helpful. The only thing that bothers me about some of the books "the leche-league"(I think, its been a few years) is that they throw in a bunch of parenting advi...

All this talk about low incomes in OK makes me think that I should just move to Texas after graduating. Anyone else feel like that? YES!!! I grew up in the dallas area and moved to OKC recently for my husband's job. He's doing well and we aren't...

From Veggie Tales...."and the moral of our story is the point we hope we made...when you go a little loopy better keep your nurse well paid."

I think $16 is pathetic, when I heard that, I said "is that all?!" to a board member! After I graduate, I might move to work in another state. I don't feel that any professional in OK gets paid what they are worth, just look at our teachers...but ...

I don't really know how it compares to other schools. For my class there were 300 applicants, 55 got in, 5 dropped before the semester ended, at least 1 failed, That's what I heard anyway. The first semester had a lot of hoops to jump through and it...

I live in OKC and go to OKCCC, I'm in my second semester. I haven't been on the boards in a loooong time, so nice to see everyone again.

I usually cook every day for my family, but last semester was busy and we ate a lot of beans and rice!