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I think it was 36 points. I had the following: GPA 9/10 Orientation 5/5 Advisement 3/3 AP1 5/5 AP2 3/5 Micro 5/5 Algebra 3/3 Nutrition 1/1 Essay 2/2 90's on Net Math and 80's on comprehension with no health care experience. I was in school with peop...

Try chewing a brand new stick of peppermint gum. I've always had an iron stomach, but I've found my achilles heel in the smell department. It's called the biliary drainage bag. I can smell it right now and I left the floor almost 3 hours ago. I'd...

Night-shifter, nonalcoholic and occasional skier here. I have a very occasional beer or two in the am after I get off work. If I'm on vacation, I will sometimes have a drink in the morning. When I ski (unfortunately on rare occasions now), I almos...

Two years ago I could have written your post. Clinicals made me feel incompetent and stupid and I'm far from that. Clinicals were the bane of my existence. I dreaded going to almost every single one. Every day I would say to myself, "just get thr...

Thanks to everyone that wrote with advice. I sucked it up and went back in and somehow they had assigned me this patient again. I deferred and switched the assignment, but it all worked out. The family sought me out and actually apologized about t...

I'm a new nurse, of less than a few months,scrambling along and having the common time management issues with taking 6 patients, trying to do things by the book, asking lots of questions and thinking things are going pretty good-I'm a little slow, bu...

How do you prepare it? They way I was taught by my preceptor was to dilute in 2cc's of saline (per package instructions). My dose is .96 so I've been wasting 1ml of a 3ml saline flush, then injecting the solumedrol with 2ml of saline, then drawin...

Thanks for the answers-we don't have those vials-wish we did.

The dose is .96ml. I guess my concern is that the 3cc syringe that we use to waste the 1ml has so few markings that it seems a little imprecise when you waste 1ml. (Unlike the TB syringe where you could get as close a measurement as .01), so if you...

I thought in CO poisoning that the skin usually never presents as cyanotic, but cherry-red or pink and flushed?

Hi, I'm a brand new GN getting ready to start on med-surg in about 10 days. I'd like to brush up on skills and pathos, labs, etc that I will need for my job. Since i only have 10 days and I have to study for NCLEX, I was hoping to create a top 10 l...

My clinical group is always on the floor in time for report, but I seem to run into the same problem many times. I'll have 3-4 patients with 3-4 different nurses assigned. I have to find 4 different nurses who I have never seen before and try to ge...

Don't be worried, the majority of the students I see are doing the right thing, just like the majority of the nurses we work with aren't mean and nasty to students. We always hear the worst stories. Sometimes it only takes one person to taint the e...

Just started 2nd semester of ADN program and for this summer semester we have clinicals on Sat & Sun 7a-7p. It was tough to find enough to do when we had 1 or 2 patients from 7a-1p, but 12 hours is going to be really hard with only 1 or 2 patien...

That's actually a really good idea that for some reason I hadn't thought of. Thanks! I'm just brainstroming on all of the things that I don't know yet. I haven't seen an admission done for some reason, so thats on my list for next weekend. I've ...

Your instructor sounds great. I love my instructor, but she expects us to be proactive about our clinical experience-she won't search out things for us to do-and I don't have a problem with that. Unfortunately, we have to stay on the floor the enti...

I just recently started my first semester. I started school with the intention of eventually working in an ICU. It just recently occured to me (duh) that there is no guarantee that I will get a job in ICU upon graduation. I understand that my goal...

I'm having a problem stating a proper Nursing Diagnosis. This is the only part of the care plan I'm having issues with. For some reason my brain is just not getting this. For instance I have a client this week that has a dehisced wound on her abdo...

I just went through the same thing in January. I just sucked it up and got all of the immunizations again. I had to go to the local health department, because my physician does not do immunizations for adults. I got every one of the immunizations ...

I took AP I & II and Micro last summer and got A's, but it's a lot of work. Personally, I'd match up the micro and chemistry in Summer A and the english and history in Summer B. But's thats just me, it's hard for me to go from concrete science ...

Has anyone ever taken the TEAS test after acceptance into a nursing program? I took the NET back in August, received my acceptance letter and will start orientation in January. In the acceptance letter, it mentioned that on the first orientation da...

Thanks for the reply. I guess I'll get the book anyway. I'm pretty certain it won't be any dosage calculations, etc., as we haven't started the program yet. This testing will be on the first day of orientation to the nursing program. My understan...

How about the Wal-mart parking lot? We live at the beach and our local beachside walmart always has RV's in the parking lot. I did a quick Google of "Wal-Mart RV'ing" and came up with 550 hits.